What ONE food would you recommend cutting out for weight loss?
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soda (not that it causes it directly, but that it can easily cause excess calories and thus, weight gain)0
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I didn't give up any foods this time, but I've been real serious on cutting down on woo
Success. Been maintaining my weight effortlessly for 2 1/2 years
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Peanut butter1
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I've cut out foods that weren't worth the calories, like crappy WalMart bakery items, etc. I try to stick to foods that are worth the "delicious points", AKA calories.6
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Sadness.carterbrent wrote: »Peanut butter
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Ready2Rock206 wrote: »Whatever food it is that puts you over your calorie goal.
Exactly what I was going to say.
OP I realized pretty quickly when I started on MFP that if I started cutting things out completely, it would be unsustainable and I would not stick with it - I think many people have this same experience.
Rather than cutting things out, I decided to commit to adding things to my lifestyle - more protein, more vegetables, more whole grains, more exercise, more sleep. By doing that, and logging accurately with a reasonable deficit, I found that the things I wanted to include naturally took precedent in my diet, and things like wine, ice cream, and pizza that I wanted to still enjoy, I had room for, but not as often, and/or not in as large of quantities.
I lost 35 lbs and never cut a thing, other than calories.7 -
I eat everything in moderation and lost 20+ lbs so far.1
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rose_lemonade wrote: »
Not fat loss, but you would see a scale drop due to less water retention.
Plus sometimes the salty foods are the calorie dense ones...
Water retention is temporary.2 -
rose_lemonade wrote: »
Not fat loss, but you would see a scale drop due to less water retention.
Plus sometimes the salty foods are the calorie dense ones...
But sodium is also something that can add flavor to lower calorie foods and make a deficit easier to maintain. Think of sprinkling a bit of soy sauce on steamed broccoli or adding a bit of salt to roasted vegetables. Eliminating sodium would result in a much less palatable diet for many people.
The average dieter will likely have better results by using sodium strategically instead of eliminating it completely.8 -
Woo.11
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Right now I am gluten free and vegetarian. So I would say bread. It really keeps the weight on for me. Everyone is different though.4
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I haven't cut anything out but not having lots of calorific things to snack on in the house has helped immensely.2
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Regarding your friend's mom's weight loss, she didn't lose weight because she cut out butter. She lost weight because she cut out the calories and didn't replace them with calories from another source.
Understand, that it was the reduction in calories that caused the weight loss, not the fact that those calories were in the form of butter. Does that make sense? I only mention this because we sometimes confuse calorie reduction with the idea that certain foods are "bad". It's a bit of a nuance, but it's a very important one to remember.
I'm not sure I'm explaining this very well, and I'm truly not trying to be snarky so I hope it doesn't come off that way. I've just seen a lot of people get distracted by the idea that cutting out certain "bad" foods is the way to weight loss and miss the only real cause of weight loss which is to east fewer calories than you burn off.7 -
The three white poisons....Sugar, Flour, and Salt..Food item would be Pizza..Calories there are crazy34
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Lard?1
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DaveMurphy6 wrote: »The three white poisons....Sugar, Flour, and Salt..Food item would be Pizza..Calories there are crazy
Oh good lord. Poison? Seriously? This kind of food demonization is what is incredibly unhelpful to so many people confused about long term sustainable weight loss.
I have pizza weekly with my family. Even when I get the calorie dense sausage/pepperoni pizza from Dominos that my kids often want to order, it is less than 300 cals/slice. I can have two slices, and a salad, and a couple of beers and not exceed my calories for the day.18 -
All-you-can-eat buffets. As it turns out, I can eat an awful lot.
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Cutting out most drinks that aren't water or tea helps massively. Cordials and fizzy drinks are full of empty calories and a lot of sugar, as are fruit juices. Alcohol is another. I'd also say watch out if you add sugar to tea or coffee (I used to drink 5-6 cups of tea a day each with 2 sugars, I now drink 2 cups with only 1 sugar. That's 10 tsps of sugar a day I've cut out just by changing my tea consumption).3
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DaveMurphy6 wrote: »The three white poisons....Sugar, Flour, and Salt..Food item would be Pizza..Calories there are crazy
Please. Check this out and educate yourself. https://www.dominos.com/en/pages/content/nutritional/cal-o-meter.jsp
I can have a quarter of a small Domino's pizza with pepperoni for 230 calories.
Some pizza does have a ton of calories. Others don't.
(Not even touching the "white poisons" thing because it's Friday and I am practicing some self-care).
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I haven't cut out anything, but I have reduced the portions. Certain things I don't eat because they are too calorie dense or just not worth it...ex. nuts. Honestly nuts are not worth the cals for me so I stopped buying and snacking on them.7
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