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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok...I'm 5'4 and have been a size 12 (twice) and am now a 2/4.  I actually do best when I eat when I want.  And to the poster that is 5'4 and a size 14...I'm sorry, but you're in denial.  If you are heavy for your weight, then you are eating too much...plain and simple.  Sure, maybe your metabolism is slightly slower than someone else's, but that means that your body just doens't need as much food as you are taking in.  You're eating too much and not moving enough.

The problem is really our ability to regulate how much we take in.  That can be HAAARD.  I get it.  I've been there.  I've done every diet out there.  What actually worked for me, was to stop eating things because they were low-calorie or organic/paleo, or low points, or vitamin shakes, or, or, or...I actually just started eating whatever I wanted.  I made sure that I limited portion to the extent that I could, but if I felt like a cheesecake for lunch, I had a slice and didn't "balance with healthy food."  I treated things like fruit as food (I always used to think of them as "free items").  I used oil and butter.  I lost close to 20lbs!!!!!  I'm not sure if my cholesterol is as good as it used to be, but my ass looks better, and I'm not stressing about food and I'm enjoying what I eat!

And yes, I walk and run and do yoga.  But when I work out too much, I get hungrier and can overcompensate, so I try to keep it light.[/quote]

Please, please post a sample daily menu.  I could have written your post - except the part about getting smaller than a size 12. TIA[/quote]

I would have posted sooner, but didn't see these replies.

Well...several people asked for a sample menu...this is the thing...there isn't one!

One day I might have a latte for breakfast, a latte for lunch and a salad for dinner (so next to nothing), however, the next day, I might have eggs and bacon, a huge sandwich, and a big dinner and chocolate.  The key is on days I don't feel like eating...I don't.  I never used to do that.  I rarely eat breakfast now because truthfully all i want is caffeine! I used to eat meals when I thought I "should."  I would follow the "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" rule, and eat calories because I thought it might make me eat less later.  Now I just eat less in the "now" when I feel like it.  If I want something I have it.  It's hard to give up watching every point  and stop counting calories, but once I finally let go I lost weight! (Just remember NOT to eat when you don't want to...it will end up balancing out for when you do).

Today:
three coffees with skim milk (I went to bed too late last night!)
a plum
an english muffin with butter and a slice of manchego cheese
chips with guac and salsa
went for a bike ride
some chocolate chips and dried cranberries
will most likely have wine and 1-2 bites of rotisserie chicken for dinner (family is going out without me...so I can do work. blah...yes on a Sunday night)

If you want something close to what I do, my friend told me about the Fast Diet also called the 5/2 diet.  It sounds pretty similar to what I do naturally.  2 days of the week you only eat 500 calories, and the rest of the week you eat what you want.  I'm not sure if I ever eat as low as 500 in a day, but I bet I'm under 1000 some days and probably close to 3000 others!

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