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daisyrod2295
daisyrod2295 Posts: 8 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
what are your best weight loss tips?

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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,150 Member
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    Eat less and move more.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
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    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    Eat less and move more.

    /thread
  • rsclause
    rsclause Posts: 3,103 Member
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    Sometimes I get lazy and gain due to lack of exercise and bad food choices washed down with beer. When determined I can resist anything and cut calories while upping exercise. Let's just hope it's less of the former and more of the latter. Good food at a calorie deficit and exercise, lots of it too. Or what they said ^ in five words.
  • errollmaclean
    errollmaclean Posts: 562 Member
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    1. Food scale
    2. Reasonable calorie deficit that I can maintain.
    3. Incorporating foods I enjoy so I never feel deprived.
    4. Learning what macronutrients are/why they are important/how many I need.
  • angellll12
    angellll12 Posts: 296 Member
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    Eating less meat, more salmon
    Cutting out bread
    Cutting out sodas and juices. If I need taste in my mouth I'll have a low sugar juice or diet soda
    Diet consist of mostly fruits, veggies, and egggsssssss- love eggs
    Working out, sweating. Cardio.
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
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    daisyrod2295 wrote: »
    what are your best weight loss tips?

    Not making it any harder than what it is. Eat fewer calories than you burn. Easy game yo
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
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    Cutting out soda.
    Working out consistently.
    Having lots of patience, weight loss doesn't happen as fast as we'd like.
    Having realistic weight loss goals i.e. you're not going to lose 20 lbs in a month.
    Not worrying too much as to what the scale says.
    Realizing there are no bad foods, I can eat what I want as long as I eat less than I burn.
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    edited June 2015
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  • OldAssDude
    OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
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    Get an activity tracker.
    Do at least 10,000 steps a day.
    Set it to lose 1 pound a week.
    Eat a variety of foods so you get your essential nutrients.
    Don't go over your calories.
    Don't cheat because you will only be cheating yourself.
    If you weigh yourself daily do not be discouraged by a 1 to 2 pound fluctuation plus or minus.

    I have been doing this for over 20 weeks now and have lost 25 pounds so far.
  • klsmotivation86
    klsmotivation86 Posts: 14 Member
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    Having a well balanced diet, exercising daily at a minimum of 25 minutes, drinking my shakeology, having motivational pics, and having that motivational bathing suit! :)
  • OldAssDude
    OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
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    Get an activity tracker.
    Do at least 10,000 steps a day.
    Set it to lose 1 pound a week.
    Eat a variety of foods so you get your essential nutrients.
    Don't go over your calories.
    Don't cheat because you will only be cheating yourself.
    If you weigh yourself daily do not be discouraged by a 1 to 2 pound fluctuation plus or minus.

    I have been doing this for over 20 weeks now and have lost 25 pounds so far.
  • OldAssDude
    OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
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    Get an activity tracker.
    Do at least 10,000 steps a day.
    Set it to lose 1 pound a week.
    Eat a variety of foods so you get your essential nutrients.
    Don't go over your calories.
    Don't cheat because you will only be cheating yourself.
    If you weigh yourself daily do not be discouraged by a 1 to 2 pound fluctuation plus or minus.

    I have been doing this for over 20 weeks now and have lost 25 pounds so far.
  • professionalHobbyist
    professionalHobbyist Posts: 1,316 Member
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    All the same as others on eating a nutritional diet and exercising off more calories than I eat

    The thing I learned?

    It is a long haul

    It has ups and downs and days I don't eat right.

    I have to be my own best fried and get back up and keep doing what I know works.

    I'm at the end of this journey. Iay be more impatient with next 10 pounds of fat than the first 50.

    It may take almost as long to lose!

    But I'm in it for life

    It will happen!
  • jaga13
    jaga13 Posts: 1,149 Member
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    Pre logging. I've already entered tomorrow's food. I like having a plan. I might edit it a little as the day goes on but I like the framework. It seems weird to me to log after the fact. It would be like writing a to do list after I've already finished each errand.

    Also, I like the challenge of getting in enough activity each day to eat more. My diary for tomorrow is in the red for now but will flip to green after I log exercise.
  • JPW1990
    JPW1990 Posts: 2,424 Member
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    If it makes you feel sick, don't eat it
    If it makes you unhappy, don't eat it
    However you decide to get your deficit, it won't work if you're miserable
  • Bshmerlie
    Bshmerlie Posts: 1,026 Member
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    Really really try not to make it a diet. Make it a lifestyle change. This is just how you're going to eat from now on. Yeah....sure we're on a calorie deficit but eventually when you get closer to your goal you will transition into maintenance. If you are doing something too radical and different then how you normally live then you will gain it back. And then as the decades pass and you've been doing different diets over the years you'll be back on MFP vowing this time to make it a lifestyle change. So save yourself years of misery and do it right this time. Here and now.
  • barryplumber
    barryplumber Posts: 401 Member
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    Apples when ever i get hungry i eat apples for me it curbs my hunger. I run 3.5 miles a day for 4 days then take a day off, i lift weights the same and eat back very little of my excersise burnt calories. Apples my saviour.

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