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Originally Posted by RStar
I suggest making small, but noticeable changes. Like Chocolate? Trade in the Snickers for a low calorie treat like a low fat chocolate pudding or the non fat chocolate cookies. I use low or non fat cheese where I can (in burritos). I watch my portions and resist seconds. But remember, non fat cookies still have calories (lots of sugar) so you still can't eat the entire box! When having snacks you like/crave- devide the box/bag into single servings when you open the bag (so you don't eat half the bag of chips and go "oops!". Have no more than one a day. Have another low cal snack handy if the "2nds" temptation gets the best of you.
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I must respectfully disagree. I stipulate that both a Snickers and low calorie cookies are equally bad choices. They are both processed beyond all recognition to the point that they are barely food anymore. All the low calorie food in the world won't make you healthy because it isn't what your body needs.
Stick to whole foods: veggies, rice, beans, fruits, real fats, grains, etc. If you aim never to eat out of a box you'll be healthy. It really isn't fat/calories that will make you fat (for the most part). It is eating foods that your body won't have anything else to do with but turn it into fat, be it a snickers, a low cal cookie like food, a diet soda, a regular soda, whatever. If you want a snickers grab a piece of fruit instead. If you still want some junk food then bake some ccokies or a cake with unbleached sugar, real butter or canola oil. It will still be junk, but it is real food that your body will be able to deal with. If you are eating whole foods most of the time then cravings will come less often.
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Originally Posted by Euro
My other option is to go to Paris, I seem to loose about 5 pounds a week when I'm there without denting myself anything.
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My bet is the fat. French food generally uses real oils. Your liver needs essential fatty acids to make bile which rids your body of excess fat. The right fats won't make you fat. If I remember correctly, the liver controls your metabolism.
Since going veg our diet is pretty low fat. So we're adding in this smoothie made with hemp oil. Hemp oil contains Omega's 3, 6, & 9, making it superior to flax.
2 cups rice or soy milk
Ghirardelli cocoa powder to taste
Agave nectar or honey (the agave mixes better)
2 tablespoons hemp oil
1 banana
Have this for breakfast and you will have loads of energy until lunch. It eliminates my soda cravings.
Basically, we have the healthy eating part down for right now. I normally have the smoothie, or a banana if I'm lazy, for breakfast; a salad with dark greens and beans, or a veggie sandwich for lunch; various bean or tofu dishes for dinner, or pasta once a week; and lots of fruit to snack on. I've quit refined sugar and soda as well. I have loads more energy and patience. I've lost weight in the last three weeks as well. I have no idea how much but my pants are very loose. By next week I think I'll be down a pants size. This is just an added bonus, as feeling great is the real payoff.
Exercise I need to work on. When it's cooler we go on lots of walks. We normally swim everyday in the summer, but the pump in the pool broke last month and we've just now gotten it back to swimmable condition. We have an elliptical, but it's ten o'clock at night before I can get on it, and I'm pretty beat by then.