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Originally Posted by Iridal
What's the rationale behind this (half a kilo per fortnight I mean) ? Is it because that way you're sure you're losing fat instead of fluid ? My aim is half a kilo a week.
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Well, while I'd be happy to do half a kilo per week (which is a sensible rate of weight loss), in practice I seem to only manage half a kilo per fortnight. So rather than trying to eat even less, or exercise more, I've accepted that that's the rate I can comfortably manage.
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Originally Posted by Iridal
You can still eat most of the things you like. Just in smaller quantities.
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Yes! This is exactly my approach.
Extreme fad diets seem really silly to me. Even if you stick to them and they do cause you to genuinely lose weight, what's going to happen when you stop the fad diet? You return to your old eating habits and you quickly put back on the weight you lost.
When I reach my target weight, I'll just carry on much as I am now, just eating a little bit more. But I think I'll still need to keep an eye on things.
After all, to put on 5kg over a year only requires eating 50 calories more than you expend per day...