| I've had weight problems and poor eating habits my whole life, i thought i'd try dieting and i think i'm doing ok but whenever i can manage to eat healthy for a day, all i can think of is junk food. Like Pizza and Burgers and Tacos. I feel hungry thinking about the stuff, despite eating enough normal, healthy food throughout the day. How to stop thinking about bad food? |
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| All ya gotta do is make delicious healthy food. How I lost alot of weight was making vegetarian sandwiches on wheat bread. They were so good. |
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| You don't, after some time you'll eventually stop thinking about junk food. Just don't give in to the cravings and it'll pass over. |
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| Make healthier versions of what you want to eat. _Nette_ said: All ya gotta do is make delicious healthy food. How I lost alot of weight was making vegetarian sandwiches on wheat bread. They were so good. When you said vegetarian sandwich i thought of the saddest sandwich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich Actually I should try it some time. |
traed said: and this is why people make vegan chicken tender strips out of grapefruit peels.Make healthier versions of what you want to eat. disclaimer: i don't like chicken strips or grapefruit peels. it just makes me laugh when i see the lengths of what people will create to imitate the foods they actually want to eat. |
traed said: Make healthier versions of what you want to eat. _Nette_ said: All ya gotta do is make delicious healthy food. How I lost alot of weight was making vegetarian sandwiches on wheat bread. They were so good. When you said vegetarian sandwich i thought of the saddest sandwich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich Actually I should try it some time. Lol a toast sandwich that is great. Makes me hungry though. Been trying to eat less in general and just thinking of food drives me insane. |
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| How I lost weight was just starving myself and I eat basically only shit. I still do eat only shit but I keep it down now. Was like 190 something. Hit 155 and now 161. I don't drink soda so that helps a lot |
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| If you really like to stop the thought of eating unhealthy/junk food then try diverting it into something which has similar taste but differ in ingredients (healthy version of it). Like if you want sweet then why not try something like a honey-based food (something like that). But really, it's all about the mindset like if you think you want it to, then you'll have no progress at all. On the other hand, you may include unhealthy/junk food into smaller portions as a side dish/snack into your HEALTHY main dish. You won't have to exactly make yourself suffer. This time it's eating in moderation (having strict discipline). Hehe |
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| The easiest way is probably just to blow your brains out, that way you can stop thinking about it and also lose a lot of weight, although I guess it comes with a few downsides (don’t actually do this). Otherwise, as another has mentioned, making healthier versions of stuff you already like seems like a good idea, i.e. adding healthy toppings on pizza and tacos. Compromise instead of restrain |
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| Willpower. How badly do you want to follow your diet? If you don't have the resolve then even a diet that is maintained for a long time can be easily broken |
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| Stay active is one of the key elements to lose and maintain your weight. Incorporate everyday activities to be part of your daily exercise regime. Depending how you define dieting, if it is to starve yourself for hours and hours, then it is not gonna work in the long run. If you go on diet that restricts food that is of high level of calories, it will be helpful. Personally, my daily activities is my exercise programme. I walk a lot and walk fast. I walk up and down stairs whenever there is an opportunity to. For instance, when I am in the mall, I will use the stairs instead of the elevator. Or if there are escalators, I will also climb up and down when using them. Intensity in exercising also plays a part. When you walk fast, you tend to burn more calories. When I go to the supermarket, I don't drive there. It's about 15 minutes walk. It's easier to walk there empty-handed. When I finish my shopping, I will carry all the stuff I bought and walk home. Boy, the groceries are heavy and my muscles get the workout (hahaha). Then there is housework chores. They are great exercises. Vacuuming, mopping, dusting, wiping windows, washing dishes, laundry, yard work, gardening, and many more are good for burning calories. Don't sit at the computer or the couch whole day. Get up and do some exercises. You don't need to go for high impact for starter but do something simple like walking or jogging in the park or garden or near the beach or anywhere that is relaxing. Do it early in the morning where there are less vehicles and the air is still fresh. Next, it is about the food consumption. I personally love to eat but I don't eat out or buy takeaways. I