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  • Started 8 months ago by Ericksmadhouse
  • Latest reply from stay at home mom

  1. Ericksmadhouse
    Member

    Hi,

    I want learn about real life results on dieting
    the healthy way and keeping it off.

    I have personally lowered my cholesterol
    from 238 to 174 and lost 24 pounds in 3 months.

    Thanks for having me here.

    Posted 8 months ago #

  2. jacquirsw1
    Member

    Welcome

    My real life results on dieting is that it actually makes my binge eating worse.
    I have in the past dieted succesfully and lost 90 pounds but it took me a very long time and as soon as I got there it was like a switch going off in my head to binge and within 2 years I have gained 70 pounds of it back. (currently at 217)

    The best thing for me has been to forget classic dieting and instead concentrate on eating normally and controlling my binges. If I do that then I find that I do lose weight naturally anyway as I am not consuming the huge amounts of calories that would be in a binge.

    Hope this is some help

    Jacqui

    Posted 8 months ago #

  3. stay at home mom
    Member

    Hi Ericks: it's great if a diet can help you start eating wholesome foods as a lifestyle. But it's also important to eat enough for your energy needs...so there's nothing wrong with including some of your less healthy favorites as well if you like.
    I agree with Jacqui that a calorie-reduced plan does get weight off, but so does eating your recommended energy needs (about 2000 female, 2500 male; more if exercising a lot). I know even doctors advise lower-calorie diets (like 1600 for women) with the wrong assumption that an overweight person has been eating only 2000 or 2500/day on average. The problem is that almost every overweight person has been eating way above the recommended amount....so just trying to get this person's intake down to the recommended is actually like dieting.

    People who lose weight on 1600 cal diets often have to maintain at the same to keep weight off; or have a hard time not bingeing afterwards because their brains think an actual famine had occurred and now it's over and it's okay to gain the weight back. It seems like a better way to teach your body to eat normally with roughly 2000 (female) or 2500 (male) and sustain this lifestyle.

    Posted 8 months ago #

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