What to cut out from your diet?
arilongworth
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What did you guys stop eating ? I cut out chocolate , crisps , ready meals , all sort of sweets!
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extra calories that take me over my goal
I still eat chocolate, crisps and sweets and actually introduced ready meals (I like the Innocent Vegetable pots)0 -
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badgerbadger1 wrote: »Nothing
How do you loose weight then?0 -
I cut out additional calories that take me over my goal of 1480... Anything under that is fair game. There is no need to cut anything...0
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extra calories that take me over my goal
I still eat chocolate, crisps and sweets and actually introduced ready meals (I like the Innocent Vegetable pots)
Snap, although I don't really eat crisps, never been a fan of them. I buy the Sainsburys My Goodness ready meals sometimes, or the M&S balanced for you ones.0 -
Bread, Rice, Potatoes, Pasta, Soda, Pizza, Sweets.0
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I haven't cut anything out completely (except food that isn't worth the calories to me.) There are foods that I eat less often-- I rarely eat fast food or anything fried. But I eat out frequently (well, once per week or so), I have dessert every day, and I'm a baker so we usually have fresh baked goods around.
I try to focus on getting a variety of foods including a lot of protein, veggies/beans/legumes, fruit, etc. and then I use whatever calories are left to have foods I enjoy that have less nutrients.
I have lost almost 50 lbs and have kept it off for 2 1/2 years with this approach.0 -
arilongworth wrote: »
It will if you eat small amounts. Say you have a really healthy day, but then you want a treat, and you have the calories left, then say a Freddo bar won't make you go over calories and won't make you gain weight. Or weigh 40g of ice cream, or have a couple of squares of dark choc. I buy my children Walkers Squares crisps, they have 97 calories per bag.0 -
white potatoes, french fries, pasta and beer0
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arilongworth wrote: »
It will in weight terms, but not nutrition and might not leave you feeling full. that coyl break your diet.
Instead of restricting I tend to spend my calories elsewhere that give me the nutrition and satiety I need, that results in me moderating other foods such as chcocolate. I just eat less or earn calories by exercise. Restriction of itself can cause people to binge or be miserable.0 -
arilongworth wrote: »
Calories are all that matter for weight loss. If all you ate every day was one mouthful of chocolate, you'd still lose weight (before you starved to death), even though what you were eating was junk food. Look up the Twinkie diet, a guy ate mostly only chocolate and sweets and lost weight because he stayed in his calories.0 -
I haven't cut out anything, I just make sure I can fit it into my daily calorie allowance. I find that if I actively cut things out, it only leads to me craving those foods, feeling miserable, then ultimately binging on them (or anything else to try and distract me from that particular craving).0
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Wine as an almost daily thing. I've cut it down to one night a week max at the moment as I just don't have room for a 300cal glass of wine (or likely 600 cal for 3/4 of a bottle!)
I gave up chocolate about 8 years ago as I had a binge problem with it.
Other than that, since I am on 1,200 cals a day I do mostly stick to healthy homemade food as in order to eat a decent amount 3 meals a day I can't really fit in takeaways very often. But its not a "never".0 -
arilongworth wrote: »badgerbadger1 wrote: »Nothing
How do you loose weight then?
As long as you stay within your calorie goal, you're golden
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The things I've cut had more to do initially with other health reason. I cut drinking because it lead to late night snacking, I cut back on "the whites", refined sugar, pasta, bread, because I could actually feel how they aggravated my nerve pain. Weight loss was a bi-product. After 30 lbs dropped, then I joined mfp to focus on the rest of the weight via calorie/nutrition awareness. I now will have the one slice of pizza or the one glass of wine (okay maybe two), but without the following nachos. I'm 25 lbs away from goal, and the lbs are dropping slower and with a long plateaue, but I'm aware of the "why".
In the end, the cutting of whole groups of food isn't necessary for a move at the scale. It's a matter of your comfort level with that food and how to fit it in to an overall healthy life.0 -
Like people are saying, you dont have to cut out particular kinds of food, just eat smaller portions of them. You can lose weight still eating food you enjoy, in fact you are more likely to be succesful at it if you do it in a sustainable way, I lost a lot of weight still eating cookies, chips (crisps) etc. I also ate a frozen meal for dinner at work all the time, I still do.0
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arilongworth wrote: »badgerbadger1 wrote: »Nothing
How do you loose weight then?
