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Originally Posted by elainevdw  One thing I'd suggest that I know helped my boyfriend lose 30 pounds is this: For at least a month, accurately figure out the calorie count in every single thing you eat, and try to eat the recommended single serving of everything you consume. By the end of the month, you'll have a much more realistic idea of what a single-serving portion is, and what foods look low-calorie, but are actually amazingly high-calorie. That's the kind of knowledge that will last you a lifetime, and do you no end of good. |
I couldn't agree more. I did that and it was an eye opener. I had no idea how caloric bagels and pasta were. For years I blamed my "slow metabolism" while I was eating two bagels ( 400 - 600 calories each ) at a sitting or an entire plate of heaping pasta in a sitting.