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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 1373512" data-attributes="member: 19121">It worked for although it wasnt easy but I was very strict for about 6 months didnt drink at all in that time and ate very small portions, then I started to drink red wine with my evening meal again and also ate a little more but by them I was getting used to eating less. Set small targets, 4 or 5 pounds at a time rather than a single target of all the weight you want to lose , its easier to achieve multiple small goals than one large one.I equate losing weight to stopping smoking which I also did a couple of years before I was diagnosed as being T2, it was hard but I knew I had to do it as I had suffered respiratory failure and the consequences for me at that time were give up smoking or end up back in intensive care again with tubes stuck in my hands and feet! It got easier as time went on and now after 10 years of not smoking I wonder why I ever smoked in the first place and even hate the smell of cigarettes on others, something I wasnt even aware of when I smoked myself. So both were tough but over time you do adapt to both not smoking and eating less, when I go out for meals now I generally only have a main course and usually end up leaving up to half of that.On snacking again I was very strict about snacking when I was dieting and would look at the time if I felt like a snack and tell myself  " only x minutes till lunch/diner Ill wait and then ill enjoy my lunch/diner more ".I have to admit that I do snack a bit now and do have to watch it as it depletes my appetite for diner and I do tend to put a few pounds on through the winter months but I just knock the mid week drinking on the head for a month or so every new year and find I can lose the extra weight that way fairly easily but I know how hard it was to lose weight in the first place and the commitment it took and that I would find it extremely hard to lose a lot of weight again and that keeps me on the right path now, so as soon as Im aware that I have put on say 4 or 5 pounds, I deal with it before it becomes a problem.Good luck and stick with it as it does bring results.</blockquote>

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