Hi! I’m barely beginning my weight loss journey, I’ve been at it for three weeks now. Last time I took weight loss seriously, I followed pretty much every rule on this sub and they worked! For hand-wavy reasons, that method wasn’t ideal for me right now, but I realized I’ve never liked breakfast. So I almost by myself fell into an intermittent fasting pattern. I’ve eaten one big meal a day with some very light snacking but without counting calories. No mess, no fuss, and I don’t feel so awfully restricted and panicky.
I have “only” lost 8 pounds, but I’ve also lost 3 inches and even I can see there’s a difference in the pictures! I look fat, naturally, but my stomach no longer looks distended and like I’m pregnant!
I think it works for me because I can reward my brain easily with this method. “Feeling hungry - but in two hours I’ll have a nice hearty lunch, i can wait until then“
Whereas with traditional calorie counting I tend to get stuck in a sort of despair of “I’m never ever going to have anything good to eat again.”
I’m exaggerating a little, but you get the idea. If it’s too rigid my brain starts protesting. All or nothing and then I get stuck on nothing ;)
I don’t know if this method is going to work over time since I’m not counting calories and it would be easy to cheat, but so far, I’ve had ice-cream and chocolate at home for weeks, and I haven’t eaten it!
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