weight loss diet

Originally Posted by blue

I'm currently keeping my calories between 1650 and 2100 per day, and I'm very very slowly losing weight (probably about 1 pound per week).

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. ;_;

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by blue

TRUST ME, I struggle with this stuff too. I'm convinced that I must have an amazing metabolism, because I was definitely eating about 4,000 cal/day... I have a food fetish.

WOW. 4,000 a day? It would make sense if you're working out or doing a lot of exercise....

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Now you might not like to hear this, but... try the sugar-free foods. I know, I know, I balked at the idea at first, too. Like diet soda? Took some getting used to. That stuff is nasty when you first drink it. But honestly, it took me less than a week, and then I was fine with it. Switching to diet soda alone helped me cut out about 600 cal/day. Just try it for a week, and if you still hate it, you can go back to regular... if you drink soda at all.

I actually very rarely drink soda at all. When I do, it's always diet, if only because I prefer the saccharine taste of aspertame to the sugar present in regular cola.

I prefer to drink a shitload of iced tea. I wonder how bad that is? I drink bucket loads of water (at least a gallon a day), but I do drink a lot of this stuff: (And I mean A LOT)

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Some sugar-free foods are pretty good. There are these really good chocolate-mint cookies at publix that are sugar-free... they still have calories, but not as many as your average cookie. Sugar-free jell-o is quite good, too; most people say it tastes like regular jell-o. My newest discovery is hot tea, which is zero calories (the peppermint kind) and pretty good--just add a bit of honey, honey.

I'm not a big choclate fan either - you know, I am starting to wonder why I am fat ahahha. I have a NASTY penchant for meat and potatoes. Maybe thats where my trouble lies. And BREAD, o my GOD.

Do you have any advice for that kind of thing, blue?

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My dad is an inspiration to me. He's a big man (about 250 pounds, I think), but he's recently made a lifestyle change and cut out sugar. He still eats chips and peanuts and fattening stuff, but no more donuts. That alone is helping him lose weight--I can tell he's thinner every time I go home! He and I made a deal that if I took at least 3 insulin shots per day, he'd lose at least 1 pound per week.

Wait, insulin shots? Can you explain?? O_O

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Fatt

Edit: Insulin shots are what diabetics take to control their glucose levels. You only take insulin if you really NEED insulin. That stuff is rough.

Yea, thats why I asked. I don't understand why taking it while dieting would be a good thing....?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.