Make healthy food convenient (and not junk food) (weight loss, pounds, buying)

[BlueIvy]

Weight loss needs to accompany lifestyle changes, otherwise, you’ll too easily shift back into your old patterns and return to your original weight.

One of the most important things to do along those lines is to make your diet-friendly foods the easiest and most convenient things for you to get a hold of, while sweets and other junk food should be thrown in a cupboard, moved behind your healthy snacks in the fridge, and so on.

You don’t need to rid yourself of them entirely. In fact, doing so can hurt your weight loss efforts as you’ll see later, but you do need to reduce the risk of those temptations while increasing the likelihood of choosing another healthier option.

[Malloric]

Or you can just not let them in the house which is what I do. I get one junky food thing a week when I go shopping, either ice cream or some sort of potato chip type thing. Works perfect for me as I'm way too damn lazy to go out and buy potato chips but also too damn undisciplined to trust myself with a bag of them in the back of the cupboard.

[SGMI]

Yep. Learn to like healthy food as your go to snack. I switched over to things like dill pickles, bite size tomatoes, raw and pickled okra, olives, grass-fed sugarless beef jerky, dry roasted nuts.

Quick to grab, no fuss food that I keep on hand all of the time.

Lost 50 pounds since 2010. I have kept it off after changing over to these habits.

OK, that included a few gains of 15 pounds, followed by re-diets to restore the 50 again. But those were periods of slacking off and buying prepackaged junk food. When I do what I should, I lose or hold steady.

Maybe it is true that 90% or more of diets fail... But changing your routine habits, so that a good diet is your "autopilot" goes a long way towards being among the 10% (or fewer) that succeed.