I've been on a new "diet" for a few weeks now, and I am really happy on it. I just want to post this here, so that if I start to crave junk food, I can read this and remind myself how much I'm getting out of it atm.
I decided to change my diet, which featured a lot of junk food and soft drinks, as I wanted to get healthier and lose weight.
I decided on the following rules about what I eat - vegan (obviously), no hydrogentated fat, no chemical sweetener, no food with added salt/sugar (with the exceptions of baked beans, which means I can still eat at the local pub with my gf, they do baked spuds with beans - and vegetable stock/marmite which I used to make a base for hotpots, soups etc.)
As a result, i've been living almost entirely off fruit/vegatable/nuts and home cooked recipes involving all natrual ingredients, with no salt etc - I was orignally going to have "no junk food" as a rule, but by banning added salt and sugar, I can't think of single "junk" food that I would eat now anyway.
So far I'm lost 3/4 of a stone, and dropped a jeans size - but more importantly, I'm really enjoying food again, learning to eat when my body is hungry, not because I'm craving salt/sugar/caffeine etc.
Never thought it would be so easy to give up soft drinks, store bought bread, crisps etc - but once I decided to do it, it was easy
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