What a fascinating thread, and what lovely contributions. I will be reading and re- reading here.
My own experience is that I must stay with two good fast days, but keep an eagle eye on my TDEE. It has not been easy to keep my eating under control these past weeks, though the recent Challenge helps me to focus. My weight has kept level, some big spikes up too......smaller clothes still fit. (Interestingly I seem to be going the way @Ballerina has done with nutrition and timing and she expresses it all so well

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I don't want to be neurotic but there's no getting away from it that past conditioning takes some getting over, if one ever does. I think of this change, WOE/WON, as the only thing that lets me partly neutralise what I did for years. I will always have that overeating indulgent tendency.
I see myself as glad and willing to
make amends to myself by being watchful, adjust, THINK about it more, NOTICE what I'm doing and adjust while keeping my cards close to my chest, ( it's now smaller! ) but come only to the forum to "talk the details" and endlessly reinforce what I know - just like everyone else on the forum. So, the rewards are great!
A Very Big thank-you to all for always opening up so honestly. It is such a help in our various quests.