The best advice you received.

mbcieslak87 · January 2015

yoovie wrote: »

Dating:

make a list of everything you want in a partner, then become that list and more - otherwise the person you fall in love with will be getting the short end of the stick.

Changing Your Life:

You can only ease yourself in for a few minutes before you have to just dive in. It's like jumping into the cold ocean, you just dive. Then you adjust the rest of the way once your hair and swimsuit are wet.

Finding Yourself:

The secrets are all in your childhood. Spend real time pondering your little kid self. Picture her. Follow her. Love her.

I love all of this! Especially pondering the child you were when searching for who you are, because aren't we all really still that little curious person we were, just with more baggage.

sssgilber · January 2015

"The way you do anything is the way you do everything and Character is what you do when no one is watching."

Helps me pay attention to the small decisions which, not surprisingly, makes the big decisions easier. Also keeps me from diving face first into a bag of chocolate.

ellisboyd1 · January 2015

itsfitnessnotrocketscience wrote: »

Best advise for weight loss: "Take. Progress. Pictures." You can't see yourself change like the pictures will show.

Best advise for life: "Sometimes all it takes is 20 seconds of insane courage." If starting the conversation is the hard part, starting is over in easily 20 seconds.

And, actually, I think they go together. Sometimes my weight loss key to success is 20 seconds of insane will power. Order the right dish at the restaurant. Don't pick up the candy bar in the check out line again. Go walk around the block instead of to the pantry for chips. Within 20 seconds, those temptations are over.

agree, especially about pictures. Sadly I was just too low on confidence to take a picture of myself in the beginning.

regarding the 20 seconds, I think it's a bit like a batsman; You only have to focus when the ball's about to come at you.

memlady · January 2015

mbcieslak87 wrote: »

Alatariel75 wrote: »

Weightloss wise, a saying that has ALWAYS stuck with me is "Losing weight is hard. Being fat is hard. Choose your hard."

This is fantastic! I want to write this on my bathroom mirror!

OMG I love this one!!!

doomspark · January 2015

Best weight-related advice: You have to want to do this for yourself. Doing it for other people may get you started but won't keep you going when the going gets tough.

Best general purpose advice: Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't automatically make you right and them wrong.

Best love-life advice: Marry your best friend.

ellisboyd1 · January 2015

doomspark wrote: »

Best love-life advice: Marry your best friend.

I'm in the process of doing that one

opalsqueak007 · January 2015

The best advice I ever had in my life was from a co-worker in 1986: "Don't think about it, do it". It has worked for so many things.

runningforthetrain · January 2015

You can't pay attention to what is in front of you, if you keep looking backward.

BWBTrish · January 2015

Inhale the future, breath out the past.

mumblemagic · January 2015

The best advice I have been given is that expending energy today gives you energy tomorrow. I was told this by my ME consultant when I was a teenager and have found it to be true. So do exercise to gain energy.

Another thing I've learned is from Terry Pratchett's Moving Pictures in which one of the main characters practises advanced laziness: the better condition your body is in, the easier everyday tasks like carrying shopping etc. feel, so he spends an hour a day exercising and is careful to maintain a healthy weight.

And finally, looking good makes you feel good, which makes you more effective. Not sure where I got that tidbit from but I certainly feel it works