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after being raised on eating those foods and eating them for 27 years it is not easy to STOP eating them, but i have cut WAY down on them. if i was on here still eating the way i used to everyones jaws would drop at how horrible my food is.
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I LOVE Lucky Charms and Cap'n Crunch (but don't tell anybody)

Protein: It looks like you like cheese, so buy some large packages of lowfat string cheese to snack on. Milk and lowfat yogurt are good.Lean meat is good, like chicken or turkey or pork. Fish is the best, if you will eat it. Stay away from deli meat, and packaged meat - it's loaded with sodium. Nuts are protein, but high in calories and fat. Beans are protein.

Drop the sugar. Stop eating the white flour (the pizzas) and start eating whole wheat bread or oatmeal. Eat more veggies - even if it is tomato sauce or carrots or celery or potatos (not ideal choices in a perfect world, but you have to change your eating habits!)

You need to change what you can, as was said above. Start with dropping the Coke and Dr. Pepper. They are empty calories and do nothing but exhaust you. If you get headaches, substitute plain tea for the pop, you'll get the caffeine to make the transition easier.

Im sorry as well, but saying "i have an addiction to salty food and cafeine" is just an excuse u r giving urself to get away with living how youve bene living ur entire life (the reason thats got you to the point u r at now). You are here to loose weight, be healthy, etc. Its good that you are trying! Its good that you are here! But upping ur water intake to 7cups, or 2cups, is not enough. For your body weight (265), divide that by 15. That number that equals is the number of cups you r suppose to drink a day. That is 18cups a day. If you drink soda, have alot of salt, drink any cafeine drink (Caffeinated soda, cafeine tea, etc), you have to drink even more water. if you excercise you ahve to drink even more.

Start off with just getting up to 8-10cups, and then continually up it til u get to 15, then maybe 18.

My sodium level is something i struggle with as well, and there are def days I dont meet my 20cups of water a day, im def not saying im perfect or anything, but if you want to lose, you will not see results by eating nothing but junk food, or things loaded with salt/fat.

I hope I have not been to hard on you, truely just trying to help! Try to eat healthier (healthier doesnt mean no junk what so ever, just healthier in general, portion control). Ive lost 21lbs in 5weeks by diet alone and hardly any excercise, just by eating a lil healthier and smaller portions.

I love salty food and cafeine too, but salt helps u retain weight and dehydrates any water u do drink, and any cafeine drink dehydrates the water u r drinking as well.

Try eating foods you like with low sodium options to start out with. Dont add table salt to anything (use garlic powder, parsley, red pepper flakes, pepper, etc to season things). And find healthier versions of food you enjoy... if you enjoy french fries, try making homemade fries in the oven, using an olive oil spray instead of oil, and using the seasonings i mentioned. If you enjoy pizza, then have a thin crust wheat chicken garlic pizza with reduced fat mozarella, tons of veggies.. if you enjoy soda, try carbonated water--maybe with some fruit in it even, until you dont want soda at all anymore, and then u can stop drinking the carbonated water... If you enjoy fried chicken, dip it in egg white instead of whole egg, and use a fiber cereal as the coating, then fry in a light olive oil or smart balance veg oil, or something healthier than a deep fryer.... if ur fav breakfast is french toast, use wheat bread, egg whites instead of whole egg, and a sugar free syrup, like mrs. butterworths that only 20 cal a 1/4cup instead of 210cal for a 1/4cup like most full sysrups are.
Switch normal items u eat for reduced cal options (paying attention to sodium levels in foods u buy), try some sugar free chocolate pudding for chocolate cravings, or sugar free low cal fudgecicles.
Try chewing some gum or sucking on a hard sugar free candy when u get cravings for food u shouldnt be eating.

What is wrong with cheese as a snack?

Nothing. But calling Kraft Singles "cheese" is questionable at best. Have a string cheese, a chunk of cheddar or a smear of brie instead. So much more satisfying and real.

You don't have to give up on caffeine altogether, tho since you're coming from such a horrible diet to one that will likely taste horrible to you, coffee isn't going to be all that pleasurable to you either. But give it a shot.

try for whole grains instead of white flour items (everything from flour u cook with to pasta, to crackers, to pancake mix, to...bagels, bread, english muffins)...

compare labels and see what brands have lower sodium. look for anything that says low sodium, reduced sodium, etc. Compare labels for lower calorie options too--like jarred spaghetti sauce is double the calories as canned spaghetti sauce, as an example...

I like fiber1 granola bars--oats and chocolate as a healthy treat/snack.

And i didnt realize the cheese that was in question was a kraft single... so yea... if u liked pre-sliced cheese, u can take ur block of cheese to the deli at a grocery store, and have them slice the entire block and they dont charge u for it (unlike if u bought real sliced cheese in the store aisle its like $3 for a few slices--ridiculously priced). processed cheese is a processed food, and ur right, it is "questionable" LOL

Like you i was brought up on complete rubbish. Severeal takeaways a week, loads of chocolate and crisps etc. We'd have a tub of icecream instead of an actual meal. I Shudder to think of the crap my mother fed my sister and i and i kept it up thought adult hood. I think your doing great. Being aware or how bad the food is and cutting it down is the first step. Changing some and drinking more water is the next. Take it slow step by step. Too much too soon and your likely to give up. I still have to eat some rubbish now as i do miss the taste. Nothing homemade tastes remotely like a takeaway so i still have them for now but not as often as i used to. Dont' swear off everything right away just do what you can. Just incase i need to carify this is a suggestion and not me telling you what you should do. I have already been misquoted on here as telling someone what they should and shouldn't do. You have to find a way that works for you and a way that you can sustain to make it a change for life. I've lost a few mfp friends who have pretty much starved themselves for a couple of weeks then disapeared.