weight loss diet

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Wow - really? What are you doing to keep from getting hungry but yet maintaining a <2000 calorie diet?

I'd love to know, because I could probably use a life style change. My diet usually consists of red meat and coffee.

Do you have to put up with the bullshit of eating rice cakes and shit like that? I just LOVE food too much to be able to sacrifice taste. ;_;

You're right Sass, eating bullshit things like rice cakes and starving yourself in addition to eating something that taste resembles something like stale cardboard is not a lifestyle I would prefer either.

My secret is eating small amounts but in multiple sessions. I'll eat what I damn well please, but I just can't take too much of anything in one sitting.
7AM: wake-up and have breakfast. Usually I'll opt for a piece of toast with a couple of eggs scrambled over (if available, I'll mix in some greenies, either chives or parsely and sprinkle a tiny bit of cheese over the hot eggs, yum). OR, a small cup/bowl of rice (about 1.5-2 scoops) with an egg over it over-medium or pickles.
10AM: 1 Riceball or 1 very small donut, also a cup of coffee (2 packs of sugar, 2 things of creme, usually no more condiments in my coffee than that)
Lunch: Salad or a medium size soup. Sometimes a half-sandwich. A burger (no cheese, no mayo, tiny bit of mustard + ketchup) meal with fries if I skipped either breakfast or the AM snack. Usually water for my drink, but I'll opt for a soda if I'm feeling drowsy or if I need to perk up a bit. Diet? No, but I tend to keep it to something less sugary, like doing half and half lemonade + sprite. I'm big on flavors, but not so much on sugar.
3PM: Snack. I'll usually have whatever I had leftover for lunch if any. Usually a couple pieces of chocolate (or a cookie/cracker or two) + sweetened coffee. I'll opt for tea if I don't feel like in-taking sugar in my drink.
6PM~8PMish: Dinner. Big meal. Get a good balance of carbs, fiber, and plenty of veggies for vitamin essencials. I opt for fish rather than red meats, simply because I grew up eating fish and tofu for my main source of protein, so that's what I like. If using ground meat, I use turkey. To me, nothing's better than a bowl of rice, a nicely char-broiled piece of slightly salted fish, a heaping helping of somekind of vegetable, and miso soup.

Dessert: only if I'm feeling emotional the need for it. I've kinda grown out of the sweet tooth thingy and don't get much of a craving for cakes and such anymore.


There's a lot of lucky features I have that not everyone has. For one thing, I have a very small puny stomach. Mine is around 75-80% of what my normal size of stomach should be. Because of that, I really can't eat much in one sitting without feeling the urge to barf. So because my body can't sustain enough energy with the normal 3 meal a day plan, I have to eat as much small portioned meals as many times as I can during the day.
Another big blessing in disguise thing is that I'm lactose intolerant. I can't stomach things that are heavy in butter, creme, and cheese. I can eat a pizza slice once in a while but I can't eat more than 3 slices without regretting it later. Ice cream kills my stomach; the cold and the dairy of it just makes my stomach revolt in a vengence and I usually end up spending quite a bit of time sitting in the toilet.

Another thing is a trick I learned from Oprah: I stop eating no less than 2 hours before I go to bed. I try to keep a strict bedtime during the weekdays, so naturally if I don't have dinner by a certain time, I'll usually eat something really small (almost like a lite-lunch) or I'll skip eating for the night all together and just make sure I get plenty of sleep and have a big breakfast the next day.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Soluzar

It stays pretty nasty. I'd rather just quit drinking soda than go with diet soda.

Well for one year, I gave up soda and coffee (since I put so much creme and sugar in it that I gained 10 lbs. since I became dependent on it as a daily essential) for Lent. Nothing in my diet changed except that I gave up coffee and carbonated drinks, but I lost 5 lbs by Easter. It was a slightly healthier plan than anything considering I was a college student at the time working 30+ hours a week. Granted though I did have to have a LOT of control over my bedtime due to the fact I couldn't depend on drinks to help me stay awake; I just had to get the ample amount of sleep I needed.

There's nowhere I can't reach.