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I weigh nearly 15 stone. I don’t feel like myself. I don’t look like myself. I want to lose weight but, clearly, a bigger part of me just wants to eat until I feel sick.

Has anyone managed to get themselves out of this type of bind?

Starting to feel like it is impossible to stop eating so much.

Maybe look into intermittent fasting. I’m doing 16:8 at the moment and I’m not snacking and I’m rarely hungry. I still watch my calories though during my eating window.

I’ve always thought that diets work if you stick to them. I just need my motivation to be supercharged.

How long have you done IF @LargeInCharge ?

I just started on Monday and was/am calorie counting. For me I like the routine of no food after 8pm and fasted an extra hour today so broke it at 1pm. I started tonight’s fast at 7:30pm.
You can pick your timed eating so you could start with 10 or 12 hours if you wanted and work your way up.

The best thing about it is if it’s not for you you can just stop doing it. No money wasted on joining something or buying something. I use the Zero app which is free.

I have done lots of diets and found various that work BUT gone back to where I started afterwards. It took a lifestyle overhaul to make a real change for me. I think any healthy food regime that you can stick to will do the job but what makes it really achievable is if you have a real reason to stick to it for life not just as a short term fix. People who I know who have made permanent changes have had real incentive, then it was easy e.g. health scare, wanting to get back to dating after horrid divorce etc. The best book I have ever read on the subject is the 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet by Dr Michael Mosley. I'd advise you to read it cover to cover then put it down and just try and live by its principles which are basically low carb diet with decent amount of protein at every meal and healthy fats, limit how much you eat overall, up your activity. In practise this means breakfast of eggs with some combo of spinach, mushroom, a little cheese etc, lunch of protein + salad (chicken salad, omelette), evening meal of protein + veg. Lots of low carb drinks e.g. tea, herb teas, water. More walking. If you eat these sort of things you can have plenty of them really. I'd steer clear of diet products and keep to real food, avoid all dieting apps etc and just think of it as how you live now. I guess it's all obvious but I didn't do it before though I do see now that it's how healthy, slim friends operate anyway.