Mariposa1127 wrote:Hi,
When I would eat my plates of food I would put a lot of junk on them like chips, noodles, bread, cereal, etc.
Sorry. That's not junk, just food.
I know that the "new" low-carb hype (anyone remembers atkins...) can lead to the mindset that carbs are bad, but that is just another fad.
The main concept of NoS Diet is moderation. The first step ist the moderation of the amount of food, but why stop there? I apply that to quality, quantities and to costs and rewards.
For myself the problem was always the extreme:
I ate extreme amounts of food! (Now i eat very moderate meals)
I ate extreme amounts of cheap foods! (Now i have moderate amounts of quality and junk foods)
I ate extreme amounts of carbs! (Now Carbs in moderation)
I ate with an extreme speed! (Now: Very slow eating)
But instead of trying to work against my habbits i tamed them by moderation.
I lost around 90 pounds, got a one-digit percentage of body-fat and became an athlete by moderation - And i did it with fast- and junk-food (in moderation
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So my advice is: Avoid the extremes as much as possible, even the "positive" ones! Avoid the complete deprivation of any kind of food.