What are the best foods to eat/avoid?

I'm trying to lose weight by running and eating cleaner, but I'm not sure about which foods to avoid and which to eat. Obviously I know that junk food is a no no, but there are some that I am just unsure about. Today for lunch I had a wheat bread sandwich with provolone cheese, banana peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles and spinach. I drank 8 glasses of water. For dinner I had a piece of baked chicken breast, mashed potatoes and peas and carrots. I ate ice cream about an hour ago, and I know that that was bad. I'm still learning and learning not to give into temptation. Besides the ice cream, did I eat good things? I know that mashed potatoes are questionable as well. Also, if I am drinking 8 glasses of water a day, is it bad to drink one can of soda per day too? What other foods would you suggest?

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Candy and soda is a no-no. Avoid at all costs. Whole wheat bread is best, but the occasional white bread is okay too. Green leafy veggies (spinach, romaine lettuce, broccoli, etc) contain five different nutrients and are very good. Try to eat at least one serving of each color of the rainbow (about food, not the actual colors). You don't have to drink 8 glasses of water; that's a myth (kind of). The actual amount of water you should drink a day is 3/4 of your body weight (or so my dance teacher says). Don't rely on food to give you Vitamin D. Go outside in the sun WITHOUT sunscreen and stay there for about 30-45 minutes. Just make sure you don't get a sunburn. If you want cheese, the harder the cheese, the better. I think cheddar is the hardest one...... but I'm not sure.If you're at some party, and they have bad food, here are some choices. (I just put this in because you're going to come across this sooner or later)Choose hamburger over a hot dog. If you can choose what to put on the hamburger, choose chicken, lettuce, and tomato.Eat salad of course.Choose potato salad over pasta salad. It's even better if the potatoes still have the skin on it.And that's all I can really think of now.

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• The potato mash can be questionable ... Because where did the vegetable come from? I bet it was Alll sprayed with pesticide anyways??!! Can't avoid pesticide! Ahahahahahansmahsh Same goes for the ice cream.... How many ingredients did it take to make???
• You have a lots of food you sould have a best food like a macroni cheese, lod's off salad you sould meet beter then vegitabile food so vegetabale food try to Best.

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Will this water diet make me thinner & lose weight?

I'm 18, 5'5 & weigh 139.6 pounds. I know that's not too bad but I'm starting to get pretty insecure about it. I really want to be in the 120's because that is where all the skinny people my height & age are. I have been trying to get over a pretty bad cold now but that has nothing to do with my weight. From this I have had to drink plenty more water which has gotten me to feel bloated. I was thinking, what if I could put my self on a water diet. What I would do is when I get hungry, I just fill my stomach with about 2 pounds or more of water so when I eat, I don't eat too much because of all the water in my belly. I do this every day & see if I have lost much. Yet every time I pee, I have to drink the same amount so I stay stuffed. Will this work & if so, how much weight should I lose in a week? And is the peeing & drinking water right after trick a good idea?

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Nope. What it will do is cause you to gain a LOT of water weight, and till put your body into starvation mode, meaning that your body will store fat faster, while destroying your muscles and internal organs.EAT healthy food, eat salads, and steamed greens and lean meat. Reduce your intake of carbs, added sugar, and processed food.And most importantly, be aware that it is very possible to die from drinking too much water. Even less than 4 liters in a day can kill you. Stick ot 1-2 liters per day, unless you're sweating a lot.

