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    What item did you cut out that made a difference?

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    • Posts: 425 Member
      Quote: "Alcohol was the second one. No more empty calories and drinks that led to lowered inhibitions and then to desserts."

      Amen to this! For me it always leads to pasta... mounds of it. I won't say I'll never touch it again, because I know I will, but while I'm in active weight loss I absolutely must keep it to a bare minimum... zero is best.
    • Posts: 3,473 Member
      Cardio
    • Posts: 1,302 Member
      excuses
    • Posts: 319 Member
      procrastination - just get up and do what you've got to do
    • Posts: 22 Member
      Gluten containing products.

      You mean PRODUCTS containing GLUTEN...?
    • Posts: 1
      Wine and soda. I replaced them with ice cold water. I know some people prefer room temperature but I knew I'd never drink it as much if I did that. :smile:
    • Posts: 148 Member
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      Coca cola does not have fat.

      But if Coke had ever made such a product, like say cola filled donuts, I probably would have been first in line to try it!
    • Posts: 22
      Muffins, bagels, and scones.

      They are super carb dense and don't fill you up much.
    • Posts: 118 Member
      My beloved beer! I didn't cut it out completely but seriously watch the intake. I used to go through a six pack every weekend and wondered why I was having a hard time losing weight! Hah!
    • Posts: 6,666 Member
      My unrealistic expectations.


      Also, for 6 months I cut full sugar soda. It helped reset my palate and now things that were bitter to me are sweet. It was an unexpectedly pleasant surprise. Now I just drink diet soda, which tastes alot better to me now (always had an after taste to me, but now it doesn't!).
    • Posts: 10 Member
      I'm going to cut carbs!!
    • Posts: 1 Member
      Soda and milk. Switched to almond milk made a huge difference. Soda is a once in a while treat and never drink diet soda worse then the real stuff
    • Posts: 1,489 Member
      Excessive snacking at night that brings me above my planned calories for the day. It still happens from time to time, but it's cut down dramatically.

      Also, no more huge chocolate chip cookies from the cafeteria downstairs at my work.
    • Posts: 207 Member
      I found the biggest difference was ADDING fruits and veggies--filled my plate and didn't leave as much room for the other stuff.
    • Posts: 89
      Relationship/ dating

      Boy can those things make you gain weight and lose focus!!
    • Posts: 21
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      But if Coke had ever made such a product, like say cola filled donuts, I probably would have been first in line to try it!

      A lot of us call it full fat coke in the uk. We don't think it has fat in it, it's just a funny way to say non diet coke. I actually know a lot of adults here that drink fat coke, myself included up until two months ago. I think it's less damaging than diet coke and I prefer the taste.

      I just had fun filling in a food diary imagining what I might have eaten today if I weren't watching what I ate. I got to the 4,000 kcal mark! That wouldn't have been an average day but it wouldn't have been too unusual for a Friday :( hope I never slip back
    • Posts: 86 Member
      I gave up conventional bread and pasta (as in made with wheat/gluten).
    • Posts: 198 Member
      My ex. I cut him out and it's made a HUGE difference!!
    • Posts: 108 Member
      Soda!
    • Posts: 141 Member
      fast food...dont miss it at all
    • Posts: 45 Member
      Soda and sugary drinks like others have said, and snacking on whole packets of sweets. Found that most of the meals I like eating fitted in my goal easily just by cutting out the drinks.

      I still have them occasionally, but only on days I'm planning quite light meals, and with sweets I only have a couple of sweets instead of a whole packets. I don't believe in giving up anything completely as I won't be able to sustain that.
    • Posts: 130 Member
      snacking items
    • Posts: 459 Member
      I actually didn't give up anything in particular, I just ate certain things less frequently. Like pasta and rice. If I do have them it's just a small portion. Sometimes I'll swap things like potatoes for cauliflower. It's an easy substitution and if you take cauliflower and saute it thinly sliced with onion and garlic it's like having fried potatoes! yum.

      I'm not a milk drinker, only in coffee so I switched my milk to unsweetened almond milk.

      I guess the biggest change I made overall was that I don't go out to any fast foods at lunch anymore, I always bring a lunch. It made a huge change in calorie intake and because I'm not eating all the processed foods/carbs it really reduced my cravings. I still eat out from time to time, but not that often.

      Try to create an eating plan that you could envision 10 years down the road. So what are the things you NEVER want to give up? Now figure out which foods you could reduce and it wouldn't even bother you. Now create a diet plan that allows you to incorporate those items you absolutely love the most and reduce the things you enjoy less.

      e.g. I reduce potatoes, rice and pasta which means I have room for RUM! :drinker:
    • Posts: 45 Member
      I drink a lot of tea with skim milk and when I counted up the calories in the milk I was using I was pretty shocked. Every mug had 1/2 cup of milk which I mix up thicker than the instructions say. I have decided to cut out the pot of black tea I used to drink at lunch time and replace it with herbal or green tea. That is saving me over 100 calories right there. When you have a 1200 calorie limit it all counts!
    • Posts: 494 Member
      Candy, Cake, Pie, muffins, Buffets, Milk, Soda, Bread, Pasta, etc......listing it all makes me sad!!!
    • Posts: 220 Member
      breakfast
    • Posts: 45 Member
      pastry. too many pies and nightime danish.

      for all those that said soda, were you all still drinking full fat coke etc?
      i dont know anyone in the uk over age 14 that still drinks that stuff.

      i use diluted juice concentrate. robinsons barley etc. to consume gallon of water daily.minimal cals.

      Really! I wouldn't touch the diet stuff. Horrid artificial sweeteners that taste awful and have so many reports of the dangers of the chemicals. Yuck!

      I've mostly cut out soda recently, but would still drink the full fat stuff when I have it. (And yes like many people in the UK I refer to it as "full fat" even though I don't believe it actually contains fat.
    • Posts: 33 Member
      Wheat!!!

      But I'm a food addict... When I don't eat wheat, I can eat like everyone else. When I have wheat based products, I get food cravings.
    • Posts: 356 Member
      McDonald's Mocha Frappes, seriously, I got a large one almost every day during their happy hour on my way home from work. That's like 700 calories a day, a pound a week. I actually just replaced them with a java chip frappuccino light from Starbucks, but those are only 200 calories.
    • Posts: 123 Member
      Self-loathing
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