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tips...

1. Don't have snack foods in your pantry. Only keep healthy foods around. If you get munchies... having some melon or broccoli is way better than demolishing a bunch of potato chips.

2. Get used to the taste of things without salt, butter, etc. Food tastes pretty good without unhealthy embellishments. You might be used to things being a vessel for ranch dressing or salt, I know I was. A little salt on chicken can help but try to have unsalted nuts and salads without fatty dressings and broccoli plain or steam without butter, etc.

3. Try to avoid artificial foods and ingredients. God knows what that stuff does to you. Check out the packaging of your foods and look up things you don't understand and try to figure out how foods were processed.

4. When you go out to eat, cut your meal in half. Eat one half there and take the rest home. There are very few restaurant entrees that you need to eat anymore than half of.

5. If you eat something for the sake of taste, just enjoy a small amount. If you want ice cream, having a few bites will satisfy your taste buds roughly as much as eating a giant ass ice cream cone of it.

6. Realize what leads to unconscious eating. Like what Bartz was saying. If you bring a bag of chips over to the table, do you even think about how much you are eating? First few bites are good but then you kinda "get in the zone" with eating, right? If you instead had 5 chips and made sure to savor them, you'd probably enjoy them even more.

7. Drink water.

8. weigh yourself every morning first thing - at least weigh yourself at the same time every day. Don't worry over minor fluctuations.

9. Vegetable snacks - if processing vegetables is a lot of work, then start off buying pre-sliced fuits/veggies. It's obviously better to process it yourself but it's better to spend $5 on two servings of
sliced peppers than it is to buy a whole bag of potato chips for $3.

10. It's fairly true that you feel full about 20 minutes after you're actually full. I would think of food not so much as "small portions" or "smaller portions", but instead "correct portions".

11. If you have insurance I imagine you can get referred to a nutritionist. I could say "eat lots of spinach" but it sounds like that might be bad for you.

There's a lot to learn and what works for some people might not work for you. There's a lot to take in here and I still think your first step, whether you do what I say or do what boko says or whatever is to learn macros. You should know roughly what a good diet looks like and be able to quickly break down your food choices into that diet. After a quick look at macros you will never look at food the same way. You don't even need to follow macros or obsess about them, it'll just help you understand dietary needs and sources.
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