What ONE food would you recommend cutting out for weight loss?

Things that don't help me meet my nutritional and calorie goals . . . unless I'm already in good order to get my target minimum amounts of protein, healthy fat and fruit/veggies for the day/week and still have calories available. At that point, any tasty food or drink is fair game. So, specifically, what to "cut out" varies day by day.

FTW: I get as much of my nutrition as I can eating things I think are delicious and desirable, too. Also filling.

For myself, giving up soda, fast food, and stuff like sweet bakery goods made the big difference for me. I haven't given up the food/drink I truly love, like wine, light beer, chocolate, pasta, and cheese. I just have scaled back the amount I eat & drink on a 1200 calorie diet.

I've cut soda with sugar.

Everyone is different but since i started my weightlose journey, I no longer eat pork, beef fried foods, chips, rice,salt or pasta. I lost 27lbs so far and its coming off fast.I also drink only water unless im treating myself to a glass of wine

I'm just beginning to take away and replace with clean food... for me I'm taking away alcohol (I love beer & red wine) bread, chips & ice cream...all packed with tons of sugar and empty calories..I"ll let you know...those are my 4 weaknesses...I'm on my 3rd day and not too bad so far....

I'm with most of the other posters on this one in that it's not absolutely necessary to eliminate things from your diet; just eat smaller portions.

that being said, we all have weakness foods and things that should be enjoyed a lot more rarely than we do today! So if you find a calorie dense food that you have trouble keeping in an appropriate portion size, try eliminating that for a while until you get the hang of it.

I cut way back on added sugar, though since MFP adds all sugar no matter the source together, I routinely go well over the 24g added limit recommended by the diabetes association. I didn't realize how much added sugar I was getting in a day!

As others have said, a good place to start limiting or cutting is beverages. Drinking your calories doesn't give you the same fullness because you don't have the fiber to help satiate you. Also, the sugar in sugary drinks (including fruit juices) hits your blood stream a lot faster than it does in a whole food item such as an apple.

I've had to quit keeping packaged cookies or chips in my house because I can't stop myself at a portion size; I want to munch. I've switch to whole grain pastas, though I don't eat as much, because the whole grain is healthier and helps me full fuller faster than the white does. I've severely curtailed my dairy intake, but that's because I've found I have "plumbing issues" when I get too much dairy. I've started actively portioning out my meat and try to get more fatty fish and vegetables in my diet.


As for the friend who lost a dress size cutting out butter, while she may truly believe that was the reason, I'd say there was something else that changed in her diet or exercise plan - either she was unknowingly limiting the calories she was eating a day, or she upped her exercise and began burning more calories - or she had a serious and bad butter habit!

This has been true for my sister. She read somewhere that a daily glass of lemon water will help you lose weight, so she's been drinking a glass a day for a month and swears that it's working. What I've pointed out to her is that the lemon water had nothing to do with it; she also quit drinking pop and sugar drinks at the same time, and that's what has led to the weight loss. Sadly, she won't believe me.......

First I agree that the food you need to cut out is the one that takes you over your limit.

I think macro's are more important than a specific food. If you eat a ton of sugar your carbs are going to be way too high, just like if you eat butter by the cup your fat content is going to be high. Not saying Keto is bad just you need to eat to your macros whatever they are. Mine are 30/30/40 carb/fat/protein and I feel better like this than either higher fat or carb. Higher protein isn't bad for me, it's just more difficult to hit with the foods I like.

Courtney_Pagh wrote: »

Processed food. Most experts agree that processed food is awful for our health & it's very inflammatory to the majority of people.

Our gut health is a huge culprit in America's obesity epidemic. If you're at all interested, I highly recommend you check out Chalene Johnson's (free) podcast, The Chalene Show - she talks a lot about the issue & it's very educational. http://www.chalenejohnson.com/podcasts/dr-zach-bush-on-metabolism-chronic-health-issues-and-gut-health/

Thing is I lost a lot of weight and improved all my health markers while eating all sorts of 'processed' foods, just in the correct calorie amounts for my weight management goals. We're talking fast food several times a week, HFCS/sugary stuff, Lean Cuisines, 100 calorie snack packs, artificial sweetener etc etc. Lost the weight and had pretty fantastic blood work results. Go figure.

Sadly, peanut butter. I used to take a spoon out of the jar when I got hungry and didn't feel like preparing anything to eat. I learned I have no control because one spoon would turn into 2 or 3. Before you know it half the jar is gone. I've learned not to even start. I can make sandwiches for the kids but I had to stop licking the spoon. LOL!

I'm also trying to cut back on pasta. Not because eww carbs are bad, but I tend to overeat pasta.

In general, I don't believe in cutting out, just cutting back. Except for peanut butter. Seriously, I have a problem.

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rose_lemonade wrote: »

almostfifty2014 wrote: »

Sugar for sure! I challenged myself to go sugar free and I didn't change anything else about my diet and I dropped weight quickly! I also felt a lot better for not having any sugar. I wasn't obsessive about it, just obvious sugar items.

I'm thinking about cutting sugar (and alcohol obvs) for a week or two and seeing how I feel. It'll be hard as I do have a sweet tooth but I'm hoping it'll help reduce my cravings long term.

I drastically reduced the amount of baked goods I ate but eat more fruit, which satisfy my sweet tooth for far less calories.

Getting sufficient sleep, protein, and exercise helps me with cravings as well.

I cut out regular soda when I discovered how many calories it had.