What do people cut back on?
Estefani_H
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People who eat pasta and drank soda do you conpletely cut back? What all do you do? Thanks also what time is best to stop eating at night?
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I don't drink soda anymore. I'd rather eat my calories than drink them. I still eat pasta occassionally, but not the monster portions I used to eat. I bulk up an Italian meal with mushrooms and other vegetables, so it doesn't feel skimpy.9
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When cutting calories, something has to go. Where to cut will be individual. I sort of turned my diet and eating habits and attitudes upside down, in tiny increments. I used to eat boring diet foods for long periods, and then more and more sweets and junk food. Now I eat anything I want, but avoid trigger foods.
Meal timing doesn't matter when it comes to weight loss. A cutoff for eating can make it easier to stick to calorie allowance, but no, you don't store calories eaten at certain times and use calories eaten at other times.5 -
I just switched to diet soda and weighed or measured my pasta. I only quit eating an extra snack at night while I was focused on losing weight. Timing doesn't really have anything to do with weight loss. It is all about how many calories total. I cut back on my night time snacking because that was a big problem for me and when I tended to go overboard. If I was short on calories for the day, a night time snack would be fine. If you pre-log your food, you can build snacks into your day.9
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Hi:
I eat my favorite meals, in moderation.
I love pasta. Before using MFP I was not using a food scale and I was eating close to 4 oz of pasta, just for myself. Now, I use a digital scale and it is 56 grams ( 2 oz) and not a gram more.
I also found out that I prefer to munch my calories rather than drink them. So soda was replaced by infused water ( summer) or green tea ( winter).
My recommendation is to focus on your target calories (either daily or weekly) rather than timing of meals. I personally prefer to have more food during the daytime. Just a personal preference, nothing to do with body weight management, one way or the other.
Good luck in your healthy journey3 -
I still eat pasta, but I measure my portion now. While there is nothing wrong with soda in moderation, the calories just are not worth it to me and I gave it up a long time ago. I will drink one every once in a while, usually after a hike.2
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Estefani_H wrote: »People who eat pasta and drank soda do you conpletely cut back? What all do you do? Thanks also what time is best to stop eating at night?
I stopped eating pasta and rice completely. I eat a little bit of bread occasionally. I only drink diet soda. Most of this was for health reasons, but the tiny portion of these things that I can have, to me, not worth it.
As for eating at night, there are different schools of thought. I'm best if I stop eating by 9pm. Others can eat all night if it's in their calories. Try both and see what works for you.0 -
Meal timing isn't important.2
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I agree with @socioseguro , except I eat most of my calories in the evening and try to eat lighter earlier in the day. It is just personal preference. I did cut back on things like ice cream and candy while I was in a deficit, but I never completely cut them out. If I want them I work them in. And a food scale really does help for things like pasta. At first one or one and a half serving didn't seem like much, but you do get used to eating smaller portions and for me personally I realized there were lots of things I was just eating way too much of and once I learned to moderate my portions I really do feel satisfied on smaller amounts.2
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I still eat the same things. Just less.0
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Diet soda, still eat pasta. Weigh it all and portion appropriately Meal timing is not important at all. Just eat the same time you normally have been.1
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Calories. I eat the same things I did before, just less. Though I did switch from regular soda to diet to save those calories (2 cans=300-ish calories that could be spent on something else).
I usually stop eating around 9:30, when I have dessert. It really doesn't matter if you don't have a sleeping issue if you eat late (some people suffer from acid reflux late night).2 -
I cut a back a little bit on almost everything (reduced my portions). I did have some major cut backs that aren't simply reduced portions because I thought they were easy changes to make, like drinking diet soda or not eating the foods I don't like much. What you choose to cut back or not is personal preference, as long as it helps you meet your calorie goal.
