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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 50 lbs to lose and am finally on a program that works (with a doctor.) 
But at 1500 calories a day, I am so surprised that people eat like this every day for their entire lives. 2 glasses of wine or one dessert and you have eaten so many of your calories already!!  
If you are a normal weight, moderately fit person, do you eat 1500 a day?
What do you do at a big fancy  restaurant meal or some other special event? 
Do you never eat pancakes or a bagel? Or a big bowl of pasta at a delicious Italian restaurant? 
I need to reset my entire approach to portions, etc. 
I'm not that hungry on the 1500 cause it's high protein. I'm just wondering how it's sustainable. [/quote]

"But at 1500 calories a day, I am so surprised that people eat like this every day for their entire lives. If you are a normal weight, moderately fit person, do you eat 1500 a day?" You don't eat that every day for life. Only until you lose the weight.

"2 glasses of wine or one dessert and you have eaten so many of your calories already!! What do you do at a big fancy restaurant meal or some other special event? Do you never eat pancakes or a bagel? Or a big bowl of pasta at a delicious Italian restaurant? " People who are committed to losing weight very rarely have 2 glasses of wine, traditional dessert, pancakes, bagels, and certainly big bowls of pasta. People who have lost the weight and want to maintain it will rarely do those things. And rarely means doing choosing ONE of those things LESS than once a week.

Losing weight in the short term means saying no. Maintaining weight loss in the long term means changing the way you behave around food. That's where sustainability comes in.
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