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Some one mentioned ice cold water. I totally disagree, room temp water is best and add fresh lemon to about everything. Ice water keeps things frozen up inside us.
Not exactly....our bodies heat up this ice water to body temperature. To do so requires energy...the most important thing is to drink water though.
Personally, room temperature water makes me gag. But I can suck down 96+ ounces of ice water a day. So ice water it is!
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Indeed, any thoughts on this?
Back when I was seriously trying to lose weight, 12 years ago, I didn't do anything. I just ate less and lived with it. Also did point counting using a fairly popular method to determine where the problem areas were. It wasn't too hard.
Not a *lot* less, but I managed to lose 52 pounds. I've put about half of that back on again over the past decade, tho, so I think I need to seriously look at eating less again.
For me, reducing my appetite means I need to fast for a day (nothing but low sodium tomato juice and water for 24 hours). This is one day of annoyance but it shrinks my capacity and then it's easy to keep to smaller portion sizes for another 6-10 days or so. After the fast, I try to keep it to mostly low-process, low-sugar, low-processed flours, high green veggie content. If my weight isn't where I want it when my capacity to eat kicks back in, then I do the fast again.
Another thing is that I try to eat a fairly early dinner and then don't snack between dinner and bedtime. I've read several reports of studies that show a 8-10 hour sustained fast is also very helpful in losing/maintaining weight.
I don't buy any junk and leave it in the house. Lately, though, I have been getting free leftover Easter candy and it is so hard to resist! I hate free junk... :/
So the consensus (from reading this thread) is that there are a billion ways to do it, and they all work. Well, not a billion ways, maybe ten, and they don't ALL work, maybe half.
I can tell you what works for me. It may work for you, maybe not. But you should try different things and see which is best.
What I did:
Cut sugar out. In the past eight months I haven't had any cake, cookies, ice cream, gummy bears, candy bars, chocolates ..
I do have carbs (try to stick with healthier ones, whole grains etc), and fruit.
No sweet drinks, no orange juice, be careful with smoothies_they can have tons of calories. I drink water, coffee, sometimes sugar free ice tea.
Protein works for me to keep me full. Eggs, cubed cheese, yogurt, chicken, meat, tuna etc. Have beans and lentil a few times a week. Nuts are great but have a lot of calories.
Make your own soups, freeze in individual portions so you always have something filling.
Don't keep the tempting stuff around! My treat is a small portion of NSA Froyo with fruit a sprinkle of something sweet.
For me, reducing my appetite means I need to fast for a day (nothing but low sodium tomato juice and water for 24 hours). This is one day of annoyance but it shrinks my capacity and then it's easy to keep to smaller portion sizes for another 6-10 days or so. After the fast, I try to keep it to mostly low-process, low-sugar, low-processed flours, high green veggie content. If my weight isn't where I want it when my capacity to eat kicks back in, then I do the fast again.
Another thing is that I try to eat a fairly early dinner and then don't snack between dinner and bedtime. I've read several reports of studies that show a 8-10 hour sustained fast is also very helpful in losing/maintaining weight.
Ah yes I always forget that second one. I just took home made Char Siu Ribs out of the oven.
I drink a LOT of water all throughout the day. I don't wait until I'm hungry to drink -- I don't even wait until I'm thirsty. The first thing I do when I wake up is chug 2 glasses of water, no ice (but cold, from the refrigerator dispenser), and I drink water all throughout the day. Not only does it help keep me from getting hungry, but it also helps prevent the headaches that I used to get. Oh yeah, and it helps prevent me from drinking so much sweet tea and Pepsi. Now, if I treat myself to one, it's because I'm craving one...not because I guzzle them every time that I'm thirsty.
Other than that, slow changes. Listen to your body, and eat until you are full, not until you are stuffed. Break habits of what you think you're supposed to eat. For example, if you "always" eat three slices of pizza on pizza night, you might automatically put three slices on your plate to begin with, as soon as the pizza is pulled out of the oven (or the pizza box is opened). Why not start with one? If you're still hungry, grab another. Even better, have a healthy salad first, then a slice of pizza.
Eat protein throughout the day. It takes very little to keep you from getting hungry...a few nuts, an oz of cheese, a hard boiled egg, a slice of turkey, etc. Add some vegetables and voila, it's a healthy diet. No calorie counting is necessary.
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