- Start each morning with a full glass of water.
- Eliminate “liquid calories”, no soda, lemonade, ice tea, milk, chocolate milk, juice (all), Gatorade. Replace with water and hot tea. (I had already eliminated soda years ago)
- Portion control, goal is multiple small meals and snacks during the day
- Additional Fruit in diet, need to eat 3 fruits before having a sweet snack
- Eliminate all Nabisco, Keebler and similar brands, replace with homemade products.
- Eliminate hamburger meat and French fries.
- Eliminate all fried foods.
- One Red meat meal per week. Mostly replaced with chicken and fish
- Primary breakfast is sugar free oatmeal
- Primary lunches are: natural peanut butter and jelly with low calorie bread; Turkey with low calorie bread; tuna fish with crackers
- Lower fat chocolate treats – Sugar free pudding with min-chips; power bars (pure protein brand); fiber one bars; dark chocolate Hershey kisses.
- Substituted Special K cereal as only cereal I have. This is a night snack not a breakfast food for me.
- Allow myself a special weekend breakfasts; which is 2 eggs, toast, 1 glass of orange juice (only glass of OJ for the week, in past I had OJ everyday)
- Significant reduction in the amount of pizza
- Reduction in bread and pasta
- Portion control I do not starve myself. I usually have 8-10 snacks/meals per day, mostly healthy and smaller portion than in the past. Example – Oatmeal, Banana, Lunch, Apple, snack(Power Bar or Fiber one bar), Grapes, Dinner, Vegetable snack, Cereal and milk, sweet treat.
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