• Looking to change up my diet a bit
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Hey FP. So now that I've moved to Kent and am pretty much spending all my time indoors, I realised that my habit of snacking when bored might just kill me in the long run, as it started with full bags of Maltesers and cans of coke a day. As such, am looking to change that. Please, give me your suggestions for healthier alternatives so I don't end up becoming a bean bag in a dressing gown. I've already cut coke from my life. Note that I don't need changes for full meals; that's been sorted already, just need something else to snakc on
So I've been in the same situation as you. I recently moved and have been home a lot. The thing is, you can't snack on what isn't there. Make sure to never shop hungry and never to buy anything unhealthy. Another good thing to do, thanks to which I recently lost 3 kg and going, is installing MyFitnessPal and tracking calories. It's a LOT less painless than you might assume. I haven't changed anything about my full meals either; only the portioning. But I can honestly say I'm never hungry. I can eat all I want and still lose weight, you just have to avoid snacking. My 'best' healthy snacking alternative is trail mix. Nuts and raisins. Another thing, in the Netherlands we have something called 'Digestives'. They're a type of cookie with a lot of grain. They're not healthy in bulk but you can take a couple without guilt. And it's good that you cut out coke in your life. Don't replace it with any other sugary drink. I personally now drink a lot of water and tea.
Nuts and fruits.
Replace snacking with having a coffee. If you must have milk then try to use lite or skim milk, and use artificial sweeteners or Stevia or whatever instead of sugar. Coffee seems to do a decent job at killing hunger for a while, but it will make you want to piss a lot.
I told facepunch about my drastic weight loss a lot of times, but as of recently I lost * typo 20 lbs within four months, I did this by running almost every morning, coupled with replacing things. I replaced all juices and sodas with strictly water only. Whenever I wanted a snack I ate vegetables or fruits instead, chugged water. I took out nearly all forms of carbs; ex. pasta, cookies, crackers, potatos, cereals. Basically avoiding those helped me lose weight. I would only have whole wheat toast with peanut butter sometimes. Lean meats like chicken, or fish, instead of red meats like beef. And smaller portions of anything that wasn't a vegetable or fruit.
[QUOTE=Asgard;49398755] is installing MyFitnessPal and tracking calories. [/QUOTE] i tried this the app is extremely hard to use for me, combined with the fact that you have no idea exactly how many calories you're eating in one serving. if you don't have any measuring cups for vegetable chips, you can't count those calories. i don't understand how people use this
Seriously swapping over from soda to water is amazing, I did it ages ago and it made me feel so much better. Basically all I drink now is water, tea and the occasional chocolate milk because it's fucking amazing.
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[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49411842][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YQ5zque.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] That's my diet If you want to die of a stroke, I recommend it
Jesus, you gotta stop drinking coke so much man, change into tea or something, they taste good too
[QUOTE=Antdawg;49402091]Replace snacking with having a coffee. If you must have milk then try to use lite or skim milk, and use artificial sweeteners or Stevia or whatever instead of sugar. Coffee seems to do a decent job at killing hunger for a while, but it will make you want to piss a lot.[/QUOTE] Lite/Skim milk has a lot more sugar and carbs in it than full fat milk And saturated fat isn't bad for you anyway so who cares
[QUOTE=Tobin;49452412]Lite/Skim milk has a lot more sugar and carbs in it than full fat milk And saturated fat isn't bad for you anyway so who cares[/QUOTE] Actually that's completely untrue and I don't know why people say that. Lite and skim milk still have sugar content, but it's marginally [i]less[/i] that that of full cream milk - ~12g sugar per 250mL in skim milk compared to ~16g sugar per 250mL in full cream milk. The point of recommending lite and skim milk however is in the energy intake. 250mL of full cream has around 180 kcal while 250mL of skim milk is roughly half of that. Only a small difference per cup of coffee, but it adds up when you're planning a diet. If you can't do skim milk, then fine, do lite; you're still minimising caloric consumption. Lite and skim milk also have marginally more protein per serve than full cream. There's nothing wrong with saturated fats when only a reasonable amount of them are consumed. Of course, the amount of saturated fats in a cup of coffee with full cream milk is almost negligible. Did you know that there's also nothing wrong with carbs? I really have no idea how the carbs = bad thing became a thing in the first place. Complex carbs are some of the best food you can eat.
Make sure you get in your daily dose of activated almonds.
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