>>>>>>>>>I have been fighting alcoholism hard and still haven't beaten it. Not asking for sympathy because I don't think I deserve much. Well, maybe I am. I know I am a good guy with lots of good things going for me, including two daughters who are way better than I deserve. I go to AA almost every day. I want to quit. Yet here I still am. It's mystifying.
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>>>>>>>>>Good night. At least I have enough sense left to go to bed sometimes.
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>>>>>>>>I know you're a divorced man. Maybe it makes harder with alone. However a relative of mine becomes drunk at the morning having wife and children.
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>>>>>>>I am thankful my daughters live with me. Alone is much worse for me, in fact that's usually when the binges happen.
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>>>>>>I understand you. I have a problem with eating. I was 107kg and I'm now 99kg. It's really hard to eat less. Expecially deserts... I cannot hold mine. I say myself "I'll begin diet tomorrow, not today. Today not a good day for diet". It's really really hard. I was 66kg before years ago. How happened that, I can' t believe in me... I'm sure alcohol is so harder.
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>>>>>Exercise.
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>>>>Actually it's 80% diet, 20% exercise.
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>>>It's bad planning. We're just built wrong. If I eat say, 4 cookies and that puts 2 pounds on me, then I should be able to lose the 2 pounds by thinking about eating 4 cookies but then refusing to eat them.
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>>Are your cookies the size of a dinner plate ?
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>Just a what if example.
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>I was talking to a dietician Monday morning and she was surprisingly realistic. Anyway, knowing that I like meat and carbs, she said that the idea is to quarter your dinner plate. One quarter for meat, one quarter for carbs, and the other half for veggies. I said to her, "So what you're really telling me is that I need to buy bigger plates?"

I've alos heard that you should eat regularly. If you skip meals as a way of "losing weight" you body goes into starvation mode and starts hanging onto everything you eat and laying down fat.