Eating

sijomial wrote: »

I didn't exclude anything.

Ditto. I don't exclude when cutting, and I don't look at maintenance as a time to add "forbidden" foods. The difference between cutting .5 pound a week and maintaining is 1/2 cup (tiny!) of vanilla ice cream or a generous handful of almonds. Not life-changing.

I didn't stop eating any foods when I started MFP. Too likely to backfire and make me binge. I stopped eating fast food a few months ago, but that's mostly because I don't like the way it makes me feel after eating it, too greasy. Makes me feel gross. Plus my partner has bad reactions from it (chron's).

I didn't keep anything off limits during weight loss and dont do so now. I plan for what I want but I stick to the plan. At least 80% of the time I eat healthy food, I like healthy food too. I do eat based on activity level so I tend to do more active things when I want more or want something indulgent Weight loss is way more likely to be long-term successful if you practice what you are willing to do in terms of diet and exercise. The only difference should be the calorie limits. As a side benefit I enjoy certain items more because I savor it and I'm more mindful of whether or not I'm hungry.

There's really only 1 thing and that's because I didn't know how many calories it has...now I do. Costco pizza from the food court. A slice of cheese pizza there has over 700 calories. If I'm gonna blow 700 calories, I'll do it on pizza that's way gourmet than that one. Balance is the key in moderation. You need to eat, today, the way you're gonna eat the rest of your life. Parties, holidays, birthdays, vacations need to be part of our lives, and we need to burn those calories off with physical activity.
My advice, if you'd like it, is to buy a heart rate monitor and you'll see how many calories you're burning to balance your eating out.
Oh yeah, and you have to surrender to the fact that you will be a lifetime member to MFP or some other tool that tracks your intake . The day you think you can eat blindly again is the day your weight goes right back up.
Enjoy foods...just make them fit into your energy expenditure for the whole day.

capaul42 wrote: »

700?! That's disgusting. My homemade pizza is roughly 280 a slice and mine is loaded

Lol that costco pizza must be one massive slice!

Ben and Jerry’s

Everything.

Two things that I didn't eat while in a deficit were pizza and burritos. I don't eat those things in moderation so I still try to avoid them. My husband and daughter eat pizza every Friday and I make my own flatout pizza instead.

I didn't give up anything...

I cut out a lot of garbage food that I used to like and eat often. Kraft macaroni & cheese, Burger King Whoppers, McDonald fries, Taco Bell burritos to name a few.
I learned how to make healthier substitutes for myself at home.
A couple of months ago I had a Taco Bell burrito because I had been craving it for a few weeks. It tasted awful and left me feeling bloated and gassy.
My whole wheat tortilla, black bean burrito with avocado, onions, lettuce, tomatoes and hot sauce tastes so much better to me.

nxd10 wrote: »

I haven't given anything up. But I dropped back bread and cheese a lot when I was at a deficit. Turns out dropping those were all I needed to lose 500 calories/day. Those got added back in more modest amounts when I went to maintenance.

Me too. They weren't taboo, but they were limited.