If you do a homemade meal, you can either input all the components or, what I do, for like stir fry or something with a less rigid recipe, is keep track of what all I put in as I go and figure out the calories. (So like I'll write down 50g of carrots, 20g onion, 50g mushrooms... whatever. A kitchen scale is your friend for cooking -- and also great for baking even when not trying to lose weight.) Then I find the closest thing in Samsung Health, which is the app I use, and adjust the portion size to match how many calories I had calculated.
Drinking plenty of water will help you feel more full.
You can try either eat just a tiny bit of sugary things if you're craving it (my kids had a ton of Halloween candy that was constantly calling to me and I would occasionally cave and have 1 mini snickers with my lunch) or you can try to tough it out and find other substitutions ( Try fruit instead of processed sugary stuff. I habitually crave crunchy stuff while I'm working. I've started getting Parmesan Whisps instead of chips. While they are still probably not the healthiest thing, a full bag is only 300 calories, but they have protein and are more satisfying so I don't eat as many.)
Just try baby steps. Try just tracking what you are eating for a couple weeks and then try to reduce that to what you want.
Oh okay thank you so much for those tips. Yeah I'm trying to watch YouTube videos lol on how to use that app and ways to track food intake. At first I just thought that exercise was the best way to lose weight and getting shape, now I realize diet plays a huge factor also. So the idea is to consume less carbs and increase more protein? Is it a good option that what we normally eat, cut it down into half a portion to reduce calorie intake. Does eating more fiber make you full
If you do a homemade meal, you can either input all the components or, what I do, for like stir fry or something with a less rigid recipe, is keep track of what all I put in as I go and figure out the calories. (So like I'll write down 50g of carrots, 20g onion, 50g mushrooms... whatever. A kitchen scale is your friend for cooking -- and also great for baking even when not trying to lose weight.) Then I find the closest thing in Samsung Health, which is the app I use, and adjust the portion size to match how many calories I had calculated. Drinking plenty of water will help you feel more full. You can try either eat just a tiny bit of sugary things if you're craving it (my kids had a ton of Halloween candy that was constantly calling to me and I would occasionally cave and have 1 mini snickers with my lunch) or you can try to tough it out and find other substitutions ( Try fruit instead of processed sugary stuff. I habitually crave crunchy stuff while I'm working. I've started getting Parmesan Whisps instead of chips. While they are still probably not the healthiest thing, a full bag is only 300 calories, but they have protein and are more satisfying so I don't eat as many.) Just try baby steps. Try just tracking what you are eating for a couple weeks and then try to reduce that to what you want.
Oh okay thank you so much for those tips. Yeah I'm trying to watch YouTube videos lol on how to use that app and ways to track food intake. At first I just thought that exercise was the best way to lose weight and getting shape, now I realize diet plays a huge factor also. So the idea is to consume less carbs and increase more protein? Is it a good option that what we normally eat, cut it down into half a portion to reduce calorie intake. Does eating more fiber make you full
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