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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP. I am in the process of healthying up, and here are some things I found true for me:

I cant make sweeping big changes. I make one change at a time, until it becomes habit. Every morning I stopped at Starbucks to get a croissant and hot chocolate with whipped cream. I don't eat breakfast at home. But now I stop at Jamba Juice and get their steel cut oatmeal with soy milk and sliced banana (no brown sugar). I get soba soap at a Japanese place, and used to get a side of tempura with it. I cut out the tempura.

Think about where your big problems lay. For me, it's after I come home from work. I would make ravioli for dinner, make a bagel to eat WHILE the ravioli was cooking, and munch on something else WHILE the bagel was toasting. Now, although it's kind of a waste of money, I buy cut up fruit from Whole Foods. When I come home, I can grab that to eat instead while dinner is cooking.

I happen to like water, but almost WISH I had a soda addiction, because it'd be a easy thing to cut out in order to lose weight. Keep in mindyou can drink seltzer - it doesn't have to be plain water.

When you make plans with a friend, try to plan something that is an activity (like going for a walk along a pretty view), and don't make a meal the main focus of tehe get together.

You will NOT starve. I associate the "hungry" feeling with my stomach hurting, for some reason. So if I physically feel hungry, I immediately think I'm sick. I'm not. It's okay to feel hungry. And you WILL feel hungry as you cut down on portion sizes, while your stomach gets used to its new portions you're feeding it. But it will adjust,  for me it takes less than two weeks.

I keep healthy snacks around. I bought a bag of mixed nuts that I like okay, but not too much, from Trader Joe's, and then a smaller bag of honey-roasted peanuts. I mixed them together, and pour some into a cup to munch at work. If I eat a little nut snack at work around 11am, then at 1pm when I goto lunch I'm not super hungry and am less prone to getting the tempura, or a bag of M&Ms after lunch to eat in the afternoon. I bring that cut-up fruit to work and sometimes eat some around 4pm. [/quote]

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