What’s the most important thing you learnt about your weightloss?

Iffiormana

The title says it all.I have been fat my whole life,I have lost up to 70lbs in college and then again few years back I lost tons of weight.
I have done all kind if fad diets,drank all the apple cider and green teas, starved myself or became bulimic but at age of 28 I realized teo most important things that how could I loose weight.
1) keeping my calorie intake less,starving never helps but you can go a long way if you eat but eat less than the required caloric amount.
2) don’t be a couch potato and hope that you would loose weight.Now I’m walking minimum of 10K steps daily and my weight is melting off.
It took me so dang long to realize this but I’m glad that I’m on the right path now.
What did you learnt while being on this journey? What helped YOU the most?

GrantRKn

Things I learned

(.) you can lose weight eating over 2700 calories, ( as I’m doing right now flawlessly )

(.) more cardio in the gym doesn’t necessarily mean more weight loss

(.) you can still eat your favourite junk food and lose weight at the same time, if you’re craving feed the craving but control yourself

(.) healthy fats are our friend 😂

Deipneus

I learned that when people achieve a certain level of weight loss and fitness success, some of them think they've discovered some universal secret and begin proselytizing. There is a lot of variety among people and each person's genetic makeup matters.

100_PROOF_

I've learned that weight loss comes down to calories.
You don't need to go low carb or whatever the fad diet of the week is. Just create a calorie deficit.

GOT_Obsessed

I learned that it's a lifetime commitment that I will have to stay on top of for the rest of my life. (2 lbs from goal) It's all too easy to go back to old habits. I learned you don't need to workout like a beast if you put more focus on the food side of it. I learned working out can be fun if you find the right thing for you. I learned that mixing up exercise works best for keeping my boredom away.

I learned that if I can do this, anyone can!

zyxst

People do treat you differently depending on your weight.

Stores will never carry your size, no matter what you weigh.

You can't win for trying. Doctors told me for decades to lose weight, so I finally lost it. My current GP thinks I have an ED.

Weight loss will not fix your problems.

berky06

That losing weight doesn't always go the way I "think" it should. I've learned to be patient, don't rely only on the scale to judge your progress!

adortiz1990

That losing weight is not the focus and should never be the motivation. Getting healthy and feeling healthy is the goal. The numbers on the scale are only a plus to the journey.

nvmomketo

For me:

Eating some foods make weight loss much harder for me. It's easier to avoid them.

Don't expect to stop doing whatever led to weight loss without weight regain. If you go back to how you ate before, you will regain.

YMMV

Cutemesoon

It's a lifestyle change. Never stop goal setting. Be prepared to lose friends & be ok with it. It is a LIFE LONG process.

generallyme2

For me, prelogging is one of the top things I need to do.

Also, looking back at younger, super thin me and my habits was a real eye opener. As I got heavier, I was like 'but I'm eating the same things and I never worked out!' But I DID just not officially- I'd walk several miles a day, do cheerleading, hiking, always moving or I'd eat junk but I was honest about what I liked (frosting but no cake, or roasted veggies but not bready stuff) instead of eating whatever was offered. I'm getting back into that lifestyle and I think that'll make it feel like less 'effort' and more fun.

Iffiormana

generallyme2 wrote: »

For me, prelogging is one of the top things I need to do.

Also, looking back at younger, super thin me and my habits was a real eye opener. As I got heavier, I was like 'but I'm eating the same things and I never worked out!' But I DID just not officially- I'd walk several miles a day, do cheerleading, hiking, always moving or I'd eat junk but I was honest about what I liked (frosting but no cake, or roasted veggies but not bready stuff) instead of eating whatever was offered. I'm getting back into that lifestyle and I think that'll make it feel like less 'effort' and more fun.

This was me few months back,oh I was doing ok in university life but now I’m gaining weight,I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.But in university I used to walk a lot with tons of stairs, won’t eat anything all day long with hectic schedules or eat under my caloric goal.Now I’m just lying in my bed,eating chips,watching Netflix and expect my body not to store fats.

