What is working for you

Lorilu68

Absolutely making this a life style change not a diet, no pills ,no gimmicks it's watching calories and exercise 6 days a week and water water water !! It's taken me over 200 days to get this fat loss 40 lbs and I'm still not at my goal weight but I am wearing a smaller size ,4 pant sizes then when I began size 14 now size 6 and it's much smaller than last time I weighted this amount so it must be muscle ! I can do this long term and I'm not in a rush !!! bikini

Zendrick

Same story for me. I lift weights, I do cardio some days, I go for quick walks at work, I drink water and coffee only. I count calories, I'm down 10lbs but it had only been 90 days for me.

ninerbuff

I lift 6 days a week, do cardio of some sort daily for at least 30 minutes, watch my calorie intake and basically just try to fulfill my macro/micronutrients. How I do that will depend on how I start eating that day. I'm not that systematic at what I eat like I used to be.

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Melemur

I started in Oct and nothing was working so I did a low carb diet and so far lost 20 pounds it's been working and it's alot easier to do ow that I have the hang of it

Chadxx

I am on this crazy new plan called eat right and exercise. I eat appropriate amounts of healthy foods to maintain a calorie deficit for weightloss and exercise for fitness. I know it sounds crazy but it really works, lol.

One thing that has really helped me is figuring out what foods I can still eat larger portions of without blowing my calorie budget.

LisaY76

Chadxx wrote: »

I am on this crazy new plan called eat right and exercise. I eat appropriate amounts of healthy foods to maintain a calorie deficit for weightloss and exercise for fitness. I know it sounds crazy but it really works, lol.

One thing that has really helped me is figuring out what foods I can still eat larger portions of without blowing my calorie budget.

Hahaha

pariskathryn

I eat in a deficit, do StrongLifts 5x5, the occasional yoga and cardio, and I eat a lot of Halo Top. Working so far. Started at 210, am now at 175 and about to win my DietBet

rnedwbt

I'm focusing on logging every bite and staying under my calorie limit. And I wear a Fitbit which motivates me to get moving for the extra calories. Down 16 pounds since Christmas. Oh yea - breastfeeding helps a ton!!

kgirlhart

Chadxx wrote: »

I am on this crazy new plan called eat right and exercise. I eat appropriate amounts of healthy foods to maintain a calorie deficit for weightloss and exercise for fitness. I know it sounds crazy but it really works, lol.

One thing that has really helped me is figuring out what foods I can still eat larger portions of without blowing my calorie budget.

The bolded is the key for me. I don't restrict anything but calories and I know I can eat anything I want as long as it fits my goals. But I have learned that even though I can eat anything I want, some things aren't worth eating very often because they may leave me hungry at the end of the day or short on protein. I have also learned to be happy with smaller portions of certain foods so that I can fit them in daily.

So what works for me is eating foods I love and staying at my calorie goal. I have started doing yoga which I love, and I walk daily and run about 3 days a week. I found that as I lost weight exercise became easier and also something that I wanted to do, not something that I felt I had to do.

asbandr

I count macros and weightlift 4 days a week. I also try to make it my goal to drink a minimum of 64 oz water a day. This is something I can see myself doing long term and building even better habits off of. I started January 1 and haven't weighed since then, but I definitely notice my clothes being loser and feel more confident.

estherdragonbat

I'm exercising at least 30 minutes a day. Not strenuous. Leisurely walks or 1/2 hour on the skier. (I WAS using a treadmill, but it tried to kill me recently by flinging me off at 5.3 mph, so I'm not giving it another crack at me quite yet.)

Also, I don't have cheat days. I fit treats into my daily plan.

There've been times where I've known a challenge was coming up (holiday meal, going to restaurant, etc) and I've sat down with myself and planned. Basically asked "what is it going to take for me to enjoy myself, feel satisfied, and not go off-plan?" And then found something reasonable. So instead of loading my plate at the buffet after synagogue, I have a frosted cookie, two pieces of kugel, some cut up melon... and leave. And when I leave, I no longer have the unhealthy guilt about 'cheating on my diet and blowing the day'. I have the knowledge that I just ate about 400 calories worth of food that I planned for, that fit within my daily total, and that I'm still on-track. And a treat is not necessarily a cheat.