What ONE food would you recommend cutting out for weight loss?

Lillymoo01

For me replacing my morning fruit juice with water made an impact. There have however been many other dietary changes along the way but most have been about cutting back while eating more of the healthier food choices. Juice has been the only food eliminated totally and I don't miss it at all..

christopherwelch95

Chips. Before I know it the entire bag is gone. Also alcohol. Each shot is right around 100 calories and when I drink I'm definitely drinking more than 1 shot. It adds up and then I crave fast food.

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HeidiCooksSupper

I haven't cut out anything but there are things I am avoiding because they are too calorie-dense. For example, I thought about making cream biscuits for breakfast as I have in the past.

I started to input the flour and cream and the butter that would go on them and quickly got over a thousand calories for breakfast. Never mind. Did I flop to the other extreme and have a bowl of Special K with skim milk? Shudder.

No!!! I had a couple scrambled eggs made with cream and smoked cheddar. Still a decadent breakfast but less than half the calories of the biscuits and, because the the increase of protein over starch, more satisfying.

RaeBeeBaby

Wine. I enjoy my lovely wine, but cutting it out temporarily makes the scale move.

Just an observation, but her mum must've been eating a LOT of butter!

yirara

Only the one you cannot eat in smaller amounts. Otherwise none. For me that's a bag of crisps that I cannot get in small packs. That elimiates all the sweet chili chrisps that I love, but I can still get Mackies Haggis & Black Pepper, which are delicious! And Kinder chocolate would need to go as I can only get an 8-pack, and it would certainly go in one go.

GrumpyHeadmistress

suzannesimmons3 wrote: »

Chocolate hob nobs....1 packet is never enough and those babies have 95 calories a pop.

Have you tried mcvities tiffin chunks? Chopped up digestives, raisins and chocolate. Ridiculously addictive. I'd happily eat the whole tub.

vmbourg

Alcohol. But I was a heavy drinker. And on top of the alcohol calories, I would binge eat when drunk. I'd just rather not drink.

GodlyWhiteBoy

rose_lemonade wrote: »

My friend's mum dropped a dress size in two weeks just from cutting out butter. Have any of you guys found cutting out/cutting down on one certain thing from your diet to be super helpful in terms of weight loss?

Bread? Sugar? Meat? Dairy? Cooking oil? Alcohol?

Simple carbs! Any sugar,white bread,regular tortillas,potatoes,starches. Eat complex carbs.

amusedmonkey

I cut out foods I didn't like much and never looked back. No point in spending calories on meh foods.

jenilla1

No food needs to be cut out if you keep it all within calorie goals, but for ME, personally, sugar soda/drinks are eliminated. I think it's a complete and utter waste of calories with no redeeming nutritional value. I've got better things to blow my calories on!

Wtn_Gurl

wow about 80% of what i used to eat coz it was making me fat. im now trying to not use butter because i'd rather use the calories in something more filling. i chose to stop the fat food which is so delicious but that was too many calories, so i make my own food 90% of the time.

Mr_Healthy_Habits

The OP is spot on though...
Make your changes, just one food at a time, take it slow

Wtn_Gurl

janejellyroll wrote: »

sarahthes wrote: »

rose_lemonade wrote: »

faidwen wrote: »

Sodium!

Wow really? I know it's bad for your heart and stuff but didn't realise it made a difference with fat loss.

Not fat loss, but you would see a scale drop due to less water retention.

Plus sometimes the salty foods are the calorie dense ones...

But sodium is also something that can add flavor to lower calorie foods and make a deficit easier to maintain. Think of sprinkling a bit of soy sauce on steamed broccoli or adding a bit of salt to roasted vegetables. Eliminating sodium would result in a much less palatable diet for many people.

The average dieter will likely have better results by using sodium strategically instead of eliminating it completely.

someone said something that made sense. if you must have salt on food to make it palatable, then sprinkle it on the food just before you are about to eat it. that way you get the most taste. but if you add it while cooking you wont taste as much.. so the theory is that if you sprinkle a tiny bit just when you are about to eat it, you can get by with a little, however, that said, im having a problem with sodium and im trying to eliminate it.

momofamadhouse

Sweetened drinks.

kavahni

For me personally, cheese. O, cheese, I do so love thee! I tend not to buy good cheese because I can sit down and sliver away at an entire portion until it is gone in one sitting. I keep lots of low fat mozz on hand, though, because small amounts give me a melty cheese fix, but it is too dreadful to just sit down and eat.

Big_YEET

GodlyWhiteBoy wrote: »

rose_lemonade wrote: »

My friend's mum dropped a dress size in two weeks just from cutting out butter. Have any of you guys found cutting out/cutting down on one certain thing from your diet to be super helpful in terms of weight loss?

Bread? Sugar? Meat? Dairy? Cooking oil? Alcohol?

Simple carbs! Any sugar,white bread,regular tortillas,potatoes,starches. Eat complex carbs.

Most fruits are simple carbs. Potatoes and other starchy vegetables are considered complex carbs.

Francl27

I cut out sodas, but that would never have been enough to actually lose weight.

perkymommy

butter isn't a big deal to me as long as I log it when I eat it. Your friends mom must have been consuming a butt load of butter daily in order to lose weight just by cutting that out.

I did cut out sugary sodas once and after two weeks lost 10 lbs but I had to cut back in other areas in order to keep losing. Other than sodas, there hasn't been one single food item that I cut out that made me lose fast.

pdrgrl929

I'm vegan now and have reached my goal weight and am pretty consistent