>>>>>>>>>>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?"
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>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.

I've heard that too. I also asked her about the concept of eating slower so that the stomach has time to alert the brain that it's full, and she said that it's absolutely true. There is a time gap between your stomach being full and your brain finding out about it. If you eat fast, you tend to eat beyond being full.

I always promise myself when I go to the Mandarin for dinner (an incredible 'all you can eat' Chinese restaurant) that I'll pace myself, but I've never been able to leave the place without pain.