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• Eat as much as you please. Eat mostly beans and oat meal and grilled chicken breast.
• You only need to lose about 12 lbs which you do in just 6 weeks. Here's a good low-carb food/exercise plan:Breakfast: Cook 9-grain cereal (from health food store) in water with rolled oats and wheat bran. Make a pot of it on weekends and nuke 1/2 cup each morning. Then stir in low fat milk or yogurt, banana, walnuts and berries. Drink hot Ovaltine. Breakfast should be your largest meal of the day to raise blood sugar level which falls during the night.Lunch: Egg, tuna or turkey ½ sandwich on multi-grain (not just whole wheat) bread with bean or alfalfa sprouts, yogurt, fresh fruit. If you had meat loaf for dinner, bring a meat loaf sandwich on whole grain bread (NO mayo). On cold days, a squatty thermos of hot chili, split peas with ham, or beef stew.Snacks: Fresh (not canned) fruit. Nothing ever from a vending machine. Dinner: salad with white meat chicken and fresh (not canned) veggies: tomatoes, 2 kinds of lettuce, 2 kinds of shredded cabbage, shredded or sliced carrots, alfalfa or bean sprouts, zucchini, green or red peppers, hard boiled eggs, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, tofu, cottage cheese...Instead of dressing, squeeze 1/4 tomato over it. Or homemade bean/vegetable soups; great way to recycle leftovers.Or grilled fish with steamed veggies.Or omelet: In blender, whip together eggs, tofu, cottage cheese, onions, garlic powder. Cook with mushrooms, chopped tomatoes and green or red peppers. Avoid junk food, fast foods, pastries, desserts, anything with sugar (cancer cells feed on sugar), gluten, syrup (even canned fruit in syrup), peanut butter, fat/grease (pork, wieners, chops, bacon, salami, pizza, chips, fries), pasta, potatoes, ramen, popcorn, white bread, rice, canned veggies, ice cream, soda, chips, tobacco, alcohol and coffee. No oil except olive and mac nut. To keep your skin clear, drink water, tea, unsweetened veggie and fruit juice. Join a gym; they have all the equipment and staff to show you how to use it to get the look you want to achieve, but you have to ask them. Much cheaper than buying your own equipment. Go hiking, biking, jogging, bowling, swimming, rowing, jump rope, play tennis, badminton, volleyball, soccer, jumping jacks, lift weights, trampoline? To tone your tummy, do sit ups, push ups, pull ups, leg lifts, butt raises and crunches.For more energy, take Super B complex.
• dont put yourself on the water diet, it is extremely unhealthy! although water is good for your body and you need lost of it, it does not supply the nutrients that food does and if you drink to much you can die as it can make your body drown. you need calories in a day to keep healthy! if you want to lose weight try the 3 day on, 4 days off diet, or eat less, move more, or even just eat healthier and join a gym :)
• A water diet will not make you thinner, though it can surely do the opposite!Eat clean portioned meals, and exercise regularly. There is noquick fix if you want to lose weight and keep that weight off.
• I'm done with my weight loss journey and completely happy with how I feel and how I look right now however losing weight is a challenge for anyone and even losing 5 pounds and keeping it off isn't an easy task. Also I bet you didn't know that 5 pounds of fat is about the size of 8 cheese burgers? That alone should be enough to make anyone want to get on the ball and start a change for the better. Weight loss can be really easy to learn but the problem is nobody wants to put the required effort that is needed to actually do it, instead people continually look for (easy) ways to do it. If there was an easy way to lose weight I don't think 35% of Americans would be obese. There was a time when I also wanted to lose weight and was tired of starting diets only to lose motivation and give up just a few weeks later after seeing no results. However, let me tell you it is literally one of the easiest things you will ever learn once you find a good and reputable place to learn it from and I say that only because the world is filled with magic diet pills, liquid flush diets and a thousand other quick fixes that promise xx pounds of weight loss in the first week and even though it is impossible they know you're going to do it because your desperate. I have probably tried every diet pill, liquid flush diet, and ab rocket machine known to man and have had no success with any of them nor do I know anyone that has ever had any success with them. I have also tried starving myself which works very well for the first few weeks' right before your metabolism comes to a complete stop and eating just the tiny bit makes you gain weight and you end up weighing more than you did before you started starving yourself. Companies promote weight loss to make money not to get people healthy again and that's because they know you're not going to be a customer and buy their products if you're no longer fat. http://fatloossfactor.com is a site I want you to go to when you have 10 or 20 minutes to spare and I want you to sit down and watch his video on weight loss. He helps people every day to lose weight I have never seen someone as committed as him and that will go so far out of his way to help someone. His weight loss program is one of the best I have ever had the enjoyment of doing and it is without doubt the best success I have ever had with any weight loss program. I also couldn't be happier with my body right now and I have never felt this wonderful in my whole life. In the end you just got to remember to stick with it and stay confident in yourself and in no time you can achieve the results you have always wanted. It's not hard to lose weight but most people have a hard time staying motivated and 9 times out of 10 it was because they weren't really committed from the beginning. Anyways I hope I helped you and I hope you make the commitment to change your body and life. Remember it's not easy to take the first step but you did, you're here right now taking it and the rest of the steps will fall into place. Have a wonderful day.

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