Your best advice given to help you lose weight

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  • RunFarLiveHappy
    RunFarLiveHappy Posts: 805 Member
    "Just because you trip on the top step doesnt mean you throw yourself down the rest of stairs".

    Meaning - if you "mess up" one day, you just continue on as if you didnt mess up... you dont declare the whole thing a loss and quit the program you started just because you went over your calorie goal one day etc. One slipup is not a reason to give up, or to let it continue the next day.

    I've not heard this one before and I LOVE it!! I struggle still every day with not giving up some days. Thank you!

    Mine is:

    You can have excuses or you can have results, you cannot have both. #noexcuses
  • Mslmesq
    Mslmesq Posts: 1,000 Member
    Eat slower, mindfully, and always sitting down at a table...not in your car or at a desk.

    Drink more water, then drink more water, then drink more water.....

    Pick out your top three offender foods and cut back on them, or cut them out, while losing a few pounds.

    Walk everywhere...at least 10,000 steps a day.

    Don't eat junk. Eat real food, not too much of it, and mostly plants.
  • jdm_taco
    jdm_taco Posts: 999 Member
    "David, get your fat a55 off the couch" :laugh:
  • BHKLEIN
    BHKLEIN Posts: 104
    Eat more healthy foods, eat in moderation, drink water instead of calorie and sugar rich fluids, get your butt moving. Take the stairs over anything else offered, park a little farther from the door, enjoy being active outside, maybe get involved in a sport like your town's volleyball or softball league. Find exercises that you like doing!!!! Rotate your routine so you don't get bored. Work different muscle groups. Try lifting some weights even if it's just a little weight. Enjoy the foods you eat!!! Healthy foods can be tasty too....... make simple changes: like try substituting pre-made fries with real homemade fried that you bake, or try switching out a boxed side with fresh corn or green beans. Try not to eat anything out of the box, instead make homemade meals. This way you know mostly whats in it!!!!! Switch out table salt with fresh herbs or natural sea salt (which still has all the vitamins that gets stripes when they make table salt and you usually need less of this than regualr table salt to get the same if not better flavor). Track absolutely everything you eat and drink no matter what. I find it easier to track on a written log. That way I can stick the log in my purse and take it with me so I never forget to log something!
  • BHKLEIN
    BHKLEIN Posts: 104
    Also, don't eat until you feel full!!!!!! Usually this means you over ate.....
  • rakufire
    rakufire Posts: 21 Member
    Stop talking about it and get on with it.
  • lindabtl
    lindabtl Posts: 9
    Haven't seen this one yet: Start drinking water early in the day and you won't have that, "What should I eat next?" taste in your mouth that soda, even diet, gives you.

    Another habit that is helping me: Strive for 3 fruits and 5 veg a day.

    And I LOVE what other posters are saying about not letting one slip up derail you.
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    "If hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the answer"

    I am totally stealing this. :smile:
  • nads1012
    nads1012 Posts: 55
    Nobody is gonna do it for you.
  • douglasnorton
    douglasnorton Posts: 479 Member
    Do your best, don't quit, and be consistent.
  • NonnyMary
    NonnyMary Posts: 982 Member
    Lots of good advice - excellent advice - but what got me going is - and let me know that it is possible is this -

    Do what you CAN do, and eat the way you would eat for the rest of your life - its not a diet but a way of life.
  • trackmyday1973
    trackmyday1973 Posts: 393 Member
    "What you eat in private, is what you wear in public"
  • mjones6599
    mjones6599 Posts: 129
    Forget the scale! Judge your progress on how your clothes feel and not your weight.
  • sarahhan95
    sarahhan95 Posts: 25
    " We’ve been taught to think of food – especially carbs – as our enemy, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. Food is what fuels our bodies, allowing us to physically push ourselves to reach our own potential for fitness and athleticism. Food is not the enemy but the fuel for my athletic ambitions," Joe Bastianich.
  • 43932452
    43932452 Posts: 7,246 Member
    To eat plenty of protein, drink plenty of water .. get enough rest and move often.
  • Booksandbeaches
    Booksandbeaches Posts: 1,791 Member
    Don't let one bad meal turn into one bad day or one bad week.

    You didn't gain it overnight, so you can't expect to lose it overnight or very quickly.

    Just do it. Even if you go slowly, you're still ahead of people sitting on the couch eating chips.
  • tommyswoman
    tommyswoman Posts: 24
    A portion of food is a portion of honesty....<~ may sound lame, but it stuck in my head.

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