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Keep the food you love. Cut the food you don't miss.

Keep the food you love. Cut the food you don't miss.

Cutting your favourite food first is how most diets die. Keep one or two foods you actually love, shrink the ones you barely notice, and eat enough that your body is not starving.

17 Sep 2026 · Burnie Academy
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A man we know tried to get slim by taking his favourite food off the plate. Coffee and a few almonds in the afternoon. One roti and a little sabzi at night. A cup of tea. By evening he was empty. He was not weak. He had banned the one food that would have kept him in the plan. This page is about that trap, and the soup that ended it.

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