cutting out certain foods

karliendewet1
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What foods ahould I cut out of my daily siet ?
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Weight loss is about calories. Pay attention to nutrition and have your fun/favourite foods too!11 -
Which ones would you prefer not to eat?5
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Personally, when cutting calories, I looked at what I was eating, decided what I wanted to eat for nutrition, satiety, and enjoyment, and that fit my calories, and noticed what was not contributing to these goals and cut it out. Not as in banning that food forever, but in terms of my daily diet. It was mostly foods I ate somewhat thoughtlessly from time to time, as well as things I ate in excess. (I enjoy cheese more eating it more sparingly, although still I eat it most days, I don't need as much olive oil as I was using, but I still use it, I don't really care about rice or most bread so mostly don't bother with it -- but have certainly not cut it out entirely -- and my servings of pasta and potatoes could easily be made smaller, things like that. I also cut out snacking which doesn't work well for me personally.)
You should look at your diet and apply your knowledge of yourself.2 -
Foods that you don't like, make you ill, or don't fit your goals12
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Cut foods? If anything, you should be adding foods! The food world is full of good things just waiting to be tried!8
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I didn't cut anything out but I have a lot less of certain foods now. I can't make 3 donuts fit my day anymore lol4
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Cut out foods that are not worth the calories to you...foods that you don't love, and are just "meh".
Anything that you really like, you can make fit into your calories goal. There's no reason to torture yourself. Maybe some of your favorites you won't want to eat as often, or in the quantity that you used to, but they don't need to be cut out.7 -
While I get what they are saying above, I cut out pop. Just wasn't worth the calorie hit to me. Still include beer/wine/alcohol, but with diet pop if it needs a mixer.
Cut down on a lot of things and am eating more veggies (the few I like).3 -
Depends if you are thinking of it as a diet or a lifestyle change. I cut out cow dairy and bread and lost 10 pounds. Diets will get you temporary results but if you really want to keep the weight off lifestyle changes will get and keep the results.0
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dragon_girl26 wrote: »Cut foods? If anything, you should be adding foods! The food world is full of good things just waiting to be tried!
All right, since I got a message from someone who misunderstood, I'll clarify my statement a bit here. I was trying to say to increase your variety of foods, not to increase the amount of food you're eating.4 -
Foods you don't like or those that don't fit your goals.3
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I've cut out walrus, kangaroo, grasshopper and sperm whale, but that's just a personal choice. YMMV.4
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I agree with whomever said you should decide whether this is a lifestyle change or a diet. Diets are temporary. Lifestyle changes are very long term or permanent.
I personally consider my fat loss journey to be a permanent lifestyle change so I personally don't cut anything out of my diet. I seriously restrict certain things that don't fit my calories or I feel neutral toward (have a cookie! What kind? Chocolate chip! No thank you)
I've *never* been successful with a restriction diet. I firmly believe restriction diets have their place - in a healthcare setting when trying to resolve an allergy or severe health problem.
My weight problem is simply that I ate too much. Eating less calories than I need will result in a reduction in fat. It's that simple.
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I focused more on what I could add and then made other adjustments as per whether or not the calories were really worth it. Ditching soda was an easy way to knock off about 420 - 840 calories per day which pretty much resulted in my deficit...beyond that, my diet just evolved nutritionally to be better over time.0
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Foods that you don't like, make you ill, or don't fit your goals
A personal example is that I cannot moderate my soda drinking habits, and cannot make it fit into my calorie budget. So I eliminated and avoid it.3 -
What I plan to do this week and going forward will be cutting out cookies and all chips daily! To replace I will start eating apples and /or raw baby carrots.
Drink more water and maybe only two zero cokes per day.1 -
Carrots and Quinoa, they are both despicable.3
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1. High calorie foods you don't love. That's easy.
2. Do you have trigger foods? Foods that you have to keep eating until it's gone? Cut those out for awhile until you develop new habits then see how you do when you introduce them.
3. Made room for something in your calories that left you hungrier than before you ate it? That may be a food that doesn't work well for you. It might be something that blows your daily allowance and isn't sustainable if you want to lose weight. Limit that.
4. Are you finding foods that make you feel gross, foggy, sick? This should be easy but we don't always treat ourselves the way we deserve. In these cases, I imagine that I am a small child. As an adult, would I give that to my child if I knew it would make them sick? Nope! This works when you start really respecting your body and self. Not always easy for those already struggling with weight loss but it gets easier the more you see yourself as someone of worth.
People say weight loss is strictly CICO. That's techically correct but we aren't robots. We're human beings and some foods make it hard for us to stay within a deficit for a variety of reasons. My best advice is don't be extreme and be kind to yourself. You won't get a medal for never eating a cookie again nor will you reach your goal weight if you decide that you will only have 1200 calories of cookies a day and nothing else. While it would technically be possible to do, no one is going to do that long term. It's all about learning to eat within your daily allowance, feeling good, and allowing mistakes without giving up.4 -
gearhead426hemi wrote: »Depends if you are thinking of it as a diet or a lifestyle change. I cut out cow dairy and bread and lost 10 pounds. Diets will get you temporary results but if you really want to keep the weight off lifestyle changes will get and keep the results.
