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Mind elaborating on this a bit? Do you just stop eating entirely for X days, or limit yourself to very small amounts, or what? How hard do you find it to maintain? How effective is it?
I often find abstaining from something entirely to be much easier than attempting moderation; I'm sort of wondering if this might work for me, to more reliably drop the weight I usually put on around holidays.
Use Beeminder with a weight goal, eat whatever you like when you're below the centerline, and stop eating entirely whenever you go above it, until you're under it again.
This sounds like a fairly horrible idea. There is no guarantee that you will feel like doing fasting when you go above the centerline, if anything, you go above because you are in a bad mood and eat or drink to deal with it, so you would be fasting at times when it is the least convenient. Instead, you can simply fast whenever you feel it would be easy. Whenever you feel strong and happy and proud.
It's worked for me so far.
I actually have such a goal, but hadn't considered using it like this.