What diet tips work for you? Let's share
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I love chocolate so Halloween and Valentine’s Day with their individual small bite sized candy packagings are a huge help to me. I stock my house and have one per day. I know this is not true of everybody but find it easy to stop at the one piece when it’s a separate container . When there’s nothing like that in the house I’m very unhappy.6
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No depriving myself. If I want chocolate, I have chocolate. I just work it into my day. Which is why I haven't given up coffee creamer...I know many like it black, but I am one of the blasphemers.13
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Understanding that having a few hunger pangs every now and then is not a sign that I would starve, and that soda water is all that I need in between meals.11
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I *hate* my diet tip:
Cut alcohol completely.
Using MFP data...if I have even one glass of wine I then over 80% of the time blow the day on snacks even if I eat healthily and within target the rest of the day.
I'm 2/3 to goal since September.
I have given myself breaks from zero alcohol (Thanksgiving, Christmas, NFL playoffs.) So I'm not overly dogmatic about it.
But I struggle to make progress without doing this and vice versa. But its the snack calories - not the actual alcohol cals - that do me in when I have even small amounts of alcohol.
Looking forward to hitting goal and having a few glasses of wine.6 -
Not eating unless you are sitting down to a table and "dining". No tasting, crumbs, bits, bites.
Cook just as much as you need. If you deliberately cook extra, serve it up into its storage container as you plate the rest of the foot.
Oh, yeah, about that. No serving bowls on the table. Plate up the food in its portions in the kitchen. They sell portioning scoops. Use them, especially for messy things that are easy to scoop extra of.
Tidy up before the plates go out. It's hard to come back to wipe out the sauce with bread if the skillet already went into the sink to soak.
Go to bed on time. Otherwise you wind up staying up past your dinner and getting hungry.9 -
theleadmare wrote: »Not eating unless you are sitting down to a table and "dining". No tasting, crumbs, bits, bites.
Cook just as much as you need. If you deliberately cook extra, serve it up into its storage container as you plate the rest of the foot.
Oh, yeah, about that. No serving bowls on the table. Plate up the food in its portions in the kitchen. They sell portioning scoops. Use them, especially for messy things that are easy to scoop extra of.
Tidy up before the plates go out. It's hard to come back to wipe out the sauce with bread if the skillet already went into the sink to soak.
Go to bed on time. Otherwise you wind up staying up past your dinner and getting hungry.
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jhanleybrown wrote: »I *hate* my diet tip:
Cut alcohol completely.
Using MFP data...if I have even one glass of wine I then over 80% of the time blow the day on snacks even if I eat healthily and within target the rest of the day.
I'm 2/3 to goal since September.
I have given myself breaks from zero alcohol (Thanksgiving, Christmas, NFL playoffs.) So I'm not overly dogmatic about it.
But I struggle to make progress without doing this and vice versa. But its the snack calories - not the actual alcohol cals - that do me in when I have even small amounts of alcohol.
Looking forward to hitting goal and having a few glasses of wine.
When the snack attack hits, hit the road, go for a walk even if it is around the office or house. Get busy, clean something, the gutters, the bathtub, fireplace. If possible, don't keep snacks handy, not in the desk or in the house (again, if possible). Drink...water. You are so close to getting to goal. You CAN do this.
Remember WHY you are doing this. Stay focused-stay strong.6 -
Probably already been mentioned but if you feel hungry and don't think you're to the point where you should be, drink water.
Hunger cues can be triggered by thirst.8 -
I've been trying to get a good balance of carbs, fats, and proteins each time I eat. I'm working to increase my fiber and water intake, as well. I've also been eating smaller meals with healthy snacks in between so I don't get too hungry. And I've been trying to eat a variety of foods so I don't get bored.6
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My Diet Tips that works for me:
- Pre log (I will stick to it when I log ahead)
- Meal Prep (5 days a week I take my lunch)
- Work out (I schedule ahead)
- Low carb (It has made a huge difference)
- Light Dinner (It's been working good for me)
- Alcohol on wkends only (It was hard in the beginning but I don't even think about it now)
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I've started pre logging dinner. That helps me stick with the plan. It also let's me know if I can have a little extra something.
Yes on drinking water before and during meals. I have carbonated water with a splash of cranberry juice.3 -
I pre-log the day before so I know what ALL I GET to eat! This eliminates last minute, find something to eat when I am already humgry.6
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For me, not necessarily for others:
Don't do anything to lose weight that I wasn't willing to do permanently, to stay at a healthy weight, except for a moderate calorie deficit. Treat the weight loss process as a time to experiment & learn what's sustainable: Weight loss is maintenance practice.
