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Originally Posted by Wannabeskinny
Now I'm curious I gotta know, what's your tactic?
Haha, I had a feeling someone would ask, but my post already felt too long. It's nothing all that exciting really - I just cook a lot on the weekend so that I have a healthy, on-plan main dish waiting for me when I get home during the week. At most, I'll have to cook an extra vegetable in the evening which takes about 15 minutes. But a protein - fish, chicken, dal, whatever I cooked during the weekend - is always there waiting for me. This is huge for me, because the worst state for me to be in is tired, hungry and thinking "hm, what sounds good for dinner? Maybe I'll just order in...."
I don't know how I could have lost the weight I lost without this. Yet, lots of people don't feel it would work for them - some folks don't like eating the same dinner two nights in a row or have spouses who complain about this; others have a lot more people to cook for than I do and have a hard time making enough food in advance to last more than a day or two. Some folks just don't want to cook at all. But for me? It's the single most important tactic I use to stay on plan.
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I have a friend who's "trick" is to sit down at a restaurant and promptly divide her meal into 2 and box half of it right away.
There is one restaurant in particular where I do this.
The portions there are quite huge and so tasty that it is impossible for me to stop eating if it is there in front of me. So half of it gets put away before I take a single bite.
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Originally Posted by BigChiefHoho
Cleanses are generally pretty bogus, IMO. You might lose a couple pounds, but it'll all come back as soon as you start eating again, and there's honestly no reason that any person with a functioning liver should have to "flush out toxins." Seriously, people, we have organs for that.
I am inclined to agree with this.
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Originally Posted by ReNew Me
Drink water to curb hunger, or it's alternate, drink water when hungry in case you misunderstand your body and are actually dehydrated. Pfffft. If you already drink enough water being hungry is being hungry and drinking water to curb hunger does nothing but make you pee in 30 to 45 minutes.
I take your point, but this one works for me in certain circumstances - especially when I am sitting my desk and trying to hold off on a meal or a snack for just a little while. For instance, if it's an hour before I go to lunch, and I have to decide whether to eat a snack or just wait it out, drinking some water (or some black coffee, or anything) helps me wait it out.
It's not that the drink curbs hunger in any permanent way; I'm not sure what the mechanism is, maybe just giving my mouth and stomach something to do is enough to buy a little time.
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I occasionally have a taste for chocolate and for me keeping large bars of really, really high quality chocolate around (I'm talking Green & Black, Theo, Endangered Species, etc.) is the best cure.
What is this "keeping chocolate around" of which you speak?
I'm teasing - I so envy people who can do this. Any candy kept around me is candy kept
IN me, unless I eat absolutely none of it at all. But the moment I taste it, it's gone.