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I understand completely what you mean about not having an overly full stomach. I really dislike that feeling too which I think is why I naturally eat at a minimum. Since you seem to know a whole lot about CR do you think 1200 calories is where I should be for the benefits of CR? I’m 5’ 3” and 105lbs for reference. I picked 1200 because that’s always what they say the minimum is for women and that seems to be naturally the amount I like to eat anyway. I’m definitely thin but I don’t think I’m underweight exactly. I have enough energy to get through the day and I have a physical job and I walk a lot so to me that seems like I must be getting enough?

Thank you for both of your responses McCoy 🙏🏽. I actually already do CR, I’ve always been a light eater and always been thin so the only real change for me has been instead of eating 1200 calories of junk food a day I now eat 1200 calories or so of nutritionally complete food. I came across CR on Reddit and thought I would give it a try just to help with feeling better physically and it’s definitely done that. The way it helped me mentally though wasn’t something I was expecting and it was a very happy surprise. At this point even if diet didn’t help me at all physically I would keep eating this way for the feeling of emotional peace it gives me. It certainly isn’t a cure but it helps a lot. There’s nothing about eating “normally” that’s worth how bad it makes me feel, eating garbage makes you feel like garbage, or at least that’s been my experience. If you don’t mind sharing, why do you do CR and what benefits have you noticed? Thank you again for your thoughtful replies.

Hi Drew thanks for your response. I’m sorry but I’m confused are you female? If so that’s what I was looking for, I’m female too so I was just interested in how CR affected women specifically. Maybe I wasn’t clear in my first post, sorry about that 🤣. And thank you Mc Coy for your response too. I agree with you that I’m not sure CR would be very practical for low functioning people with autism. I guess i just was interested to see if anyone felt like in theory it could help. I ask because I know I’ve read that there’s a lot of evidence that autism is at least in part a metabolical disorder. I’m around people with autism/intellectual disability a lot and it really seems to me that this could be true. They’re almost always overweight and many are diabetic so it seems to me that CR could help if you could get them to comply to eating that way? I’m also on the autism spectrum myself (mildly though) and I know for myself I feel much better in general once I started to take my diet seriously. I’ve always been a light eater but once I got rid of junk food and made sure the food I was eating was nutritionally complete it’s been a huge change.

This is kind of a weird question but does anyone here have any thoughts or experiences about how CR could perhaps help symptoms of autism or similar disorders? Also I see that most posts here are from men but I’d love to hear any stories from any ladies in this group about how CR has affected their health and life. Thank you 🙏🏽.