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Originally Posted by modifyeddoll87
the way i see it is i can either eat the junky foods im used to in smaller portions and lose weight
or i can start eatting better foods at lower calorie amounts so i can eat massive amounts
but i cant help but wonder is that okay to have a mindset like that ? is it okay to eat healthier with the sole purpose of simply eatting more ? does that feed into binge eatting?
I remember someone on here who very deliberately built her plan around volume... within her calorie limit, she chose foods that would fill her up over things that would not. She ate a lot of veggies, and she was very seldom hungry. Since hunger and habit are two of the main issues we have to overcome, I think it's a perfectly good plan of attack.
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Originally Posted by bethFromDayton
In The Beck Diet Solution--How to Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person, the author (Judith Beck, PhD) talks about feelings of fullness and says that many overweight people don't recognize when they are comfortable fully and tend to eat past that point. She says that learning to recognize comfortable fullness--still being able to take a brisk walk after eating--is one of the keys to successful weight loss.
This is something that I found invaluable from my times doing intermittent fasting. Learning about what hunger really was, and acknowledging that I could, indeed, survive (and thrive!) eating only 500-600 calories one day, so long as I was eating 1500 the next, has "retrained" me so that I'm much more able to assess my hunger accurately, and to withstand "the munchies" that used to lead me to mindless eating.
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Originally Posted by sassyangies
I've always said that I'm a quantity person. So yes for me i would definetelly choose the healthy rate. Like they said you can not get obese eating a huge portion of veggies. and I find that even just a little junk food I can go off plan and it ruins it for me. I am just not ready for that yet. Plus once your eating healthy for awhile your body becomes used to the foods and your portions go down a little (at least with me). Now somedays I'm trying to add more variety with a little higher calories to fill the calories in because I'm not eating all my calories because I'm satisfied. Hope that makes sense. Good luck to you.. WE can do this!!
I agree. There are days when I just don't bother adding the calories from a cup of steamed broccoli, or two cups of salad greens, to my food diary. THAT's not how I became obese! It's the dressing, and nuts, and cheese and such that did it. And that's the stuff I'm very careful to track.
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Originally Posted by CherryPie99
I have lost 227 pounds eating "massive amounts" of vegetables. And I'm serious about this - I eat like 4-5 serving sizes of veggies at my night meal almost every night. I USED to eat my carbs like this - now I have a reasonable portion of carbs at night and instead stock up on the veggies and protein.
That sounds like a great plan for you. Volume and bulk really do help you feel full. Way to go!!