Any specific food items you quit and noticed it helped you lose weight?

Eliminating bread is probably helping you to lose, because it allows you to reduce your overall calories and potentially carbs (high carbs means storing additional glycogen/water).

I don't eliminate foods. When I do, i tend to want to binge. But what I do is focus on getting more nutrient dense foods, rather than "empty calories". The only calories I drink now are protein shakes. I rarely eat pasta (doesn't fill me up unless I have 4 or 5 servings) and I tend to get several servings of fruits/veggies (I aim for 30g of fiber).

I noticed when I go heavier on carbs, especially bread, pasta, baked goods etc. I need a nap and feel bloated and get stomach upset. It's generally unpleasant. I removed gluten as recommended by my naturopath thinking she was wrong and thinking a gluten free diet was a fad but I'm now having second thoughts.

Straight up sugar. Candy, chocolate in my coffee, granola bars, honey, etc. Eliminate of that as an item has made me less hungry overall.

The other day I had a glass of ginger lemonade before going home and it made me very hungry. Without the sugar I can go much longer between snacks and snack more sparingly when I do. Perhaps it is a reflection of just eliminating items that I shouldn't be eating anyway but it makes me feel better and it makes my day much easier to approach. I still have the occasional sweet, after dinner ice cream or a pastry on a saturday morning but it is now the exception instead of being the rule.

I haven't "quit" any foods but bringing my lunch to work instead of going out has saved me TONS of calories (& money!). & just tracking in general. If you don't track, you don't know where you stand. I was eating fast food or take-out every day & not even looking up how many calories I was consuming. I was probably going way over & not even knowing it. It feels a lot better knowing I made my own food & know exactly what I'm eating. I'll do fast food maybe once a week but look up the calories beforehand. I don't think you need to quit anything necessarily.

I made it a point to not cut out or eliminate any food, just the portion. Tell someone they can't have something and guess what they will want, obsessively???

HappyCampr1 wrote: »

There are things I used to eat frequently such as donuts that I hardly eat anymore, but that's mostly because I'd rather spend my calories on other things instead.

This is my approach. I think about the kinds of foods I want to include in my diet and make sure to include them. This means adequate protein, lots of vegetables, fruit and dairy, nuts and olives and olive oil, a variety of starches (oatmeal, potatoes and sweet potatoes, corn when in season, whole grains, quinoa, sunchokes, many others). And then with my excess calories I use them as I please. It's self limiting so there's no risk of going overboard on the low nutrition/high calorie stuff.

I've ended up reducing the amount of some stuff I eat--I used to order in Indian food a ridiculous amount and now I just go out for it once a month or so, I tend to like the sauce more than pasta so I'm sparing in the portion size of the pasta itself and load on my homemade sauce with lots of veggie--but I haven't given up anything. I don't love most bread so I usually forego the calories and eat my (homemade) burger bunless and the like, but for really good bread (or a really good sandwich, like I had for lunch today), I will make an exception. I personally see no benefits to cutting out vs. reducing the amount eaten, but everyone should do what works for them.

Well it's not food, it's alcohol. Fireball shots with apple cider beer. How I miss it....