what have you given up and what have you added

Haven't really given up anything... Just cut down on everything MASSIVELY. I now drink a lot more water. I still have alcohol as I like a glass of wine in the evening! But I guess I have stopped eating red meat, it just kind of happened with all the chicken and vege dinners I've been eating!

Haven't given up anything, just less of it.

I've added heavy lifting at 5am. :drinker:

Me? Fast food, soda including diet. Most fruits except for the occasional berry, all potatoes, sweet and white, All breads, pastas, grains, ect.
I have never felt better and my blood sugar levels are great!
What I have added: Butter(not the fake stuff), bacon, chorizo, good fatty cuts of pork and beef, heavy cream, pork rinds, lots of eggs and cheese. Moderate amount of veggies and protein, and work on getting my fat in everyday.

I haven't given it up completely, but I have cut down a lot on Mt. Dew. I used to drink it almost daily, now I have it once or twice a month. It's been replaced with flavored sparkling water.

Given up indefinitely:
Soda (diet or regular). Wasn't hard for me and have no need for it.
Yolks. I'm actually fine eating scramble of egg whites, and don't miss the yolks.
Fast food. I never ate a lot of it to begin with and would be perfectly fine not eating it again.

Given up temporarily:
Alcohol. Will drink again, in moderation, hopefully some time.
Pasta. Temporarily given up, will eat it again.
Bread. I can't control myself around white bread, pizza etc. so for now it's gone.

Added:
Sweet potatoes
Grapefruit
Always liked smoked salmon, but now I eat a lot more

Why would you give up egg yolks? That's where all the protein is!!

And calories. There is less protein in egg whites but still some. I find I'm just as full on three egg whites as I am on three whole eggs, but at much less calories.

Less calories doesn't mean healthier though. By saving roughly 54 calories per egg, you're also missing out on healthy cholesterol, Vitamin A, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, most of the Calcium, most of the Folate, and all of the Omega-3s that eggs have to offer.

It's not all about calories....

Oh yeah, and I added tomato juice. I love it! It's meant to be very good post exercise in refuelling and helping you recover quicker too.

I've given up being lazy, sitting on my *kitten* all day long while it got bigger and I've given up eating massive portions of everything. I've also given up lying to myself about how much I was really consuming.

I haven't given up any of the food I like. I haven't given up going out to eat or fried food or anything like that. It all has it's place in a balanced diet.

You nailed dit!

I have celiac disease so I had to give up gluten 8 years ago. I feel so much better!!! I also don't eat any dairy because it seriously grosses me out - not sure why. Because I don't eat dairy and because gluten free carbs are also low in protein (I know it's still not a full protein) I found it hard to get enough of it so I recently started consuming whey protein powder. This kinda grosses me out too probably because it's dairy based, but I can tolerate it.

I started my weight loss journey at the end of November and lost 13 pounds until the end of January. I felt great doing this. I did not count calories in the traditional sense, but I nonetheless cut my calories by creating rules for myself. Things like not drinking my calories, having one slice of toast instead of 2 for breakfast, having one slice of pizza instead of half of an entire pizza, etc. With these new rules I was able to lose the 13 pounds, but stopped losing in February. From February till last week I did not create any rules but kept up with the ones I created and did not gain any weight as a result. Yay! Success! My rules had now become habits and I was able to maintain my weight loss with relative ease. Last week I decided that I wanted to start losing again so I created some new rules. I ended up losing a little too much so I pulled back on some of the new rules. I want to lose weight but I don't want to feel awful in the process. I felt exhausted.

So while I don't count calories in the traditional sense, I'm still cognizant of the calories in various foods. I'm very visual so I try to visualize servings, etc. My hunger fullness cues are broken so I have to space my meals apart or I'll end up eating too much too soon.

My new rules include adding exercise and more protein.

And even though I don't count calories, I still find this site very useful and I still consider what I'm doing a diet. It's a diet as long as your body isn't able to tell you when to stop eating. Most of us who are overweight have broken hunger fullness cues unfortunately.

