Hey,
If you're trying to lose extra weight, restricting severely won't help. Fasting or restricting for brief periods can sometimes give a sense of physical well being, and cause you to drop some weight, but your system won't support it for long. Not only that, but any weight you lose from fasting/restricting will come back when you start eating normally.
You can safely reduce caloric intake and lose weight gradually on a diet/exercise plan, but that's best done with a doctor's support, and weight loss on those sorts of plans tend to be gentle. As a rule of thumb, a diet should not promise more than a few pounds' loss per week. Diets that say "lose ten pounds in two weeks!" are bull, and will only make your system yo-yo more.
Being overweight is difficult; it's hard to handle the social pressure, it's hard to stick to a diet that doesn't ever seem to have significant results, it's hard to carry the extra around. I believe I can see the temptation there. But don't fall into the pit. This is a very important dilemma, and I think you should bring it up with your doctor--therapist, too, if you see one.
Keep talking.
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