The REAL REASON you lost weight.. 

You cut out bread, rice and pasta from your diet. 

You removed a large portion of things you over ate in your diet, therefore put yourself in a calorie deficit. 

You quit chocolate and sugar. 

You removed a large portion of things you over ate in your diet, therefore put yourself in a calorie deficit. 

You quit alcohol. 

You removed a calorie dense beverage from your diet that you previously over consumed, therefore put yourself in a calorie deficit. 

Eating bread, pasta, rice, chocolate, sugar and drinking alcohol didn’t cause you to gain weight. Over consuming them did!

You started taking a fat burner.

You started training and became more careful with what you were eating, therefore put yourself in a calorie deficit. 

You did the 5:2 diet.

You started eating less 2 days per week, therefore put yourself in a calorie deficit. 

You started intermittent fasting.

You started eating food in a smaller time period through out the day, which meant that you ate less food in total. Which then put yourself in a calorie deficit.

You replaced 1-2 meals per day with a meal replacement shake.

By replacing those meals, it meant that two meals were approximately 200-300 calories, which was less than what you were previously consuming. In turn, you put yourself in a calorie deficit.