So basically my plan is to stick to the new rules until I stop losing and then re-evaluate and create new rules. I don't like losing weight quickly anyway because my body is very sensitive to it. Just this last week I felt awful, tired and saw more hair on my comb.

My ultimate goal is to make this as easy and natural as possible because I have major diet fatigue. In the past I would go on crash diets and do crazy amounts of exercise, but I would always gain it back and I never felt good doing it. Always tired and hair falling out.

Anyway, good luck to everyone on your journeys.

given up: soda, fast food, chips, greasy foods

cut down: beer, processed foods

added: more veggies, fruits, more exercise

Given up: chocolate, red wine and processed meat (all migraine triggers but I didn't realize until I cut them out what it was like to not have a migraine. I use to have a square of chocolate with my afternoon coffee every day and it wasn't until I cut it out that I noticed how fantastic people must feel regularly)

Reduced: all white carbs. If we are eating at someone else's I will not turn it down but at home and when I eat out I only serve/have brown or whole grain

Added: a garden, we are so busy tring to eat all the veg from the garden faster then the bunnies can get them I don't have nearly as much room for any other food.

I've recently had no choice but to give up eating anything with gluten in it. Unfortunately that was a truly large portion of what I ate.

I've now added more protein in the shape of chicken, turkey and seafood (especially wild Pacific salmon - yum!) and Greek yogurt. I've also added fiber to take the place of all the wheat I used to eat.

Other than that I still have whatever I want, but I notice I'm a heck of a lot more selective than I was when I was 65 pounds heavier!

Given up: chocolate, red wine and processed meat (all migraine triggers but I didn't realize until I cut them out what it was like to not have a migraine. I use to have a square of chocolate with my afternoon coffee every day and it wasn't until I cut it out that I noticed how fantastic people must feel regularly)

Reduced: all white carbs. If we are eating at someone else's I will not turn it down but at home and when I eat out I only serve/have brown or whole grain

Added: a garden, we are so busy tring to eat all the veg from the garden faster then the bunnies can get them I don't have nearly as much room for any other food.

Good for you. I have a very heavy friend who suffers from migraines though I keep quiet about her eating habits. She doesn't like chocolate but I've seen what she buys at the grocery store. Lot's of processed foods....corn dogs, frozen pizzas, frozen hash browns , and sand which meats. Then she'll stop at a drive thru and order so many bad choices. I keep hoping to influence her by osmosis.

Well, I'm on a diet because I learned I was diabetic, so I'm giving up a lot.
My boyfriend recently pointed out that I knew when the Krispy Kreme guy got to the store with the fresh donuts! Obviously I can't have that anymore.
My biggest change is drinks. I only drink diet coke, water, and coffee now. Before I was drinking probably 100oz of Dr Pepper a day! I'm also a manager at McDonald's, so whenever the kids (I normally work second shift with the 16 year old employees) would make mistakes on drinks (frappes, smoothies, milkshakes) I would drink them. It's a giant change to not drink those. I'm probably eating about 3000-4000 calories less a day without these drinks. The good news is, food waste is down at work because I can't eat/drink the mistakes!
I added in a lot of veggies and fruits. before I rarely ate any. Now I have at least one salad a day. My favorite meal is to get a grilled wrap with habenero sauce at work and open it up and eat it like a salad.

I gave up fast food completely.. and drastically reduced eating out to once a week.. working on giving up coffee (day 3) and diet soda with lunch.. cut back on beer consumption.

I have added way more veggies to my meals and trying to get adventurous with flavors. I find that onions, tomatoes, lime and some basil and garlic do wonders to chicken, brown rice and black beans..

Ever notice how gross fast food tastes after not eating it for awhile? I was in a bind and ate some after not eating it for about 2 weeks and it was the most disgusting thing ever.. I'm glad I gave fast food up.. It makes a huge difference. Artificial sweeteners is next.

I eat out/have fast food once in a blue moon (this has been the case even before weight loss) and I love it every single time.. I must be weird. I wish I could wake up one day and find super high calorie foods disgusting. You won the lottery there if that's what was causing your weight gain.