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  1. 1. How did you reach your goal?

    • I ate what I wanted in small portions
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    • I was very strict with my diet
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    • I ate a low carb diet
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    • I only had 1200 calories or less per day
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I'm at my goal, and ate pretty much everything, never counted calories or kept a journal.

I just ate in small portions.

Have many female coworkers telling me I'm too thin, and then turning their heads to say: I hope you dont get the pounds back.... I just hate when that happens.

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The band really does it for me on anything normal: bread rice, Pasta and potatoes, I can eat less than half a handful of each so I don't bother at all with them. I can eat aout a haldful of pulses, Beans, etc, but I can't manage quorn. Raw veggies, I can eat some but they fill me up very quickly unless I eat them very very slowly, likewise fruit. Soya yoghurts, I can eat a normal portion (1 pot) but I can eat as much chocolate or biscuits as I like - so I am very grateful that they aren't the things that float my boat. Mind you, having acheived a normal BMI and a normal body, nothing would persuade me that I should go back to how I used to look. There is nothing I wouldn't cut out, nothing within reason that I would not consider in an effort to maintain this new body size.

Having said this, I have taken up running and run a couple of marathons a year, plus 5 miles (at least) every day) - except for now as I have just had plastic surgery and can't run for 4-6 weeks.

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