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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m like you, I hate counting calories. It totally stresses me out and I end up eat lots of prepackaged foods with exact calorie counts. I need to loose 20lbs, but knew I couldn’t count calories. And Keto sounds like torture. And cheat days just made me crazy because all I would think about is food and all the things I would eat on my cheat day. And 18:6 IF, no way. I just can’t go that long without something. And I need food in my stomach at night or I can’t go to sleep. I had to find something easy and that I could do forever.

I just started 5:2 diet. It’s been super easy and in 3 weeks lost 4.5 lbs. I’m sure some of that is water weight, but at least the scale is trending downward.

So 5 days a week, eat normally. 2 days a week 500 calories a day. It’s great because for 5 days, I don’t think about food or diets, I just live my life. Then on Tuesday and Thursday, I eat a lot of bone broth (Buy cartons)with frozen spinach (squeeze the water out to get an accurate weight, then add to bone broth) or Souper Girls Tomato Basil with collagen powder added plus apples and babybel’s mozzarella cheese.

I do get hungry at time, but I know it’s only one day. I went grocery shopping on a fasting day and immediately went into “I must eat it all” mode, but then remembered I’d be able to eat whatever I wanted tomorrow and the craziness cravings went away.

I use MFP to track calories on two days. But now that I have mostly the same foods, just put together in different order, it’s been super easy to track. And Happy Scale to track weight (it smooths out the daily fluctuations). [/quote]

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