Looking for people who want to lose weight eating real food

I'm a big fan of "real" food and managed to knock-off 60 lbs so far without light/diet/fat-free/etc. Anyone interested in such things are welcome to add me. I'd love to swap tales and motivate.

Oh, this is so me. My Wife and I use real butter to cook with also. Since joining here I haven't gone after low-fat or diet anything. As keeponkickin said, "calories in, calories out." It really is that simple. I ate 3 pieces of pizza the other day and still lost weight. I planned earlier in the day to spend the calories on pizza, exercised a little, and limited what I ate earlier in the day, and it worked. Simple as that.

I don't tend to use low-fat stuff. I use real butter, and real sugar, and olive oil. I prefer my food to be as natural as possible. I love cooking and I love eating out, although I don't eat out very often.

I do eat a lot of fruit and salads, and some people view those as not real food, so I guess it depends what you are calling 'real food'! And my diary might seem a bit odd, because I have some days when I eat very little and other days when I eat a lot, as that is what works for me - I try to listen to what my body wants. And there are some days where I forget to log my food at all. But you (and anyone) are welcome to add me if you want.

i cook with real butter, use only real sugar and eat out once a week now. i do however do the meal replacement shake for breakfast...but it's a fruit smoothie or a green smoothie mixed in with protein powder. for me it's come down to portion control and watching what i eat when i go out (i was eating 5000-8000 kcal/day apparently when all i did was eat out). i try to keep my food as natural as possible and cook more at home now. just that alone has made a world of difference for me. well and i picked up cardio 5x/week as well and monitor calories in vs calories expended.

I'm OK with spray margarine (sometimes), but I've got to have real cheese! Obviously, it's pretty calorie dense, but it's still good for me as long as I mind my portions.

I am also very much a maple syrup snob. No fakes! Uh, not that I should be having it anyway.

This is me exactly! 25 pounds down, and while I have cut back my soda intake, I haven't cut out anything, and I believe that it's worse to eat low-fat or non-fat processed foods then to just eat butter. Not that I don't eat processed foods too! I would love to be friends. We can talk about losing weight while still eating cookies!

REal Food Yay:drinker: :bigsmile:

Love real food. Not so much for the shakes unless I am in a rush and quite frankly I don't have any in the cupboard. I eat within my limits of allergies. But its all real food.

Welcome Welcome:flowerforyou:

I eat real foods as well and love butter and only use sweetner because I'm diabetic and to much sugar is a bad thing for me. Feel free to add me as a friend.

i lost my weight eating real. sometimes a granola bar here and there for breakfast but I only eat real butter if its my choice

I eat real food, nothing industrial oir processed, includoing sugar.

Hello, welcome and congrats for taking a big step towards a new lifestyle!

I also love to cook and pretty much have to since I have high blood pressure. Nearly everything canned, processed, frozen or in a box comes with a TON of sodium.

I eat a ton of veggies/fruits that I grow myself, whole grains, beans (mostly as hummus or soy), and lean meats, mostly salmon or chicken. I've lost 41lbs doing it this way and only have 13 more to go.

I NEVER feel like I'm on a diet or feel deprived. I eat so much low calorie, natural food that I'm hardly ever hungry. It takes a LOT of vegetables to fill you up if they arent loaded with cheese, bread crumbs, pasta, etc!!

I'll also add that I do not fear sugar substitutes so I drink generic diet koolaid. I hate plain water, I've tried adding fresh fruit for flavoring and it just doesnt cut it for me. If it wasnt for the koolaid, I know I wouldnt get enough water so I just deal with it and it never bothers me. I put splenda in coffee too because I prefer the taste of it over sugar, but I do I use honey and regular sugar/brown sugar in recipes.

I do on occasion have 'treats' when I crave one. I know that I'll want them after I reach goal, so I work them into my diary by making room for them with extra exercise calories.

I think that eating mostly 'real' food is the way to go. Not 100% for me, but mostly. lol

Real food is all we eat...

When I met my wife (10yrs ago) I had been vegan for 5yrs -- Being vegan now isn't all that easy, imagine 15yrs ago.. No one had heard of Tempeh, Seitan, etc...

She, however, was a meat eater -- but she didn't (still doesn't) cook...

Eventually I got tired of making two meals and we met down the middle, I'm no longer vegan (in fact, my main source of protein is ham or turkey sausage ) but she no longer ONLY eats meat.

All this time, we mostly shop at farmer's markets or local stuff...

No restrictions, but, the habits of an old vegan are hard to kill...

If you're looking to keep "real", a really easy way to help is simply to stay local, don't buy processed and make everything yourself.

Seems like you love to cook, I bet everyone reading this thread is in the same boat... The more you do yourself, the more real it stays -- and to be fair, imho, the healthier and easier your journey will be.

love that their are others that think like this. i can't live in a world without real food. quite honestly, one of the main reasons i work out is so that i can fit in a few extra calories lol feel free to add!

I try to eat 95% + raw food, but I eat butter, "raw" sugar, eggs, cheese, even had hot dogs the other day, organic uncured...
Some of this I wouldn't eat, but I have 2 adolescents and cook for them and have little will power sometimes.

Intolerant to gluten, and corn and other stuff so I avoid that...

But I was 197.75 and now around 147. It helps me to use MFP though, because then I can stop eating at my limit and/or get moving. I want to eat the same way the rest of my life and be sensible and not yo-yo diet.

Having a issues losing the last 7 lb, but I'm still ending up with pants that are way too big... so I'll just try to adjust my food a bit, without being too strict, because stress can make me overeat stuff that I'm trying to avoid.

Fad diets DO WORK -- like most diets. The problem is that weight loss lasts when you eat the same way consistently. I like real food so fad diet weight loss doesn't last on me.

Feel free to add me.