What are your diet tips?

It is easy enough for me to keep my kitchen clean - well stocked with healthy foods and purged of stuff I don't think I should eat, because I only have to behave myself while in the grocery store. But I have a major problem at work, where I spend most of my waking hours during the week and where I face the most stress likely to drive me to junk food. Our vending machines now accept plastic and $5 bills, so I protect myself by restricting cash to $20 bills and leaving my debit/credit cards at home. Even $10 bills are too tempting and I could use them to raid the commissary on the ground floor, but the battleaxe who runs it doesn't tolerate breaking $20 for low priced purchases. Breaks my heart when people put out junk food in the lounges, it's not fair.

A good night's sleep is huge. I don't sleep very well so I'm working on that. Microwave energy from cordless phones and WiFi interferes with sleep. I got rid of my cordless phone set and turn off WiFi at night and do noticeably better without them. Now I'm trying blue blocker glasses in the evening.

I don't usually have very much weight to take off, so it is important to me to eat as healthfully as I can while I'm dieting. That means plenty of good fat in my diet because many phytonutrients in vegetables aren't absorbed without it. Avocados rock! And fat is more satiating so I eat less and don't get hungry as quickly.

I don't think "diet" necessarily has to mean something temporary. When you talk about an animal's eating habits, you might say they live off a regular diet of fruits, nuts, and seeds so when I'm talking about dieting, I really mean trying to change my current eating habits and adopt a healthier diet.

Another diet tip that helps is to eat and drink from smaller plates, bowls, and cups. A few months ago, I got some divided plates from the baby section at Target and I think they're great! They're microwave safe, one half of the plate is a big section and the other half of the plate is divided into two sections. I put meat in one of the small sections, fruit or another side in the other small section, and use the big half of the plate for vegetables.

I also switched from 18 ounce plastic cups to 9 ounce cups.

A bunch of people I know are doing weight watchers and have lost a lot of weight.

I'm not a very good tracker of what I eat, so I've been doing Les Mills Combat and love it. In the first 2 weeks, I noticed a difference in my toning and waiste

I have no patience with programs and points and keeping track of calories. In the words of Michael Pollan: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

I avoid processed and prepackaged "food" and try not to eat too much fried stuff or red meat. I guess I mostly eat a Mediterranean style diet...lots of fruits and veggies, beans, grains, nuts, fish and chicken.

And do what James Brown said - get up offa that thing! I make sure to work in some exercise every day.

I'm down 36 pounds since Jan... I was in a rut for several months towards the end of 2017 when my dear friend died of brain cancer and then my sweet kitty Salem was dying and just wanted to sleep on my chest ALL THE TIME. So I was sad and did a lot of vegging out, binge watching TV shows and carelessly eating pints of Ben & Jerry's. Salem died in January and I decided it was time to get off my duff and get busy & back to my normal active self.

Since then I've been doing Pure Barre and spin classes. Each class 6x a week, so 12 hours total. I already did these classes all along but would do barre 5x a week and spin once or maybe twice. So I really have ramped up the cardio, the Barre classes are more for toning.

The big thing is: I used to go out with friends for lunch pretty much every day. And always ate the bread on the table! A social thing, but honestly - I don't want to spend the $ and want to eat clean. I do fortunately have some really healthy options I can still go to maybe once a week for lunch instead (Food & Thought farm to table or True Food Kitchen). But mostly I would rather just have iced coffee in the AM, a protein bar and/or protein shake in the afternoon and dinner would be salad/veggies/grilled chicken/fish/shrimp etc., but heavy on the veggies. No Ben & Jerry's. There are times when I just want a treat, but that's been once every 3 weeks or so and now I'll get a halo, skinny cow or one of the other new options that's 300 calories for the whole point. Halo banana, yum!

