Your best advice given to help you lose weight

SewersofCasaBonita

Eat less, move more. Win.

trogalicious

Just keep swimming!

littlelaura

break up with your significant other you will lose 120 to 220 lbs almost overnight!

shazzahare123

Simple = If you don't diet you will end up crippled in a wheelchair.

littlelaura

and the water thing, I never found it made me feel full to avoid food but being properly hydrated makes your body function and feel so much better, drink up, cheers!:drinker:

rjwriter78

Train your mind to block out negativity and stay focused. You have to train your mind to fight your surroundings and refuse to be tempted by the pressures of food, friends, etc. Ignore the unhealthy examples that were once feeding your conscience as well as your body. Its important that you train and recondition your mind to conform to driving down a healthier road in your life. There is a lot of science that goes into losing weight and being healthy, but you have to mentally be willing to commit. You can say your going to do something different at the gym or eat something healthy but if your mentally not conditioned to follow this plan, the next day will be totally different than the last. Start with mental training, focusing and committing yourself to losing this weight.

overstreetjl

This may be a little long, so I apologize in advance.

I wasn't really given any advice for losing weight. I had always struggled with my weight to some degree, all the way back to high school, however I was never really obese, I just needed to lose a few pounds. Finally, one day I got myself in gear and got into the best shape I had ever been in. No fat, muscular but not overly big. I felt great. I stayed that way for a few years too, but then I got married and things started to slow down for both my wife and myself.

For years I've said that I was going to get myself back into shape, and I would always try crash diets, but I'd give up on them after about 3 weeks and fall back in to the way I had been eating. 4 years ago, I weight around 230 and I had maintained that weight until a couple of months ago when I really got serious. I went to the doctor around that time and they did some blood work on me. My triglycerides were so high that they wanted to put me on medication for it. They were somewhere around the 1100 range. That scared me to the point that when I would go to the doctor, I didn't want them to do any more blood work on me, but I was still too lazy to make any kind of change. I was eating fast food for 3 meals a day and when I didn't feel like going anywhere, I'd just order pizza a few times a week.

Finally, a couple of friends of ours announced that they were getting married and that I was going to be in the wedding. My friend is a baseball player and most of his friends are jocks. I'm his computer geek friend, and at the time I definitely looked the part. I had been telling my wife for a long time that I wanted us to get serious about losing weight, but the wedding was the first real motivation for me. I told her that I might not play sports, but if I were going to be in the wedding, I at least wanted to look like I did. That was motivating factor number one.

Once I lost a few pounds, I started thinking about how good I used to look when I was in shape, and I wanted to get back to that, so there was motivator number two. Motivator number three is the last one and it's really the only one really matters and should have been my primary motivator from the start. I don't want to die young. I love my wife and kids more than anything in the world and I don't want to do anything that would take me away from the prematurely.

Now instead of looking at my loosing weight as something that I want to do, it has become an actual lifestyle change, and that's what I was hoping for more than anything. I'm at a point now where I don't think I will ever fall back into the way that we used to be. For the first time in a long time, I understand moderation. I can still have the things that I like, but I don't need to have them every single day. It's alright for me to take her out to eat when the mood strikes, just as long as I'm not doing it for every meal. That's the mindset that I was looking for from the start, I just didn't know it until I got started doing things the right way.

For the first time in years, I actually feel good, and it's not just because I lost weight. It's because I've changed everything about the way that I eat. I haven't had fast food now in months, I've lowered my fat, trans-fat, and saturated fat levels to an almost non-existent level compared to what they used to be. I have so much energy it's crazy, and it's like I don't run out of it. There are still some other things that I need to change, the biggest being smoking. My birthday is this month, and I fully plan on quitting the day after. If I can kick that, then I've done everything on my end to make myself as healthy as possible. Once that's done, I plan on walking into the doctor when I hit my goal weight, and having them do a new blood panel on me. If something is wrong, then it can be addressed and I will follow every bit of advice will give me, but I don't want to go until I know that I've done everything I can on my end to ensure that I'm living a new life. Honestly though, I can't wait to walk in and see the look on their face when they realize that I've dropped 70 pounds and quit smoking.

