Hi, ZZ. Don’t know if it helps but I lost a couple of stone last year by not eating starchy carbs after 3pm ish. So I can have sandwich and pizza etc for lunch, but then just light for tea, fruit, yoghurt, soup etc. It really worked for me and I found I wasn’t craving carbs nearly as much either. I’m still enjoying chocolate and cakes etc. My friend has lost a similar amount by having just one meal a day, at 3.30ish, and drinking black coffee/ tea otherwise.
I do find that if I have a biscuit or something at teatime, then I want more and more, so it definitely does something. I’ve kept the weight off, apart from a small blip over Christmas, now reconciled, which I never managed before. I tried the fasting diet, and that did help initially, but as soon as I started eating again on those days, it piled back on. I couldn’t imagine keeping on for the rest of my life not eating for two days a week.