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That's no problem. So you were on a 1750 calorie deficit on average per day?

• RobertRoberts 9y ago
  That's the odd part, one day I ate 6 cupcakes with my dinner, just to test my theories about weight loss. I still lost my average .5 lbs over the next couple days. But one day, I simply ate too much "regular" food at dinner, and I gained weight instead of losing it. (about 2.5 weeks in) I didn't count calories at all, I found that discouraging in the past. I went by how I felt completely, and by forcing myself to take less than I wanted (ie, opposite of "eyes are bigger than my stomach") I was still satisfied. It was a fight with how I felt about eating before I started, versus how I felt after eating. I learned from helping run a kids summer camp, that one counsellor would give the hungry boys 1 taco to start with. Which I thought was odd, and then they could come back and get seconds, etc... He explained that the reason was that if the boys got to take as much as they wanted, they'd take like 4 at first, and eat them all. But if they took 1, and had to wait for a few minutes before the next, they'd only eat 2. I use this knowledge on myself to this day. I eat a little, wait, and then my appetite is dramatically reduced, and I eat less. I don't do this all the time, but I am conscience of the effect when I need it.