Also: I had a food allergy blood test. I already knew I was allergic to pineapple, but learned I'm allergic to cinnamon, gluten, eggs and peanuts as well. Weird BUT, made sense. Mild allergies that mess with the digestion, not full-blown death by peanut. But I already knew that when we get a case of Cliff bars, I could never eat the peanut butter ones because I'd feel sick afterwards. So I need to avoid these items. Meanwhile I've heard from a ton of people that avoiding gluten results in weight-loss. I was skeptical. But there's no denying that I've been avoiding gluten and the weight is coming off. Whatever, something is working! :-)

I was diagnosed with a serious health condition just about a year ago. Since that time, I have lost 70 pounds from eating a non carb diet. I don't measure or attend meeting; I just don't eat carbs except for Cheerios, berries in the morning. I switched from skim milk to almond milk and replaced my other fruit snack with a handful of pistachio nuts. Within 6 months my numbers were in the normal range and they continue to be so after a year. I have dropped 6 dress sizes. We eat out 2 times a week as I refused to give up my lifestyle. Every Italian restaurant we know will replace the pasta with a green vegetable and I totally avoid the bread basket which is really the hardest thing as I love good bakery bread....but sugar and refinded flour are deadly so it is now easier to pass on them.

Thanks. I am 70 years old so the metabolism is slow. My doctor was suprised that I did so well. I do feel wonderful and can walk long distances and when my house cleaner retired from the business, I didn't replace her, but can easily do my own cleaning...so lots of good has come from the no carbs.

I only "did" keto during a 7 day water fast in that I was checking my blood ketone levels to see how quickly or easily I developed ketosis. Keto means ketosis and you won't know unless you check blood sugar and blood ketones, and the ketone strips are quite expensive. Otherwise you're probably just doing low carb. I would take a look at anything by Dr. Jason Fung. Burning fats instead of sugars is much cleaner and therefore healthier - more efficient and less reactive oxygen species generated. However from my reading you don't want to stay in ketosis for an extended time. You're better off mixing it up especially if your intent is to lose weight. The easiest way to get into ketosis is by fasting for 2 or 3 days. To try to do it just by diet can take much longer, which may be fine too.

My current opinion is that light pollution is a critical issue - blue only light, dirty electricity, WiFi. Because it destroys mitochondrial function, and the only way to burn calories is at the mitochondrial level. You want them humming away. It's also critical to general health. Anything by Dr. Jack Kruse helps explain this. 5g will make everything so much more difficult. Worth starting to explore the issues now. I replaced all my squirrely bulbs at home with incandescents, and at work I'm redoing in my interior, fluorescent-lit office with all incandescents and a blue light screen protector on my computer monitor. Less efficient, but it replaces some of the missing infrared and ultraviolet light we require. But nothing beats sun exposure.

I think moderation is the best type of dieting. I did follow low carb and lost 20 pounds but I didn't cut them all out. I still watch my carbs simply because they make me feel sluggish if I eat to many. It's all about balance. I could never be vegan or vegetarian because I do like some meat in my diet.

I should be skinny as a rail if that be the case,which I'm not.  I am always in the sunshine and my house has windows everywhere without curtains covering them. I do watch what I eat. I do have days I eat what I shouldn't but for the most part am very conscious of what I do eat. 

Maybe the question is how healthy are you.  Natural sunlight, especially if you reset early in the morning, is really important.  And so is avoiding blue light, dirty electricity, and WiFi-like energy.  I need to work another 5 years and I am very concerned that conditions at work not impact my health.  I can only control so much but I'm doing more about it than I had anticipated.

Unfortunately, I have to avoid most carbs because of health reasons. I do try to keep the carbs I do eat to certain grains like quinoa, cheerios, steel cut oatmeal, fruits and veggies. I try to stay away from breads, potatoes, pastas, and pastries (or if I do have them it's a once in a blue moon thing).

Kao..Your food consumption sounds like mine.....Have had good luck in the last 17 months and continue to lose at a slower rate....Not unhappy with the slower loss as now I look like a normal sized person.