Apart from the obvious...

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  • queenmedusa
    queenmedusa Posts: 247 Member
    You will go off track but accept it and move on, don't give up
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Pretty much everything else is personal preference. Some people do better eating lots of small meals, others do better eating just once or twice a day. Some people are hungry all day if they eat first thing in the morning, others are hungry all day if they don't. Some people feel better eating low carb, other people feel better with a more moderate amount.

    The human body is a wacky and complex machine :p you have to play around with your eating and exercising to find what works for you!

    Oh, having said that, I throw in another vote for patience and setting realistic goals!
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    It helped me to set some specific goals, including non-scale ones, which helped with the patience. I felt like there was something I was doing, whether or not I saw the scale go down that day.

    It also helped a lot to have an understanding of why I'd gained weight and to channel my love of food into a love of cooking. (I know not everyone enjoys cooking, but I think the two aren't that far apart.)

    And, yeah, it helped to realize that what works (beyond eating fewer calories than maintenance) will differ for everyone and that I needed to find what worked for me and my preferred lifestyle.

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