What are the TOP 10 things you did to achieve success?

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  • ka97
    ka97 Posts: 1,984 Member
    1. eat more veggies
    2. pre-plan meals
    3. pre-prep food on Sundays
    4. make and freeze single serving "freezer meals"
    5. run
    6. lift
    7. joined mfp (yeah, lost most of my weight before stumbling on here)
    8. log everything
    9. use a food scale
    10. stick with it
  • marieamethyst
    marieamethyst Posts: 869 Member
    moyer566 wrote: »
    1. move more
    2. eat less
    3. stop making excuses
    4. repeat 1-3
    5. repeat 1-3
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    9. repeat 1-3
    10. repeat 1-3

    Pretty much this!
  • FitForL1fe
    FitForL1fe Posts: 1,872 Member
    1. logging accurately
    2. logging accurately
    3. logging accurately
    4. you get the idea
  • snowflake930
    snowflake930 Posts: 2,188 Member
    edited June 2015
    Only 3 for me.
    Log everything I eat and drink, stay @ or slightly under calorie allowance, and move more.
    It really works. I lost -160#, and have been on maintenance for 19 months.
  • professionalHobbyist
    professionalHobbyist Posts: 1,316 Member
    Learn more about food!

    See my body as a chemistry set
    Use a food scale
    Log correctly
    Be responsible for burning off splurges
    Exercise for a purpose, cardio days, resistance days
    Value rest properly
    Find common ground friends at the gym
    Help new people and make it a lifestyle.

  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    1) Stopped accepting being very overweight as okay.
    2) stopped making excuses for why I was having so much trouble loosing weight. IE Starvation mode, genetics etc.
    3) stopped ignoring friends who offered reasonable advice on the topic of weight loss. And stopped listening to those who enabled and encouraged my wrong thinking.
    4) Started tracking calories after determining that this was indeed the diet with the best science behind it and so most likley to actually work.
    5) Started tracking calories more accurately using MFP and a food scale.
    6) Refused to give in to my body's initial cries of "but we might starvvvveeeee!!!"
    7) Got a Fitbit for more accurate data on activity level and exercise calories burned and started enjoying some of those bonus calories.
    8) Became even more accurate in food logging and started logging the cream in my coffee which I previously "ignored" as irrelevant.
    9) Enjoyed all things in moderation so as to never feel deprived or have to fight cravings.
    10) Didn't give up, despair, get mad, punish myself, binge or otherwise sabotage my efforts on a day when I went a little over goal.

    Age 45
    Started CICO on March 25th at 274
    Started MFP on April 1st at 269
    Added Fitbit o April 19th at 262.5
    Currently (June 13th) at 253

    Overall down 21 pounds in 11 weeks.
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