What diet tips work for you? Let's share

I love chocolate so Halloween and Valentine’s Day with their individual small bite sized candy packagings are a huge help to me. I stock my house and have one per day. I know this is not true of everybody but find it easy to stop at the one piece when it’s a separate container . When there’s nothing like that in the house I’m very unhappy.

Understanding that having a few hunger pangs every now and then is not a sign that I would starve, and that soda water is all that I need in between meals.

Not eating unless you are sitting down to a table and "dining". No tasting, crumbs, bits, bites.

Cook just as much as you need. If you deliberately cook extra, serve it up into its storage container as you plate the rest of the foot.

Oh, yeah, about that. No serving bowls on the table. Plate up the food in its portions in the kitchen. They sell portioning scoops. Use them, especially for messy things that are easy to scoop extra of.

Tidy up before the plates go out. It's hard to come back to wipe out the sauce with bread if the skillet already went into the sink to soak.

Go to bed on time. Otherwise you wind up staying up past your dinner and getting hungry.

jhanleybrown wrote: »

I *hate* my diet tip:
Cut alcohol completely.

Using MFP data...if I have even one glass of wine I then over 80% of the time blow the day on snacks even if I eat healthily and within target the rest of the day.

I'm 2/3 to goal since September.

I have given myself breaks from zero alcohol (Thanksgiving, Christmas, NFL playoffs.) So I'm not overly dogmatic about it.

But I struggle to make progress without doing this and vice versa. But its the snack calories - not the actual alcohol cals - that do me in when I have even small amounts of alcohol.

Looking forward to hitting goal and having a few glasses of wine.

When the snack attack hits, hit the road, go for a walk even if it is around the office or house. Get busy, clean something, the gutters, the bathtub, fireplace. If possible, don't keep snacks handy, not in the desk or in the house (again, if possible). Drink...water. You are so close to getting to goal. You CAN do this.
Remember WHY you are doing this. Stay focused-stay strong.

I've been trying to get a good balance of carbs, fats, and proteins each time I eat. I'm working to increase my fiber and water intake, as well. I've also been eating smaller meals with healthy snacks in between so I don't get too hungry. And I've been trying to eat a variety of foods so I don't get bored.

For me, not necessarily for others:

Don't do anything to lose weight that I wasn't willing to do permanently, to stay at a healthy weight, except for a moderate calorie deficit. Treat the weight loss process as a time to experiment & learn what's sustainable: Weight loss is maintenance practice.

Personally, because I'm a hedonistic and impulsive person, I calorie bank in maintenance: Eat a little under maintenance most days, to eat over maintenance now and then. During weight loss, I could eat a little under goal to "save up" for a planned special occasion within the next few days, but it was generally a big mistake to try to cut back after an unplanned special occasion in order to "make up for it" afterward (so I learned to just let it go, and get right back on my normal routine).