Yes, if all of this is just a way to get me to eat fewer calories, and that's all that's really happening, so be it. I've had several people scold me saying "You know you're just losing weight because of the calories, right?" and I'm like, so? Great!

I can't diet. Been trying that all my life and it's never going to happen. It's uncomfortable and socially inconvenient to be constantly weighing my food and passing up dinner invitations and never feeling satisfied. So I just don't eat a couple days a week and then forget about the rest.