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

Chips. Before I know it the entire bag is gone. Also alcohol. Each shot is right around 100 calories and when I drink I'm definitely drinking more than 1 shot. It adds up and then I crave fast food.

I haven't cut out anything but there are things I am avoiding because they are too calorie-dense. For example, I thought about making cream biscuits for breakfast as I have in the past.

I started to input the flour and cream and the butter that would go on them and quickly got over a thousand calories for breakfast. Never mind. Did I flop to the other extreme and have a bowl of Special K with skim milk? Shudder.

No!!! I had a couple scrambled eggs made with cream and smoked cheddar. Still a decadent breakfast but less than half the calories of the biscuits and, because the the increase of protein over starch, more satisfying.

Only the one you cannot eat in smaller amounts. Otherwise none. For me that's a bag of crisps that I cannot get in small packs. That elimiates all the sweet chili chrisps that I love, but I can still get Mackies Haggis & Black Pepper, which are delicious! And Kinder chocolate would need to go as I can only get an 8-pack, and it would certainly go in one go.

Alcohol. But I was a heavy drinker. And on top of the alcohol calories, I would binge eat when drunk. I'd just rather not drink.

I cut out foods I didn't like much and never looked back. No point in spending calories on meh foods.

wow about 80% of what i used to eat coz it was making me fat. im now trying to not use butter because i'd rather use the calories in something more filling. i chose to stop the fat food which is so delicious but that was too many calories, so i make my own food 90% of the time.

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Sodium!

Wow really? I know it's bad for your heart and stuff but didn't realise it made a difference with fat loss.

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.

someone said something that made sense. if you must have salt on food to make it palatable, then sprinkle it on the food just before you are about to eat it. that way you get the most taste. but if you add it while cooking you wont taste as much.. so the theory is that if you sprinkle a tiny bit just when you are about to eat it, you can get by with a little, however, that said, im having a problem with sodium and im trying to eliminate it.

For me personally, cheese. O, cheese, I do so love thee! I tend not to buy good cheese because I can sit down and sliver away at an entire portion until it is gone in one sitting. I keep lots of low fat mozz on hand, though, because small amounts give me a melty cheese fix, but it is too dreadful to just sit down and eat.

I cut out sodas, but that would never have been enough to actually lose weight.

I'm vegan now and have reached my goal weight and am pretty consistent