{"id":2072,"date":"2021-05-18T18:16:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2021-05-18T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:16:49","slug":"cutting-junk-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/cutting-junk-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose Weight by Cutting out Junk Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lose Weight Cutting Junk Food<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey! Nice blog! I’m 20F, 5’6″ and I’ve maintained my weight at 142~143 lbs for a long time after dropping from 160 lbs in high school. While I would have liked to lose a few pounds since, my brief attempts failed, honestly because of a lack of motivation. As an adult I’ve more or less eaten what I wanted to while not paying too much attention to the scale. I didn’t consider myself to be an emotional eater<\/a><\/strong> but I guess I am.<\/p>\n

I ate a lot of junk food though – I estimate that in the past month, around half of my calories came from junk food! I tend to cook healthy meals but I think my meals were too small, causing me to compensate with chips and pastries. I have a big appetite and eat a lot, but I’m very active.<\/p>\n

JUNK FOOD ISSUE<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s only recently that I recognized that I had a problem and that my junk food consumption couldn’t be good for me. So, for the past week, I made the conscious decision to eat less junk food. I have a sweet tooth so I stocked up on sweet potatoes and fruits to satisfy it.<\/p>\n

I ate bigger healthy meals. I probably ate half the amount of junk I had been eating, while otherwise eating whatever I wanted to. I’m hoping to slowly get to a point where I eat junk food almost exclusively for social occasions (with the occasional treat)! Cutting it out entirely would probably be unsustainable for me.<\/p>\n

GRANDMA’S ADVICE<\/strong><\/p>\n

My grandmother always told me to cut out the junk and I never listened. These old antiques you see in the picture used to be hers and I keep them as a reminder of how good she was to me. But yes, she used to try to get me to eat less junk.<\/p>\n

So I decided to weigh myself this morning and I weighed in at 139 pounds (compared to ~142 the week before). I realize that most of the 3 lbs I lost was probably water<\/strong><\/a> weight, but this was surprising to see!<\/p>\n

I think this is the lowest weight I’ve been since I was 12. I find calorie counting, IF, low carb, and other methods of weight loss to be unpleasantly restrictive, so I’m excited that I can lose weight through simply eating less junk food!<\/p>\n

– Trish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey! Nice blog! I’m 20F, 5’6″ and I’ve maintained my weight at 142~143 lbs for a long time after dropping from 160 lbs in high school. While I would have liked to lose a few pounds since, my brief attempts failed, honestly because of a lack of motivation. As an adult I’ve more or less eaten what I wanted to while not paying too much attention to the scale. I didn’t consider myself to be an emotional eater but I guess I am. I ate a lot of junk food though – I estimate that in the past month, around <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}