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Diet Dr Pepper is a zero calorie product, isn’t it?

That would indicate your issue is somewhere else. Switching to water isn’t a bad thing, but won’t make a dent.

Why not go back to Tuesday or Wednesday and enter what you can remember that you are those days? No only will you gain valuable practice recording to your diary, but it will be eye opening.

When I did that, I realized I was eating many many times the calories I needed just to maintain at my then-current, obese weight. It was eye opening.

It also gave me insight into where the calories were going. I’d never paid a bit of attention to them before. Realizing that that family size bag of M&Ms I’d mindlessly scarfed while reading a book was more than my entire daily allotment was a shock, embarrassing, guilt provoking, you name it.

You really don’t need to buy “special” groceries. Just eat less of the ones you do have.

I did what most people do the “first day”. I went through and purged everything in pantry, fridge and freezer that I perceived as “bad”. I’ve learned a lot since then and reintroduced many of them, ditched others, and added many new ones.

Get yourself a scale, weigh every morsel, and record them honestly

Jenniferkcooper3 wrote: »

@springlering62 i bought a smart scale that’s syncs with my phone. I can’t remember what all I ate but I know what you mean with the just snacking on something and bam a lot of calories ( probably one of my problems) also right before Christmas toms of patients where I work brought me and my employees TONS of snacks and desserts. We ate on them all day.

Well the good news is (and although this sounds crazy, it is well proven) when you eat a bunch of food at once, your weight shoots you the next day, but it’s water weight, retained due to the extra carbs. It’ll usually fall off within the week.

I put on ten pounds over the holidays, and six or seven has already dropped since Christmas without even cutting calories below my usual goal.

That’s something you need to remember on this path, and often causes people to quit in frustration.

You may eat a pound of pizza on an unintended plan, but that three or four extra pounds that shows up on the scale the next day is just water. You’ll wee it out quickly.

In no law of physics does a pound of anything equate to four pounds permanently gained.