The rational answer is, is that starving, restricting, purging or anything like that will NOT make you lose the weight. It may, temporarily, but it will be put back on just as soon as you're not doing that anymore. It's a yo-yo... the only way to lose weight and keep it off is to do it in a healthy way.

But you know all that... and that's the rational answer.

The emotional answer is, I do understand and I struggle with restricting and starving myself too.