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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Try tirz again.  and follow it.  You will lose.  I wonder if you bought some bad compound or something.

It takes a huge deficit of calories.  Tirz showed me that.  But it is impossible to do without meds (to all the PPs) because you will just be dying of hunger and miserable without the meds.  It is sad how many less calories I must eat to maintain, let alone lose.[/quote]

I am not a basher of meds—definitely can see how getting rid of the food noise would be key in losing weight. However, it IS possible for (some of us) to lose a lot of weight without meds. I am down 45 lbs since the beginning of the year. I log my food with My Fitness Pal and also significantly increased the amount of cardio that I do along with some weights. MFP recommends 1480 calories/day for me; because I do usually manage to burn 700-1200 calories a day in exercise, on any given day I consume between 1300 and 1800 calories and have continued to lose.

The first couple weeks of the tracked and reduced calories were the hardest, but your body gets used to less food fairly quickly. I also tend to rotate similar meals for breakfast in lunch.,it takes the guess work out of tracking.

But I don’t have small kids at home and I also retired at the beginning of the year. This means I was able to eliminate panic eating (I.e., you may or may not get lunch due to work stuff so you eat easy, high fat things like cheese), can exercise regularly, and am not putting the needs of multiple other people before my own. I also started HRT (am in menopause) and didn’t have food noise per se. Just ate too much high calorie stuff and didn’t get enough exercise.

I only mention this because if for whatever reason you don’t/can’t use meds, you can lose. I also keep reminding myself that it took years to put on the 75 or so lbs that I ultimately want to lose, and that it’s going to take time (though not years) to get rid of it.

Be kind to yourselves![/quote]

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