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I'm not sure if you're trying to lose weight or just clean up your diet for health reasons but what helped me the most in cleaning up my diet was Intermittent Fasting. There's a thread on it in the Diet subforum but the basic concept (if you use the 18/6 model like I did) is that you fast 18 hours a day and have a 6 hour window. There's some science behind why it works for weight loss, but I even did a bulk on it which wasn't easy.
The key for me was that on a typical eating schedule (3-6 meals/day) I have to make good decisions for breakfast, lunch, dinner and all those snacks like office donuts and bagels, going to the pizza place next to my office, etc. With IF I had to make choices for my pre- and post-workout meals. 2 meals=2 decisions instead of at least 3 or 4. It's a hell of a lot easier to turn down a donut because "I'm not eating until 3pm...if the donuts still there, fuck it, I'll eat it" then "ok, I cave I'll eat it now, then still have lunch in an hour."
The key for me was that on a typical eating schedule (3-6 meals/day) I have to make good decisions for breakfast, lunch, dinner and all those snacks like office donuts and bagels, going to the pizza place next to my office, etc. With IF I had to make choices for my pre- and post-workout meals. 2 meals=2 decisions instead of at least 3 or 4. It's a hell of a lot easier to turn down a donut because "I'm not eating until 3pm...if the donuts still there, fuck it, I'll eat it" then "ok, I cave I'll eat it now, then still have lunch in an hour."
