Today I've posted my weight loss in the MWL thread and my journal for the last time. So here is my first and last entry in this forum too.
I now weigh 142 lbs, 64.5kg, BMI 20.6. (177cm, 5.8 f female).
I have lost ~13 kg (28 lbs) in 8 months. A modest loss in a slowish time, but for me it represents a huge amount as I've carried these extra pounds all my adult life. My highest weight was another 6 kg higher so in total I have lost 20 kg (44 lbs) during the last 3 years.
My weight loss was slow and often stalled. I felt despondent at times and wondered if I would ever get on top of these urges to eat too much. I'd like to encourage anyone to not give up. Keep looking for answers until you find a way. Give something a try even if it doesn't look promising at first.
I am thankful to The China Study for making me change from vegetarian to vegan and extremely thankful to Dr McDougall for making his programme available for free online here. Jeff Novick's calorie density helped me to lose most of the weight by eating large amounts of low calorie food and for the last kgs I learned to control my urges and cravings and to scale back my portions with KensCircus's information and the book
You are not your brain by J. Schwartz.
Thanks to everyone who gave encouragement. I wouldn't have succeeded without this site and people sharing their experiences. So now I'm no longer a plump Erbse (pea in German)
but a skinny bean pole.
ETA: How could I forget to give credit to Nettie for setting me on the path with her post about Rational Recovery and the book
The Feast Beast? I had read one of the RR books when Nettie first posted about it and in her second post she also mentioned
Brain over Binge[/i. On that author's website I found the recommendation for the [i]You are not your brain book. That book helped me beat the urges to eat too much. Nettie also copied out a huge amount of information from the Feast Beast book for me. Thank you so much, Nettie !!