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[Less_is_more]

Lately I’ve been having a very hard time sticking to my calorie limit. I just saw a picture someone took of me yesterday and I can’t even look at myself.
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in doing a challenge or a diet with me?

[blissfultomorrows]

Sure! Depends on which one though. I got out of resi like a month ago and I swear my hunger cues are still so messed up and I went from low restricting to not being able to stop eating!

[Dollhouse Cat]

I'm interested! I've been binging a lot this month and doing a challenge with someone might snap me out of it. What kind of challenge/diet did you want to do?

[Less_is_more]

I’m pretty open to ideas - we could do one of the more common diets, or if we want something more creative I saw this challenge a few months back -
each morning you pick a card from a deck of cards. The number is how many calories you have for the day (ex 4 is 400, all picture cards are 1,000)

[Dollhouse Cat]

Something more long term based usually works better for me, like a weekly calorie limit instead of a different limit every day. What type of common diets were you thinking of?

[Less_is_more]

Maybe a slightly modified ABC diet? Or a daily/weekly calorie limit, or only healthy foods. Intermittent fasting? Truthfully I’m pretty open

[Dollhouse Cat]

Have you heard if the ‘fix it fast diet’? It’s 10 days long and pretty extreme, we could do a modified version of that or try the normal version?

[Appletun]

I'd also be on board for this, my binge eating has been unreal lately! Today has been my first decent day in I don't know how many.

[Less_is_more]

Yeah, I’d be in. What does that diet look like?

[Dollhouse Cat]

 

I've seen a few people on here do it before, and I'd love to try it to stop binging and end the month well if you're all up for it! 

[Less_is_more]

I’m in! Although I may need to modify it slightly because I work 10 hours so fasting is hard. Also I think if I want to really try to stop binging, I can’t go right to fasting.
I’m thinking I might start with a little higher calorie limit and then after 10 days do it again with lower calorie limits.

So my first week might be:
Day 1 - 300
Day 2 - 500
Day 3 - 550
Day 4 - 600
Day 5 - 650
Day 6 - 700
Day 7 - 750
Day 8 - 800
Day 9 - 700
Day 10 - 800

And the second round I’ll do
Day 1 - 100
Day 2 - 300
Day 3 - 350
Day 4 - 400
Day 5 - 450
Day 6 - 500
Day 7 - 550
Day 8 - 600
Day 9 - 500
Day 10 - 600

Then the third round I will do it the way it’s supposed to be

[Dollhouse Cat]

That’s okay! Whatever works best for you is fine. I’ll try to stick the original version and probably do one round.

When did you want to start? I was planning on fasting today already so I can make today (Saturday) my day 1.

[ChocoNat]

Will try to join you both !

[Less_is_more]

Will try to join you both !

Sounds good! Does starting today work for you?

[Less_is_more]

How’d it go today for you guys?

[Dollhouse Cat]

I completed my fast for day 1 and it went really well! I’m going to head to the store to buy some vegetables I can cook for today.

[Less_is_more]

Good job! If you exercise do you subtract that from your daily total calories normally?

[Dollhouse Cat]

I usually don’t. I always worry it’s not accurate and just count what I eat without subtracting anything. To be honest I don’t exercise a lot, I walk a lot or dance and while I keep track of what it approximately burns I don’t subtract it from my total of the day.

Did your first day of the diet go well?

[ChocoNat]

For some reasons, I couldn't see my notification before ! It also went really well for me too. I don't count the calories when I workout because I don't know how much I burn, but I also don't exercize on days I fast. I'm also stuck at home online working only so I'm very low there too anyway

[Less_is_more]

So I didn’t binge today but I didn’t stick to my goal number. Instead of beating myself up too badly, I’m going to switch today out with another day .

How’d day 2 go for you guys?