What's the biggest small change you've made?

2018gettinghealthy

Tracking my food the past 6 months has been a huge help to me. I track EVERYTHING, good and bad. I review my nutrients throughout the day and have gotten to the point where at the end of the day if I see I have calories left and that I need calcium, I'll have a glass of milk or cottage cheese. I've become addicted to this app!!!! I'm also exercising more and loving it.

DrusiliaDD

I stopped drinking coffee since I would have milk and two teaspoons of sugar. I didn't realise how much more I could've been doing with those calories.

mrsbarnett1012

More water and more veggies! Plus really trying to pay attention and make sure that I'm actually hungry (not bored, etc) before I eat something.

shaf238

Dropping the people who aren't motivated like I am (basically I no longer have friends).

jlscherme

Limiting alcohol was my biggest change mentally, emotionally and physically. But I had a lapse last night and beating myself up about it. Time to get back on the wagon.

Jdacruz5588

More water! Less CARBS!!

SomeMorr

jlscherme wrote: »

Limiting alcohol was my biggest change mentally, emotionally and physically. But I had a lapse last night and beating myself up about it. Time to get back on the wagon.

One thing that helped me was downloading a "countdown" app, it can count the days since an event. It was nice to watch as my days, hours and minutes continually count upwards as a reminder that - I've gotten this far, I can keep it up. Stay Tough!

peterKent85

Actually started logging my calories rather than trying to out-train a bad diet. 5llbs down in 12 days, proving where I have went wrong in the past when trying to lose weight.

Snowflake1968

aganey wrote: »

louisepaul16 wrote: »

aganey wrote: »

Growing up I never ate breakfast bc I wasn’t hungry until lunch time and I was always thin. Well after I had my first child 11 years ago I never lost my baby weight. I forced myself to eat breakfast bc “it was the most important meal of the day and it jump started your metabolism” (so I read). I ALWAYS want a bedtime snack and NEVER had enough calories to eat anything satisfying. I eventually would get frustrated and binge snack and then give up. The past two weeks I’ve only eaten breakfast if I’m hungry for it. Most days I just have my coffee. This leaves me a fair amount of calories for my bedtime snack, I’m not feeling deprived in any way and the scale is moving in the right direction! I usually end up even a tad under my calories! I don’t know why it took 11 years for this one obvious thing to click with me!!

. Yea!! I always get so tired of people
Telling me I should eat breakfast! Blah blah. I did that for 20 odd years and look where it got me. Now I only eat it if I’m hungry, then I have calories and snacks left for later in the day when I am
ACTUALLY hungry!

Exactly! Thanks for agreeing!

I am with you both!

anl90

Cutting out soda is HUGE for me. I unfortunately have slipped up since being on vacation, but starting today I am getting right back into it. No more!

krystlpierce

I've been getting up at 4am during the week to go to the gym before school so I can't cop-out in the afternoon. This is a small change for me because I'm usually up at 5am every morning. What's an hour earlier if it improves my health?

robot_potato

Less coffee. I make lattes with a whole lot of whole milk (like 1 cup per 6oz espresso). So i have my morning ritual and maybe one more, rather than several per day. Big difference.

randielizabethwatts

I’ve recently been using rice cakes instead of bread. I’m obsessed with all the yummy things I can make while still staying within my calories.

I’ve also restarted soda. I tried cutting it out and after a while of not having it I would binge and give up. I’m allowing myself 1 can per day. This has made it so much easier to stick to my calories because having what I want doesn’t automatically equate to failing.

rajeshvvcool

Scrapping the breakfast altogether. Basically 16:9 intermittent fasting,

ladychris29

Eliminating most simple carbs... which is really a huge change since I've been addicted to almost everything bad for me since I was just a gleam in my mama's eye. But what an amazing change that decision's made in my life.

HDBKLM

Bumping a few threads that seem like they might be beneficial for New Year's resolutioners

atjays

quiksylver296 wrote: »

I bought a food scale.

This can't be said enough. Take the extra 5 minutes and weigh your food. I think it will shock a lot of people what actual serving sizes are. A table spoon isn't as much as you can pile onto it.... If you're going to take the time to meal prep, do it right!

kami3006

atjays wrote: »

quiksylver296 wrote: »

I bought a food scale.

This can't be said enough. Take the extra 5 minutes and weigh your food. I think it will shock a lot of people what actual serving sizes are. A table spoon isn't as much as you can pile onto it.... If you're going to take the time to meal prep, do it right!

^ by far, getting a food scale was what made this whole process simple. Didn't have to cut out any foods, didn't have to fret over eating that cookie. I always know where I stand. Has been quite freeing.

lisaloumn2

joining the 5:30am group classes - I was not going in the afternoons - now i get it done and its a great start the day

4bugsmama

Bringing the treadmill out of the Arizona Room into an empty corner of the dining room where it is much more accessible and I see it daily - my daily reminder to get at least 30 minutes of cardio in.

dechowj

Cutting sugar out of my tea. I have 3-5 cups a day and was putting multiple TABLESPOONS of sugar in each cup. The weekly calories I saved was crazy.

allieeveryday

atjays wrote: »

quiksylver296 wrote: »

I bought a food scale.

This can't be said enough. Take the extra 5 minutes and weigh your food. I think it will shock a lot of people what actual serving sizes are. A table spoon isn't as much as you can pile onto it.... If you're going to take the time to meal prep, do it right!

I just got a food scale this week! Eyeballing portions wasn't working.

cannedgoo

I drink tea through out the day instead of energy drinks or pop. I still have a morning energy drink for the caffeine kick, but I’ve greatly reduced my calories & plus other benefits of not ingesting copious amounts of taurine & whatever else is in my drinks

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lin_be

Pre-logging my food in the morning. It eliminates the whole “what should I eat?”, saves me time, and helps me stay within my calorie goal. If I write 50g of oats, I only weight and eat 50g. If my meat is off by a couple of ounces, I can quickly adjust that in my diary.

nourhanehab7

Intermittent fasting

nooie19

1. Added less and less milk to my coffee every week until I could drink it black.
2. Instead of snacking after work, I drink a big glass of water. I never would have believed this would work, but I really don’t feel hungry after drinking water. I now eat three square meals a day without snacking and I don’t get hungry throughout the day.
3. For restaurants, I always order salad or extra veggies, and always order a lean protein, preferably fish. Also I eat a very small portion of bread/pasta/white rice. When I started these restaurant habits, I told myself I could eat one or two bites of a family member’s pasta or pork chop or steak etc. But now I rarely feel the need to taste other dishes. I also like my restaurant “rules” because it’s pretty rare to not be able to find veggies and lean protein on a menu. The only exception was a Texas bbq where I ate ribs and sausage but I did order two veggie sides instead of potato salad or grits.
4. I don’t eat sweets on a daily basis, but I still enjoy it in small amounts on special occasions so that I don’t feel deprived or rebellious.

MadisonMolly2017

Weigh & track everything I eat

Exercise 36 hrs/month on average & Daily!
>10K steps on average

Eat nutritiously and stopped (almost completely) eating out

huntbaby1117

Gave up soda - only on day 5, but this is the farthest I've ever been while living in America!

LindaGilpin59

I put my lunch/snacks in my storage drawer and not right at my desk and it cuts down on the mindless snacking.