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My eating habits have changed alot since I have started to loose weight. All diets I have done before usually consisted of cutting out fat or carbs. But for me and others its not a very realistic life style. Dieting I have learned is more of a change of lifestyle, because once you loose the weight you have to learn to keep it off. You can’t loose it then go back to your old eating habits otherwise you will add the pounds right back on. If your on a low carb diet you have to cut out so many things such as pasta, breads all white vegetables and if your like me and you love pasta you know its very hard to do. For example we had macaroni and cheese made with our dinner the other night. I love some mac and cheese so instead of saying no to it, I just decided to get my self a small serving of it. I made my tummy happy in two ways, I gave it what it wanted and limited the amount it should have without going over my daily calories.

Here are a few other things I have changed…

My late night snacks are very limited, No more late night runs to the taco shop as there once was, well at least in San Diego.

Instead of a hamburger, I choose grilled chicken instead instead of fry’s have a side salad with low cal dressing. Low cal dressing seems to be tasting better these days or at least in my opinion.

My breakfast usually consist of fruit, which a 8oz cup of coffee which sugar substitute with two tablespoons of milk or creamer.

Soda is almost completely cut out with the exception of an occasional diet coke.

Yes I still go out to eat, I just make better choices on the menu, just about any place you go to has a low cal menu. Subway is one of my favorite fast food places to go. Today, I drove up to Sacramento and we needed to get something to eat. They wanted Taco Bell, I know they have a low cal menu but in the drive thru I didn’t see it so I ordered what sounded good which was the new chicken flat bread sandwich. I knew I shouldn’t be having it, but I decided to order just one, something I normally would have ordered 2 or 3 of because of the small size. I am thankful for my decision because for one my stomach was content with it and I later found out that it was 300 calories and that is within the range that I like to keep each meal at (usually I give myself more for dinner.) I do however allow myself a cheat meal which has usually been on Fridays.

I have snacks I love the selection of 100 cal snack packs you can buy. However the other day I wanted something to snack on and Brandon had some cheese nips. I looked at the calorie content and it was 150 per serving of 29 crackers. Before I would of never thought to get the serving size and just eat out of the box, but this time I actually counted out 15 crackers so I could cut the calories in half to 75. The handful of crackers did the job just as I wanted to and I was content. Also veggies and fruit are great snacks. A small salad has been my thing these days when I get a lil hungry.

I have trained my tummy and my eyes to be satisfied before I am full.

I am drinking alot more water.

I keep track of everything I eat.

I also take a woman’s multi vitamin every morning.