Diet foods or smaller portions of regular foods?   

Eating smaller portions works well. Four or five smaller meals during the day keeps your matabolism working in higher gear. Then of course, you need to add some exercise or vigirous activity. If you don't eat enough, you will be hungry and eventually give in to eating. I think the idea is to eat healthier, increase your matabolism and stick to your plan.

I think it is better to eat smaller portions and more balanced meals of regular foods. There are diet programs with more varieties of diet foods, which make you loose weight faster, BUT, what happens when you loose the weight and return to your regular foods? The weight comes back. I think this is why there are so much diet failures.

Being conscience of our intake and creating more balance in our diets is what helps us loose weight.

I've been on a weight loss program for the past 2 weeks (6 lbs lost to date...want to lose 35lbs total by December, my 40th). I have a fairly simple method. I eat smaller portions, don't eat after 7 PM. I wear a pedometer and try to walk between 6,000 - 10,000 steps per day, and I have completely cut out soda replacing it with water and V8 Fusion. I can already feel the benefits and I think I will reach my target weight.

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I don't have to diet often, but when I want to cut back on calories, I would much rather cut portion size than buy low fat. . .yuk. I like flavor too much!

I have eaten both. I am dieting right now so I try to eat smaller portions of food that is not diet food. I do buy diet food from LA Weightloss which is snacks so I can eat two a day guilt free. LOL

I do well on free/fatfree foods PLUS lots of salads, fish, chicken and fruit for snacks.