(November 19, 2016 at 3:31 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I dropped from 240 to 200 starting at the beginning of this year by doing the same. I got to that weight within the ten weeks of the healthy eating class offered at Kaiser. When it ended I resolved to just go on eating healthy and moderating things I love like cookies with tea. I'm still at 200 but thinking of taking the class again. It meets weekly and includes a weight in at the start of each class. The way I eat now is sufficient to maintain but I know to lose again I'll have to allow myself to feel hungry more than I do now and my sweet tooth will hate it but I know how to make it work coming in under a daily calorie limit.
I start every day early with a big bowl of steel cut oat meal loaded with fruit and nuts. Then I go until 1 or 2 and then have my biggest meal. Later I'll just have a salad. Right now, I get 1 mochi ball mango ice cream treat from trader joe's every night. I'll have to let that go to lose again.
Got any more specific tips?
I was 200 now I'm 120. I stay away from empty calories, so I stay away from things like flour sugar and starch, I also don't eat oil, fast foods or snacks. I use skim milk and fat free cheese instead of regular. I use splenda inplace of sugar and whole wheat in place of white flour. As I said you have to know how to cook, take the ingredients of something unhealthy and swap with healthy ingredients. Also bake, don't fry. For example I make cookies using raw chocolate or raisins , splenda, baking powder, bakingsoda and whole wheat flour, then I put it in the microwave to cook with no oil. And it tastes glorious without being fattening. Also always read the ingredients of anything you're buying. Especially the ones that advertises (disguises) itself as healthy (Up yours yoplait!). Honestly thanks to a website called Livestrong.com as well as my mom being an expert cook (cuz she has celiac disease so she knows how to reworking cooking methods) and Tae Bow I was able to lose the weight and keep it off.