What foods have you replaced? What have you eliminated?

JcMey3r

I cut out all the usual stuff...bread, sugary drinks, fast food and white starches but something that is really good is if you want to have a pasta dish with chicken for example. instead of pasta I use baby marrow cut with a potato peeler. makes for some good food.

DataSeven

Replaced:

Coffee with 2 cream and 2 sugar
with
Coffee with 2 milk

McDonald's Bacon & Egg Bagel/Sausage Mcgriddle (4-500 calories)
with
Costco frozen egg white/turkey sausage breakfast sammiches (200 calories)


I've eliminated like... 95% of the fast food/junk food I used to eat. This includes potato chips, chocolate, candy, and most fast food. I'll still partake of the occasional treat. Yesterday I had a doughnut, for example. But I always do my research... that doughnut was about half the calories that a muffin would have been. Every once and a while I'll have a real egg mcmuffin for breakfast, it actually fits pretty well into my day, and sometimes I'll remove the cheese to make it even leaner.

auddii

I gave up not eating ice cream or gelato most nights? I haven't really changed how I eat by cutting things out, but instead, I've added a lot of things to my diet. I eat much smaller portions of the higher calorie things, and have added in more nutrient dense foods. I now have snacks of greek yogurt, a spoonful of peanut butter, etc. And with a moderate deficit, and good planning, I now find I can enjoy a single serving of gelato. I go for good quality, rich flavors, and I find I'm happy eating a single serving instead of an entire bowl or half a container.

I did give up low fat cottage cheese. I went back to try it a month or two ago, and it was horrible; I'm not sure how I used to enjoy it...

auddii

JcMey3r wrote: »

I cut out all the usual stuff...bread, sugary drinks, fast food and white starches but something that is really good is if you want to have a pasta dish with chicken for example. instead of pasta I use baby marrow cut with a potato peeler. makes for some good food.

I'm hoping this is a weird typo or a cultural difference in terms. Because I'm completely envisioning you sucking the bone marrow out of babies...

SteampunkSongbird

I replaced regular full-sugar Coke with Coke Zero, and full-fat cheese for half-fat. I cut back on portion sizes in general and I gave up marshmallow fluff. One sandwich of fluff and peanut butter is just too many calories for a single snack, no matter how delicious it is.

melimomTARDIS

i replaced muffins when I found out I could eat 2 donuts for the caloric "cost" of one muffin. and donuts taste indulgent at least!

i replaced full sugar coke with diet pop, iced tea, and water.

i replaced granola (so many calories, geez) for fiber one cereal.

melimomTARDIS

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I have eliminated low quality foods. If I'm going to have something that packs a bit of a calorie punch, I'm going to have the good stuff dammit. So I stay away from cheap chocolate, average ice cream etc and splurge on the stuff that really satisfies my taste buds.

thank goodness I have a cheap sweet tooth.

anglyn1

auddii wrote: »

JcMey3r wrote: »

I cut out all the usual stuff...bread, sugary drinks, fast food and white starches but something that is really good is if you want to have a pasta dish with chicken for example. instead of pasta I use baby marrow cut with a potato peeler. makes for some good food.

I'm hoping this is a weird typo or a cultural difference in terms. Because I'm completely envisioning you sucking the bone marrow out of babies...

I'm pretty sure that's a British term for a kind of squash. Embarrassed to say I only know this from reading Agatha Christie books.

NikiChicken

I actually haven't replaced anything at all. I always ate fairly healthy, just plain too much of it! So now I eat all the same things, I just weigh and measure my portions.

I never, ever drink regular soda or juice, but I never did before so this isn't new. They always tasted too sweet to me and I never liked them.

ninerbuff

None. I don't replace, I just figure out how to reach my macros/micros with foods I intend to eat. Now I do eat a lot of whole foods, but I do eat processed foods too along with fast food thrown in a few times a week.

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mojohowitz

...in before the "it-doesn't-matter-what-you-eat-it's-all-about-how-much" whiners start in. I had to scratch donuts, cookies, soda's, white bread, white rice off my shopping list. Sometimes, self-control means knowing your weakness and avoiding them. You practice your moderation and I will practice my abstinence until I get a handle on things.

_lyndseybrooke_

Nothing has been completely eliminated. Nothing at all.

Of course, I do eat less sugary sweets (donuts, cookies, cake, brownies, pie, etc.) than I once did. If there were people in the house other than my husband and me, I'd be more likely to buy these things and eat them in smaller portions more often, but I'm not going to waste my money on an entire package of Oreos just to watch them go bad before we can fit all of them into our macros. Plus, I'll be damned if I'm going to Just eat 2-3 Oreos as a "snack." If I'm going to eat Oreos, I want a whole sleeve or nothing. That's what fat kid weekends are for.

mojohowitz

Baby marrow results when girdle sponges fail whilst commiserating with spotted dick. Makes me hungry for neeps and tatties and wet nelly.

auddii

mojohowitz wrote: »

Baby marrow results when girdle sponges fail whilst commiserating with spotted dick. Makes me hungry for neeps and tatties and wet nelly.

I love neeps and tatties. Sadly, I've not had spotted dick. I need to remedy that when I go back to Scotland next year. I'm mostly looking forward to haggis for breakfast. Yum!

Sarauk2sf

I have not cut out anything.

I tend to focus on more protein dense foods and am mindful of the amount of 'discretionary' foods, but nothing has been eliminated. I occasionally replace low fat sour cream for mayo and often eat slow churn ice cream instead of full fat - but that's all I can think of that I replace.

MoiAussi93

I've eliminated added sugar (cookies, cakes, ice cream, sweetened drinks, etc.) and wheat and most grains (bread, pasta, cereal, chips, etc.). I mostly eliminated potatoes and rice.

I've replaced:
sugar for sweetening with fruit, stevia or xylitol.
wheat flour in baking with coconut flour and almond flour.
store bought salad dressings with lemon Dijon vinaigrette
regular peanut butter with natural peanut butter (no added sugar)
canola oil, corn oil, and all other oils with avocado oil or olive oil or coconut oil

I've increased consumption of almonds, full fat dairy, dark chocolate (72-85% cacao), eggs, chicken, salmon, green vegetables.

kitkatkarr

cross out peanut butter -> pb2
cross out ice cream -> blended smoothies

annette_15

I've eliminated deep fried foods... I wasnt really enjoying it anyways. I also dont drink any calories other than almond milk and wine, cause I prefer food

youdontknowwhatyousaw

Replaced
Margarine with butter
Skim milk with whole milk
Nonfat yogurt with 2% yogurt
Reduced fat cheeses with full fat cheeses
Turkey bacon with bacon

I have eliminated everything that tastes like cardboard

umayster

drunknfreaky wrote: »

Replaced
Margarine with butter
Skim milk with whole milk
Nonfat yogurt with 2% yogurt
Reduced fat cheeses with full fat cheeses
Turkey bacon with bacon

I have eliminated everything that tastes like cardboard

Cardboard bad!