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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three square meals only. Absolutely no snacking. Let yourself get hungry BTW meals. You won't die. If thr urge to snack is too difficult drink sparkling Perrier or cup of tea, herbal, no sugar.  Ditch fake sweetners. Up fat bc it's satiating.  While you're trying to drop weight consider doing 16 8 fast. So your first meal would be say at 11am, big early lunch. Then finish dinner by 7pm.  Ditch meal services and start meal prepping and cooking basic stuff. It's not difficult.  No ultraprocessed food. You don't have to start with 16 8 right off bat. Try three square meals first in 12 hr window for one week and see if you drop. If you're still not dropping do 16 8
 But you're active so I think 3 square meals you'll find success.  Good luck! You got this!![/quote]

Not OP but if I snack I have carrots or other veggies. I have been eating a protein bar too but I think I need to cut those out. [/quote]

I'm the three square meal poster above. I agree all snacks need to go. If someone can't cope with not eating  BTW lunch and dinner, then they need to have a bigger lunch.  It's not complicated.  But we need to build an appetite for dinner. Remember in the days of our grandmother's snacking wasn't really a daily thing.  I do not believe in counting cals. Waste of time. Use that time instead to meal prep. Only eat real food. There is no protein bar tree.  Excess protein is also converted into glucose.  By the way I am a 51yo woman in meno, and the same weight I was (and same measurements) as in my 20s. My bmi runs about 19 to 19.5 or so.  Low normal weight.   I do allow myself occasional chocolate. But probably now that I'm in meno I'll have to be more careful with that.  [/quote]

Do you try to get a certain amount of protein? Like 100+ grams?[/quote]

Three square meals person here.  I don't count calories or macros or anything.  But I eat protein at all meals. Breakfast will be egg or pb on Ezekiel or plain whole yogurt with pecans, nuts.  Lunch protein is french lentils, any beans.  Dinner protein is fish. I am pescetarian.  [/quote]

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