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For dieting, I always keep my fridge and kitchen counter top stocked up with eggs, bread, cheese, salad, various nuts, dried fruits, coffee, tea... For non dieting meals, I practically shop for anything I find interesting.

Hmm...I intentionally eat like that so I can avoid counting calories, saying no to events and eating out, good dishes, moderation hung up, on and on...

Re the bold part.. Are you talking about for dieting/losing weight? And/or on philosophical and biological basis? For me it's unnecessary to eat just enough to extinguish the sense of hunger. Depending on one's eating management strategy, a person can eat until he feels very full and happy. Eating can also be for pleasure,…

Re-examine your approach, refine it if necessary. See where the difficulties are. As far as weight management goes, there's no difficulty that one cannot address. You are not dealing with anything unknown or unproven! Good luck.

Most of the time I don't feel the kind of hunger that you describe (annoying and you must eat). If that rare hunger feeling occurs, a simple sandwich + a drink will easily solve it. (I think a big problem with overweighters is they do not stop there. They would (unnecessarily) eat more than a sandwich until they would feel…

I'm not sure if I'm eating healthy. I eat grilled pork, boiled vegetable, white, brown rice, noodle, fried fish, etc. I have retrained my body, my perspective on eating that I no longer feel uncomfortably hungry. I eat strategically and enough when I need to. I do feel empty if I haven't eaten in 8-10 hours. Obviously I…

Benihana is so expensive! I don't think I can go wild with ordering :) :)

It's not a matter of motivation for me. It's just a little work on curbing cravings. Like right now I'm having the worst craving as far as I can remember. LOL. I'm feeling physically fine though.

Use a different browser, hopefully one can display the image of 3 deadpan points.

Interesting. If I'm happy with my current situation I would find no reason to change.

You have a very narrow point of view. It is possible, just like we have accepted and be happy with the salaries, spouses, houses, etc we could find.

Oh I just realized there's one year gap in your postings. LOL. Anyway, my question is still valid as you are "still debating whether or not to lose a few more", does that mean that you continue to see performance improvement as your weight gets lighter? (I'm debating whether to drop additional 5 lbs. I'm worrying that at…

OP, have you been noticing any difference in your cycling performance as you got to different weights? I figure that getting into normal bmi is one measurement. The next "credible" measurement is to look at one's energy level. That's what I'm trying to do at this time. Congrats on your weight loss, btw.

I notice I tend to like your posts. You're among those who usually make good points :) OP, eat your free catered lunches and save money and time. It's quite difficult to eat one meal like the rest of the people around you do, that will cover the next 2 meals. You can eat light or skip dinner and use the free time for other…

Whatever you call it, cheat or not, just semantics. It's all about managing your eating behaviors, calories. However you eat, planned, unplanned, big, small, if everything is generally accounted for, you are good.

I have some idea on the calorie range of my foods but I find that it's not important to me. I could carve an 900 cal dinner for 4 nights and then what do I do on the other days that we visit the buffet or a family pot luck? So I scrape the whole idea of counting and knowing. Eat well on good opportunities and eat light on…

You know when you have to use "everyone" in your argument, you're scrapping the barrel. :) This begins to look like a straw man argument now.

If you care to follow my previous posts, I have addressed every single point you mentioned here. But here goes again: I do not think anything right or wrong. However, I do consider effectiveness, and when I shared my approach it was mainly to reply to the OP or those who were looking for something better than weighing. The…

Yes, I exercise voluntarily like most people. Specifically I play competitive sport and I can burn loads. It's not hard for me to coordinate. I have figured out the patterns (ie listen well) of my body. I create and refine my approach which adheres to my lifestyle and philosophy. I take advantage of my traits (ocd,…

It's frighteningly simple. When I eat, I truly eat, enjoyably, satiately and when I "don't" eat, I eat light, mainly for nutrition. I call the latter phase "tuning out eating". Obviously I put health first. I don't eat too much or too little to the point that makes me feel sick. Because I do both "phases" out of desires,…

OK, I did assume that you probably differ with me, which you had been doing along. Let's move on between us.

Good and sensible post, Etsar. However, I notice that you omitted (or unaware of) the possibility that some people maybe are naturally good at budgeting in the first place; or they have developed the skill at some point. Or some other skills that you and I do not know about.

You jump in out of nowhere .. .and think your post adds much value and logic to the debate? For those who are genuinely interested, what I was debating with jane about was I liken her claim that she knows the not weighing approach but "it didn't work well" (her words) for her to something like..someone who said she knows…

Haha...short and direct, but I like it. Good to know all sides. OP, I logged fine (in first 2 months). It's easy (within certain confinement). No ahh ha moments. However, gradually I ran into "uh oh" moments a lot. My friends and I ate out at small restaurants a lot. Even when I ate out alone I got conscious about how many…

jane, I'm not going to refute every off track analogy you brought up. The more we discuss, the more chances for jerks and detractors to chime in with irrelevant stuffs, name calling, etc. It's sad that we can't discuss objectively. I stand by my logic that when you said you have tried the not weighing approach and it…

jane, I liken a travel guide's inability/inefficiency to only that logic statement of yours where you said you know the "not weighing" approach but it didn't work so well. Just that logic of yours. It gets confusing when someone else starts thinking map, scale, negative emotion, etc.

Comon, you're mudding the debate :) That's not what we were talking about at all.

Frankly I don't think it's anything negative if it opens some people's eyes. In fact there are people who were wondering if they have to do weighing long term. You happen to not like what I write, a fact, so you see it as condescending. I already pointed out in previous post that it comes down to personality as how one…

Look at the logic of your statement "I've tried not weighing, it didn't work well for me. " That's like, a travel guide saying I know the city, and then he gets in detours, delays, etc. but eventually gets you to your destination whereas other guides get their tourists to their destination expeditely. That's like, a new…

In my book, that means you don't know not weighing. But enough debating like this. If you don't understand my logic above, I doubt any more debating would help.