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I'm not sure there's a difference.
Moderation and portion control is one method of diet and I try to be strict on those things (varying degrees of success!) and also that I meet the daily protein and fluid requirements I need (much better success).
Early on, someone here shared that they can eat anything they want, they just have to be prepared for the consequences. I like that mind set. I am not always successful at that either but when I ask myself that, I'm at least being purposeful.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
How many of you eat what you want just with moderation and portion control?
And then how many of you are on a strict diet?
I understand there are a bunch of former posters circulating.
Please understand that you are absolutely loved and valued ... please talk .. your experience benefits all of us .
Be skinny like The Rolling Stones dude ?!!! 
You just always totally make me laugh !!!!
Yep ... I'm kind of half in luv w ya ... you have a Great sense of humor and personality ( and obviously you're super smart)
For me exercise works .
I try to get out ( wherever onto the deck ... onto a beach or a road ) and just keep going ( to great music ... really helps and inspires ) as long as I can.
Yes you're exhausted afterwards... but your body recovers many times stronger.
And it feels SO Great to take a well deserved bath put on clean pajamas ... eat a nice meal totally guilt free . And when you look at your body the next day in the mirror... wow !
I guess if you REALLY asked me I'd say you have a choice. And it also depends very strongly on where you're coming from .
I personally was a lightweight from the beginning... a very frustrated person regarding weight and diabetes but not hundreds of pounds overweight.
In the end I think you need to ask for advice your specific peers who succeeded before you and are still successful .
We're not all in exactly the same boat physically and losing and permanently keeping off many lbs is a HUGE thing .
(((())))) many hugs and the best of luck to you
Pills often feel stuck to me. I take mine with a small amount of applesauce. It works much better for me than water. Yogurt sounds like a good plan to test with. Let us know how it goes.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
A calorie is a unit of energy and the body burns them equally whether they are from brown rice or chocolate brownies. A woman needs about 10 calories a day to maintain one pound of weight. So 1200 calories to maintain 120. 2000 calories to maintain 200. So a calorie is a calorie, when you are only looking at calories.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I think you may have missed the entire point of my post. This has nothing to do with which foods are "better choices" or keep you feeling full longer. I completely understand those points. But, at the end of the day, a calorie will always be a calorie and that is, ultimately, what causes us to either gain or lose weight.
Just spoke with my surgeons office, she said that it doesn't sound like a Stricture because I'm able to keep some fluids down.. She wants me to eat some yogurt, wait and then drink and then to call her back to see how I did with it. She also said that not taking my protonix could be a big reason why I feel nauseous all the time. Which I haven't been taking my protonix because swallowing pills has me throwing up and very sick hours after I've taken them.
I still just feel like things getting stuck in my throat the way it has been isn't normal. Like something must be wrong. I don't know.
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