As for meal times, I usually stop eating at around 5-7 pm, but only because I don't feel hungry after that. There are some very occasional days where I do feel hungry at night, so I just eat. When you stop eating is personal preference,as long as it helps you meet your calorie goal.0 -
Jeez, I dunno. Probably less of the filler foods - pasta, rice, bread, etc. - since I don't much crave those. But I still eat them, with a focus on picking higher-protein versions of them when I do.
What to eat, even if you're keeping it in a nutritionally solid range (which you should do, for health)? These are super-individual choices.
What I recommend, rather that "drop this food, add that food" is a process:- Log what you eat, as accurately as you can.
- At the end of the day, or at least every couple of days, review your food diary.
- Look for foods you ate that contributed a relatively large number of calories, but that you personally didn't find especially tasty, nutritious or filling.
- Reduce or replace those foods with something else you enjoy eating, but that better meets your goals - lower calories, more delicious, more filling, better contribution to your macro- and micro-nutrients.
- Rinse and repeat.
A bonus of basic calorie counting (vs. complicated meal plan "diets") is that you can use the weight loss process to learn how to eat forever in a way that helps you maintain your healthy goal weight, once you reach it. The process outlined above helps with that.
P.S. Regular diary review is also a chance to be thoughtful about cases where you may've gone a bit off track, and think about how to handle things better in the future. If you ate in a way that didn't ideally meet your goals, what contributed: Not enough sleep? Stress? Boredom? Inadequate meals or snacks (in terms of calories or nutrition)? Social pressures? "Trigger foods"? etc.7 -
This site feels like im in this great science project sometimes. Luckily im just a spectator.
Anyway, if anyone can pass me the fitnesspal bible it would be great. Have not read it yet.1 -
I just drink diet soda instead. But I still eat everything else that I used to, just less of it or not as often.
The pasta I eat now has 5g of fiber and 11g of protein (catelli smart fusilli), but I do love some fresh pasta if it is there.
And...I agree with meal timing not being important. I can see stopping eating at a certain time if you get reflux, it affects your sleep quality or have you have no calories left. Other than those, there's no real reason to stop eating by a certain time...it's silly as heck as the body has no idea what time it is and it won't start magically storing calories as fat after a certain time.0 -
To lose weight (and quite possibly to manage it in an ongoing fashion) you will have to achieve a new balance between calories in (what you eat and drink) and calories out (calories you burn through daily living activities and exercise).
HOW you go about doing all this is part of the exercise of figuring out something that will work for you long term. This will be different for each individual.
Personally I chose to increase my daily activities, including inventing reasons to walk where none exist. And to use my logging to find items that provide ME with more satiation for fewer calories while removing obvious calorie hogs that did little to contribute to my happiness (bye bye "healthy" olive oil that was simply poured over "healthy" salads: don't miss ya!"
Pasta, noodles, rice, butter, nuts, avocado/guacamole, fries/chips, nut butters, cheesecake, candy, syrups and spreads, dressing and a bunch of other stuff are calorie dense and you only get to eat a little bit before the calories pile up.
As such, the prime function of a calorie counting site is to make you cognisant of the trade-offs you will have to make to incorporate these items into your diet.
Quite often you discover that they're just NOT worth it!
I now seldom eat fries/chips unless I am out eating fish and chips or at a gourmet burger place. I used to eat them every day to the point of literally thinking: fries, again? Sure, it comes with the combo I guess!
Similarly for noodles/pasta. I might have some fresh noodles at a noodle shop; but, at home I am more likely to substitute spaghetti squash/zucchini/carrot/sweet potato/carrot/parsnip/other root vegetables noodles, or, my current favourite, shirataki noodles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirataki_noodles, especially with a seafood based sauce.
Don't look at it as what you can't have.
Look at it more along the lines of what new things you haven't tried yet.
As for pop and dinner time, I now occasionally have a diet pop (instead of 2-3 cans of coke a day) but otherwise drink coffee or water. And I eat about half my calories after 8pm... cause that's what I enjoy doing.
