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Originally Posted by jw372  ... I'm always impressed at anyone who counts calories, since I'm completely incapable... |
I lost weight for ages without counting
calories, but when I decided I really wanted to, I found my little pocket Calorie Counter book to be the most useful way to deal with it. It might be different for people who live in America though, because there is a lot of online stuff specific to the food available there.
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Originally Posted by jw372 ...
I decided that my hot drinks were stealing too many calories. I'm not giving them up, but I am trying to find ways to reduce the sugar content, which is the biggest problem with these drinks. So last night, instead of cocoa, I made ginger milk, which didn't need much sugar to taste good. This morning, I violently tweaked my coffee to have more milk and way less sugar. Hopefully this will help me with seeing results faster. I'm sure I'll still have the occasional cup of cocoa—but less often.
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Nice move at controlling the hot drinks. If you have a lot of them, maybe you can pull back the amount of sweetness you use a little at a time - it sure makes it easier if you can get to the stage of disliking the sweet taste instead of seeking it. Not that you should
just that it might be an option. When the weather's cold and I want a lot of hot drinks I like to have green tea, because it's gentler on my tummy than coffee, and quite a mild flavour so it doesn't bother me to have it by itself.
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Originally Posted by jw372 ...
I feel, like, twenty times better about my eating today than yesterday. Everything I made was so tasty, and I got in loads of fruit and veggies. The awesomest thing, though? During dinner, after eating about half my chicken and all my squash stuff, I realized I didn't want any more. So, despite the undeniable tastiness of my chicken and dipping sauce, I STOPPED. And I put away the rest of that chicken to eat tomorrow. Will probably go fantastically well in a wrap with a heap of romaine.
Also, the chocolate? Was one of the most heavenly things I've ever had in my mouth. Sweets taste so fricking much better since I stopped eating them all day long.... |
Doesn't everything taste so much better now that you're adjusting to less sweet food? Isn't that such a great bonus we get with this change!!
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Originally Posted by jw372 Heather, that's so awesome to feel like your plan is really working and doable and like it isn't nearly as hard as you thought it would be! I think we started this at around the same time, and I'm feeling similarly. I still get scared sometimes--I think, "Will I never be able to eat 'normally' again?" But then when I think about it, it wasn't my "normal" eating that was getting me in trouble, it was my binging. And as long as I have good, healthy snacks around me, I'm just as happy to put those in my mouth instead. Sure, at times I'll have splurge meals, but not too often. The habits I'm afraid of losing aren't the ones that made me happy, they're the ones that didn't--the compulsiveness and eating even of food I didn't particularly like. It's just my emotions that are still not quite in gear, but they're going to be, I swear it.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I completely understand how you feel. We're doing amazing things! |
Oh this is the post (in Heather's diary), that sent me looking for your diary!! I just liked this a lot because I've felt so much like this myself!!
As far as the
calories go - I would not freak out at this stage.
Weight loss is not an exact science. There are some things we can be sure about and others where a bit of individual trial and error will be needed. If you are very overweight right now, then some of the
weight loss guidelines you see might be a bit more conservative than you need to be. Getting the calorie intake right, definitely can get more tricky for people who are already at or near a normal
BMI. However, there are also a lot of individual aspects to this process. People who have lost a lot of weight and are maintaining a normal weight apparently all do fairly similar things, but the way people get there, can vary a lot.
This thread has a lot of information on that topic.
