About a month ago I set my mind on losing some body fat and so far I've lost about 15 pounds. Some of that may be muscle, since I haven't been working out, but I can definitely see the body fat decrease.
Here's the things I changed in my diet. Trust me, if you do what I did, you will lose body fat.
I stopped eating peanut butter. I used to have a peanut butter sandwich every day.
Stopped eating cereals with more than about 5g of sugar, which are mostly the plain flakes or plain shredded wheat.
No sugar in my oatmeal except what's in the milk and the few raisins I put in it.
The only meat I eat now is tuna with some plain yogurt mixed in instead of mayonnaise. I'll sometimes put low fat cottage cheese in it instead.
I only drink water, with the occasional fresh orange juice from the orange tree in my backyard. If you drink fruit juice from the store, you may as well just be drinking Kool Aid.
A lot of the calories I cut out of my diet are replaced with vegetables. So I eat a lot more vegetables, since they're so low in calories.
If I'm a little hungry, I'll grab a big pickle, which has zero calories, and that keeps me satiated for an hour or more. (Although I want to find out the effects the acid has on the body and teeth. I don't want to eat too many. I try to only eat one a day, or maybe two if I have them.)
If I have a salad, which I try to have one every day if I have the vegetables available, I won't use salad dressing on it. I'll just pour some apple cider vinegar on it and mix it together. You get the taste of the vegetables that way, and it's not too dry. Normal salad dressing can almost negate the reason you're eating the salad in the first place.
And I only put vegetables on my salad, no meat or cheese or anything like that. My usual ingredients are spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, tomato, onion, bell pepper, and garlic. You know, the cheap ones. I used to put avocado in there, but those are just too expensive now. But I do love them.
And the most important change I've made, that has allowed me to drop so much body fat in such a short amount of time is not eating as much as I normally do. I used to eat when I was starting to get hungry, and I would eat until I'm full. Now I wait until I'm actually hungry, and then only eat about half as much. I eat slower, and when I start to feel like I've taken the hungry feeling away, then I'll stop.
I think my problem was that I was having trouble knowing whether I was hungry or just bored. I don't eat when I'm bored now.
I'm really not sure how many calories I was eating before, but now, based on a pretty liberal estimate, I take in about 1,500 calories a day.
I'm not fat or anything, I just decided to make a goal to be able to see my abs without flexing. Of course, I may have to work out to reach that goal.
This diet is kinda difficult to stick by. You just have to have some real motivation. I have mine, but it differs for everyone.
I think real motivation comes when you are unhappy. If you're content in your life, it can be hard to find the REAL motivation you may need to change.
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