Diet food

prettyleelee
prettyleelee Posts: 236 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I am constantly hearing that's not diet food. Can anyone tell me what diet food is and where I can find it? Because the last thing I knew I was on a lifestyle change. Not a diet people quit those things all the time.

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  • DisneyDude85
    DisneyDude85 Posts: 428 Member
    edited November 2015
    At the Diet Store :) In all seriousness, I had this conversation the other day. I kept saying, "I'm just changing the way I eat", and they kept saying, "yeah, dieting." Oy. I also tell people I'm eating the way I should have a long time ago :)
  • Lynzdee18
    Lynzdee18 Posts: 500 Member
    Just call it portion control. Anything can be diet food. Just. Eat. Less. :D
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Yeah, that and "fattening" food :s
  • prettyleelee
    prettyleelee Posts: 236 Member
    I always say I can have what I want its about how much I eat and counting my calories for it. I just get supper annoyed, because anytime I post something yummy I have a close friend tell me this over and over again.
  • DisneyDude85
    DisneyDude85 Posts: 428 Member
    Tell them to talk to you in 6 months when you are starting to show results :) Someone will always try and derail you, intentionally or unintentionally. People make those comments sometimes not thinking what harm it can do, putting us back into old habits and ways of thinking. Its part of why people start and fail. Finding ways to get past it is what makes us succeed :) I, personally, and keeping my journey and methods off social media. I still post pictures and recipes the food I cook (rarely, when I do), and all people say is "that looks good!" :)
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  • Troutrouter1968
    Troutrouter1968 Posts: 122 Member
    I mostly eat a well-balanced diet and that is a part of my life style. Everyone is technically on a diet as it means that you eat. Whether you call it a "life style change" or "diet" is irrelevant as long as it furthers you to your goals.
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    there is no such thing
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Whatever you're eating is diet food :)
  • prettyleelee
    prettyleelee Posts: 236 Member
    DisneyDude85 wrote: »
    Tell them to talk to you in 6 months when you are starting to show results :) Someone will always try and derail you, intentionally or unintentionally. People make those comments sometimes not thinking what harm it can do, putting us back into old habits and ways of thinking. Its part of why people start and fail. Finding ways to get past it is what makes us succeed :) I, personally, and keeping my journey and methods off social media. I still post pictures and recipes the food I cook (rarely, when I do), and all people say is "that looks good!" :)

    I have result I am down 50lbs so I am doing something right I think.
  • prettyleelee
    prettyleelee Posts: 236 Member
    catscats222 wrote: »
    you mean the starbucks drink? or the sugar loaded cereal?
    that's not diet food

    I have a starbucks drink every now and than I am allowed and I take my calories for it. Also the occasional sugar loaded cereal sometimes I just like a bowl of fruity pebbles. Again you can eat what you want its portion control and calorie counts and how hard you work out.
  • DisneyDude85
    DisneyDude85 Posts: 428 Member
    prettyleelee wrote: »
    DisneyDude85 wrote: »
    Tell them to talk to you in 6 months when you are starting to show results :) Someone will always try and derail you, intentionally or unintentionally. People make those comments sometimes not thinking what harm it can do, putting us back into old habits and ways of thinking. Its part of why people start and fail. Finding ways to get past it is what makes us succeed :) I, personally, and keeping my journey and methods off social media. I still post pictures and recipes the food I cook (rarely, when I do), and all people say is "that looks good!" :)

    I have result I am down 50lbs so I am doing something right I think.

    Fantastic! Congrats :)
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    catscats222 wrote: »
    you mean the starbucks drink? or the sugar loaded cereal?
    that's not diet food

    Why isn't it diet food, in reasonable dosage and within the context of a balanced diet? If my daily calorie allowance is 2400, I eat 2250 calories of vegetables, lean meats and whole grains, meeting my macros, then decide to fill those final 150 calories with a bowl of sugar-loaded cereal, why is that not appropriate food?

    Affixing arbitrary labels to foods or food groups without considering context and dosage is silly.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    catscats222 wrote: »
    you mean the starbucks drink? or the sugar loaded cereal?
    that's not diet food

    Well, OP has lost 50 pounds. I think I disagree with you.
  • prettyleelee
    prettyleelee Posts: 236 Member
    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    catscats222 wrote: »
    you mean the starbucks drink? or the sugar loaded cereal?
    that's not diet food

    Are you actually trolling her diary to pick on her food choices? When her whole point was that she can eat properly portioned food within her calories?

    I don't mind people trolling my diary maybe it will help them learn I don't have to take all of the goodness from my life to be successful at a lifestyle change.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    prettyleelee wrote: »
    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    catscats222 wrote: »
    you mean the starbucks drink? or the sugar loaded cereal?
    that's not diet food

    Are you actually trolling her diary to pick on her food choices? When her whole point was that she can eat properly portioned food within her calories?

    I don't mind people trolling my diary maybe it will help them learn I don't have to take all of the goodness from my life to be successful at a lifestyle change.
    Well said.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    It depends on what kind of diet you want! You can lose weight on any kind of diet.

    Personally, I don't think of what I eat as "weight loss food", but just as my diet. It's what I eat. :)
  • MommyL2015
    MommyL2015 Posts: 1,411 Member
    I use the seefood diet. I see food, I eat it. Just not all of it, and not all in one sitting. :)
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member

    prettyleelee wrote: »
    I always say I can have what I want its about how much I eat and counting my calories for it. I just get supper annoyed, because anytime I post something yummy I have a close friend tell me this over and over again.

    I would probably tell the person that since you are eating the food as part of your diet, then everything is "diet food". Then wish her well with her boring rice cakes and abhorrent arctic zero ice cream...
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    catscats222 wrote: »
    you mean the starbucks drink? or the sugar loaded cereal?
    that's not diet food

    Why not?
  • prettyleelee
    prettyleelee Posts: 236 Member
    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    prettyleelee wrote: »
    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    catscats222 wrote: »
    you mean the starbucks drink? or the sugar loaded cereal?
    that's not diet food

    Are you actually trolling her diary to pick on her food choices? When her whole point was that she can eat properly portioned food within her calories?

    I don't mind people trolling my diary maybe it will help them learn I don't have to take all of the goodness from my life to be successful at a lifestyle change.

    Fair enough. ;-)

    *ate 1/3 of yesterday's calories in candy.

    That's great I always end up doing this one day a month thanks female body!!
  • betuel75
    betuel75 Posts: 776 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    catscats222 wrote: »
    you mean the starbucks drink? or the sugar loaded cereal?
    that's not diet food

    Why isn't it diet food, in reasonable dosage and within the context of a balanced diet? If my daily calorie allowance is 2400, I eat 2250 calories of vegetables, lean meats and whole grains, meeting my macros, then decide to fill those final 150 calories with a bowl of sugar-loaded cereal, why is that not appropriate food?

    Affixing arbitrary labels to foods or food groups without considering context and dosage is silly.

    This is exactly how i look at it. Well stated.
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