I want to change my eating habit but don't want to feel like

I eat everything that I have always eaten, but now I look at serving sizes and calories, I work my day around my biggest meal, so if I am having a big dinner, I log it first thing in the morning and then eat breakfast and lunch around that. I try to keep my breakfast at 150 calories and lunch under 250 calories. This is what has helped me. Good luck to you I hope you find something that works for you

Just don't think of it as a diet. Tracking your food gets easier once you start to become more aware of what (and how much) you're eating. It gets easier to adjust it and then.....YOUR STOMACH SHRINKS.....so you start to adjust to smaller portions. Just hang in there, keep tracking, keep working out and build on it. After about 6 weeks I've been able to get a handle on the tracking and I've upped my workout regime weekly to 2 more times. I know that will take my body and mind a few weeks to adjust and see more results. Be strong sister! You can do it.

For me its all about portion control. I still eat what I want, I just measure and log. If you take a look at my diary I don't think it looks like I'm on a "diet" at all, but its working! Good luck, you can do it!

what was your breakfast
mine is often cereal fruit and yog
I change my cereal to one with more fibre and less cals (really filling) I changed my fruit - banana or pineapple to red berries much lower in carbs and cals
and I changed my yog to the same make fat free I lost nearly 200 cals with those changes

I stared with an iPod touch keeping track of calories and exercise and now I have an android phone that now has a scanner on it. I keep track at each meal. Most days I plan ahead, especially if there is one meal I will eat out, I will check the restaurant website for nutrition to find out what is best to eat. Typing in your food before you eat is ok, it is great to know ahead how many calories you will be eating and if there is too many carbs or sodium.

I agree with all who have mentioned it is a new way of life, not just a diet.

Have to agree, have to change the way you eat, not "diet". Once you clear out the stuff that really gets you in trouble and buy stuff that is filling but less calories it starts to come together. After logging for a few days and looking at the forums I realized that I wasn't eating enough protein so up went the protein and down went the carbs to the RDA. Do some reading on here, there are a lot of what I would consider "personal" approaches but also a lot of good scientifically based opinions. So, keep learning and figure out what will work for you. Ask questions in the right forum and pretty soon a picture will emerge that is yours alone.

I agree with the comments above. For me, protein in the morning is a BIG thing. I have 2-3 eggs with 2-3 slices of bacon. Protein will always keep you fuller longer than carbohydrates. I can go with no snack between breakfast and lunch staying full on protein.

I have made NUMEROUS changes in our snacks. Ice cream is now frozen yogurt. Potato chips are now pretzels. Candy bars are now Fiber One bars/brownies I have a snack box that I take and get snacks size ziploc bags and I will buy treats for the week which include the above as well as reduced fat wheat thins, nuts and other low calorie items. I bag them each according to serving size. This is beneficial to me in that when I have a sudden urge for a snack, I can go right to the snack box and know that my snack is already packaged just right and I am good. It helps alot because I am on the go alot as well.

All my life I have been a big meat eater. I have reduced my red meat intake significantly. I actually prefer chicken and turkey over beef now. There are so many meals you can make with chicken! Steamers are wonderufl and low cal and you can actually make a meal of them.

It is AMAZING to be familiar with calories now. I can tell you based on what I eat now that I was easily consuming over 3000 calories a day before making this change. As the earlier post mentions, you STOMACH SHRINKS! At first your body may feel hungry because your stomach is a lot larger having been used to greater consumption. What you will find is that after about a week, you now may find you are not able or feel the need to eat all of your calories because your stomach is shrinking.

As earlier posts suggest, eat what you normally do, just reduce the amount of it. Cut out the burger joints or limit them to once a month as a treat. Subtle changes can make the biggest difference. Good luck to you in your journey.

The thing I found that worked for me is eat SLOWLY... be constantly in tune with your body, its signals... Don't eat until you are full, eat until you aren't hungry.

If you don't want to feel like you are on a diet you have to eat and do what is natural.

For most of us, while waiting hours and hours between meals will slow your metabolism...I really believe being fanatical about eating every 3 hours can cause stress on the mind as well and make you feel like you are on a diet..."I'm on a diet, I have to eat my snack, I last ate three hours ago." I pay attention to my hunger cues and eat based on when I am hungry...Sometimes its an hour after a meal, sometimes its 4-5 hours...The body is an amazing thing...Think back to our ancestors when they had times of famine and no food. Their body adapted...So, one of the first things to not feel like you are on a diet is to pay attention and eat when hungry and pay a little less attention to the clock.

Then focus on eating cleaner, non-processed foods. The more you do this, the more nutrients you will feed your body, the less your blood sugar will spike, the less hunger pangs you will have (from cutting out processed, high carb, high sugar foods). You will feel more stable throughout the day, less like you are on a "diet" and like you are tempted to eat junk....It's not food, its junk you are saying "no" to, fill your body with nutrient rich food.

You need to change 1 or 2 things at a time every few weeks...So it becomes a natural part of your routine...Then it won't be so drastic and the weight will start to come off.

I really believe that nutrition is 80% of weight/fat loss and exercise is 20%. If you eat a ton but exercise a ton...but still eat a ton...You will way a ton (or the scale at least won't budge).

Small changes! And consistency. Its what you do MOST of the time, not SOME of the time that causes change.

For me, my mindset changed to wanting to eat healthy due to some bloodwork that could have been better. I was diagnosed as "prediabetic", I had high blood pressure, and my cholesterol was borderline high--as well as being obese. All of these things are linked to obesity. Now, for me, this reality check made me realize that I could control my eating now----or I could put it off and still have to change my eating, but would have medication schedules and blood sugar testing and taking insulin control the rest of my life.

I am currently testing my bloodsugar twice a day--when I first started it was 4 times a day. Just imagine having to test 2 hours after every meal--no matter what you were doing--no matter where you are. I think for me, I wanted to get control back into my life---and I am getting it.

As for eating, I have not deprived myself at all. I just read labels before buying and get the healthier options and give them a try. Those I have tried have been just as good, if not better than what I was eating originally.

Twelve weeks in, I feel so much better. My energy level is skyrocketing. My confidence is way up, and the best thing is the scale is going down. I noticed that I have not had any problems with my allergies and asthma either due to my lungs being stronger for all of the cardio that I have done.

I will have bloodwork done again in about a month. By that time, my goal is to see my bloodsugar back to normal and my cholesterol back to normal instead of borderline.

Trust me, I know this is a daunting task, but it is well worth it. I know you can do it--because I am doing it now.

Good luck! You can do anything you set your mind to do. Just look at everything you have to gain by making the healthy changes--even if it is a little at a time.