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⌈ Secret Post #2384 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You can do it. I did, and I've kept the weight off for a lot of years now.

People will give you all sorts of contradictory advice. Since presumably all of it worked for somebody, the lesson is that there's no one path to success; you have to find the one that works for your body and your mind and habits and way of living in the world. FWIW, though, here's what worked for me:

1. Make sure you get enough protein every day. Otherwise you may lose weight, but your body will begin cannibalizing itself for proteins and it will be bad for you. For women that's usually somewhere around 40-50 grams a day, which doesn't sound like much, but it's more than a lot of women think they need or routinely eat. (I'm basing this on American women with a more or less ordinary diet, though. Maybe it's different if you've been eating differently all your life.)

2. Get rid of as many of the other, unnecessary calories as you can.

3. Try to treat food as fuel, an annoying but necessary part of your life. If it's an important source of pleasure to you, you're going to be fretful about the pleasures you're foregoing. If it isn't, you stand a chance of forgetting about the deprivation part of this. Eat stuff you don't particularly like. Don't try to avoid getting bored with what you eat. If you're hungry enough, it's all going to taste great, and if you're not so hungry that it tastes great, it's time to stop eating it.

4. Forgive yourself when you fall off the wagon. Which you will. As long as you don't give up because you think you're a big failure, it'll all be fine. Regret it and go back to not eating, and you'll be fine.

5. Don't even try to bullshit yourself that this is easy. It's hard. Succeed, and it'll maybe get easy in five years or so, but short and medium-term? Don't kid yourself, and then you won't be angry and resentful that you're still struggling with this stuff years after you started.

It's hard, but you can do it. Don't trust anyone who says they know a way you can do it that will be easy for you, but don't trust anyone who tries to tell you that you can't do it at all, either. Unless that person is your doctor, and they have some medical reason for saying it.