Personally, because I'm a hedonistic and impulsive person, I calorie bank in maintenance: Eat a little under maintenance most days, to eat over maintenance now and then. During weight loss, I could eat a little under goal to "save up" for a planned special occasion within the next few days, but it was generally a big mistake to try to cut back after an unplanned special occasion in order to "make up for it" afterward (so I learned to just let it go, and get right back on my normal routine).14 -
I usually try to keep trigger foods out of the house so that I am not even tempted. But occasionally we have treats that I will indulge in. I usually eat just a small helping and then drink a lot of really cold water, like maybe 15-16 oz. right afterwards. For some reason that helps me feel like I satisfied whatever craving I had and the cold water tends to help the craving for more go away.4
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I keep several things that are treat-ish for me that I can either have or live without, and they are from 25 to 130 calories. By pre-logging the day, I find, ah, I can have a cookie with tea tomorrow afternoon! Or say, "I'm only having three meals, but what meals they are!" and it works for me. I am, however, an admitted control freak. (grin)4
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Limiting the following White Foods: Flour, Sugar, Potatoes, Rice, Milk has helped me keep my calorie deficit where it should be.1
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I don't eat about 200 exercise calories per day. I'm still losing slowly. If I get my exercise calories, I hardly lose at all.2
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Sleep enough and burn more calories than I eat.3
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Besides logging, weighing, measuring and exercising. What diet tips do you use that work for you?
I order a salad with dressing on the side. I dip my fork into the dressing and then spear some greens. I get a small taste of dressing but not too much.
Hi. I have found a nice assortment of snacks that are low calorie or no sugar. Making small changes like only having fruit after6om in the evening, knitting to stop me snacking. Also I’m on the true weight challenge on Loss a 1lb a week’ ( I know you belong to the group too so feel free to add me if you wish ) all the best.3 -
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Basana0909 wrote: »Kbk what is Acv ?! I need an appetite suppressant
Acv is apple cider vinegar! Mix a tbspn of it with a tall glass of water.
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Wednesday
Hump day
1/2 way through the work week day
Exercise day!
Great eating day!
We CAN do this day!3 -
Lots of similarity!
1. Pre-logging the night before
2. I push back eating until I'm pretty hungry, normally around noon. Not a true IF, but it stops me from eating 600 calories before lunch.
3. Walk 10K steps a day and/or cycle to work, I hate cardio machines
4. Heavy lifting 3x a week
5. No grazing, I normally do Coffee / Lunch / Snack / Dinner / Wine
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For me, After years of doing every diet and trying every fad possible I finally found MFP 3 years ago and don’t look at anything as a diet anymore. I hope I don’t sound condescending, that’s not how I mean to come across. But That’s my “diet” trick, not to diet. I don’t deprive myself of anything. I drink water first if I feel hungry, I count my calories and have FINALLY separated emotions from eating. I don’t feel guilty anymore If those big red “you’ve gone over your calories shows up. There’s no quick fix. I just keep going slowly. This is what’s worked for me. Good luck!!!!12
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By far the things that matter/mattered most for me both for losing and then maintaining (not saying for anyone else):
No snacking between meals (dessert immediately after dinner which I do occasionally counts as dinner)
Cook most meals and make leftovers for lunches and dinner if I get home late/am feeling like I don't want to cook
No seconds (but for rare occasion) -- I put on my plate what I intend to eat and everything left is planned for leftovers.
This is exercise more than diet, but walk whenever possible (including back and forth on the train platform when waiting for my train)
When I get out of these habits I tend to gain, when I go back to them I tend to lose or maintain (depending on the weight I'm at and how active I'm being otherwise).2 -
I am recognizing that a disordered relationship with food is something that I am going to have to treat with lifestyle changes for the rest of my life. Just like I treat my hypothyroidism and my fibromyalgia. And I can either throw a tantrum about it or I can get on with living around my conditions. I know how to do that already. Eating a certain way is part of this treatment. So viewing it this way means that I'm not going to put myself on an eating plan that is punitive or unsupportable. It needs to be something I can do for the next fifty years.4
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I don’t restrict anything anymore, as long as it’s within my calorie intake, I’ll take something I fancy and try to make a healthier version of it or just dissect what I’m really lacking like fats, protein or carbs, I like to track sugars until I’m at a steady amount but nothing that will spike me and ruin my metabolism
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Basana0909 wrote: »Kbk what is Acv ?! I need an appetite suppressant
Acv is apple cider vinegar! Mix a tbspn of it with a tall glass of water.
ACV and water. Not only will it make the water you drink taste awful it's an awesome way to strip the enamel from your teeth.
I guess drinking something so disgusting would kill the appetite but then again so would licking the sole of your shoes, and I suppose long term, once your teeth rot out of your head, it'll be more difficult to eat food that hasn't been pureed.9 -
Basana0909 wrote: »Kbk what is Acv ?! I need an appetite suppressant
Acv is apple cider vinegar! Mix a tbspn of it with a tall glass of water.
ACV and water. Not only will it make the water you drink taste awful it's an awesome way to strip the enamel from your teeth.
I guess drinking something so disgusting would kill the appetite but then again so would licking the sole of your shoes, and I suppose long term, once your teeth rot out of your head, it'll be more difficult to eat food that hasn't been pureed.
well aren't you a ray of sunshine on this gloomy day.8
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