CockneyRebel's restructured eating plan

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I think the best idea is to completely replace all soft drink and calorie drink with water. Soft drink contains more calories than just about anything, I think that cutting it out would make a big difference. I did this a few years ago, and it was difficult at first, but after a week or two it became really easy and then I pretty much almost never craved soft drink again, plus I just feel better inside after drinking a big glass of water.

If you like, I will share my favourite salad recipe with you (I invented it myself! ), I am not sure whether you'll like it or not (you may have different taste to me), but I like it more than any other salad I've tried, plus it's pretty healthy. Btw I'm just guessing the quantities here, I usually estimate according to how hungry I am/how large it looks on my plate. You could vary it according to how much you want to eat.

INGREDIENTS

2tbs chopped cashew nuts
2tbs chopped danish fetta (vary according to how much meat is included - more meat = less cheese)
1 small chopped tomato
5 slices of lebanese cucumber, diced
lettuce leaves (for base)
1/3 of an avocado, chopped.
1/2 nashi OR pear, diced.
small amount of diced salad onion.
1/3 capsicum, chopped (optional).
ground pepper
1/2 cup of chopped cold chicken/cold meat.


DRESSING
1 heaped tsp of pesto
1/4 cup (approx) lemon juice

METHOD
1. arrange lettuce leaves on bowl
2. put cucumber, avocado, nashi, salad onion, capsicum, and chicken on top.
3. put tomato on top, and grind pepper onto the tomato.
4. sprinkle chopped cashew nuts and danish fetta on top.
5. mix pesto with lemon juice in a drinking glass, and pour over top of salad.
6. Eat!!

You might want to join a community garden and raise some of your veggies. Vancouver I'm sure has a few organic gardens that are community operated.

The reason I'm drinking milk is for the calcium and because it's one of my favourite things to drink.

I've been eating healthier for the past 7 weeks. I weigh myself every Saturday. So far, I have lost 12 lbs.

Here is my diet plan:

- Lean Pockets and Lean Cuisines
- Boxes of 100 calorie snack packets
- Low-calorie ice cream
- Low-calorie cheese
- Eggs that come already beaten in a carton
- Fruit & veggies
- Substituting red meat for turkey meat (though it's still a good idea to eat red meat once or twice a week to prevent anemia)
- Flavoring my water with Crystal Light or Mio instead of Kool-Aid

My plan involves eating two meals a day and having two to four snacks in between. Something that helps to curb my appetite is to chew sugar-free gum. I also get 30 to 90 minutes of exercise everyday, though obviously that's not for everyone. I only exercise that much because I find it enjoyable.

Oh, and I also taught myself not to "comfort eat" anymore. To "comfort eat" to eat for reasons other than hunger, such as to curb loneliness, sadness or boredom. It was difficult at first, but I managed to get over it. I also set a time at night where I quit eating until the next day. For me this time is 8:30 PM, but you can make the time anything that suits you schedule. The reason for this is because if you eat too soon before bed, you are more likely to gain weight from it.

This isn't about weight loss, but I still want to eat the right things. Okay, it was in the begining because some fat and hairy guy twice my size said that if my role model was 5-6 and 400 lbs, that I'd look like him. Today and beyond, it's about getting the right nutrients. I might or might not lose weight. You guys have a lot of good suggestions.

If anyone was 5-6 and 400 lbs, they'd look like a girl that I went to school with. That girl is as wide as she is, tall. I also respect everybody here, no matter what your size is.

You can get calcium in its purest form in steamed vegetables such as broccoli and kale.The dairy industry is not one I would support...a bunch of lies and propaganda.

i think that whatever diet changes work for you, that you are comfortable with, can help. i periodically research calorie content, nutritive values, and so on, which helps me to keep everything in balance. i could give advice as to what i eat, but that won't help you as we have such radically different tastes in food.

mostly, i do something peculiar with my thinking, which works for me, but is difficult to explain. i do a psychological trick, essentially. i try to eat new foods to experiment with new flavours and combinations, but i prevent too much attachment to specific foods by reminding myself how a familiar food tastes and imagining it instead of eating it.

i remind myself that flavour is a cognitive interpretation of a stimulus (not the correct wording but whatever), and it is mostly the memory of a taste that we are craving. the actual experience of tasting something is momentary and fleeting, but it is the memory that makes us want more because it is the memory that tells us what it was like and what feelings to associate with it. so i trick my brain into conjuring up the memory in great detail, and over time the cravings begin to pass.

if the craving comes back too strongly or if i am starting to forget the flavour, i savour a small amount so that i can create an amazing new memory to recall. but i don't eat it to excess, because it doesn't taste any better if i eat 10 times as much.

CR, I hope you also realise, i wasn't implying anything about your weight either. I think you look beautiful. I am just a dietary nut.

Oh yeah, if you like drinking a lot of milk go for skimmed because there's less fat content (that's what I do, I love milky hot drinks so I always buy myself skimmed).
Oh yeah don't forget to exercise enough too, it's no good eating healthier if you're not active as well because it will make little difference to your health. Even if your primary goal isn't losing loads of weight it's still better if you get a bit trimmer for your own good, you'll end up having a heart attack at 40 or something otherwise!