Best Tip You Received?

ChrisSloan

nothing tastes as good as skinny feels

ChrisSloan

Joyfulandactive wrote: »

What you eat in private you wear in public.

Love this!

NadNight

Success is the sum of small efforts you make everyday. When I started out I wanted to make elaborate plans and schedules but the most effective thing for me has been the small changes- fitting in random bits of exercise because a small amount is better than none. Switching pasta for veggie alternatives. Just making tweaks where I saw opportunities has worked well for me.

Also, nike's slogan- Just do it! Truer words were never spoken, I have spent years wanting to get in shape but in the end no amount of planning or thinking got me on my way.

Archcurl

Take it one day at a time. Daily changes are the best. Every day is a new chance, a new possibility to change.
-Drink more water, before meals, in-between meals and then some
-No shopping when hungry
-Planning at least one meal a day, and log it in the morning. During my breakfast i tend to log my dinner. Maybe even an after dinner snack. This way during the day I can relax and only have to think about the next few hours and not the entire day

melissaulmen

Do what works for you!

Just because someone else lost a lot of weight eating only 1200 calories per day, it does not mean that you have to do it that way.

Archcurl

Bump

timsla

His name was Marco and we met on the French Riviera... wait what is this thread about? Uhhhhh "Eat Big, Lift Big, Leave a Big coffin"

junodog1

I know it is a motivational quote, but it is also advice:

No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everyone on the couch.

This thought has really helped me keep moving in the evening when I get home form work and I am dragging. As an earwig it gets me out to at least walk, if not run.

becky10rp

You can't out-train a poor diet.

Zeuggma

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry enough for those chips.

SnazzIT

get a dog

DebLaBounty

Don't stop.

Need2Exerc1se

Eat less, move more.

pagano606

All_Exits_Lead_Within wrote: »

Being fat is hard. Losing weight is hard. Choose one.

I LOVE this ^ and if you think about it, you make this choice everyday whether consciously or not....

Jimb376mfp

1. More weight is lost in the kitchen than the gym.
2. There is no Finish Line
3. WL is Simple: fewer calories In than calories Out BUT it's NOT EASY.
4. WL is not linear, do not set goals using a calendar.

flowerhouse

Get your exercise classes in the diary - think of them like an appointment that you can't miss
Weigh your food
Log good and bad days
If you have a bad day - don't beat yourself up just start again tomorrow - your in it fir the long game not a quick fix

twinkles4

Don't compare your progress to others. You are not them.

T1DCarnivoreRunner

When struggling and hearing suggestions that conventional wisdom might suggest won't make a difference - decide if it will hurt me. If the worst result possible is that I am no better or worse off in terms of weight loss, then it is worth a try.

LiveLoveFitFab

If you don't want to workout, just go to the gym. Sit in the chair if you must, but go there for your minimum time. If when you get there and you've sat in that chair for a few minutes and you still can't or won't do a workout, then that's okay, but go there. Make the promise to yourself that you will go to the gym when you are supposed to, for the amount of time that you are supposed to be there.

Honestly, I never get there and just want to sit in the chair, so I always end up doing something. Even if it's just for half an hour. Half an hour is my minimum exercise time per day, and normally I surpass that because I end up doing more. This takes the pressure off to do an hour long work out.

Also, if you want to be able to get up off the toilet by yourself when you are eighty, do squats now. Sound advice.

onematch

Food is not the enemy. There are no bad foods.

macclone

Go by the mirror, not the scale.

HOKA36

Drink water

explodingmango

1: Exercise is easier if it doesn't feel like exercise.

I have a way easier time sticking to a workout regimen if it's a game or sport, or training for a game or sport. It has to be fun. Sure, I have a gym membership, and I go do the usual exercises there, because like I said, training for the stuff I like to do is pretty enjoyable, but...mainly I'm into fencing, I've played baseball and soccer and volleyball before, I just had my first rock climbing experience of my adult life today, I'm signing up for a bunch of obstacle course races...all of these things are fun in their own right. They're not chores I'm just drudging through to "earn" a better body or some junk food; they're things I'm doing because they're actually fun, and that makes a huge difference in motivation.

2: Your body is like a toddler - you should listen to it, but not give in to its every whim.

This is a lot easier in principle than in practice, but just realizing the principle helped me start to turn my life around. Your body will tell you when it needs something. But it can also be pretty demanding when it just wants something it's used to having, but doesn't actually need. Learning to tell the difference between your body's requests for true needs, for wants that you need to appease a little bit for sustainability, and for wants that you can push yourself through, is a pretty important skill.

3: It doesn't matter if you fall off track; what matters is minimizing the time you stay there.

This is something I understand better than most people...for all the most unfortunate reasons. I have issues with inertia - once I start doing something, ANYTHING, I have a hard time stopping until something else stops me. That...especially includes falling back into bad habits. If these things lasted only a day, they wouldn't even be setbacks; they'd be off days. But they rarely last only a day. Now, I'm making a conscious effort to remind myself of this - so far, so good.