VUA21

Diets do not work. While on them, sure you'll drop weight, but when you stop (reach a goal), u less you've changed your lifestyle - the weight comes right back on.

generallyme2

iffsandbutts wrote: »

generallyme2 wrote: »

For me, prelogging is one of the top things I need to do.

Also, looking back at younger, super thin me and my habits was a real eye opener. As I got heavier, I was like 'but I'm eating the same things and I never worked out!' But I DID just not officially- I'd walk several miles a day, do cheerleading, hiking, always moving or I'd eat junk but I was honest about what I liked (frosting but no cake, or roasted veggies but not bready stuff) instead of eating whatever was offered. I'm getting back into that lifestyle and I think that'll make it feel like less 'effort' and more fun.

This was me few months back,oh I was doing ok in university life but now I’m gaining weight,I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.But in university I used to walk a lot with tons of stairs, won’t eat anything all day long with hectic schedules or eat under my caloric goal.Now I’m just lying in my bed,eating chips,watching Netflix and expect my body not to store fats.

Exactly! It's easy to think nothing has changed but then you notice that all those little things add up. We live in a city now but it's highly unwalkable so I have to drive to a place to walk/run or drive to the gym (or workout in my garage) so it's an adjustment.

Diatonic12

Don't join any weight loss or dieting cults and food religions. Deprogramming the overfed head from dieting propaganda will take a long time. Slick marketing techniques will get you nowhere good.

Honor your body every step of the way. Don't wait until all of the weight releasing is done before you start living your life. Practice, practice, practice long before you get there. You'll have a much better chance of getting there and staying there.

Hold your head high and walk into the room with a lion tamer's confidence even if you're the only one there. The brain is the beast. The brain is the greatest mountain we will ever have to climb in our lifetime.

Show the brain you're in charge. It will scream and fight against you like a wildcat. Override it and tell it to shut the hail UP when it tries to drive you back into eating all the things in the unconscious autopilot mode.

Happiness is a state of activity. All of the planning and introspecting in the world doesn't mean anything unless you go do something. The couch is the speed of zero. You don't have to jump out of helicopter onto a snowboard. Simply take it back outside and start moving.

cwolfman13

Mostly I learned to eat better and I learned that I cannot eat in the amounts I did in my 20s when I was very active.

GoLizB

That it's a transformation, a process, and it takes time.

That overcoming the mental part is far more difficult than the physical mechanincs of weight loss.

That there is no finish line, so whatever changes you make you have to be able to live with for life.

That I really am doing the best I can, and I need to be able to give myself GRACE to allow that to keep happening.

That the only opinion that matters is MINE (well, and my doc's, truthfully). But really, it only matters what I think of me, what I think of what I am doing, and how I define success. That is all up to me.

That support from others is nice, but support from ME is essential. (Again, it really only matters what *I* think of me.)

And I completely agree that

zyxst wrote: »

Stores will never carry your size, no matter what you weigh.

FibroHiker

Weight loss and weight maintenance mean different things at different ages of your life. It does get harder to lose and maintain weight loss as you age because your body starts changing. You can't fight those changes. You can only learn to work around/with them.

Brabo_Grip

Find a physical activity you love. I loathe traditional gyms - bore me to death. Hence I had an on-again off-again with them in my 30s. Went to a non-traditional gym and love it. I train my butt off because other than spend time with the kids, it's all I want to do. It doesn't feel like a "workout" because it is not - I just happen to get a workout while doing it. I would not have lost and maintained otherwise.

Ninkasi

Trust the process. There will be ups and downs, problems you have to work through and self-examination to do. Put the work in and it will pay off. I weigh myself every morning and put it into a spreadsheet (I realize some may see this as overkill) and stick to the plan even if I can't see the end. As long as the overall trend is downward, it's all good.

VUA21

It's all me. No one force feeds me, nor forces me to eat less. My choices led to weight gain, and now lead to my weight loss.

Taking responsibility for my own actions. I stopped using life as an excuse for myself.