Crap Menu v. Healthy Menu

HausfrauB

You really are what you eat. If you eat crap, you'll look crappy. If you eat healthy, you'll look healthy. I can see this truth when I look at my pictures.

Starting somewhere in late 2009, I gave up on myself. By summer 2010, I weighed 192 lbs. This is the crap I was eating:

"McDonald's Fruit and Oatmeal, Domino's Sweet Chicken Habenero Sandwich, Taco Bell Crunchy Burrito Box + Baja Blast"
Calories = 2755 | Carbs = 398g | Fat = 93g | Sugars = 168g

I started eating less crap, moving more and lost about 20 lbs by the time I got married in summer 2011. Moved overseas and gained 15 lbs or so back.

Since late May 2012, I've adhered to a 1500-ish calorie diet and lost 10 lbs. I've been playing around with my macros in the last two weeks. Here's a sample of what I'm eating now:

"Mashed Baked Pumpkin + Butter, Salad with Feta, Low-Carb Snacks, Chicken Salad with Ranch Dressing, Low Carb Chocolate Creme Dessert"
Calories = 1308 | Carbs = 46g (net) | Fat = 91g | Sugars = 8g

I went from eating 40 tsp of sugar each day to eating less than 2 tsp!!!! This is having an incredible effect -- I feel much more alert and clear-headed.

Notice that my fat intake is about the same. Makes you go, hmmm, doesn't it?

What good effects have you noticed when eating healthy? Do you eat low sugar? If so, how does it make you feel?

Here's a couple of then (crap eating) and now (healthy eating) pics:

bhankiii

I haven't really cut back on fats, just sugar and that's worked great for me. I'm keeping fats in my back pocket in case I hit a plateau. Everyone is different, though, you have to get to know your body.

I should probably add that a lot of the things that I now avoid because of the sugar (cookies, cakes, ice cream, whole pies, boxes of donuts) also have a lot of fat in them, and not the good fats. So in that sense I guess I am eating mush less fat.