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How to lose weight without starving!

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  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    do it slow so maintenance wont be a shock that leads to regaining it?
  • blambo61
    blambo61 Posts: 4,372 Member
    Male, 6'1", 233 lbs:
    Iv'e tried small meals, skipping lunch, and skipping dinner and they are all torture for me. Once I put food I my belly, it wants a lot more. So I have discovered it is MUCH easier for me to skip both breakfast and lunch than what I mentioned above. I just eat between 6 to about 8:30 at night and eat as much of whatever I want. My stomach shrinks some doing this and I can only get in about 1500 to 2500 cals in me in that time frame. I take protein powder and vitamins and try to eat good food before any junk. I will eat ice cream, cookies (6 last night with two glasses of milk) or whatever I want. I've done this for 4.5 weeks now and have lost 17 lbs. This is working for me and I get stuffed every night which is satisfying and I can eat with everyone and not act like a rabbit. The fasting acts like an appetite suppressant and I don't get very hungry during the day like I did with small meals or trying to skip a meal after I had allready eaten something for the day. I also save a lot on lunch money and I don't have the usual afternoon crash where I used to eat junk just to keep going. I feel mentally focused better especially in the afternoons than I did before and I dont feel sluggish after work from eating late afternoon junk. I workout after work right before my eating window and have felt better doing this than before also probably because I didnt eat junk and because I'm diligent about my vitamins in the evening. Thats my story so far. I hope to get to 180 eventually. I started at 250+.
  • LastingChanges
    LastingChanges Posts: 390 Member
    Are you exercising? It is strange but I find myself more hungry on days I do not exercise.
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  • blambo61
    blambo61 Posts: 4,372 Member
    LastingChanges wrote: »
    Are you exercising? It is strange but I find myself more hungry on days I do not exercise.

    If you're talking to me, I exercise after work and right before eating. Exercise is a temporary appitite suppressant also like fasting is. I think it makes you hungrier overall though. Im up to 4 to 5 times a week walking or biking 35 min. I plan on going for 1 hr 5 times a week eventually. I woukd like to turn the walks into runs once I loose more weight.
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