Fasting was a nice tool for me to break my food addiction. I didn't use it specifically to lose weight but to change my mindset around food. The mindset change

Fasting was a nice tool for me to break my food addiction. I didn't use it specifically to lose weight but to change my mindset around food. The mindset change for me was basically what I believe most overweight people suffer from: To start eating so much and so often that they forget what 'hunger' really is. With that change, now knowing for real when I'm hungry and when I just 'want to eat', my weight started to drop naturally, and in 3 years (slow descent, which was good as well for other reasons) I ended up losing 50 kg, going from a "morbidly obese" BMI to a now healthy "slightly overweight" :-) Losing weight slowly meant 2 good things to me: 1- the mind changed, so now I'm simply unable to get back to that weight, I can't eat so much, all my portion sizes were slashed and I can do that while eating normally - no fad diets or crazy restrictions. yes I eat pizza with a coke sometimes, I just don't eat a whole pizza anymore :) That level of control and balance was what I was striving for, because I think that's durable. I knew I could lose weight by being angry and brute forcing it for 6 months, but I don't believe I'd be able to keep the weight down without a proper mindset break. 2- losing weight slowly also meant I don't have heaps of loose skin, I didn't need plastic surgery or anything and besides still being a bit chubby, I can take my shirt off just fine without getting strange looks :-) I know people that lost the same 50 kg in 6 months through insane diets and overexerting themselves at the gym and their skin just couldn't shrink as fast as they lost weight, they have these folds which usually give away you 'lost too much weight'. I'm proud I don't have these features! TL;DR: Change your mindset around food, your body will follow. Don't bruteforce it when you're angry, you're just gonna have a temporary weight loss like you probably have and tried countless times if you come from a fat background/upbringing. o/