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Well, IF is great for some people. It worked reasonably well for me for quite some time. But lately I've become pretty, well, crazy. The fasting period would go perfectly fine, but once I started eating, I really had to force myself to stop. It's difficult to explain. I had these crazy, intense urges to keep eating even after I'd consumed a 1,000 calorie meal. I didn't cave to them, but I was really uncomfortable with the quasi-restrict/binge cycle I was repeating day after day.
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DeleteA little break may very well do me a world of good! Who knows =)
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ReplyDeletehaha - Max is this way!! If he goes like 0.2 seconds beyond a meal time, he turns gray and gets shaky and it's just a disaster.
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