For me, I like to be skinny. I'm a little over 6 feet but at my healthiest weighing in the low 170s. It's when I have my most energy, when I sleep best, and when my body feels best. A month ago I was at 200 and just felt horrible all the time. So I changed me eating habits to lots of chicken & turkey, sometimes on top of lots of spinach, sometimes in brown rice fried up in olive oil with lots of bell pepper, onions, and serranos, sometimes in sandwiches with lots of spinach... stuff like that for dinners 5 days a week and lunches 7 days. Then eliminated bacon, breakfast tacos, and sugary cereal for oatmeal and eggs most of the time for breakfast (still gotta have Cinnamon Toast Crunch a couple times a week though). Then a couple times a week I eat the bad for you food like enchiladas, chalupas, borracho beans with bacon and pork, fatty brisket and sausage, chorizo, etc. And then fruit instead of Snickers. I feel like eating what you really want only some of the time and eating healthy most of the time is the best way to go for me. It makes me really enjoy the meals I like, really look forward to getting my bag of Jelly Belly's each week, but also view food as mostly just fuel I need to power my body. So far eating well 5 nights a week and running have let me drop down to 188 in a month, down from 200.
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