What Are You Thinking? Continued 14

It happened very slowly, but eating half as much food for 3 months made my stomach slowly shrink back down to normal size.

I felt full, faster. As if I had gotten that operation where they put a band around your stomach to feel full faster, so you don't overeat, so you lose weight?

That, except no operation. Stomach organ shrank back down to normal size.

I now feel full with half of a medium pizza, which is 10 or 12 inches wide.

That's like a third of the portion size I used to eat. Something like that, I haven't done the math. There's a lot of pi involved and I don't got time for that, I know half of a 12 inch pizza is quite a bit less than all of a 14 inch pizza.

I'm not doing math and I'm not counting calories, fuck that. Ain't nobody got time for that. I know this is less, because I know what a fraction is.

So my point, a few months of sticking with the plan, and you LITERALLY won't be able to eat as much as you used to.

You can't even fit that much food in you.

You get full waaayyyyyyy faster. So your cravings for food start to slow down and stop acting like a crack addict needing crack.

So this diet becomes easier.... and easier.... to follow.

And it started at gentle and easy to follow. That's why it worked.

What else- I walked on the treadmill for an hour every other day, that is -300 calories every two days, or about -1000 calories per week, a little more than that burned.

But that's less than the amount of calories I was cutting from my meals every single day of the week. I was down about 10,000 calories a week from portion control, and down 1,000 calories a week from exercise.

That tells you how powerful portion control is.

Now look, if I needed 30,000 calories a week ballpark figure, like I said I'm not counting calories. So my math may be funky here, I never counted.

If I needed 30,000 calories to sustain nearly 300 pounds, and I now am eating half of that or less..... what happens.

What is mathematically guaranteed to happen?

I don't even feel hungry. But I'm eating less than half the calories I used to, because I follow rule 1 and rule 2.

So I lost 27 pounds in 2 months, and the rest in the next 2 months after that, for a total of 52 pounds gone in 4 months.

Now, here's an optional YET IMPORTANT rule number 3-

Rule 3- you will step on the scale every 2 months, NO SOONER.

DO NOT weigh yourself every week.
Stop thinking about weight loss.
Stop obsessing over this.

This is a slow process. Remember how long 4 months is.

That's a long ass time. Until 4 months pass. Then it feels like it flew by, but if you're checking yourself on the scale every day, you are torturing yourself for no reason, looking to see if you lose a single pound, and stop that.

STOP THAT. STOP DOING THAT.

In 2 months you will have lost 10, 15, 20, 25 pounds, and have made actual progress. Now, extrapolate.... how much is that in a year.

How much is that by December of this year.

How much is that by December of next year.

If you could be your ideal weight in 2027, but you can stick to the plan and the diet and you won't even feel like you're killing your body exercising and fasting or changing your diet into rabbit food, isn't your answer YES?

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Okay.

Well do me a favor, when you do drop 50 pounds, make sure you are on that treadmill every day.

At a certain point, there's only so many calories you stand to lose by portion control. At some point, yes, toward the end, you will be eating your 1500 to 2000 calorie a day ideal diet, and the only way to lose more weight IS to be active.

But it's a lot easier to walk on the treadmill if you weigh 50 fewer pounds, isn't it?

Also, you've been working out a little bit more and a little bit more and watching the weight melt off of you.

You are getting energy and health back and feeling optimistic for the first time ever that you can melt that fat and keep it off.

The last third of the journey will be tougher because you need to burn the calories off the hard way, with exercise, but youve been getting better at doing that every day, and you're almost there!!!

And you weigh a whole hell of a lot less and it feels a lot easier to do the exercise.

So you're not overeating anymore.
You're portion controlling and you don't feel hungry because your stomach organ can't hold as much food in it as it used to.
You have burned off most of the weight you ever needed to burn
And you started exercising a little. Light exercise to get you in the practice of it. Not Navy seal training. 1 hour of treadmill or about 300 calories burned, in amount of exercise, per day, every other day.

You can do it.

This is the slow part because remember, we cut half our calories just by portion controlling and that was wayyyyyyy more calories than burning on a treadmill for an hour.

So to lose weight in the final stretch, we have to burn it off the slower, harder way of walking it off.

But, you're almost done.

And now, it's easier to burn 300 more calories a day, than lose 300 calories a day worth of food, since you've already dieted and portion controlled. Don't actually starve yourself, you need to move around. It takes energy to do that, and your body needs vitamins and minerals anyway.

So when you stop losing weight by the portion control method, you need to make sure you're walking an hour a day every other day or something similar, walking 30 minutes a day every day.

This is slow.

This takes a while.

This is sustainable.

DON'T LOOK AT THE SCALE. DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF.

Weigh yourself every 2 months, not sooner. See actual progress. Don't discourage yourself by weighing yourself every day/week- that's setting yourself up for failure.

You can do this but it needs to be a thing happening in your background processes, out of sight out of mind, because it will take months, which is a long time to experience in real time.

Don't keep checking the scale.

Just eat your portion controlled food you already eat.
Make sure the lid closes.
Wait ten minutes when you're done eating that.
Are you full? If so, let the rest cool off and put it in a tupperware in the refrigerator, eat that tomorrow night.
If you are not full you may eat 1 more portion or less. Because I am weak willed as fuck, so I needed this rule or I'd go insane and feel trapped by hunger.
You're full, relax. 10 minutes allows your body time to catch up to your stomach.
Don't weigh yourself.
Don't weigh yourself.
Stop weighing yourself until 2 months have passed.

In 2 months, you have dropped 10 20 pounds.
In 4 months, tell me you've dropped 20 40 50 pounds.

That's a lot. That's real progress. Just keep living your life and stop weighing yourself and counting calories and trying fad diets or trying to kill yourself via 4 hours of exercise every day.

You don't have the willpower for that, but you CAN do this.

I'm a weak willed wimp, I'm THE worst. If I can do this, you can.

Believe in yourself, you're better than me, you can handle it.

Try it for a month. If you are miserable, I'd be baffled. This was incredibly easy to stick to.

Call it the tupperware diet. No, you're not eating the tupperware, youre eating all the same foods you always loved to eat when you were fat.

But youre not fat anymore because you stopped eating so much of it, in a sustainable way that never made you feel like you were starving yourself.

If this works, tell people. Pay it forward. You don't even need to tell me it worked, I know it works.

It worked on me already.

Tell others.
 
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You would think lit would try to stop all these old dormant accounts being hacked and hijacked

I don't know why anyone would hack an account here, what would the purpose be? I think it would be easier to create a new profile and have their say unless they want to get into other peoples PM's for whatever reason.

There was an account with a join date of 1970 and I think the only way to do that would be to hack the Lit db so hacking the site IMO has been done successfully and yet I really don't see the purpose.

I know why fake personality accounts are created but that's a different devious psychological trait.
 
I don't know why anyone would hack an account here, what would the purpose be? I think it would be easier to create a new profile and have their say unless they want to get into other peoples PM's for whatever reason.

There was an account with a join date of 1970 and I think the only way to do that would be to hack the Lit db so hacking the site IMO has been done successfully and yet I really don't see the purpose.

I know why fake personality accounts are created but that's a different devious psychological trait.
Who knows, people can be strange, and it could be an AI bot also
 
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