Like, LizRR, said you sort of have to experiment. There is no real method or weight loss tricks. You basically follow the program and then you play with what works for you. Generally speaking the restricted are recommend and part of the protocol for a reason. People eat them every day and lose weight.
I would play around with my meat choices. Like if i felt the scale was not moving, I would switch from beef/steak to chicken breast. BUT, I also noticed the opposite. That when I went from too much chicken breast to beef or ground beef (something with more fat) there was more weight loss. I also noticed this when I upped my oil (over the limit) sometimes. Sometimes salads helped, and not the healthy kind. Iceberg. Something about the roughage.
I just found that changing it up after a period of doing the same seemed to help. For example just because the scales was good after a day or two with ground beef and ice berg lettuce did not mean I could eat that the whole week. There were weeks where I only had 3 or 4 restricted. Made no difference.
There's a lot of stuff in the bars that made me uneasy. I cut them out for a while and instead ate like the dill pickle zippers/sw curls and then added soy balls. Those are tricky. Hard to eat just one packet.
I also found that eating restricted early in the day (breakfast or lunch) made me want another later in the day.
Some cut out restricted for a period of time and do show losses on the scale. I just could not do it. Would make me sad.
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