After so many years, I think I finally found a weight loss method that works for me.

Me: F, 31, 163 cm (5’4). SW: 312 lbs CW: 270lbs GW: 154 lbs (???)

So, I lost 30 lbs. And gained it back. Then I lost 40. And gained it back. Then 55. Then gained it back, and added 20 more. You know the drill.

What I tried earlier was a complete 180 of what I was before. No food after 6PM. No sweets. No pizza. More greens. Peas. Fruit. Nuts. Eating 1400 calories or less. It worked like a charm, but after a while I felt miserable. So I quit. I was hungry, and I didn’t like the food I was eating. And now I’m qualified to be in The Biggest Loser.

This time around, I thought what I can do that I can keep doing for the rest of my life. And for now, weight loss has never been easier.

First and foremost - I like big meals. I love feeling so full that I want to take a nap afterwards. So I only eat one or two big meals a day. I stil count everything and use my kitchen scale almost obsessively, but I have my big dinner. Completely by accident, because I hate eating and working, I am now eating 10:14, or sometimes 8:16. And my body adjusted just fine.

I’m an insanely picky eater and I never ever in my whole life ate anything green or leafy. And nothing I ever tried to change this stuck. So for now, I gave up. I eat stuff I like, but in a healthy way. Pasta and bread? Make it brown. Potatoes and burgers? I oven bake them without any oil. Popcorn? Sure, but with like a teaspoon of oil. I’m trying vegetable patties, or I put broccholi in mashed potatoes, or baby spinach in my egg scramble or eat pasta stuffed with spinach and ricotta.

Calorie restriction? Of course, but not by more than 650 or so calories. Somewhere between 1 and 2 lbs a week weight loss. I can’t do this I feel like I’m not eating enough. So, my current max is 1750 calories, which is a 650 calories deficit for my weight.

I have a huge problem with portion controlling when it comes to junk food (I’m not really into sweets), so I’m not the kind of person to have just one handful of chips. So I eat a whole bag, or a huge pizza, or fries, once or twice a month, and log it, but then I balance it out with eating slightly less for the rest of the week. Sometimes I even say fuck it, I’m only human. But what’s important is I keep going.

Workout? Not for now. But I do plan to when I reach a certain mental checkpoint.

I know it’s not 100% healthy or by the book but all I care right now is it’s working. The kilos are down by a whole lot. My bloodwork is better. I feel better. And I’ve been doing this for almost 9 months. It’s almost become normal now, to weigh everything from pasta to bread to oil and log everything I eat. And not eating fries and fast food almost every day. Maybe later I will have the willpower to have better food choices but for right now, I’m doing whatever is sustainable so I don’t have a heart attack at 40.

I hope this helps people who are thinking that they need to do drastic changes in order to lose the weight. Just do wharever works for you in the long run. You’ll get there. We’ll all get there :)

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