prefer to cook myself. Food operators do not use good quality ingredients. For example, when I prepare my own sandwiches or burgers, I can choose what kind of oil to use and how much to use. I can also choose the type of condiments like unsalted butter instead of salted butter for instance. If I cook a dish, I can put in more vegetables and less meat. I can choose lean meat that has less fat. If I bake say chocolate cake, I reduce the ingredients such as sugar and salt. Having high level of sugar and salt in your body may potentially cause a lot of health issues in the long term. Well, having said so much above, I'm not an expert in dieting or cooking. I'm sharing my own experience to keep myself healthy. There are many food that we can eat, I only modify them and cook myself. So even french fries and burgers are tasty and healthy when I cook them myself. Even lasagna does not make me put on weight (hahaha). I hope you will be able to find some activities that will help you stay active everyday. Sitting at the computer or in front of the TV screen and eating are not going to help you reduce weight. Go outside, take a walk in the park. If there is no park, walk around the neighbourhood for half an hour and do it everyday. If you don't like the outside, then do walking exercise at home. There is something called "power walking" exercise where you can do it at home. You can find this exercise on youtube. Oh one more thing, stock up your fridge with fruits and if you like snacks, you can get some healthy ones. Get some healthy drinks like low fat milk and fruit juice instead of soda drinks. In fact, drinking plain water is the best. I drink a lot myself. Do share how your progress goes after some time. All the best to you! |
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| I just ate way smaller portions of unhealthy foods. That did end up making me hungry af and was not healthy at all but I had enough self control from eating more. You could try cheat day. Schedule one day you’ll eat like shit but I sometimes find that strategy hard. Meal prep everything. It’ll be easier to not get off track since you got everything prepared and it’ll be cheaper for your wallet Or just be creative and create low calorie version of junk food. -Cauliflower crust pizza with low fat cheese -Use a lean ground beef for your burgers and a low calorie bun or even better no bun -use lettuce instead of a tortilla or make a egg tortilla These will noway be as good but it’s probably enough to suppress your cravings |
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| You can't just resist the temptation until you get used to your new healthy diet, eventually you will stop thinking about it. It ain't easy losing weight so have some self control @TheBlockernator |
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| distract yourself with good food I guess |
| Eat junk food once a week but have some low-calorie snacks/food in general in the fridge 24/7. A diet is good when it's sustainable, you're just making it harder for yourself if you suddenly stop eating food you like. Yes, sacrifices have to be made, but it's better to have a diet that doesn't make you dread the idea of having a meal. Have low-cal food around the house in very convenient places and hide (or ask someone to hide) the more calorie dense stuff in places you don't really frequent. Also drink a lot, eat fibre rich food and distract yourself as best as you can. Oatmeal can be amazing diet food and it keeps you full for a long arse time. Keep it simple. Simple simple simple. |
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| <--- someone who actually does bulking and cutting (diet to lose fat). Drink a lot of water, a gallon in the first half of the day, and zero sugar soda that's your lifeline. Eventually you don't worry about junk a lot. Eat full meals so you're not hungry as often. On keto you could add a lot of zero sugar/low carb sauces and cheese, to make your meals (mostly meat) taste real good. Dieting other ways aren't nearly as effective btw and I've seen ppl fail them countless times or "relapse" lol Should also be working out often so that meals really refuel you and you get really hungry. This makes food (even if bland) much more satisfying and you don't think about junk as often. You'll think about food more as fuel then just something that supposed to taste good for you to eat it. Also try to never be around bad food in the first place |
| Just stop being a fatass. It's that simple. *I say this while eating a cheese danish and drinking a redbull. |
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| just to try it once i decided to try and lose weight with just eating junk food, i lost like 5 kg just by counting calories. i also once kept away from potato chips for like 6 months, (well didnt buy it myself, but ate with others) but on a more serious note, just can still eat unhealthy food, its just the amount of it you have to be carefull about, when i excersized hard to lose weight i still ate some unhealthy food, just the amount i cut down and i had like a - every 3-4 hours time between each food or meal to eat something time-table calorie counting still hasnt let go of me though, though since i lost the weight, from 105 kg to about 72- 65-60 kg (fluctuating between them) i went actually underweight, to 54 kg after being a normal weight for years, then i went normal weight again, and after that i became overweight again, 89 kg, and now im probably down 10+ kg from that without much excersize. there's really no way other than to eat less just the amount, if i had junk food i always calculated the calories, so i always knew i'd lose weight. but i always kept it to the weekends. excersize in my mind helped me cut down on the junk food, keep my mind off it and keep me motivated, (i just put on some anime song and i was ready to go lol https://youtu.be/kinW1Ytm1Zg) maybe it can help you, i dunno. the others have excellent advice aswell. |
