Diets in general...

Ashore90

what diet are you on? Low calorie? Low fat? And how did you come to the conclusion to stick to that diet?! I have no clue where to start or even how to proportion food...

LaurenBelv

i think its best to be on a low calorie/fat/sugar/carb diet or at least keep try to keep those numbers reasonable xoxo

NightOwl1

Less Calories in than Calories out. That's the bedrock foundation of any successful diet. Any diet that doesn't operate of that principle isn't a good diet.

crystal_sapphire

i eat a lower carb diet. Nothing specific in terms of atkins or whatever. Just have my percentages at 20/40/40 for carbs/protein/fat. It has curbed my binge eating. I eat plenty of veggies and lean protein.

janalayn

Im not on a "diet"... I am tracking my calories but eating plenty of real food..I do use slimfast shakes and bars as my "fast food". I want to change my eating so I can be healthy even after I lose the weight.

idahogirl71

I was placed on a plan by my doctor/nutritionist/personal trainer team. I do not go by the number of calories this site says I should eat as I gain when I do. Others will tell you they gain when they don't eat all the recommended calories.

As for choosing a plan...there are thousands of them out there and you just need to find what one you can live with the rest of your life. Fad diets don't work so the no carbs or no fat or no sugar diets don't work. It has to be nutritionally sound or you will not stick with it. Best thing when beginning is to read labels. They break it down for you. And planning your meals the night before also helps.

Good luck to you in your endeavors.

ladybu6205

I am not so much on a diet...never have been. I prefer "Journey to better health"... My rule of thumb is that I try to keep a healthy balance between my carbs, protein, fats, etc. I feel that if I try to eliminate or cut way back on certain things, that when I reintroduce them to my body later on, my body will not know how to handle them and cause me problems. I believe our bodies were meant to have a healthy balance...

warmachinejt

I'm not on a "diet" either. This is my way of life. There's 2 kinds of "diets" I go through. Cutting and bulking. Cutting is to get rid of fat and bulking is to gain muscle. Bulking is the same but just with 800 or so more calories. I advise people on here to get more protein because they don't pay attention to it. They worry too much about fat and eat almost the same fat as much as they do protein. Protein should be around twice what you're having for fat.

eteezie

I'm not on a diet -- I want to eat SMARTER. I'm using this site as a way to be accountable to myself on what I put in my body and how I treat it. And so far...it's working. Just started this week, and I'm down 3 lbs. My doctor did a BMR test on me, and he told me that my metabolism was extremely high -- despite my age and my weight. He said there's nothing keeping you from losing weight but yourself. And he was right. I don't want to diet anymore; sure they work, but if you don't change the way you think about food, the weight is just waiting to creep back up on you.

rileysowner

I see no purpose in tracking any but calories and sodium. If I had not had high blood pressure issues I wouldn't even be interested in tracking sodium. The other thing I watch is fiber shooting for as high a fiber diet as I can eat since fiber absorbs water and helps keep me full. Every diet I have ever been on that works, when examined carefully, results in lower calories, be it low fat, low carb, or what ever else. So all I care about is calories. Interestingly, if you want to eat enough to keep you feeling full on a low calorie diet, you have very little choice but to eat a lot or fruits, veggies and the like. So low calorie turns into healthy food if you want to feel full with it. The advantage of this is that 1) I don't have to obsess over carbs, protein and fat 2) I can eat whatever I want as long as I stay within my calorie budget. For me, someone who did the Zone and had it work well until I got so tired of obsessively calculating carbs, protein and fat to maintain the 40-30-30 ratio that I gave up and put the weight on. After almost a year of eating watching calories, I could probably estimate the calories in my food without measuring, but I still prefer measuring since I know my tendency is to have the reliability of my estimate go further off the longer I am estimating. Just counting calories I have lost the weight I have lost, and I continue to lose even today.