Thanks so much for the warm welcome! I've found it's so much easier when you have a support group... someone to hold you accountable for your goals, and someone to cheer you on when you're staying on track. It's a great motivator!
I'm not following a specific diet plan, per se, because I don't like having to follow rules and count calories or points all the time, and I'm a vegetarian, so it's VERY hard to stick to the low-carb diets. Basically, I'm trying to use common sense... cutting down portions, eating smaller, more frequent meals, and making meals out of mostly fresh, whole foods instead of junks like pizza and fried foods. Fruits and veggies and rice, oh my!
I'm a bar manager, and the bar I work at serves all sorts of lovely quesadillas, cheese fries, and fried goodies that look so very tempting when I'm there on a 10-hour shift. The worst thing ever is to have to eat a salad brought from home while I watch my employees sharing a basket of chili cheese fries! But I'm being good... so far, at least!
One more thing that I think may be the KEY to my weight-loss: Alcohol! Working at a bar, I drink more than most people do (by no means an alcoholic, but it becomes part of the lifestyle). I think some days, I get half a day's worth of calories from alcohol alone! So i'm cutting down on my drinking... one or two glasses of red wine per week, and that's all I get! We'll see how quickly these pounds start to drop!
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