I cannot emphasize enough that it is not necessarily to go "cold turkey" when you're trying to cut down on the food you eat and the soda you drink. It is when you *try* to go cold turkey that the cravings come, the succumbing to temptation, the over-eating even more so than what you usually do, and the guilt afterward.
If you cut down on your food gradually, this gives your stomach - which is an expandable and shrinkable bag, time to shrink on its own.
What will help you to cut down on your food gradually is if you keep a journal of how much you eat every day. Do this for a week before you start to try to cut down.
Eat normally, and record what you eat. Record how you exercise.
Then, it is a simple matter to know what to cut back on.
Eat three cookies for dessert? Cut that down to two. Drink four pepsis a day. Cut that down to three. Have a midnight snack of ice cream. Cut it down to half a bowl.
Do you go back for seconds on potatoes? Cut that down to have a portion...then eventually don't go back for seconds at all.
Following this advice, you will never have uncontrollable cravings, you will never go on a sudden binge because you've been depriving yourself.
It's the way to do it.
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