What food plan do you follow?

Guess it depends on the individual, but I have found IIFYM (if it fits your macros) works for me. No restrictions, special foods, pills...just eating within goals.

I follow the 21 day fix eating plan

No plan. I eat regular food and fit it into my daily calorie goal.

I have found that I like to eat a bigger dinner so I eat lighter for breakfast and lunch. But that's purely personal preference.


My biggest piece of advice is to make small progressive changes rather than a sweeping change everything plan. Unless you have to lose weight quickly for your health (and in that case, speak to your Dr) take the time to develop new habits so the weight loss sticks.

Rather than trading out all your old foods for new ones, decrease your usual portions and maybe add a few lower calorie fruits and veggies.

Oh and I rarely eat salad, especially as a meal. My food log is open if you want to look.

I follow the "eat fewer calories than I burn" plan.

CICO (Calories in Calories Out) Basically I eat less calories than I burn, according to the laws of physics, that means weight loss. 83 pounds down so far, and I can eat whatever the hell I want to eat, which is awesome. Of course, through the process of logging, I have started making healthier choices, but I still rarely eat salads, they aren't my thing either.

Fanpat wrote: »

I follow the 21 day fix eating plan

What about day 22?

isulo_kura wrote: »

Fanpat wrote: »

I follow the 21 day fix eating plan

What about day 22?

Lots of good advice here. I especially second easing into it with a progression of small manageable changes vs. sweeping change all at once.

In addition to counting total calories, I aim roughly for equal calories from each macronutrient. E.g. a daily goal of 1200 calories (to simplify the math) consists of 400 calories from protein, carb & fat each. That's 100g protein, 100g carb (of which >25g is fiber) and 44g fat (of which <10g is saturated). It's a starting place. Some people (e.g. athletes) do better with more carb and less fat. Some people (e.g. diabetics) need more fat and less carb. Once you calculate your daily protein need, that should be fairly constant regardless of your preferred fat and carb balance. FWIW, I don't eat much salad either.

I'm not sure if that's helpful or what you mean by "food plan." It's a general guideline I use to make my food choices. I log what I want to eat for the day BEFOREHAND and see how the macronutrients look. If I'm low or high on one or more, I adjust. Once you get used to a stable eating pattern, you won't have to adjust much. Especially when starting out, it's easier to pre-log than to log it as you eat it because you won't end up with something impossible (e.g. a 200 calorie dinner with 60g protein) at the end of the day. Best wishes to you!

I don't follow an eating plan because I don't like structure, but if I wanted structure I think I might go with South Beach. It's not overly restrictive and allows for variety while still providing a structured plan.

MikaMojito wrote: »

I don't follow a plan as such but roughly this is what I eat. I tend to eat very little during the day because I hate being hungry in the evening.

Weekday breakfast: a banana or a banana with low-fat joghurt or quark
Weekend breakfast: either skip or scrambled eggs with bacon or smoked salmon

Lunch: Salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, bell peppers) plus a source of protein, such as lean ham or shrimp or chicken breast;

Snack: I try not to snack a lot but I keep small no-added-sugar cereal bars at school just in case I get horribly hungry

Dinner: Vegetables plus protein. Tonight it's salad with ham, last week I had green asparagus with salmon.

That just makes me sad. You get "horribly hungry" between meals because you're hardly eating anything at all.