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08314 Re: Diet
   Zimbler0:

Re: “Cutting out the sugary sodas . . made losing the first ten pounds easy. More exercise and dropping the cookies out of my lunch bag made the second ten pounds go away. The last ten pounds were a DOG.” My previous doctor told me that people don't often lose weight through exercise. His recommendation was to keep track of what I'm eating. He said that if I do that, I'll automatically trend toward reduced calories.

I'm not doing that, but I like the diet I'm on now. I've got three easy meals that fill me up: Bean burritos, Tuna fish sandwiches, and Mushroom soup. The burritos are about 135 calories apiece. I just ate four and I'm full. A can of mushroom soup with dry milk is 550 calories. Three tunafish sandwiches are 390 calories.

If that's all I ate, I'd be consuming 1,480 calories per day and would definitely lose weight. But I also eat miscellaneous fruits and vegetables, zero calorie things like coffee and soda and salad dressing (often as a dip), and a glass of NON-DIET Gatorade (80 calories most days).

My daily intake is less than 2000 calories for sure. Importantly, I'm not suffering and am dropping weight at roughly ½ pound per day. I think I can keep this up indefinitely, though I will occasionally cheat when going out, visiting with folks or celebrating something.

But I will probably find, as some of you have, that diet expectations and diet realities are two different things.