michaeltoye

i'm 5'10" and 142 lbs and very happy and healthy where i am. stop when you feel you want to stop!

i have the same problem, but i organize my calories so i am actually full after my evening meal. then have a big glass of diet pepsi/coke and you'll be too full and quite content not to go for the sugary stuff.

definitely coke :D although, i am partial to diet pepsi now. ps, i drink a lot of water, but i can't give up the diet soda.

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Like many others I expect, I've given up the thoughtlessness and ignorance related to diet; eating what ever I wanted and whenever with no regard to nutritional value or quantity. An example saturday might be, breakfast: a couple of slices of toast with butter and peanut butter and a coffee with milk and sugar lunch: i…

Do we just have to manage these 'moments'? I know i have an addictive personality - the only way i keep the weight down is with whenever-i-want diet soda and black coffee.

I felt sick about 2 hours after too, but it just served to stop me eating anything else apart from water 0_0

You'll get used to it after a while, but I was the same and *had to factor in a square or 2 of dark 70% chocolate. It's like 80 calories a square, but if you have to have the sweet stuff...

Go by the books and the math; look up lists of low glycemic foods, low fat foods, lower cholesterol foods and figure out which ones you like. The bad foods you will now know about and can portion control these.

I lost my weight not eating breakfast. Of all the times in the day i wasn't thinking about food, it was before midday. The rest of the day I was *always some level of hungry, so the no breakfast allowed larger portions. metabolism be damned, the biggest battle is with the mind.

I disagree with the diet soda thing. I have 3 or 4 cans a day and i credit it with sating my sweet tooth and allowing me to lose nearly 70 pounds to a 30" waist. diet soda's not the problem for waistlines (other ailments, maybe), it's lack of food discipline! it totally works in a calorie controlled diet, just like…

If I can offer a small opinion, I would not so much worry about the last few pounds as to be comfortable with my *new lifestyle with regards to food. Maintain and get comfortable with the healthy diet and you'll be fine; those last pounds will gradually come off ;-)

When i eat pasta, I usually make enough for lunch and dinner. 200g of dry pasta (wholewheat) does me and that's 670 calories. I bulk that out with a tin of tuna, beans and several green vegetables and all in a home made tomato sauce - the whole things pads out to about 1300+ calories. I have a big appetite and don't feel…

I don't do exercise. I'm now thinking about it for general fitness, but for weight loss it never occurred to me. I kept to the healthy calories and still do.

nice portrait. casual mystique.

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Thank you all - very useful info :-)

You need to get your head out of the concept of requiring comfort food. Having a snack because you want one rather than reaching for boredom food is better. personally, i'd chop up 2 decent sized apples and munch on that. you won't be hungry after. drink a glass of water too.

This sounds delicious!

happens to me. i put it down to lack of fat in my diet - well there is fat obviously, but i don't eat as much as my body needs and it takes from my own fat reserves. hence losing weight. i'm willing to bet if you go out and eat a monster sized McDonalds, you'd be back to logs ;-)

i stuck to between 1200 and 1500 calories a day. i stopped eating meat during the week, by taste choice, not calorie choice. very little in the way of breads and pastas and alcohol. my only sugars came from fruit and dark chocolate ;-) so, lots of beans, green salad, prawns, eggs, couscous, rice cakes, peanut butter and…

you're lucky :) I have to plan to eat less to fit in the requisite chocolate at the end of the day :D

that's a big chicken ;-)

i have to say, i wouldn't be happy with some of the advice here. If there's one thing I have learned from weight loss, it's learning to love and look forward to smaller and/or healthier portions. Essentially, not to view a healthy diet as a gastronomic prison for what the heart/taste buds desire. eat what you like and go…

I avoid desserts too and just have known calorie amounts of sweet stuff when i get home. If everyone has a dessert, go for a skinny cappuccino :) I went to TGI Fridays last saturday and looked up the chocolate cake dessert my kids and partner ate - 700+ calories!

to eat the minimum, I'd steer clear of cheese, sauces and batter. where I don't know the calorie count, I would not have meat or pizza either. I would go for scallops and the grilled fish for main. fill up on vegetables. limit your alcohol.

I didn't do any exercise. I simply watched the calories numbers. i don't eat meat (by choice and quite happy about it too) during the week. lots of beans, fruit, salad, shrimp and fish, nuts. no processed food, not too much pasta or bread.

I bust my sugar carbs each day, but i still lost 50+ lbs and never gained weight whilst on my diet, so don't fret.

personally, i would get things like houmous or PB and some crisp breads or rice cakes. and apples.

Oddly enough, i love salad, beans, fruit, etc. But I do like to snack on rice cakes with peanut butter and marmite (english yeast spread). 2 rice cakes+20g of PB and 10g of marmite is like 160 cals.