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My Plan

My eating plan is Low carb modified intuitive eating (yeah I made that up.)  Basically i am on phase 1/2 of south beach or Atkins, but I don't count carbs I eat when I'm hungry and I stop.  I know the carb content of most of the food I eat so I can make reasonable choices.

Here are the things that help me stay on plan.

You need support, not everyone is going to understand why you think the scale is a tourture device or why you just all those forbidden foods when you are on a diet.  Being judged sucks.  Judging is not support.

So when I started losing weight the best thing I ever did was stumble upon the 3 fat chicks website.  There is NO BETTER site for weight loss support around.
 There I learned the following

-Figure out what you are eating, calories, chemicals, fats, carbs.  No what plan you choose to follow figure it out.  Once I learned about all the different things in what I was eating I started to cook more. 

- For me cooking is essential. I can't always tell what is in whatever  I am eating at a restaurant is made with, at the same time I had no idea how to cook, let alone cook healthy.  3fatchicks (3FC) was helpful, but the website I love is cookinglight.com and the magazine.  It give me good, usually simple recipes.

will add more later

12/2013 - my current eating plan is modified paleo.

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