After a year of eating healthier, logging/weighing food and cutting out more and more calories and even fasting one day a week only to remain at a plateau, I took a small break from dieting (translation: ate like a moron for a week, no regrets, did not gain a single ounce). I had a lengthy, helpful discussion about my fat ass with the folks on r/hypothyroidism and decided to try something different.
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Reintroduced protein back into my diet. I was eating mostly vegetarian and essentially avoiding all protein sources because they had too many calories (meat, dairy, nuts) and I was going more for quantity than quality. Realized this was likely not healthy long-term and that "meat" and "unhealthy" are not synonymous.
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Bumped up calories from 1200 a day to 1500, which others recommended. "Eat more to lose more" sounded awfully fatlogic-y to me, but since I maintained no matter how much I ate, I figured that, at worst, nothing would happen. Man it feels like heaven getting to eat breakfast again! In conjunction with the increased protein intake, I decided to try doing a protein-heavy breakfast - generally a protein shake and something small like a hard-boiled egg or tuna or just some kind of meat. I can't believe how much of a difference 300 calories makes and I've been routinely eating under 1500 calories each day without much effort.
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Ditched Truvia in favor of normal sugar. There seems to be conflicting information about the effects of non-sugar sweeteners on weight loss, but again I'm following a suggestion from the folks in the hypo sub who were in favor of breaking up with Truvia. I don't consume tons of sugar and I can spare the 15 calories per teaspoon each day.
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Decided to go back to having a midday snack, and I also discovered the joy of homemade popcorn where I can not only control the seasonings, but five cups of popped kernels has the same number of calories as 12 measly potato chips (with seasonings/oil). I don't get hungry enough to eat lunch and a couple cups of popcorn is plenty for me to tide me over until dinner.
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Keeping my cheat day, which usually just means I have something less than healthy for dinner or I have a dessert. Because of the extra 300 calories a day, sometimes I have room at the end of the day for a treat too.
I've been at it like this for a couple weeks now and it could be a coincidence, but I'm down four pounds already. :)
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