My motivating factor is life, and my family. I want to be here and healthy for them as long as God sees fit for me to be. The days of pretending that the way I eat doesn't matter are over for me. After almost 35 years, I'm finally becoming the person that I've always wanted to be both spiritually and physically.

I wish anyone who reads this, or anyone here that has struggled the absolute best. If you're having trouble, find something inside of you that makes what you're putting yourself through worth it. Remember, it's your life and it's up to you to live it. Always want the best for yourself and your family and you can't go wrong.

DRJ311

There's a couple:
Eat at a calorie defiicit.
Exercise.
Lift heavy, when possible.
Get a food scale.
Portion control.
Don't deprive yourself.
BE PATIENT.
And lastly...
YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!

SoDamnHungry

Don't expect immediate, drastic results.

TK266

From the British show "Absolutely Fabulous"-

Saffie: Look, mum. All you've got to do is eat less and take a bit of exercise.

Eddie: Sweetie, if it was that easy, everyone would be doing it.

this line is awesome because it it true no matter how you look at it.





but the eat less, move more is the best advise.

Velum_cado

Don't make excuses for yourself
Make it a routine
Don't expect it to be quick and easy
Allow yourself to indulge sometimes
Do what works for you, that is healthy and you can sustain

RunningMatt77

Stay the course and be consistent, Cardio always work best for me to lose weight

wendyrap2

se honesto realmente con lo que comes no te sabotees ni hagas trampa!!

Salt_Sand_Sun

Throw away the scale and eat

Stephon90

I like your post. I will use this advise to the upmost.

brynnsmom

Don't let one bad meal or day completely derail your progress.

fyoufat

The best advice I could give someone is join MFP!

The best I have been given was to open my diary

peanutbutterz

Two phrases come to mind.

"Slow and steady wins the race"

"Eat less, move more"

Those 2 things have gotten me through!

this...

mcedes02

Taking all the advice in mind, Do what works for YOU! Set reachable goals. You didn't gain it overnight so it's not going to come off overnight. No matter how many bumps are in the road, you can eventually finish your journey if you just keep moving! And most of all, DO IT FOR YOU and no one else!!!!!!!

jojoboxing

"30 minutes is only 2% of your day."

Now I walk at least 1 mile EVERY day (which takes 16-18 minutes) for the last 90 days.

themommie

Dont do something that you cant live with, it is a lifestyle change not a diet. Diets end and with that the weight comes back.

Break it down into small goals , dont get overwhelmed. I concentrated on 10 lbs at a time and bought myself a new pair of earrings for every 10 lbs lost

norahwynn

Stop starving myself on 1200 calories a day and figure out my tdee - 20%. Seriously...not just because it's the trendy thing to say today. That really happened about 3 weeks ago and it's been going awesome!

hollygoddess

No refined sugar or carbs! Worked for me EVERYTIME :-))

sleibo87

My first day my husband told me to not go crazy working out. I used to go ALLLL IN my first week and workout for hours and then get SO sore that I had to take days off and then I would just give up. So I started off with a half hour. I bought Jillian Michaels Body Revolution which works its way into being hard every few weeks, and I actually stuck with it. Sometimes its about starting small, when you do to much or give up to much at first, it can be hard to stick with.

danasings

Aim for progress, not perfection.
If you slip up, start again NOW, not tomorrow.
Forgive yourself for overeating/missing a workout and move on...beating yourself up about mistakes does nothing but wear you down and make you go back to bad habits. Trying to over restrict or over exercise the next day does the same.
The momentary pleasure you get from overeating/bingeing is far less than the hours/days of guilt or pain you feel afterward.

Scubanana7

Everyone had great tips. I can only add my mantra:

'Great POSSIBILITIES come with CONTROL"

yaseyuku

Eat more (in a calorie deficit), move more.

IIFIYM.

Fitness_Guru12

get your diet right first then impliment some cardio, functional and weight bearing exercises.

ShannonMpls

Just start.

And then don't stop.



The rest is just details.

Katla49

Get a food scale.

This. The food scale and dishers make portion control a viable possibility. It is excellent advice.