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You could also read my comment as "severe calorie restriction didn't work for me that long, not even for weight loss". If I couldn't keep it up longer than a couple of weeks even when I had excess fat, it's unlikely I would be able to keep it up when thin.
Well I wouldn't call what you did "severe calorie restriction," since it doesn't really fit into any of my definitions. Eating less than your caloric needs is necessarily a temporary situation.
Well my post assumes that one has control over one's eating. If you cannot control your eating, then calorie restriction for longevity is kind of a moot point for you.
I actually have some ideas about how one can control one's eating but I am disinclined to share them here until I am more satisfied that they work. Too many people go online to kvell about their diet strategy only a few months in to their diet. That's arguably the equivalent to releasing software which hasn't even been alpha tested.
That's not what I said.
Perhaps you're right. I'll not bother you further.
You seem to have implied it:
I took that to mean that you engaged in calorie restriction sufficient to result in weight loss but were psychologically unable to stick with it. i.e. you were unable to control your eating.
It's up to you, but we need to be clear about what we are discussing. There's a difference between calorie restriction -- as I have defined it -- and dieting.