Did you clean out your kitchen when you started?

Nope. I still eat everything I did before, I just watch my portions and don't eat the unhealthy stuff as often.

Ditto the above two answers. Scratch that.. above 3 answers

Nope, I live with my boyfriend and he should not have to go with out the stuff he likes. I have to learn to deal with what ever is in the house. Life isn't going to clean itself up just because I am watching what I eat. On his own my boyfriend has chosen not to bring home any fast food. I told him I appreciate the gesture. I still cook his meat and potatoes the way he likes, I eat them too, just in moderation and will have vegies or a salad if still hungry.

No I am using what I have and when I go shopping I replenish with healthier stuff or different stuff. I did make the choice to stop buying the cookies, even though I can have 3 and it still be under 100 cal. I mean seriously who can eat just 3 cookies when you got a whole box ~ LOL . As you go through the program you will learn where your strong points are and what would just be best to avoid all together (i.e. cookies or chocolate - neither of which can be eaten in moderation at my house). Good luck with the your life style change.

I just joined this week but now that you mention it.... I reorganized my pantry, I put all the healthy stuff on one shelf, so they are easy to see, and I put all the junk on the lowest shelf ( I have a 3 year old so I have some not so healthy food as occasional treats for him, and a hubby who keeps buying sweets for himselft), but the main thing I did was find all my long lost measuring cups, spoons and water bottles! I am learning to measure everything to control my portions and I am working hard to keep up with drinking water. That has been my problem, too much coffee and not enough water.

We gradually changed our habits, it wasn't an instant thing. I'm constantly learning and finding new things to eat or do that benefit us. To get where we are now, took a year and a half.

As we used up our enriched pasta, for example, I bought whole wheat to replace it. I started buying whole grain bread, then upon further research, realized almost ALL of the breads on the shelf contained HFCS, which my husband simply cannot have (diabetes). So I found Nature's Own Sugar Free whole grain bread, which we eat now. We switched to No Sugar Added ice cream, then dropped that from our diet too, as we decided to wean ourselves off all 'sweet treats' as a habit. Slowly, we replaced our cheeses, lunch meats, chicken, ground beef, etc. with organic, unprocessed, etc. versions. We changed to no sugar added jellies (sweetened only with juice). We increased the quantity of food bought at the farmers market and decreased what was purchased at the supermarket.

I'm happy with our overall diet right now, it has very little processed foods in it, and what is processed...is fairly natural in it's process state (like Kashi go lean cereal).

I didn't exactly clean it out. Before I really "started" I made it more readily accessible so it would be eaten first. Cookies, chips, soda...all of it.

Now that it's all gone, I refuse to permit myself to buy anymore of it. And it's a good thing. I find every now & again I want to cheat. I'll go to the pantry to seek out some trashy snack...and NOTHING! lol

I absolutely cleaned out my kitchen. There's no way I could see the chocolate cake sitting there and not eat it. For me, it was about cleaning up my diet completely, so I had no use for all of the junk food....so it had to go.