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Cake day: March 10th, 2026

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  • anecdotal experience of what worked for me (was around 26 BMI and went down to nearly underweight, most came off in around 4 months and then progress got slower):

    intermittent fasting, fairly strictly on either 18-6 or 16-8, the longer you fast the better generally. i’d eat a small meal/snack around noon and then a filling meal around 5-7 pm. snack in between if i felt like it, small dessert after dinner if i felt like it.

    first few weeks is kinda hard, body wants to eat and you just have to not. then after you do this for a while your body just kinda accepts that this is how/when you will eat. your appetite should decrease to roughly what you are feeding yourself.

    in terms of calories i tried to do around 80% of daily needs, you can prob go even lower but i wouldnt go below like 60-70%, the goal is to not actually hate life while doing this/not starve yourself. should probably supplement with a multivitamin or smth as well if you are gonna lack any nutrients. it’s OK to eat 100% of daily caloric burn or even a bit higher, i’d just try to avoid going much higher and if you find yourself constantly wanting to do 100% days it probably isn’t working (unless you’re also exercising).

    it also really helped to have stuff i was busy with or motivated to do during this time, less time to think about eating basically.

    no matter what you end up doing, you basically need to find some way you can eat less calories than you burn on most days in a sustainable way that you don’t really mind doing. for me IF worked well because it’s really structured with rules and the rules aren’t really about the type of food just when you eat.