So a little background (skip to next paragraph if you dgaf lol), I have been on and off diets since i was a preteen. Some worked for a while, but obviously nothing stuck. Until recently. It finally dawned on me that diet is just half of my problem. The other half is my food addiction. Because of this, and because i'm broke, I came up with my own eating routine/habit that i knew i could stick to. Monday thru Friday I am doing 13 - 16 hr fasts, having a coffee in the morning (100-200 cal), a light lunch (400-600 cal) and whatever gets me to a total of 1500 cal for the day dinner. On the weekends i try to fast but don't worry about it if i don't make it and i extend my calorie allowance to 2000. This works for me and my addiction. I started this plan/routine the week of Thanksgiving and also allow myself to enjoy the holidays t h o r o u g h l y. I have lost almost 30lbs since that time. This is the first time in my life that I have lost weight without the help of a drug or paying WW or a gym membership etc. (NOT THAT THOSE ARE BAD! They work! but they were not for me for several reasons).
Anyways, so my coworker T asked if I had been losing weight. "Finally! someone is noticing! All my hard work is starting to show!" i thought, i said yes and was starting to tell her what i was doing (she asked), our other coworkers K and E begin to eavesdrop. I said how I was fasting and K started going off on how "breakfast is the most important meal of the day!" and "you should really be eating 7 small meals through out the day" and "you need to eat more calories or else your body will go into FaStInG mOdE and it will never come off!". E backs her up with the breakfast thing among other claims, and despite me trying to explain to them WHY i am choosing this routine and why it is working for me they continued to talk over me and imply that i need to change what i am doing. At that point all i could do was just awkwardly smile and give a little shrug. When i told my husband about it all he said, "you should ask them how much weight they have lost" lol and that made me feel better. Let it be known that one of these Sages of Advice is looking to lose weight themselves as they are getting married this year, yet they refuse to take my advice on counting calories and CICO. Honestly, i am glad that they are around - it's like looking in a mental mirror of my younger self. I see so much of my old mistakes in them - it's motivation to stay on track.
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