evangelionfanOct 23, 2021 9:12 AM
| NEET more, watch more anime and stay in house dont eat food or drink, every 2 days you go to mc donalds, u can still eat bad food but will still lose weight |
| I usually add many condiments to increase the flavor especially if its something bland like chicken breast or asparagus |
| I usually count my burn calories at the gym. when i do a 1 hour workout, i usually burn just under 400 calories. Then i cannot but help count the calories of what I am eating and compare that with the 1 hour workout. Once i do that, i tend not to chose to eat high calorie dense foods. |
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| Just dont ever think about food and keep watching anime during your diet. |
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TheBlockernator said: I've lost a lot of weight over the past year despite also having weight problems my whole life, so maybe I can help!I've had weight problems and poor eating habits my whole life, i thought i'd try dieting and i think i'm doing ok but whenever i can manage to eat healthy for a day, all i can think of is junk food. Like Pizza and Burgers and Tacos. I feel hungry thinking about the stuff, despite eating enough normal, healthy food throughout the day. How to stop thinking about bad food? Though there's honestly a lot of good tips in this thread already: make healthy recipes at home, slowly transition to healthier options and a more active lifestyle, avoid soda, use healthier alternatives, get off the computer sometimes and move around with some casual activities, distract yourself with things other than food, lower your portions, eat more fruit, limit your junk food to maybe once a week, drink more water and eat complete meals... genuinely surprised by how helpful the forums have been this time around, great work everyone! Now that I've basically summed up the past posts that I thought were helpful, here are some of my experiences from the past year. Don't laugh at me here, but I highly recommend getting a fitness game. Something like Wii Fit and Just Dance can actually encourage you to try and be more active, especially if you are more of a video gamer like several people are in these forums and the whole world (of course). I started my weight loss journey when someone got the family a Wii Balance board and a new-old-stock copy of Wii Fit U (yes, we actually do own a Wii U and still have and play on it). I'm sure @Craftys_List and @sewerslider can attest to how helpful and fun the Wii Fit games can be too. When you get and start playing a Wii Fit game, the game will immediately encourage you to log your weight at roughly the same time of day every day and do at least 30 minutes' worth of daily exercise. Keeping a good idea of how much you weigh on a regular basis can really get you into the mindset of working on your physical health, and of course regular exercise can benefit to said health as it can keep your body fit and youthful instead of sluggish. Though keep in mind that exercise is actually not everything—I've found that my loss was more attributed to how I ate and lowered portions rather than how much I moved around; but moving around and being active can help burn off excess calories and build muscle, so of course it's still fairly important. Something I've been doing for I believe 6+ years now was extremely limit visits to fast food joints to little to no times. I have not been to places to McDonald's for a long time, and as much as I love Five Guys burgers and fries, I go there so rarely that I legitimately can't remember the last time I went there. I do still go to restaurants, but even then those visits are mostly still special occasions like with family members. These days, I try to lower my food portions even on those special occasions; it can be really hard when we go out to some really damn good restaurants, but I do actually try to think about what stuff on the menu can I actually finish. (For example, I usually eat a plate of rice two or three times a day. I used to eat like 4 ladle spoons of rice, but I've managed to limit it to 2-3 spoons and that's been working fine.) When I go outside by myself most of the time I don't even eat out at all, even though I'll be out for hours hunting for anime/manga/books to buy. When I do actually go eat out by myself, it's usually small places that don't really serve completely unhealthy food, like bubble tea places. I also try to actually walk distances to those places, even if they are fairly long walks and might take a while—hey, it's good exercise and it saves on subway swipe money. And of course, someone already mentioned this, but just distract yourself with your hobbies for several