If you lost weight focusing mainly on diet, did you…

[Anonymous]

Eliminate entire food groups? That is the question.

I would love for this not to devolve into a debate about CICO, macros, or anything else, just really want to know what worked for you (and your stats, if you’re comfortable sharing). Thank you!

[Anonymous]

I focused mainly on portion control, and cutting out snacks unless they were fruit or vegetables. So three meals, smaller than previous, and no snacks.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Just counting calories. Lost 90 lbs.

[Anonymous]

No. I’m focused on eating Whole Foods and limiting sugar and empty calories. Listening to body signals and staying mildly hungry.

[Anonymous]

No, eat everything, including plenty of carbs. Lost 52 of the 70 I need to lose and still counting.

Just focus on the good foods and eat more of those than the bad ones.

I'm 44F btw

[Anonymous]

I tracked calories and also tried to eat lower carb. Not no carb and I didn’t eliminate anything.

[Anonymous]

I did IF, and ate as much as I wanted for 8 hours.

I tried to eat mostly plant based whole foods + I took milk, butter, ghee, paneer and yogurt.

I ate soup with lunch and dinner. And I drank green juice in the morning.

No processed foods if I could help it.

Generous food portions with lots of variety. I was eating so, so, so much veggies that I think I changed my gut biome completely.

Also, drank a lot of Keffir and Kombucha (store bought).

[Anonymous]

Not entirely, but I heavily restricted white carbs.

[Anonymous]

I went from 165 to 145 in about five months without cutting entire food groups. I have generally just cut back on everything. I used to drink wine every day but now only on weekends. I used to have breakfast but now just lunch and dinner, and those portions are a lot smaller. I still do "splurge" on things like pizza, bagels, hamburgers, chocolate etc, but try to balance it out where if I do that one day I try to eat healthier on the several next days that follow.

[Anonymous]

I’ve never lost weight without doing pretty restrictive low carb except for now on Ozempic. Without Ozempic I have a really hard time doing low calorie unless it’s pretty low carb and I avoid all eating out situations.

[Anonymous]

I did not cut anything but tracked calories and tried to eat the Michael Pollan way - real food, mostly plants, not too much. I cut down on alcohol, processed foods. And the experience really changed my eating habits. I pretty much eat whatever I want, but find I like eating Whole Foods much more than processed. I eat plenty of carbs and sweets, I just make them from scratch. Have kept the weight off for 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did not cut anything but tracked calories and tried to eat the Michael Pollan way - real food, mostly plants, not too much. I cut down on alcohol, processed foods. And the experience really changed my eating habits. I pretty much eat whatever I want, but find I like eating Whole Foods much more than processed. I eat plenty of carbs and sweets, I just make them from scratch. Have kept the weight off for 5 years.

How much weight? I tried for years to make this work but my natural hunger level just didn't work with it.

[Anonymous]

The only food Group I mostly eliminated was alcohol-especially high alcohol beer which has a ton of calories. Like others, that lead to eating more Whole Foods and dropping other junk. I’m down around 90-100 lbs and have been around this weight for 2+ years. I’m making an effort to keep some weight/muscle on since I let my weight drop down too low last summer. 42M.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I’m impressed with you all! congrats!

[Anonymous]

I did during the week, and then I ate anything I wanted on the weekends which luckily did not devolve into bingeing. During the week I cut out: meat but not fish/seafood, dairy, processed sugars, processed foods, simple carbohydrates.