Someone once told me diets are like old boyfriends in that once you've left one behind, you can't go back, and it does seem to be inordinately difficult to climb back on any particular wagon once I've fallen off. But I really am quite evangelical about Schwarzbein and have always thought I should do it again and indeed will probably go bck to soemthing quite similar once I've lost all my weight. It really did seem miiraculous to me, the weight came off surprisingly easily (with still having occasional cheats on substantial amounts of posh ice cream) and it's difficult to overstate the difference I felt physically aside from the weight loss. Woke up refreshed every morning, had no headaches at all (coming from someone who has suffered almot daily headaches all her life, this was huge), got through the day with no naps (again, this at a time when I had quite regularly been napping for a couple hours of an afternoon) and I got a truly surprising number of comments from people (who didn't know I was dieting) about how well I was looking, how glowing and healthy my skin, and so forth. Also worked wonders on my hormones, but I don't expect you'd see quite the same effect there! I was even able to come off my meds for a long time with noticeably less severe side effects than I would normally have.

But I will come off the soap box now and just say that I have every, every sympathy to your plight. it's a horrible thing to try and lose weight, and the more you want to lose the harder it is. I feel like I have been on a diet for most of my adult life and never actually been thin. So I really do feel for you and wish you luck and more importantly, motivation. If you discover the secret of that, do let me know. I still haven't got the exercise thing down.