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You can cut out entire categories of food or drink though. People drink way more calories than they realize. Drink water instead of soda. It's definitely hard
by SamPatt 5y ago
You can cut out entire categories of food or drink though. People drink way more calories than they realize. Drink water instead of soda.
It's definitely hard but the "just say no" approach can work. I do recommend taking it one at a time though. Once you've cut out one thing successfully, add another.
I lost 90 lbs with this approach.
- hallway_monitor 5y agoSecond this. Setting simple rules is the only way I've been able to make consistent change. No soda. No bread. One at a time. I'm probably down only 20 pounds from my max but I feel so much healthier.
- cbsmith 5y agoTotally does not work for me. It doesn't help that I figured out the "drinking calories" problem a long time ago and mostly drank water already. Cutting things out just seems to lead to eating more of others, because the problem isn't what food I eat. It's harder, but the biggest trick was learning to pay attention to what my body was telling me, stop when it first gave me a sign to stop, don't start until it gave me a signal to start, and also... realizing that if you're obese (as opposed to an underweight person with an eating disorder), that maybe spending a part of your day feeling hungry is a sign that you are taking care of yourself. That sounds pretty simple too when you write it out like that, but my goodness just doing that is a so hard (yet effective).
- medstrom 5y ago> maybe spending a part of your day feeling hungry is a sign that you are taking care of yourself. Yes - may as well feel positive associations with hunger.