Follow a similar fitness influencer too.
She catches less flak these days, but a while back people would act genuinely scandalized watching her eat two pieces of bread or grab a barbecue plate. Genuinely twisted mindset.
Took a while to realize, but genuinely thrilled that's how things worked out here too.
Eating like a normal person's been possible, still counting calories, but real, normal food. Proper meals.
Enjoying food socially too. Overindulging at all-inclusive resorts and reining it back in at home, that sort of balance.
The kind of thing people who've never struggled with weight just naturally do.
No unpleasant side effects.
Two years in now and every bit of it has been enjoyable.
Oh, and down a massive amount and landed in a healthy weight range for my height for the first time in three decades.
Also think long term this approach sets up maintenance far better than if appetite suppression alone had done all the work.