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Not rocket science, but extremely difficult to break a snack or dessert habit.
Tru dat.
My weight gain is easily explained - a diet with lots of high calorie snacky treats, and injury / lockdown putting paid to exercise.
I could easily have 2,000+ calories in a day that were crisps, chocolate, biscuits and (0%) beer.
Fine when I can pop out for a 10 mile run, not so fine when I'm sat at a desk from 8am to 8pm.
Dropping the crisps, chocolate & biscuits has been straightforward, if a little less fun.
NotThamesWater
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Nuts is a strange one, because nuts are 'healthy' but have loads of calories.
100g of macadamia nuts is over 700 calories, maybe more than the calories in a whole meal, so with a beer, might be having a 800-900 calorie snack daily on top of everything else.
Probably not as satisfying, but replacing with a fairly large quantity of fruit (but not juice) would save 500 calories a day, which by itself is the standard recommendation of calorie deficit you should be having daily.
Cutting out a packet of crisps, not having a couple of biscuits with coffee, and going for americano instead of a latte would have a similar calorie deficit.
Or skipping dessert.
Not rocket science, but extremely difficult to break a snack or dessert habit.