What's the best advice you have?

fitoverfortymom

Food scale.

Eat foods you like.

Only give up something you're willing to give up for life.

moonstroller

epratt1000 wrote: »

Oh there's so much good advice. There are 2 pieces of advice that helps me.

ONE. I've always been heavy from the tender age of 8ish. I'm am 50 years old now and it took me 42 years to get as fat as I did. I need to know that losing weight is not a quick thing. Society tries to brain wash is to think that losing weight fast is the best way. Usually by severly restricting calories but that weight loss is never long term. People go back to eating the way they trained themselves to In order to get fat originally.

I originally set a goal of 2 lbs per week and Initially I averaged more than that. Now that I'm 20 lbs from my goal weight it gets harder. But I am still using a MFP but not starving myself. I have retrained the way I eat. I live in Las Vegas, the land of all-you-can-eat buffets. I purposely go to one every week and train myself to eat the right amount of food.

Along the way you will have setbacks. But keep logging your food and exercising. And as long as the trend is downward over a 3 month period you are on the right track. If it's not downward by even the smallest amount make a minor adjustment in you calorie intake.

TWO. You don't have to sweat to exercise. When I heard this I thought "yeah right" but it's true. I walk a lot. Usually in the morning. When I started the distance was about 1.5 miles. Now I walk up to 8 miles a day. 5-6 miles in the morning and the rest throughout the day. If I'm in a parking lot I par far from the entrance. I take the stairs when reasonable. I do get workouts when I am sweating a lot about 3 times a week. By jogging up a hill or bleachers but that is mainly for my heart and cardiovascular health.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

Highest weight I have ever been: 275 lbs

MFP SW: 260 lbs
CW: 187 lbs
GW: 165 lbs

I think I would fail the "All You Can Eat Buffet" test, especially if they have French fries and pizza.

JeromeBarry1

"To thine own self be honest".

bigmuneymfp

Lower your expectations

scjl132

Don't give up.