Besides CICO, what eating plan have you chosen

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,211 Member
    I'm hovering over the poll, part of me wants to tick macros, part low carb, but neither have a huge amount of intention behind them.

    My plan is CICO. How I manage that is lower carb I guess, I exclude most grains, ie pasta, bread, rice - not because I'm deliberately trying to low carb but because I'm just generally not into them and find them a bit of a waste of calories. I'll have them if I want them in context thought, like tonight we have guests so I'm making homemade pizzas. I also keep lower cal treats like Fibre One 90 cal stuff on hand for if I do want something after dinner. The vast majority of what I eat is whole foods, a carry over from a number of rounds of Whole30 trying to pinpoint the cause of my vestibular migraines. But I've also always been one to cook from scratch and not really use premade packaged food. But I'm not deliberate about the low carb, if I have a higher carb day, so be it, in the end it's calories and feeling like I got enough veg in my day.
  • coryhart4389
    coryhart4389 Posts: 73 Member
    Other - please specify
    I have made my own diet, did cico for a few months but was always hungry…. I’ve been doing my own diet for about 10 years and it fails sometimes and I gain, but eventually I get back on it! LoL. It has 4 rules and one theme. Eat till I’m full as long as it follows the 4 rules:
    1) eating nothing that only walks on dry ground or comes from that animal, except yogurt.
    2) no refined flour or sugar
    3) nothing processed
    4) no fried foods or cooking with more than a tsp of oil

    It’s restrictive and my longest success is about 2 years which I’m approaching now, but it works for me. I allow 2 cheat meals per month. I’m a former chef, so making foods taste good is easier for me than most.
  • JaysFan82
    JaysFan82 Posts: 853 Member
    CICO only for me!
    Basically CICO and make smart decisions. No empty calories.

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