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Food is my problem so that's where I started. Figure out what causes you the most trouble and take baby steps to improve on it. If you eat a lot of fast food try to make more meals at home. If you're addicted to sodas cut back to 1 a week. If you think meal planning and prepping will work try it. It's all trial and error until you find what works for you. Hope this helps.

Two things that helped me was eating a more plant based diet. I found when I started logging my food I would go days without eating any fruits or vegetables. Now I eat them with every meal and as snacks when possible.
Also, be aware of any triggers for unhealthy eating. For example, if I went to see a movie I would get a large popcorn extra butter, pretzel bites and a slushie. Now I bring raw vegetables and get a water before the movie. Little changes add up quickly.

Hey,
This Website is a great tool for helping you keep track of what/how much you eat.
Like other people have advised, i would suggest you start by making just a few changes, rather than having to jump into them all at once. You will find when you eat a lot of ready made foods, or fast foods, that your daily calorie allotment will vanish pretty fast, so I would look at phasing that stuff out fairly quick. I'm not really sure how often you go, but assuming that fast food is almost all that you eat, perhaps you can commit to only one visit to these places every day, and to bringing those visits down to every other day, or once a week.

Try to log as much of your day ahead of time, since this will prevent you from eating something without thinking it through and logging it only to find that it has eaten up all of your remaining allotment. This was probably the hardest for me, since I tend to graze all day. Get in the habit of carrying your lunches to work with you if possible, and look into foods that you can eat more of, in order to feel like you are not starving yourself ( I like broccoli because you can eat lots of it, and makes your plate look very full)

Finally, with respect to meal planning, I would suggest that you *Do Not* limit yourself in terms of variety... if you come up with only 1 or 2 ideas for breakfast/lunch/supper, you will get bored of eating healthy and will be unable to keep it up. Choose at least 5 recipes for each meal, which will give you 15 to work from. If one becomes boring feel free to cycle it out, and always feel free to explore new things. Leave yourself room in your plan for a few of your favorite things now and then, since trying to cut yourself off from things that you enjoy will only make you miserable.

Hello Healthy (Linked to my fitness pal) has some great recipe suggestions to get you started.

When you start logging your food (every single bite!) it really makes you take a good look at what you eat. That alone should motivate you to make changes. It doesn't really matter if you go low calorie, low carb, low fat...just make healthy changes. After 21 days, those things that seem so hard will become habit. But take it one day at a time. Log in everyday, even if you screw up. And when you do screw up (and we all do), don't throw in the towel!! Get right back on that horse. Do the best you can and then try to do a little better tomorrow. You can do this!