Remember this: you have been lied to.
Please take it for what it is. I'll answer any questions you've got.
No, not eating too much. Yes, I'm aware this sounds ass-backwards. No, I am not joking, it's 100% real, go look it up.
You. Have. Been. Lied. To.
It's not you. It's all your hormones.
Lower your insulin = you will lose weight no matter what else you do.
All that stuff about exercising the fat off is 100% bullshit and does not work.
Eat less, exercise more = nonsense.
You can't stay on the diet because starving is fucking horrible.
Anyway it doesn't work long term even if you do. Your body adjusts.
Come off the diet, and your metabolism is now out of whack and can't adjust back.
The diet industry rides on this cycle and blames YOU for the fact that human biology doesn't work the way they say it does.
This was me for years and it messed me up.
The goal is to get your insulin down. There's a bunch of biochem to learn about but the TL;DR is that insulin controls how fat gets cycled in and out of your fat cells.
Interesting thing to know is that very obese people with chronically high insulin are incredibly hungry because all the food that they eat is being stored as fat and not used to actually power their bodies.
Hyperinsulinemia is a shitshow.
I was knocking on the door of pre-diabetes at this point, just FYI.
(I've tried vegetarianism and briefly veganism in the past and neither worked for me.)
No rice, potatoes, bread, sugar, fruit, etc.)
Friend of mine can't handle keto without getting violently sick, because she hypermetabolizes carbs and low blood sugar gives her chronic migraines.
Another woman I know started on veganism; that turned out to be her silver bullet.
It has given me freedom and peace I never thought I'd have.