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Eat at a calorie deficit.

All you need is a calorie deficit but for good health, start slowly adding fruits and veggies. Try different methods of cooking them (the veggies) and adding spices you like.
Are there any veggies you like at all?

Eat less of what you currently eat--count calories and figure out from logging how to modify what you are eating to reduce the calories or make it less caloric. Understanding your diet and where the calories are coming from is a really helpful first step.

If you are having trouble eating less, try to think about why--the log helps with this too.

Keep experimenting with new foods, especially vegetables, fruit, sources of protein and fiber. You may find you enjoy more than you think, especially if properly cooked. A lot of times people just decide they don't like things which is understandable in a child but something that I think we should grow out of if it is limiting your diet so much. (That doesn't mean you have to like everything, of course.)

It's not helpful to think of foods as bad and good. Food is a source of energy and some provide more calories than others, while some provides more vitamins and minerals, etc.

Yeah caloric deficit but I never overlook food quality, living on twinkies can't be really good. I'd try to choose healthier food and well,allow some indulgence here and there.

cityruss wrote: »

Eat at a calorie deficit.

This^

You could eat nothing but candy, chips, and soda and still lose weight.

BUT - if you want to be healthier - you need to make better choices. Choices that get you to a well rounded diet. Because eating at a deficit....and eating nothing but crap is going to leave you very hungry.

Re: veggies. There are so many varieties, so many ways to prepare them. I'm a picky eater....so I'm excused, doesn't cut it. Do you want to be healthy? Yes, or No? It's up to you.

Veggies are a really good weapon for weight loss AND for maintenance. Veggies are high volume, high fiber, low calorie, and low fat. Veggies help me fill up my plate. Do you want a smaller plate of food forever? Because maintenance will be watching portion sizes forever.

nvsmomketo wrote: »

Consider following a low carb and high fat diet. It has few veggies (usually excluding those that grow under ground), minimal fruits (often berries), nuts, meats, eggs and fats. Junk food is usually quite limited unless it is low in carbs like beef jerky or pork rinds.

If you love Twinkies and potato chips, this WOE is not for you.

Good luck.

Connect the dots, la la la la.........curious as to what in the OP took you down the path to suggesting this???

I did it all with smaller portions of foods I like and developing - over the course of a year - a taste for healthier foods. Don't try to start with an "end game" food plan. Start where you are, see where you can cut portions, and then see which foods you want to add in. Experiment with produce and find things you like. You will probably find there are some vegetables you *do* like, and are willing to incorporate into your diet.

The OP said they "I live on bad food I don't eat veg or salad I'm very fussy wen it comes to food"Those who eat LCHF do not eat a lot of veggies . so that might be a good fit.

From my own experiences, "bad food" is usually in reference to processed foods like stuff found in the candy aisle, chips, pop, and sometimes baked goods. You don't usually eat these on a LCHF diet, so if they want to avoid those "bad" foods, then LCHF is an option.

I am married to a fussy eater who likes his meat and potatoes, bacon and eggs, and whole milk, so it is my own personal experience that some "fussy" eaters like their meat, eggs, and dairy. Those go well in a LCHF diet.

I was just offering a WOE option. The OP can try it or not. Most people don't and that is fine with me. To each their own. Whatever works for you.

You can eat any foods you want as long as you eat less calories than your body requires to survive day to day, not including exercise. This is eating at a deficit.

The problem with that is while there are no "bad" foods, eating high calorie foods, which is generally what "bad" foods are means you can eat very little while staying within your calorie range. This is why vegetables, beans, rice, lean meats, eggs etc. are usually foods of choice since you can have more of them.

Say your calorie deficit has you at 1600 calories a day. For one day you eat approx. 12 Twinkies and nothing else and be starving, exhausted and probably angry or you could eat 3-5 full meals and snacks, not be hungry, be adequately nourished, full of energy and healthy with lower calorie food choices.

I can think of three options:

Eat less of the bad food
Change your diet
Do a lot more exercise

Mix and match as you please.

ndj1979 wrote: »

Kalikel wrote: »

I can think of three options:

Eat less of the bad food
Change your diet
Do a lot more exercise

Mix and match as you please.

fixed it for you

Amazing how a simple removal of words makes all the difference.

ndj1979 wrote: »

Katzedernacht wrote: »

Yeah caloric deficit but I never overlook food quality, living on twinkies can't be really good. I'd try to choose healthier food and well,allow some indulgence here and there.

who is advocating living on twinkies...???

No one,gee but a guy said you can live on twinkies and cake and lose weight if you eat less calories overall, which I may agree but I think QUALITY of calories matters a lot,not just the numbeeeeers
that's all

lyndastagg60 wrote: »

Any ideas on how to lose weight wen I live on bad food I don't eat veg or salad I'm very fussy wen it comes to food help lol

Unless you are eating food that has already spoiled, you are not eating 'bad' food. Eat in a calorie deficit. People have eaten nothing but 'snack' foods in a calorie deficit and lost weight, in controlled studies. It's unlikely that you are doing that.