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Fad diets and crash courses are not sustainable. 500 cal a day with an active lifestyle is not necessary. No-one needs to lose that much weight that quickly unless you are 35 stone and need to slim down X% before they can operate on your cholesterol laden heart.
A simple realisation that what and how much goes into your pie hole affects what hangs off your bones is enough to start with. After that, it's down to you to make the right decisions. It's not rocket surgery.
"ooh, that cake looks tasty. What would I rather do, eat the cake or lose a few hundred calories?" If the answer is eat the cake, then eat the fucking cake. Don't beat yourself up about it just fucking do it and stop crying about it. Maybe even use that as incentive to take a nice detour on the way home and take in a few more miles or an extra hill or two.
I have lost 20kgs in the last year from what I am now going to call the "HTFU Plan". It's not a record breaking amount of weight and it has taken a year or so but it's consistent and enough to have everyone comment and ask how I did it. It's not hard. Just be honest with yourself about what and how much you eat. I still have pizza, burgers (the Devastator from the Red Dog Saloon being a recent accomplishment), chips, beer, full roast dinners etc but I am responsible with it. It's not saved up for a "treat" (how fucking patronising is that?). I am an adult and I will eat what I want when i want. But if I want to lose weight more, then the mental battle is an easy one.
Sorry, not aimed at anyone here in particular, just getting annoyed with people in the office and elsewhere crying because their "diets" never work.