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3 ways to change your diet into a lifestyle and improve your weight loss success
As a recovering chronic dieter, I know the struggle. You’re constantly drawn to new diet trends like a moth to the flame. One month you’re doing a master cleanse, the next month you’re drinking powdered meals and eating a salad a day. But nothing seems to really get you to where you want to be: weight loss and weight loss that last. That was me for a while although I didn’t quite see it that way. Being the geeky, science nerd, hippie that I am, I was constantly reading up on and trying new holistic cleansing methods for weight loss. I was a vegetarian after I read somewhere that meat…
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Going meatless for weight loss?
I was a miserable bitch without a period and even more agitated than I can hormonally be. Thinking about beef pissed me off, hunger was a monster and I found it unfair. Why did I have to give up meat and fat to lose weight? But I gave it a try anyways. For a year and some change I went meatless by first going vegetarian, then going vegan until I eventually went with all raw foods for a few months. Hovering around 220 pounds for almost a year after initially losing 15 pounds was enough to make me slap any gleefully righteous vegan or vegetarian that swore I just wasn’t…