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Anonymous
>>469470 1. It will work. Getting thin isn't complicated, even if it's not always easy. Healthy diet+exercise=health.
2. A diet is not something you try or go on. Your diet is what you eat every day, not what you plan to eat. Consistency is the only thing that counts. Don't set yourself up for failure by deciding on some over-ambitious plan that no one (not even an athletic person who eats healthy) could stick to. Decide how many calories you should be eating (probably around 500 less than your maintenance level, which you can Google), and then think about what you can eat that will fill you up and add up to that goal. Hint: lots of veggies five times a day will leave you stuffed to the gills.
And if you eat right Monday through Friday, then accidentally a whole bag of chips on Saturday, who cares? That's not even going to make a dent in your progress, because it's about what you do every day, not about what you just did. If you eat until you can't move on Thanksgiving, what does it matter? Because the day before, the day after, and for the rest of your life, you're a healthy eater on average, right?
The kind of people who go on and off fad diets without seeing results are the people who get tunnel vision and focus on what they ate that day, either beating themselves up for one big meal or overeating *every* day, reasoning that it's just one day. Expand your focus to the whole week, and never try to compensate for eating a lot today by eating less tomorrow, because in the grand scheme of things, it makes no difference. If you're overeating every day, then you obviously don't have a plan you can stick to for the rest of your life, and should change it up. Probably you're attempting to not eat rather than to fill up on foods that provide an appropriate number of calories.
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