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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lost 100 pounds in the last two years (age 52-54, went from 256 to 155, 5 ft 7) almost exclusively through diet; no drugs; no serious exercise just some walking after the first 50 lbs or so came off.

I went high protein, lowish carbs, and after the first 20-30 pounds or so went off I dropped down from 3 to 2 meals/day and basically did some form of intermittant fasting.  (I eat breakfast or lunch, but not both.)  I eat foods I love (salmon, chicken, veg) and feel very full at supper.  Once you start seeing results on the scale, keeping your willpower up becomes easier.  Good luck![/quote]

OP here and I’d love more info![/quote]

I have a hot latte every morning and an iced latte in the afternoon; either two eggs with toast for breakfast or a healthy choice simply steamers meal for lunch (one of the low carb ones).  For dinner I have salmon, roasted veg and mashed cauliflower (or chicken) with onions, some green beans, lemon, etc.  It's a lot of food so I'm filled at the end.  I usually have some small amount of chocolate after that (think like 4 hershey's kisses or something, not something giant).  And usually that's it all day long.  Sometimes if I'm up late I'll snack on some pickles or peanut butter crackers, but I try not to.  Every week I have a cheat day where I eat the same breakfast/lunch but then have a burger and chips or similar for dinner, and a larger portion of chocolate.  Even then I usually don't go crazy but it's a break from the routine.  When I first started I ate 3 meals a day and I was so overweight that I was still losing quite a bit.  Once the loss slowed down I slipped down to just 2 meals a day and basically turned it into some form of intermittent fasting (because when you only eat 2 meals a day, it's not that hard to get them to be within about 4 or 5 hours of each other.

I also used to count down my weight loss goals in the shower fwiw -- starting off at 256 and then counting backwards to what my goal was.  While it was a long way when I started I could also see that it was doable.  And then as I started chipping away at it ... 10 pounds in, then 20 ... I could really see that it was achievable if I just kept doing the same thing.  So much of it was mental and just having the willpower to stick to the plan, even if the scale hadn't moved that day.

After a few months I started using an app called Happy Scale that took all your weigh ins and sort of put a more positive spin on a bad weigh in, if that makes sense.  If you lost a lot the day before, it gave you a more measured view of what you had really lost; then if you didn't lose or even gained a little the next day, you'd still see progress.  Not that you should be wedded to your scale or anything, but when I was in the thick of losing all that weight the little setbacks would make a difference to me.  The plateaus were hard -- being stuck at the same weight even after doing everything right for days before.  Sometimes I found that I'd eat a little more during a plateau and my weight would go up, and then it wouldn't get stuck at the same number on the way down, ha.

Anyway good luck to you!  For me, so much was just willpower.  Good luck!!![/quote]

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