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Sacrifices v rewards

Mirandaz15
Mirandaz15 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I started a diet almost a week ago- I had to cut out a lot of foods and cut right back on calories. Educating myself to the amount of calories in foods and the portion sizes acceptable during my day- has been a fantastic learning curve. It's only early days but I'm already less bloated and feeling much happier not eating unnecessary amounts of rubbish.

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  • girlviernes
    girlviernes Posts: 2,402 Member
    Congrats on starting on your journey. Keep logging, keep trucking. I wouldn't recommend cutting things out though, although I'm sure there are some foods that just don't seem worth it any more.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    There are so many fabulous side effects of taking control of your weight and health. Good for you!

    I still eat rubbish though, just less of it :)
  • emma_vdv
    emma_vdv Posts: 34 Member
    Congratulations on making a start :) I'm just starting out too and though it's too early to see any weight loss I feel much better physically and am much more alert mentally.

    What I've found really handy instead of cutting things out is accurately logging my food to tweak my meals- for example my no1 meal to cook is sesame meatballs with rice and broccoli but the meatballs are quite calorific and the broccoli isn't, ergo I can adjust to have more broccoli and a few less meatballs but still have the volume of food I need to feel full but save a fair few calories
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