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While hunger pangs may be unpleasant from time to time, I personally have found myself to be at my happiest and most at peace with life when I am consistently l

While hunger pangs may be unpleasant from time to time, I personally have found myself to be at my happiest and most at peace with life when I am consistently losing weight. I have also cut alcohol consumption completely out of my life, unless I am celebrating something. This makes me far, far less likely to not care about my weight and my health, and I have no feelings of regret when I am hungry. But pleasure is easy and ice cream tastes good. Balance is everything.

idiot_stick 10y ago
>But pleasure is easy and ice cream tastes good. Balance is everything. That's why calorie restriction is a thing of beauty; eat what you want within the bounds of a caloric limit. Personally, I eat very light all week (sub 1500 calories), then splurge on the weekend.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
  That's kind of what I did when I was 18. I'd eat a handful of dry cereal, run 5 miles, go to school, then walk uphill for 45 minutes to my job as a produce clerk lifting boxes and stuff, then skip dinner. On the weekends I would eat like a pig and play Oblivion all day. Still, I lost 50 pounds in 2 months. I do not recommend this. My lung popped (but it healed itself) and some of my hair fell out (it grew back) from the loss in protein intake. Like I said before, balance is everything. Still, I do agree it makes sense to be light on the weekdays and splurge on the weekends. After all, there's only so much food you can stuff down your gullet in a span of a couple of days without making yourself sick, regardless of your caloric intake from the previous week.
  - idiot_stick 10y ago
    >Still, I do agree it makes sense to be light on the weekdays and splurge on the weekends. Right. I make no claims about my method being "good". But I work long days, and commute. So I usually don't each during the weekday, then come home and have a great meal. Then TV and bed. I'm sure any benefits come from fewer calories eaten in aggregate.
criddell 10y ago
I've almost eliminated alcohol as well mostly because I seem to have grown very sensitive to it. Even if I have only one beer with my meal, I almost always wake up with a headache. I've also found that ibuprofen does almost nothing for this type of headache (it will linger all day) but acetaminophen works very well. I'm 46 now and this seems to have started maybe four years ago. It's kind of a bummer because I really enjoy beer and cocktails.

idiot_stick 10y ago

>But pleasure is easy and ice cream tastes good. Balance is everything. That's why calorie restriction is a thing of beauty; eat what you want within the bounds of a caloric limit. Personally, I eat very light all week (sub 1500 calories), then splurge on the weekend.

rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
That's kind of what I did when I was 18. I'd eat a handful of dry cereal, run 5 miles, go to school, then walk uphill for 45 minutes to my job as a produce clerk lifting boxes and stuff, then skip dinner. On the weekends I would eat like a pig and play Oblivion all day. Still, I lost 50 pounds in 2 months. I do not recommend this. My lung popped (but it healed itself) and some of my hair fell out (it grew back) from the loss in protein intake. Like I said before, balance is everything. Still, I do agree it makes sense to be light on the weekdays and splurge on the weekends. After all, there's only so much food you can stuff down your gullet in a span of a couple of days without making yourself sick, regardless of your caloric intake from the previous week.
- idiot_stick 10y ago
  >Still, I do agree it makes sense to be light on the weekdays and splurge on the weekends. Right. I make no claims about my method being "good". But I work long days, and commute. So I usually don't each during the weekday, then come home and have a great meal. Then TV and bed. I'm sure any benefits come from fewer calories eaten in aggregate.

criddell 10y ago

I've almost eliminated alcohol as well mostly because I seem to have grown very sensitive to it. Even if I have only one beer with my meal, I almost always wake up with a headache. I've also found that ibuprofen does almost nothing for this type of headache (it will linger all day) but acetaminophen works very well. I'm 46 now and this seems to have started maybe four years ago. It's kind of a bummer because I really enjoy beer and cocktails.