Diet plans that don't work, but which are still a good idea

[core_opsis]

I need to lose ten to fifteen pounds.  I have no interest in counting calories, or points, or whatever else that people "on diets" are supposed to do.  I just want to be healthy and to not have to think about what I'm eating.  Gaining unwanted fat comes from habits over long periods of time.  Throughout my life, the first excess came from the year

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[nutmeg]

I think a good first step doesn't even need to be counting calories, but simply writing down everything you've eaten in a day and being really honest with yourself about it. Just doing that forces you to be accountable to yourself about what you are eating. And knowing during the day that you are going to face yourself about it at the end of the day makes you reconsider your choices.

In the end after I did some really strict calorie counting it simply showed me that on a day when I wasn't thinking about what I was eating I wasn't eating that many calories and so dieting simply wasn't going to be the thing that allowed me to lose weight. I couldn't see myself eating only 1200 calories in a day and as I was only consuming 1500 on an average day so I really had to up my exercise.

I haven't been gaining weight in the last several years but I was still trying to get rid of some weight I gained many years ago. So I did some wild dieting for short periods of time lost a few pounds here and a few there and my normal eating habits have kept them off, luckily. I haven't yet gotten under a weight that my normal eating habits will cause me to gain weight, i'd like to find that lowest maintenance weight for myself... if that makes sense.

[core_opsis]

Well, they do say that as you get alder your metabolism slows down some, so that's probably it.

And right now I'm making biscotti. I think I'll manage to give most of them away.