Eating what you want and losing weight

This is funny. I have been formulating thoughts around explaining the addictive nature of junk food, and how my 4 year journey has finally gotten me to a place where I no longer desire it at all, in fact, quite the opposite; I am repulsed by most of it, and completely indifferent to the rest. I crave natural wholesome food now and make those choices every time when offered either or. But, it takes some explaining. This little Preamble doesn't really do it justice.

This is funny. I have been formulating thoughts around explaining the addictive nature of junk food, and how my 4 year journey has finally gotten me to a place where I no longer desire it at all, in fact, quite the opposite; I am repulsed by most of it, and completely indifferent to the rest. I crave natural wholesome food now and make those choices every time when offered either or. But, it takes some explaining. This little Preamble doesn't really do it justice.

When I was still living at home back in high school (more than a decade ago now), my dad was diagnosed with diabetes. All refined sugar basically disapeared from the house. My reaction: when it wasn't there and I wasn't eating it regularly I stopped craving it. I still don't like sweets much. Have I cut all sugar from my diet? Certainly not, but I also don't crave it like I did when it was readily available.

This is funny. I have been formulating thoughts around explaining the addictive nature of junk food, and how my 4 year journey has finally gotten me to a place where I no longer desire it at all, in fact, quite the opposite; I am repulsed by most of it, and completely indifferent to the rest. I crave natural wholesome food now and make those choices every time when offered either or. But, it takes some explaining. This little Preamble doesn't really do it justice.

When I was still living at home back in high school (more than a decade ago now), my dad was diagnosed with diabetes. All refined sugar basically disapeared from the house. My reaction: when it wasn't there and I wasn't eating it regularly I stopped craving it. I still don't like sweets much. Have I cut all sugar from my diet? Certainly not, but I also don't crave it like I did when it was readily available.

This. Maybe it's just because I don't eat sweets so much. Every once in a while I'll get a craving for a pastry or the obligatory once a month chocolate rush, but other then that, I'd rather have salty snacks.

I agree w/you Maverick...I love food sooooo much and am not too big on all the "healthy" stuff....with the help of MFP, I can get the right proportions and am still loosing weight....and I still eat pizza, burgers, etc! It's all about moderation...and by eating what I like, I don't feel like I'm really dieting! Good post buddy! :drinker:

This is very simple.
For mere weight loss with no concern for optimal health, eat whatever but create a deficit.
For peak fitness and to look good, feel great and live well, clean eating is best.
And that's lean meats, low fat dairy, nuts, whole grains, fresh fruits and veggies.
It's not rocket science.
I eat clean 75% of the time. That's as good as it gets, and it's a work in progress.
Life is to be lived :drinker:

I've read countless amounts of crap from people on this forum that just doesn't make sense, for example in order to lose weight you need to eat wholesome foods and NO junk food, to lose weight. But the truth is, you can eat what you want and lose weight - no, it's not ideal, you obviously need X amount of vitamins, protein etc, however anyone can lose weight eating what they want, as long as it's within their calorie allowance.

There is an interesting read on the link below, a scientist eats nothing but Twinkies and junk food for two months and, would you believe it, lost weight. He took tablets for his vitamins and what not, but it just goes to show that these "only eat wholesome to lose weight" preachers are people who fell off a bandwagon somewhere along the way.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

Moral of the story? You CAN eat junk food (although it should be in moderation IMO) and lose weight - please do not listen to these ney sayers who claim eating junk food will result in not losing weight.

MaverickUK2K,

While it may be true that you can eat whatever you want as long as you are expending more calories that you are taking in, you will never have a fit, healthy, good looking body if you do that. And I think you're chastising without realizing the reality of these forums and the people on them.

Most people equate losing weight with getting the body they want. They equate losing with getting healthy and getting fit and trim. You're upset because you think in literal terms only and you don't see what most people see.

The FACT is that HEALTHY, SUSTAINABLE WEIGHT LOSS can only be done eating healthy, wholesome foods. And even your twinkie-eating scientist has to admit to that one.

Oh btw, if all I ate was twinkies...even if it was only 1200 calories...I would blow up like a balloon. So perhaps they should have used a wide range of people for their little scientific test so it would be a real test and not a total, non-scientific, absolute fail. What that scientist did proved only that HE could lose weight eating that way. It proved NOTHING about the majority of the population.

Every morning I wake up and I smoke a cigarette. And for breakfast I eat five strips of bacon. And for lunch a bacon sandwich. And for a mid day snack...BACON. A WHOLE DAMN PLATE. and I usually drink my dinner. Now according to all those flat belly experts, I shoulda took a dirt nap 30 years ago! Just goes to show ya.

Every morning I wake up and I smoke a cigarette. And for breakfast I eat five strips of bacon. And for lunch a bacon sandwich. And for a mid day snack...BACON. A WHOLE DAMN PLATE. and I usually drink my dinner. Now according to all those flat belly experts, I shoulda took a dirt nap 30 years ago! Just goes to show ya.

Will you marry me?

I completely agree. I have lost about 30 pounds so far with portion control and moderation. This is the only thing that would work for me. Otherwise I wouldn't be successful for long at all.

Same with me. I'm like a toddler when it comes to food, you tell me I CAN'T have it and that just makes me want it more! So I just try to eat "healthier" and eat the junk food in moderation while counting calories.