What diet plan works best for you?
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Jerky (I make my own....easy and cheap!)
How do you make your jerky? I want to start because I love jerky but hate how salty commercial jerky is. I don't have to watch my sodium closely, I just hate salty foods (well, except popcorn. Sometimes I just HAVE to have a big bowl of buttery, salty popcorn). Links to recipes and/or instructions would be helpful or feel free to PM me if you don't want to derail the thread. Thank you!!!!!!
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I don't do diets. I just eat food that I like and that fits my macros, so I can maintain a healthy balance. 70 pounds down so far.0
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No diets here - I just aim to eat the right amount of cals each day, getting as close as possible to my macro targets as well. Knowing my BMR and my TDEE and eating between those numbers has been very freeing and effective.
This allows for events like weddings, birthday parties, holidays and vacations, along with favorite foods like pizza, burgers, desserts, cocktails/wine/beer on a regular basis, with no guilt or anxiety over falling off any imaginary wagons - I know my limits and stay within them most of the time, but I also know that going over once in awhile isn't going to ruin anything, either. It's part of enjoying life with a healthy lifestyle, and it's sustainable - I'm in this forever!0 -
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I don't pay too much attention to calories, but eat higher protein and do weight training. The magic trick for me that finally clicked was eliminating most carbs.0
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Portion control. Weighing/measuring foods. Calorie counting.0
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Not so much a diet plan as a different eating pattern - 5:2, where you eat at maintenance 5 days a weeks and have 2 very low calorie days to create a small weekely deficit.
Didn't have to change what I ate or exclude anything and found it far easier than trying to maintain a daily calorie deficit.
Been maintaining with a 6:1 eating pattern for quite some time now - 1 very low calorie day and 6 days at a small surplus give me a calorie balance over the course of a week.
@Sijomial why did you move from 5:2 to 6:1? Any particular reason.
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ketogenic combined with calorie counting. its the only thing thats worked for me.0
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I pre-log my day to make sure I'm getting somewhere close to my ideal macros and staying within a reasonable range of my calories. I rearrange things to make sure I get a treat because I know I'll go crazy if I don't have one (could be as simple as a square of dark chocolate or as decadent as a huge Belgian hot chocolate). I try to make sure I get plenty of protein and fresh veggies, but otherwise there's no real diet plan. I've also learned to listen to my body - if something makes me feel sluggish or gross after I eat it, I just don't eat it anymore. And most mornings I fast until almost lunch time, but that's primarily because my calories are pretty low and if I eat too early in the morning I'm ravenous the rest of the day.0
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@Justcat206 How low is your calorie that you need to be fasting till lunch? I was initially doing a crazy 1200 plan. I felt sick to be honest. Once I calculated my BMR and TDEE things became so much simpler.0
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@ndj1979 Processed food to me are all of the things you would find in the inner sections of the grocery stores. Jams, cookies, chips, etc. I do lack the skills to bake bread or make pasta, so I do buy them after reading the labels carefully.
I prepare my food 90% of the time from scratch. Don't like eating things, when I don't know what can be in there.
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For me? A mediterranean style diet that essentially looks a lot like South Beach Diet phase 2-3. I very much limit heavily refined carbs (probably what the folks above call "crap"), and I try to build my diet around nutrient dense foods.
Did that while losing, been doing it for 14 years while maintaining.
So, yeah, I'm on a low crap diet.
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i personally find that having close to even amount of protein and carbs has helped me feel much better and shed some inches0
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No Diet™.
Counting calories and macronutrients.
Setting realistic goals.
Taking personal responsibility, everything that goes in my mouth is put there by me, I have the choice as to what I eat.
No deprivation of food groups.
Realising food is food, "junk/healthy/bad/good/fattening/processed" are all relative terms, and that with a bit of thought anything can be fit in to a balanced diet.
^This plan. My overall "diet" is gluten free (I have celiac disease) and vegetarian (by preference), but within those parameters, I eat food I enjoy. I tend to enjoy food most people would consider "healthy", though. I'm of the mindset that no food is off the table in the context of an overall good diet that is full of the otherwise nutritionally dense food that I usually eat.
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Very low carb (30-50g/day) and moderate calorie restriction (20% down from maintenance) is working beautifully for me. And I have gotten very good at faking high carb recipes using cauliflower or turnips. Turnip gratin, a nice steak, sauteed spinach, and hollandaise sauce is a typical "diet dinner." I'm down 15lbs since Jan 1! And cauliflower cheese & garlic "breadsticks" are phenomenal.0
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No Diet™.
Counting calories and macronutrients.
Setting realistic goals.
Taking personal responsibility, everything that goes in my mouth is put there by me, I have the choice as to what I eat.
No deprivation of food groups.
Realising food is food, "junk/healthy/bad/good/fattening/processed" are all relative terms, and that with a bit of thought anything can be fit in to a balanced diet.
Which is, of course, a diet.0 -
I eat low to moderate carb diet and mostly 80% nutrient dense and 20% treats. You'll see me wandering in the outer section of grocery store.
Right now because I'm off season not training I follow TDEE method . Once the training starts I'll be switching to MFP method.
1 have lost 123 pounds with this lifestyle though now I have stopped losing pounds and instead lost 2 pant sizes and down one T-shirt size while hovering over same weight range.0 -
I eat low to moderate carb diet and mostly 80% nutrient dense and 20% treats. You'll see me wandering in the outer section of grocery store.
Right now because I'm off season not training I follow TDEE method . Once the training starts I'll be switching to MFP method.
1 have lost 123 pounds with this lifestyle though now I have stopped losing pounds and instead lost 2 pant sizes and down one T-shirt size while hovering over same weight range.
This is me as well: I'm a perimeter shopper for sure.0 -
Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »I eat low to moderate carb diet and mostly 80% nutrient dense and 20% treats. You'll see me wandering in the outer section of grocery store.
Right now because I'm off season not training I follow TDEE method . Once the training starts I'll be switching to MFP method.
1 have lost 123 pounds with this lifestyle though now I have stopped losing pounds and instead lost 2 pant sizes and down one T-shirt size while hovering over same weight range.
This is me as well: I'm a perimeter shopper for sure.
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »I eat low to moderate carb diet and mostly 80% nutrient dense and 20% treats. You'll see me wandering in the outer section of grocery store.
Right now because I'm off season not training I follow TDEE method . Once the training starts I'll be switching to MFP method.
1 have lost 123 pounds with this lifestyle though now I have stopped losing pounds and instead lost 2 pant sizes and down one T-shirt size while hovering over same weight range.
This is me as well: I'm a perimeter shopper for sure.
Same here. I think the only interior aisle food products in my own diet are frozen fruit, dried beans, almond butter, veggie broth (too lazy to make my own), bean pasta, and canned tomatoes and pumpkin. The kids and husband have a few more things from the inner aisles in their diets like bread, cereal, and crackers.
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