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[frankieb_sq87]

So after my last post, where we discussed the evil perfection that is shortbread. . . I've started a food diary

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[jules1278]

I am one of those people who has to know what I'm eating, or else I'll eat badbadbad stuff. I love labels.

I think once I know what a serving is, I'm really good at sticking to it, and as long as you think of even that much as a treat, you probably won't miss the giant bowl of it as much as you think you will.

Also, TEN LARGE STRAWBERRIES is a serving of only FIFTY EIGHT CALORIES. That's a LOT. of random capslock See? Silver lining! :D

And when you're not just grabbing handfuls of goldfish crackers out of the bag, you think a serving size of 55 pieces (@ 130 calories) probably isn't that much, but once you count them out? It's a lot!

*hugs*

I love you!!!!

[claudia603]

I love how in soups they give the label amount and it's like 2.5 servings which is this teeny tiny cup worth (when I like to eat the whole darned thing of a soup container! :D)

[miss_daizy]

You so don't have to give up good foods! Can you get Breyer's Low-Fat Double Churn ice cream? It is so good that you barely notice it's low fat and after you've switched you don't even feel like it's low fat at all. Also, we have some great water ice places here and I've actually come to prefer water ice to ice cream. It has to be good water ice though.

Portion size is the great healthy diet killer in the US. Food packagers underrate the sizes so you don't realize what you're eating and because we're used to such big portions here our mind feels "deprived" when it sees a normal portion. My big non-diet dieting tip is to serve yourself a little less than you think you're going to want. You'll rarely find yourself hungry afterwards. Supplement with small snacks. Eating less more times a day is much better for you. Your natural appetite will adjust and you'll just find that you eat the right amount naturally after time. And take weight loss slowly; that's the only kind that lasts.

[coquillagement]

Daisy is always smartest with the best and clearest advice. Me? I'm all "lets eat really good for, say, 3 months, then blow it all to hell with ice cream every night! Whoopeee!" I mean, I'll go for months where I'll die if I don't have three servings of fruit a day, and then weeks where fruit does not pass my lips. Flaky? Me? Never.

[genesse]

I've spent most of the last eight months working out but not really changing my diet and I'm loosing weight but not as quickly as I'd like. I like candy too much, I guess. I'm trying to count carbs (as opposed to calories) because I need to get my triglyceride/cholesterol levels down, so no more than 310 carbs a day. I love milk but not ice cream, both of which have a lot of carbs. Lunch is my big meal and everything else I eat are snacks or Slim Fast (low carb variety) and I make sure that I have a Slim Fast (for the protein) after my hour-long-on-the-stationery-bike work out. I don't eat snack foods that have more than 20 carbs per serving.

[vesta_aurelia]

Ben and Jerry's has these leeeeetle cups of ice cream.
I get one of the Cherry Garcias and then I can tell myself "You ate the WHOLE THING."

it makes me feel naughty without actually being naughty ;)