Actually my diet got me to goal. It's been a few years too. You have a lot more leeway with maintenance cals so you most certainly don't need to cut things out for life; even if temporarily you don't eat 3 donuts after dinner with 5-700 extra calories you certainaly could at maintenance.
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Before eating I'd log a food and see how it fitted into my goals for daily macros, micros and overall calories and determine whether it would be worth it. No foods have been totally removed but some have been greatly reduced. For me I look at pizza and it is a no way, not worth it. I can make one at home which is a much healthier version for my goals. Chicken parmigiana however is very much a case of working around meals and extra exercise to make it fit as it is totally worth it.
I know this approach won't work for everyone as some would be more prone to binge eating and cravings as a result but for me it has done the opposite. Tell me that I can't eat something and I crave it so much more.
On the other side of the fence I have added so much more variety to my diet and am eating foods I never thought I would enjoy.1 -
Whatever you think isn't worth the calories.1
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1. High calorie foods you don't love. That's easy.
2. Do you have trigger foods? Foods that you have to keep eating until it's gone? Cut those out for awhile until you develop new habits then see how you do when you introduce them.
3. Made room for something in your calories that left you hungrier than before you ate it? That may be a food that doesn't work well for you. It might be something that blows your daily allowance and isn't sustainable if you want to lose weight. Limit that.
4. Are you finding foods that make you feel gross, foggy, sick? This should be easy but we don't always treat ourselves the way we deserve. In these cases, I imagine that I am a small child. As an adult, would I give that to my child if I knew it would make them sick? Nope! This works when you start really respecting your body and self. Not always easy for those already struggling with weight loss but it gets easier the more you see yourself as someone of worth.
People say weight loss is strictly CICO. That's techically correct but we aren't robots. We're human beings and some foods make it hard for us to stay within a deficit for a variety of reasons. My best advice is don't be extreme and be kind to yourself. You won't get a medal for never eating a cookie again nor will you reach your goal weight if you decide that you will only have 1200 calories of cookies a day and nothing else. While it would technically be possible to do, no one is going to do that long term. It's all about learning to eat within your daily allowance, feeling good, and allowing mistakes without giving up.
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I cut out foods mainly that were calorie bombs to my caloric goal. For instance, I don't regularly eat peanut butter anymore. I still have it as a treat occasionally, but if I eat it daily, it significantly decreases what I can eat throughout the day.
I cut out things like rice or noodles. Again, I might have it once in awhile, but not 3 times a week anymore. If I do have it, I need to adjust other places.
So, when I first start trying to lose weight and I'm at a deficit, those types of things are the first to go.0 -
Just the ones you don't like, or to which you are allergic.0
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Derf_Smeggle wrote: »Foods that you don't like, make you ill, or don't fit your goals
A personal example is that I cannot moderate my soda drinking habits, and cannot make it fit into my calorie budget. So I eliminated and avoid it.
Another vote for cutting out foods you cannot moderate.
For me this is foods that if I have one serving and put it away, it calls and calls to me and I suffer and white knuckle not having more or I give in and finish it. It's just not worth the torture or regret of having these foods in the house.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »Derf_Smeggle wrote: »Foods that you don't like, make you ill, or don't fit your goals
A personal example is that I cannot moderate my soda drinking habits, and cannot make it fit into my calorie budget. So I eliminated and avoid it.
Another vote for cutting out foods you cannot moderate.
For me this is foods that if I have one serving and put it away, it calls and calls to me and I suffer and white knuckle not having more or I give in and finish it. It's just not worth the torture or regret of having these foods in the house.
Yes, if there are foods like that, it's probably best not to have them in the house or office, if you can control that, or not to have them if they are around and you can't control the environment.
You may find, though, that there's no need to cut them out, but just don't have them at home. When I first started baked goods were the main thing I had trouble moderating (coffee cake, pie, stuff like that) and it was easy to not make them at home but if my friend made them for our book club meeting (for example), I'd have some. Or if it was a holiday I'd make pie and share it, so there'd be no real danger of having more than one piece (send it home with someone or leave it there if it wasn't my place).
It may well be that you don't have foods you cannot moderate, or can learn to moderate them. Right now I can't think of anything I couldn't have in my house and moderate (although I tend not to have many "junk food" type items anyway, since I just am not eating them that often now). There are foods I can't moderate well if I start eating them at work, but I cannot control that environment so focus on eating only planned meals. Point is that there are lots of strategies other than cutting things out, and often the things that are hardest to moderate ARE the ones you would miss if you never had them (sometimes not -- I can't moderate peanut M&Ms at work, but don't really care about having them).0 -
I have to cut out sweets completely. I know some people try to work them into their day, but for me they are just a trigger food, so I cut them out completely. And it sucks because there are a lot of sweets in my house.1
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