hours. Like maybe just shitpost on the forums for a while, binge anime/games/manga/whatever, or do some productive hobby/job, and let the hours fly by. It's practically starving yourself, I know, but hey, you really don't (and shouldn't) need to think about food all the time. Just wait a while and then you can go eat again the moment you hear grumbling from your stomach. Though at least drink some water. It can be difficult to drink 8 glasses of water a day, but somehow I've recently been managing to do that pretty easily. I don't drink water much after I'm finished eating for the day (oh yeah, make sure your last meal is at least 2 or 3 hours before bedtime, for example I make sure to stop eating by 10 or 11 pm), so I've been immediately drinking 4 cups of water in the morning. It does sometimes mean a lot of bathroom breaks, which is annoying, but at least you'll be hydrated for a while. And make sure that you eat a bit more in the morning and gradually lower your portions as the day goes on, with much less in the night. You might go to bed soon after dinner, meaning you won't move around and therefore will not burn your calories much then as compared to earlier in the day. Not moving around and using up the calories you've just consumed will eventually turn into fat that your body will pocket for use later, so try not to eat so much then! And... I guess that's about it. For now. Hope these all help! |
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Fario-P said: Don't laugh at me here, but I highly recommend getting a fitness game. Something like Wii Fit and Just Dance can actually encourage you to try and be more active, especially if you are more of a video gamer like several people are in these forums and the whole world (of course). I started my weight loss journey when someone got the family a Wii Balance board and a new-old-stock copy of Wii Fit U (yes, we actually do own a Wii U and still have and play on it). I'm sure @Craftys_List and @sewerslider can attest to how helpful and fun the Wii Fit games can be too. When you get and start playing a Wii Fit game, the game will immediately encourage you to log your weight at roughly the same time of day every day and do at least 30 minutes' worth of daily exercise. Keeping a good idea of how much you weigh on a regular basis can really get you into the mindset of working on your physical health, and of course regular exercise can benefit to said health as it can keep your body fit and youthful instead of sluggish. Though keep in mind that exercise is actually not everything—I've found that my loss was more attributed to how I ate and lowered portions rather than how much I moved around; but moving around and being active can help burn off excess calories and build muscle, so of course it's still fairly important. @sewerslider is banned rn, but I await their response. I think fitness games can be great for weight loss and even to build some muscle, especially if it's as fun as the games you're used to playing so that you go on for quite sometime without getting bored, which is something I found was an obstacle with normal exercises. Although I think the main thing that helped me to lose weight was irl sports and eating healthier. I was a bit chubby like 5 years ago, but now not and I lost the weight pretty quickly. I'd say try your best to not give into cravings, it gets easier the longer you ignore them so try to keep yourself distracted. If you make your healthy food taste good it also makes it easy to give up the unhealthy stuff. If you crave the chewing sensation from eating food, but it's not an appropriate time to eat... I want to recommend bubblegum, as it doesn't have that much calories and you can burn calories from chewing(although very very little), but it contains sugars or artificial sweeteners which aren't good for you, especially the latter + I think it'd make the cravings worse. So I think popcorn would be good, it's extremely low calories, healthy(as long as you make your own and make sure the toppings are healthy), easy to make and full of fiber. |
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| I used to have a hard time too but making food for myself helped. Also getting healthier alternatives. Seeing a dietician also helped because they gave me ways to snack on things but better. I love chocolate, and I started getting this one chocolate that used no artificial sugars. Idk if it helps in the grand scheme of things but it made me more aware of putting better things in me body. |
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| honestly its mostly all math if youre focused on losing weight. you just need less caloric intake so you can still have some days of eating junk food, but have a limit on what youre eating the rest of the day |
| Burgers and pizza are not necessarily junk food. Do not get too obsessed with dieting and healthy eating. As long as you are staying in a caloric deficit, you will lose weight. Eat high protein foods as they make you feel more full for longer periods. |
| Burgers and pizza are not necessarily junk food. Do not get too obsessed with dieting and healthy eating. As long as you are staying in a caloric deficit, you will lose weight. Eat high protein foods as they make you feel more full for longer periods. |
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