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It isn't just what you eat, it's also portion size. A serving of protein should be about 4 ounces. The size of the palm of your hand. The starchier items like potatoes or rice should be about half that. And you can have lots of vegetables.
This 100%.
BEFORE you start thinking about dieting at all, figure out what you're eating, and how much you're eating of it.
Use this website: http://caloriecount.about.com for at least one whole week and LOG EVERYTHING you put in your mouth.
If it takes you figuring out the ingredients you use to cook, and then weighing out what the portion size is you're eating, DO IT. No excuses. Don't eat anything you haven't logged, period.
It will give you a starting oversight on exactly how much calories you're currently eating, and how you're doing on vitamins, minerals, fat, carbs, and processed sugars. This is information you need to know before you ever think about dieting.
Now, instead of trying to diet, and try to replace stuff you want to eat with stuff you don't want to eat, look at what you're actually eating.
Does an average day come in at 3500 calories? Why, what did you eat, in what portion? Could you have eating a little less than that whole steak and still have enjoyed the meal?
From there, start fudging with your food 200 calories at a time. Instead of eating a 16oz steak, eat a 12oz steak. Saver the meal, note if you really needed that extra 4oz or not. Go from there, slowly start messing around with the types of food you eat, and especially, the quantities you eat them in, and slowly go down to what is a healthy calorie range for a woman your age and height to eat. (Which for your age, height, and activity level should be about 1700. You need 2200 calories to maintain your current weight, so anything over that will slowly have you gain more, and anything under that will have you loose weight.
Don't try to do a complete overhaul of what you're putting in your mouth by means of a diet, until AFTER you can get what you are currently eating under control enough that you A) know exactly what you're putting in your mouth and B) have enough control to start eating less of the foods you like so much, to the point you're eating appropriate portion sizes for what a meal should be.
If you can't cut your favorite foods down to the point where you're eating only as much pasta as your body needs, then how on Earth will you manage to maintain following a diet eating all kinds of food you don't even want to eat. Doing that will set you up for a massive failure and probably weight gain in the long run.
Don't diet, eat whatever you like to eat, but know how much of it you're eating and why.
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