Do you eat healthy or just under a certain calorie mark?

I use to concentrate on just the calories to try and lose weight but I now take into consideration what I am eating. I find that the healthy choices bring the calorie content down all on their own and by eating more protein instead of processed carbs I am feeling fuller and eating less.

I don't eat that healthy, Just under my calorie goal.
But... I'm slowly but surely going to change some of my takeaway habits!

Healthy all the way.
If you eat things like fruit and veg you can actually eat more, with more choice and variety. When I look at other diary's I often see, McD's, KFC and other fastfoods, which can almost take up a day's calories in one go.
With the way I eat I can eat throughout the day and still stick to the calories. Processed and fastfood in the long run is not good for you.

With me, it depends. I do both. I am just trying to maintain my weight, not lose weight. For me 1200 calories seems to equal 1200 calories, regardless of where they come from. I make an effort to eat healthy, but work long hours and have a lot of stress in my life. If I keep my intake to 1200 without exercise or about 1500 with exxercise, I stay within the same two pound range I've been in for the last 10 years.

Counting calories, i.e. "doing the math" works best.

very good question....i guess it depends on your level of exercise...I just ate normal but did stay within my calorie limit....dropped 10lbs in 2 weeks (( I run alot))...funny though I didnt run any different b4 mfp but the weight just seem to melt away since joining. everybody will have different results... guess they will have to figure out what works for them.

I tend to eat healthily purely because the more crap I eat, the more refined carbs and sugar I eat, the more I want and the more likely I will be to end up bingeing.

If I don't eat the above stuff I don't crave it or miss it, so for me I am better off eating healthily. I also have a calorie range not a single calorie goal.

I try to do both: getting less calories than I need (calculate by MFP) and having healthy food most of the time. But I am not radical about it and I allow myself to eat more calories (but not much more) sometimes (about once a week), with pizza, ice cream and so on (but again, it´s not too often).

I also run away as much as I can from industrialized food: I hardly drink sweetened drinks (pop soda). I have a balanced meal and I often drink fresh fruit juice (it´s not hard or expensive to get those where I live) or water. My food is cooked (really cooked) in my home and I don´t like eating in restaurants too much.

On weekend, my friends (and I) are used to have a barbecue or cook anything ourselves in order to spend some time together instead of going out to restaurants.

Cheers

I am making better food choices, but often have a hard time getting in fruits and veggies and required proteins and stuff. My boyfriend and I are on an EXTREMELY limited budget (30 bucks or less a week for food) and being as we have to feed two people on it - and he's very choosy and doesn't want to eat healthier - I can't afford to buy my own separate food.

So I cut out what I can (soda, as much fast food as humanely possible) and then focus on not overeating. The few active food switches I've made are very cheap - I buy non-carbonated powder mix drinks (right now my favorite is Country Time half tea/half lemonade - about 2.50 a container) instead of soda. Whenever I can afford lunch at the school cafeteria, I opt for the salads or pasta dishes in the smallest bowls possible. Stuff like that. It's small, but over the long-term, should add up.

:flowerforyou: Smaller meals and eating healthy snacks every few hours seems to be reviving my metabolism! Calorie counting is important but if u eat healthy portions you don't have to worry so much about all the counting.

I try to eat healthy mostly but not obsessively.

This also depends on your definition of healthy. For example, to me my daily small measured serving of natural peanut butter is healthy because I'm otherwise a little low on fats. Other folks might think not just because it's peanut butter. I define healthy as a good variety of real foods including fruits, vegetables and whole grains and within a reasonable macro proportion.