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Vary. Some days I suspect I eat well under 1000, and other days 3000 or more. I don't count. My wt has been in maintenance for months without much tweaking.

Not the same thing. Quoted OP "basically you stick to your calorie goal on one day, and then the next day you eat below 500 calories, or some people don't eat at all. Then the next day you're back to your normal calorie goal, then repeat." --- I am also following a form of fasting but I correspond the fasting and what not…

Fantastic for you. You had a lot of pounds to lose and I guess your days were more or less the same? To me it's dangerous and needlessly difficult when a person assigns his/her deficit eating to an artificial schedule, ie doesn't correspond to activity requirement. I have days where I work, exercise much harder than other…

Agreed. In short it's dangerous and only head to failure.

Snacking is just a habit. I used to stock up a lot on beef jerky, multi flavor ice creams and my favorite hot cheetos and spicy chips. I really thought I couldn't drop them. Again, it's just a habit. You just have to learn to drop it. The first few weeks will be hard. It helps if you are not bored with your time or most of…

Sorry, not about you at all. You are just a representative of the argument for portion minding that I was debating which you chose to jump in. My point...don't bother with minding the portion (very tough for most dieters here to grasp). Focus our energy on the discipline, the strategies for cutbacks. I argue that it's much…

There are a few restaurants that give you options to order a very large steak but they also have options for very small steaks. A few months ago I went to a fine diner and ordered the largest 32 oz steak. I had to bring half home for next day, but it hardly did any damage to my diet that week. I eat out a lot at casual…

In term of wt control, I rarely have a day that is out of control. It's not that I'm perfect in my actions but I have an approach that accounts for just about anything, any "imperfection". In term of food taste, quality, yesterday kinda sucked. My wife cooked a dish that turned out to be not what we imagined at all.

Thanks. Yes, some of it is "intuitive" eating but it's not important enough. Most of it is relying on the body's ability with fluctuation, if I can simplify it. So because of this wonderful mechanism, we don't *need* to count specific calories or eat specifically x oz of meat, etc. per meal for example. Let the body deal…

Since you and another mfp veteran Aaron have mentioned "proper portion" , I also feel the need to chime in that the "skill" to identify "proper portion" or accurate control is really unnecessary, if not time wasting and futile, per my experience. Generally, for outside, unless you order a second meal -- who does that --,…

I'm not one to corner people or have to have the last words :) but I'm amazed that you don't have the concept that there are foods that people have a need for. Turkey on Thanksgiving maybe? My friends and I have to have pizza and beer every few weeks after our sport session. :) Cheers.

Wow OP you can run 7.5 mph and nonstop for 2 hours? That's extremely fast and strong. I know that I burn 250 calories every mile running between 4-5.5 mph.

If anything, that definition that you pull up only confirms my point. Not having 5 pieces of pizza, an excess and is not something you *need*, is not depriving yourself. Now, not having any pizza at all -- on the premise that having two pieces doesn't affect your wt and in fact what you need per your culinary tradition,…

And she does that by first thinking negatively of some of the posts.

I think you're quite negative when you start judging and deciding what's negative, etc. I just see that people are expanding on the OP's topic. It's always good to see more angles. In fact that's how I came up my approach -- by seeing it from 10 different angles and making sure that everything gels and doesn't contradict…

Probably for you deprivation and not going for excess are all the same thing. For me they are different meanings so therefore I get the OP's message (though it's a very narrow point). For me if I deny my enjoyment of 2 pieces based on some weird idea while having this amount doesn't negatively affect my weight, that's…

OP, I like your thinking. In a way, you're like me, like to analyze or at least wonder about issues. You are on your way to good things! To answer your questions, IMO we overeat due to many things: lifelong conditioning, boring lifestyle, a bit of weak willpower, low tolerance for pain, lack of discipline and knowledge. It…

Unless you are a bad cook, there's nothing KFC can (significantly) put in their food that you cannot put in your homemade to make it crave worthy. If you are the sort of person who's "addicted" to KFC, chances are you also tend to be addicted to other foods in absence of KFC. Our family eats a lot of fried or rotisserie…

Well...one person's deprivation is another's moderation, or vice versa. One man's feast is another man's famine. Dieting is easy in concept but much harder in practice. It requires planning (some form of calorie managing, budgeting) and discipline; and if you're not good at these skills you'll always have a hard time.…

That depends on how you manage your calorie intake. Your question is a very open ended one. You don't specify what time frame you stick to, like most counters do. 12, 24 hours, 48 hours? You can get very full consuming 2000 calories in one breakfast alone but not so much if you spread to 3 meals. This is why I don't…

Well, KFC is very tasty though I prefer Popeyes, especially at Tuesday price. These chicken recipes cannot be replicated anywhere else so I would say that the "addiction" is both psychological and physical. It's very much like Coke. You cannot get the Coke drinking feeling with any other drinks. It has to be Coke. Per…

Yep, that's the way to go. It does require a bit of discipline with the cutback days but the advantages are many. No hangup on any foods, drinks or the amount. About the cutback days It helps a lot if you have the concept of "diet" foods and eat these foods on the cutback days. Foods that are quick to obtain (as not get…

Unless EVERYDAY is Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, there's plenty of room (days in between) for cutback. The problem I see with daily counters is that they have to meet their daily quota or close to it. That's tough.

In my family we value dinner and the time to be together. So, a big lunch is out of question for me. That's all the better. I get to eat light, plain foods such as boiled eggs, breakfast cereal, nuts, Carl Jr sides, 6" Subway, which are all easy to pack or purchase within walking distance, and save a ton of time and…

I'm just curious. Were you feeling guilty immediately before and/or during the binging? I have always heard the guilt comes after.

Wow that sounds worrying. I guess you feel like you have to be constantly on guard? One of the things that I make sure I have in my wt control process is that it has to be (relatively) effortless. Almost like it's a natural thing to do or be. Like brushing teeth before going to bed. So, that's how my eating pattern is…

Different strokes for different folks. Calorie counting/awareness was what initially set me on the course I'm on now, but ironically it was also my biggest blunder and needed to be dropped as I moved on. With calorie counting, I was always thinking about foods, never ate enough, ate at wrong time, never felt satisfied,…

From Friday to Sunday I mostly eat anything and as much as I like. I don't care if it's buffet or not. Everything is accounted for. My weight usually shows 1-4 lbs gained on Monday morning. By Friday morning it's reset. If you can gain fast, you can also lose as fast. I suspect this approach (eat all I want) helps me from…

That's kinda what I do. I don't do calorie limit for meals, days or anything. I just limit the size and the number of the meals for the week. My important meals are normal size or a lot.

I'm following a form of IF without being aware of IF. LOL. This article could have been written by me :). It lays out a lot of good points. http://jamesclear.com/the-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fasting "Diets are easy in the contemplation, difficult in the execution. Intermittent fasting is just the opposite — it’s…