You don't have to diet.

My diary is open, take a gander! No food is off limits for me except okra.

queenliz99 wrote: »

My diary is open, take a gander! No food is off limits for me except okra.

Have you ever had fried okra? My mom grows okra in her garden every year and she tosses it in cornmeal and fries it until it is crispy. That stuff is the food of the gods!

I'm not that way. My problem has always been eating appropriate portion sizes. Each of my meals could easily be more than double a true appropriate portion size. Learning to eat less is my challenge

I was like that too @wizzybeth. I actually go by portion sizes more than I go by calories. It all ends up being the same thing, but mentally it helps me know what my meal size is and stay portioned. If I didn't log my food into MFP, I would honestly have no idea how many calories I eat. I go more by 4-6oz protein, 1/2-3/4 cup carb, 1 tbsp healthy fat, veggies, etc. I do log it to have an idea, but I can both visually and mentally wrap my head around a realistic meal size now. I do weigh and measure all my food, but it's to the point now where I can eye it and guess to the ounce what it's going to be. Doing it that way helped me a lot!

I eat whatever I want including junk food on a daily basis. I just make sure to keep my calories in check. Yesterday I ate half of a large pizza for lunch.

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Sara1791 wrote: »

dietcepheus wrote: »

From what Google is telling me, this is simply a plan of intermittent fasting and calorie restriction with meal replacement shakes. That's a diet.

yes, & it sounds like a sales pitch

Seen a few suspicious posts on here. Yesterday there was three posts about one plan/routine in a row.

Diet to me means something temporary, and that once I get to a goal, I dont eat that way anymore - and thats how I got really heavy.

Now with MFP, I eat everything I want, no restrictions, as long as it fits into my calorie budget. There is no end in sight for this way of eating and thinking, as I am building new eating habits that promote my health and a lower weight, something I aspire to for the remainder of my days.

It can be called re balancing, re thinking, re tooling, re markable and re sounding success!! And its free! And I can do it naked! (No, dont dwell on that) At all times of the day or night!

I am so grateful that I found this MFP resource - it has literally changed my life as I have lost over 100lbs (108lbs actually, as of today) and given me a new lease on life.

Also eating fewer calories than maintenance.

I think it makes sense to call doing that a diet, but if the word upsets you, OP, don't use it.

Is this more of that detox/cleanse or isagenix stuff?

staceykmatsuoka wrote: »

I've joined a nutritional rebalancing program and created a healthy relationship with food. Diets fail because they're restrictive. If I know I can't have something, it makes me want it even more. Anyone else that way? Now, I can have my cake and eat it too! All while staying healthy and maintaining a normal BMI!

and this isn't a diet why?

I'm not saying this is the program the OP is doing since she hasn't said, but the only time I have heard of a program called a "nutritional rebalancing program" was a program where you were supposed to get your hair tested and then a program designed around the results.

My niece actually sent me a link and asked me if I thought it was a good program for her. I asked her to decipher exactly what the intro to the program really meant. The intro page read (and I'm not kidding):

" Nutritional balancing is a sophisticated, integrated system for healing the body at a very deep level. It is about 45 years old, and it uses principles from both ancient and modern healing arts to drastically increase the vitality level of the body.
It employs modern theories such as the stress theory of disease, metabolic typing, cybernetics, holography, fractal mathematics, chaos theory, biological transmutation of the elements, and other physics and engineering concepts. These are combined with up-to-date Western medical physiology and biochemistry."

I'm still not sure what fractal mathematics and chaos theory have to do with weight loss. Of course the niece got told this was a bunch of junk.