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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick
I find it very important to keep my sugar levels properly balanced. Eating several small meals spread throughout the day is very important to me, so, yes, I eat at night and early in the morning and all throughout the day. But I only eat about 1300-1400 calories total.
Actually, no. Anything that I cut out completely or significantly (that goes for the carbs in #4) simply causes me to want to eat it more. The key is moderation. I'm not only eating dessert on holidays. I'm just eating a small serving when I really feel like it, which is maybe once every other week.
I prefer swimming. I do it every morning unless there's, say, a major event that takes up my time (and expends a similar amount of energy or more than the swimming would.)
Not only does this throw off my body/hunger as in #2, this isn't healthy at all. Not only because muscles really need carbs to function, but also because vegetables and fruit are carbs. And they make up the majority of my diet.
Not too little cheese, either. But a little goes a long way. And I tend to choose only the good stuff that I really like, as opposed to soothing a desire with crap I don't. This tends to help me in all ways lately, not just food.
I've lost 20 pounds since April. It's primarily the swimming that helps me (I plateaued while I wasn't swimming during September and October.) But secondarily, it's making food-related changes that are sustainable, because this is a many-years process (forever, actually) and I know what works for me and what doesn't.
So, LB, just try to learn what works for you, what you can sustain for the long term. And I promise you, my ass and Tom's ass combined didn't break Dumbo on Sunday. And I alone am heavier than you currently are.
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We basically agree. Special occasions arise for me about every other week. But I've given up things like drinking while I cook, grabbing a piece of cake at some kid's birthday party, etc.
By carbs I meant sugar, starch, grains and the like. Veggies are important. But as to the former, where once I would walk into a Starbucks and feel a visceral need to have something from the pastry case with my coffee, now it all looks like cardboard to me and I'm not drawn to it.
I agree that a little cheese is a good thing. More than a little sets me back just like chocolate.
If eating a little at night prevents eating a lot at some point, that's great. For me, I knock the weight off best when I don't eat after dinner and walk the dog or do some other exercise in the evening after dinner.