Originally Posted by carpediemracing

I realized I forgot to say something. Egads.

If it works, it's good. So, for example, I need to be actively involved with the diet and it helps if I can see numbers, charts, graphs, etc. I found one site that works for me and decided to stick with it.

I wouldn't be able to do a vegan diet (tried it for a while when dating someone who was experimenting with diet - also tried gluten free, "rice cake diet" - pretty much ate rice cakes for a while, bagel diet - just bagels due to being broke and getting free bagels, etc). And I've gotten links on different diets and such, which I appreciate, but just to get me to diet at all took me all this time. I lose too much traction if I start adding other things. So for me it's less fat, less calories.

And, again, if I'm hungry, I eat; my body's trying to tell me something. Yesterday I did some snow shoveling, helped decorate cookies (ate 1), rode the trainer till I almost cramped, and ended up going 30% over my daily calories. Today I'm the lightest I've been so far.

cdr