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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you sustain this? To me, the best and most successful changes are those I can maintain without effort. So, for me - I don't eat salad dressing, I don't do sugar in my coffee, and I don't drink soda. Those are not hard for me. I do love cheese, and I do love bread, so I have both in small portions when I feel like it. I limited myself to those foods once a day, at max. Because - if I deny myself routinely, I'll just eat it out of control. So, I'd just find what is easy for you to eliminate and focus on doing that first. Then you can target other, harder, items. [/quote]

All of it? No.
It does help me realize where my calories are coming from and I do think I can sustain some of it in the long term. I got into a bad habit of just eating 2 granola/protein type breakfast bars in the morning (any chocolaty breakfast bar, but it's never enough so I'll eat two of them), freezer meals for lunch because I'm a full time parent of 2 and DH and I are always scrambling rather than planning plus a yogurt and fruit, but then I never eat the yogurt and end up binging in the afternoon), always eating dessert (ice cream addict) and drinking a cocktail at night. Dinners also recently started trending after my 2nd child to be prefrozen stuff like from Costco fajitas that you can just heat up the meat and freezer potato fries.

So going through this process helps as even if I won't cut the calories forever, it helps to get in the habit of planning meals that incorporate fresh fodos/lean protein, and less freezer/processed foods. Also even if I can't do it every day, I can definitely do it some days and that helps.

It's also nice to learn about little things that I never actually realized if I didn't count calories - like I'm cool with dijon mustard rather than mayo and never realized how low calorie mustard is! PB2 tastes good and helps me curb my sweet tooth. I don't mind leaving the oil off my salad and veggies and just seasoning them. Little "revelations" like this are helping, so I'm curious what tidbits I can find out from others...

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