So everyone who is dieting what are you doing?
I wouldn't call what I'm doing for eating a "diet", in the typical sense of the word, because I am trying adopt a foundation for a new way of eating into the foreseeable future. The best way to characterize my diet would be that I am doing a modified primal diet. I have basically eliminated all grains and processed foods as sources of carbs, and at the moment I am keeping total non-fruit/vegetable carbs down. I still eat/drink dairy though. And I'll eventually add back in moderate amounts of certain non-fruit/veggie carbs (brown/wild rice, legumes, potatoes) once I get closer to my ideal weight and adopt a weight-lifting regimen.
Once I hit my ideal weight, I'll keep the modified primal diet and my base diet, but allow grains/processed foods back in on occasion as part of the "80/20" rule, but they will never have a place in my day-to-day diet.
For exercise, I have only been doing cardio at the gym and some basketball. I will start doing some running outside soon (may participate in a 5K in February, so I need to train), and I will eventually start a weight-lifting plan (no set date yet).
How do you resist snacking all day? That has been one of the hardest things for me, tbh. Probably doesn't help that I'm at home all day.
I've been keeping myself from doing it through willpower but I don't know how good that is. I have found myself picking something up and almost eating it before even realizing what I was doing.
1. Find a diet where you aren't legitimately hungry between meals.
2. Once you have found the above, create some sort of impetus that prevents you from boredom snacking (i.e. shoveling handfuls of cashews into your face while on the PC with a total disregard of whether you are actually hungry or not).
For me, #1 was tough because until I got that under control, it inevitably led to #2. I would get hungry/cravings between my meals, and then end up eating half a bag of chips or half a jar of cashews as a snack to sate me until my next meal. At this point, I don't seem to get real hungry between meals like I did in the past.
Joggin heaps and eating ~1400cal is doing me well. I'm a bit worried my measurements haven't changed but they should eventually.
