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Well, OK. While alcohol won't contribute to diabetes, it does contribute to weight gain. So don't drink and eat! And don't drink sweet drinks, like sweet wine, spirits and soft drink mixes and so on. Speaking of drinking - don't drink anything with sugar in it. That's being serious!
One trick is to eat meals comprising lean meats raw salads with avocado. Do add salad dressing, not low fat ones, they're likely to be spiked with sugar. Just keep the amount of salad dressing moderate. Don't be shy with the avocado. It's total calories that matter. Vegetable fats tend to have high satiety values meaning they will make you feel satisfied and for longer than carbs will.
You need a strategy for controlling your sugar cravings/addiction. Sugar is public enemy number one! Break that craving/addiction and convince yourself that sugar is the bad guy and sugar stuff is bad as in BAD. I am not exaggerating either. So what to do when the craving hits? Well, I found chewing on a fresh carrot killed the after dinner craving for sugar junk. Notice that I have nothing kind to say about sugar? That's the trick. Learn to dislike the stuff with a passion. Look up what damage it does to the body if you need convincing. The bathroom scale will speak volumes. Snaking on cashews helps overcome sugar cravings and there must be others items to snack on. Like fresh fruits. Dried fruits are concentrated and are sometimes even sweetened!
The way to L-O-S-E weight is to count your calories. Don't eat/drink more than you burn in a day. Find out your BMR and eat about 100-150 above it. It is fairly "easy" if you're determined and really want it.
The easiest tip, which can still be hard to bring into practice, is to eat as natural/fresh as possible. There are many products that are fine cooked/fermented/partially processed/etc. but the basic idea is to eat as close as possible to nature.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that your body needs energy as well nutrition. As a general (simplified) rule you could say that unhealthy stuff has more energy (kcal) than healthy food, so the more unhealthy you eat the more energy you receive at the expense of nutrition, which can cause weight gain if the energy exceeds your daily energy requirement (1500-2500 kcal).
The trap that many people fall for is to only look at energy and think that they can just eat unhealthy as long as they remain under their daily requirement. The problem is that your body is not stupid and will protest about the lack of nutritions in the form of hunger, so you will get extremely hungry and eat more anyway.
These are the basics.
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