By eating less of it.
I too haven't cut anything out, but then I never ate a lot of junk anyway. I don't do 'bad' food or 'guilty' food or 'treat' food. It's just food.0 -
I think the most common answer you'll get on here will be 'nothing' - as long as you are creating a calorific deficit (i.e. Burn more than you eat), then you'll lose weight.
It's a different experience for everyone, though. You might find that there are some things you simply can't eat in moderation and there will be foods that make you more/less satisfied. Becoming aware of that will help you create the required deficit.
So, while its not required to cut out 'junk' food, sometimes people will end up doing that in practice because:
- You become more aware, via logging on mfp, of the calories it contains and decide it's not worth it
- You decide it's something for which you can't limit yourself to just a small portion and therefore find it easier to have none at all
I think the only thing I'd add to the 'nothing to cut out' answer is to pay attention to your macros as well as calories. Personally, I find treating protein as a goal to hit for the day makes it easier to create a deficit without excessive hunger or cravings.0 -
Overeating!0
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I haven't cut out any food entirely. As soon as I do, it makes me miserable.
I have smaller meal portions and fewer snacks, and many fewer alcoholic drinks (hard to make room for them on 1,200 cals a day), but nothing is off limits.0 -
Oh, and I'm not recommending this as it's no doubt bad for me, but 150-200 cals of my daily cals are chocolate, and I've lost 11lbs. Including bad food isn't slowing me down.0
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pinkteapot3 wrote: »Oh, and I'm not recommending this as it's no doubt bad for me, but 150-200 cals of my daily cals are chocolate, and I've lost 11lbs. Including bad food isn't slowing me down.
not bad for you at all .. so long as you're hitting your protein and fat goals0 -
arilongworth wrote: »
It will but you might find it more difficult to stay under your goal. We're all individual; some of us have trigger foods that we crave more of and a lot of people find that "junk" isn't as filling and satisfying as less-processed food. It's a process. I personally cut way, way down on sugar and try not to eat things like cake or pizza except very, very occasionally. I don't like that kind of food that much anyway so it's not a sacrifice for me; if someone else really loves McDonalds on the other hand it might not be sustainable for them to cut it out altogether (on the other hand if McDonalds is a trigger food that they can't control themselves around it might not be sustainable to keep eating it). So, yeah. Eating "junk" while watching calories won't prevent you losing weight but it may be a good idea to cut it out or cut way back for other reasons that are personal to you. Or it may not. Only you know.0 -
pinkteapot3 wrote: »Oh, and I'm not recommending this as it's no doubt bad for me, but 150-200 cals of my daily cals are chocolate, and I've lost 11lbs. Including bad food isn't slowing me down.
not bad for you at all .. so long as you're hitting your protein and fat goals
I always hit my protein goal. I'm usually slightly under on fat and slightly over on carbs (the carbs coming from the sugar, I'm sure), but not horrendously out - within 5% most of the time.0 -
nothing.
i eat what i want, as long as it fits within my calorie goals.
(why do i feel like i say this 1800 times a day?)0 -
I cut out 95% of soda, even my beloved local one Kofola. So not worth drinking the calories. Regarding solid food, it's been said before - IIFYM
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Yeah ... 200 calories of chocolate isn't even that big a proportion of your daily goal? Even if you're cutting back as low as 1200 calories a day it's only 1/6 or 16.7%. A lot of people on this website swear by 80:20 — according to that framework you could have your 200 calories of chocolate (a Dairy Milk bar or whatever) and still have room for an extra treat afterwards. It's not like chocolate is totally devoid of nutrients either.pinkteapot3 wrote: »Oh, and I'm not recommending this as it's no doubt bad for me, but 150-200 cals of my daily cals are chocolate, and I've lost 11lbs. Including bad food isn't slowing me down.
not bad for you at all .. so long as you're hitting your protein and fat goals0 -
My MIL asked yesterday (she noticed I'd lost 15kg) "What can't you eat?". I said "Nothing. A better question is when can't you eat. The answer to that one is: About half the time."0
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I'm not at my thinnest now as I'm losing baby weight from my third, but before when I was slim I had someone say to me 'you never deprive yourself of anything, do you?' Think she was jealous. Well, I do exercise loads, don't sit around drinking wine like she does lol.0
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