It doesn't seem to have hindered my weight loss too much!2 -
I cut out all fizzy drinks and switched to water as my primary liquid with coffee and the odd beer being thrown in. May sound extreme but it works out costing less money, even though I'm buying bottled water as opposed to drinking out the tap, and I noticed a difference in myself after just a couple of days so I've stuck with it and dont even feel the need or desire for a soda anymore.
That's not going to work for everyone, but we all have our own needs and the key seems to finding our own balance.
There's certain food items I've had to cut out completely because they were major binge foods for me, Haribo Sweets, Doritos etc. I know I can't just have a few and leave the rest. Other things I seem to naturally just not bother with now such as biscuits (cookies) as they just don't seem worth the calories.1 -
This site feels like im in this great science project sometimes. Luckily im just a spectator.
Anyway, if anyone can pass me the fitnesspal bible it would be great. Have not read it yet.
Seems like you have some ideas you wouldn't mind sharing?
The first announcement posts in each community section contain links to threads that contain a lot of valuable information.
MFP bible request has now been fulfilled.2 -
This site feels like im in this great science project sometimes. Luckily im just a spectator.
Anyway, if anyone can pass me the fitnesspal bible it would be great. Have not read it yet.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300319/most-helpful-posts-general-diet-and-weight-loss-help-must-reads#latest
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Those noodles look good. I bought some "glass noodles" which were recommended to me but I didn't realise there were different types. The ones I have are made from mung bean they have carbs and not much else.
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I didn't cut pasta at all. I do have mostly whole grain pasta, but not always. When i was losing weight, I kept the serving size to 2oz or so. (2.5oz now that I workout much more frequently.) I never drank soda, but I did cut basically anything with added sugar completely. I cut alcohol, for the most part. I try to go low sodium with most of what I eat.
I eat every 3.5-4 hours and don't have a time I stop eating at night.0 -
This site feels like im in this great science project sometimes. Luckily im just a spectator.
Anyway, if anyone can pass me the fitnesspal bible it would be great. Have not read it yet.
Sorry to hear you're missing out on the fun part - the science fair project.
Others have referred you to the bible - good thing, as I totally stink at religion. Science FTW though!
Carry on with whatever is delivering great results for you, even though you haven't chosen to share that magic on this thread.1 -
I still have an occasional soda, and eat pasta often. I don't believe anything is bad, it's all about moderation.0
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Less sweets, bread, cheese, and junk food. I cut drink calories pretty much completely though.0
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No soda or caloric drinks. I honestly don't eat bread or pasta on the regular but I also found a way of eating that I like and I can adhere to. Not eating pasta doesn't upset me, but you don't have to cut it out all together. I prefer to save calories to have it handmade and delicious....not out da box.
Meal timing doesn't matter. I eat IN bed at like 10pm.2 -
I don't buy or keep potatoes, pasta, or rice in my house and they are not on the grocery list.. However, if I am out and about I don't fret over indulging over a burger and fries or sushi... For the most part I cook and eat my meals at home which are usually a meat and veggie, or fruit and veggies, hard boiled egg etc for a snack..I save my high carb meals for on the go days and fast food
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Much less pasta, bread, ice cream, chips, & pizza.0
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Totally eliminated sodas and any sugar added drinks or foods. Still have some beer/wine and but only rarely - - like once or twice a month compared with 1-2 cans of beer and/or wine a day. Same applies to pasta and bread; only rarely eat the stuff now and I make sure that it fits w/in my calorie & macro count b4 I do.0
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I have always drank diet soda. I try to limit it to one a day (sometimes two). As for pasta I have cut it out almost entirely for me. I still cooks it for my sons.0
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Estefani_H wrote: »People who eat pasta and drank soda do you conpletely cut back? What all do you do? Thanks also what time is best to stop eating at night?
I pretty much stopped eating crackers. The calories were not worth it to me. I didn't really stop eating other foods just changed portion sizes.
I choose to drink mostly water or unsweetened tea. I like to save my calories for food.
You should stop eating when you go to sleep... or whenever you've used up your calories for the day. Timing doesn't really matter.0
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