Tethers, I want to steal you and keep you in my wardrobe as my fashion advisor! You are wonderful!!! I want all of them 
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I cut out carbs for about 10 days (nearly killed me!!) and didn't take anything to work with me bar fruit and a museli bar for snacking (and no money to buy good things if I fancied them!). Cut out all alcohol, and rationed myself to two small glasses of diet coke per day for when the treat urge was too great. Gave myself all my meals on a side plate to reduce portion size, and after about two weeks I found I didn't fancy choc as much. If I did fancy it I could rationalise out of it, in that I have enjoyed the fruit just as much (always got "nice" fruit, i.e. blueberries, melon etc), and I usually craved it if actually I needed water or to go to bed! Once the weight started coming off it just kept coming off, it was great!
Also joined Zumba, so now exercise once a week, and as it means I get an evening out this also feels treaty. I've recently joined a dry ski slope too.