Wondered if people with experience of successful, and unsuccessful dieting, could give me some advice. I would like to lose about a stone (am currently 9.5 stone and would like to be 8.5 stone; I am about 5'4.) which I have put on over the last couple of years just by being greedy. I don't take any formal exercise but have a very busy job which involves a lot of running around and I walk a fair bit. I am fairly fit naturally and seem to have a fast metabolism as I think most women who eat as much as I do would weigh more. My vices are slices of cake at tea, sometimes pudding at lunchtime, nibbling at my daughter's food in the evening, nibbling whilst we get dinner ready and then having one large portion for dinner plus a medium-sized second one. So I am quite piggy and probably just very lucky that I don't weigh more. I cannot hack diets and have never been on one as I have never needed to lose weight, and am not even medically overweight now. BUT I would like to be slimmer without being thin. However, I am wondering whether if I cut back too much, I wil end up wrecking my metabolism. I am now just over 30 and it's not exactly going to speed up with the years. I don't want to consign myself to eating salad for the rest of my life because I reduce the speed of my metabolism through dieting. I think the solution is probably to have some clear guidelines like NO second helpings of dinner, and NO sweet things execept at the week-end or on special occasions. And perhaps restrict alcohol to three nights a week. How long do people reckon it would take me to shift a stone using just a bit of self-restraint, and am I in danger of making my body less fuel-efficient in the process?
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