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In 50 years of yo-yo dieting I've tried most things, including large quantities of exercise. Many worked for a while. I've lost > 100 pounds four times ... befo
by hirundo 6y ago
In 50 years of yo-yo dieting I've tried most things, including large quantities of exercise. Many worked for a while. I've lost > 100 pounds four times ... before gaining it back.
Now I'm trying something new that's working quiet well so far, 30 pounds down in 2.5 months. The real difference is that eating this way transforms me into a non-fat person behavioraly: I now stop eating when I'm full, which was a magic act only other people could do before. And now I just eat once or twice per day, not out of willpower, but because now that's all I want.
You may not want to hear about the food that does this for me. I sure didn't. As desperate as I've been, until recently I just closed my ears to it. It's a bad fit for me culturally, by taste (previously), training, and experience. But now I love it, and not just because it's working so well:
Meat. And organs. Mostly beef. High fat. I went carnivore. It seemed gross and impossible back when I was a raw vegan. Now here I am. And it's not just the weight. It has cleared up multiple digestive and inflammatory issues. It started as a one month cleanse but I'm not tempted to stop.
Many times a diet has worked for me because I was coming to it from a bad diet, and anything that got me off of junk food would have worked. Not this time. I had been on a clean very low carb diet for years, and managed to gain lots of weight on it after a large initial loss. Carnivore seeems to be reversing that, fingers crossed.