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I have definitely used my difficulty starting tasks to help myself lose weight. I find its way easier to just be hungry than to make food. Most of the time.
I still have to make sure I'm not eating snacks without thinking about it. A good option for me has been keeping easy, small, healthy foods, that can get me through hunger pang. My favorite is a pot of Greek yogurt. They're like 80¢ at Aldi where I live. Fresh fruit works great as well! And for late night treats, I eat frozen fruit. It fills the ice cream niche, without being packed with calories and extra sugar
If you have very ripe bananas, you can freeze them and then they make a nice ice cream substitute blended.
Fruit all the way. Two big ass kiwis are like 100 calories. I'm in love with them and blueberries (and every berry). Super good for you nutritionally as well.
Every gram of fiber in a food allows you to essentially “erase” a gram of sugar so fruits with fiber (not bananas or many melons) are essentially free foods calorically speaking and they do have plenty of nutrients on top of it
My wife tried to tell me the same thing but with fiber and carbohydrates in general. She still believes it, it sounds like nonsense to me. Do you have a source?
fibre reduces the absorption of nutrition in the gut, but it doesn't erase bad nutrition.
This is very easy to test at home, get a glucose meter and eat your favorite fibre and sugar together and see what your blood sugar will do... it will still spike.
I can’t back up the GP’s “1 gram 1 gram” claim, but the effects of dietary fibre on regulating blood sugar and other benefits for health are well studied.