your mistakes made
derbygraham
Posts: 47 Member
Hi
I wondered if I may ask you to share your experiences of mistakes you have made in your journey towards fitness and losing weight please ?
many thanks
Graham
I wondered if I may ask you to share your experiences of mistakes you have made in your journey towards fitness and losing weight please ?
many thanks
Graham
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Not weighing myself. I was so scared of the number on the scale that I just completely buried my head in the sand. Was already heavy and didn’t realize I had gained at least 10 or 15 more pounds.27
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Not logging food.22
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Thinking that eating clean would balance out the junk food I was having in addition to that (I was stupid af)
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My mistake was trying to follow diets that were full of foods I didn't like, I never lasted long because I was miserable. I found success when I based my intake on foods I enjoyed and logged them.26
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Not weighing my food. I was busy spinning my wheels until I did.16
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Not using a food scale - portion control was waaaay off.
Not understanding water weight fluctuations and rage quitting regularly in my 20's because I didn't educate myself.14 -
I'm a long ways into this process and really I can't think of anything I'd consider a mistake, except I stopped weighing myself for a while last year because I became overly confident in my ability to do maintenance. Ended up with some weight creep that I finally got taken care of recently. So making sure I'm honest with myself with my weigh-ins was a lesson I had to learn, even years into maintenance.18
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My mistakes are not logging food and being way to restrictive on what I eat.16
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Not eating enough (being in too large a deficit) and not realizing how important sleep is. Expecting "maintenance" to be easier than the active weight loss phase
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Not lifting weights while losing to preserve muscle, then continuing to lose while lifting and go too low. However at the same time it is the best mistake I ever made since it pushed me to gain and I learned so much, which I likely wouldn't have otherwise.19
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For me it was not taking proper before pics.
The photos I use in my before/during/after comparison pics I was already close to 30 pounds and 2 sizes down.
I don't have any true pics at my heaviest. When I had to take pics I would find ways to hide myself. Stand in the back. Strategically put my bag in my lap. Cover my belly with my arms. etc.
I wish I had proper before pics to really see how far I have come in my transformation.23 -
My mistake was getting complacent during maintenance. It turns out for me, that when I don’t log and track, the old habits that made me overweight in the first place creep back in and soon enough, I’ve gained back enough to give up...
I’ve also struggled to face the fact that alcohol, for me, is not conducive to good weight management.27 -
Mistake: I continue to indulge in alcohol 1-2 x week.23
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Not weighng food - am still shocked at just how bad I was with portions....15
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Which time?
For this time:
Looking back at my early log entries I made many classic mistake. There were things I didn't weigh. Things for which I chose the wrong DB entry. Things I underestimated. Things I grossly overestimated. I am glad I didn't actually worry about my mistakes but just kept logging and learning.
I think education is key and it was my ignorance about certain things that held me back on every other previous attempt.14 -
My main issue was at first I was not weighing my food. My second would be eating out too often so that I could not properly account for my calories in. I have since improved on that and limit it to once or twice a week. Would be nice if it was 0-1 times a week instead but I love eating out too much!8
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Yeah, the food scale made 100% difference. Portions are just impossible to guess if you haven't already been weighing food for a while.
Also not making obvious substitutions. Yeah, I CAN eat regular mayo, but the reduced fat stuff is less than half calories and tastes the same.10 -
mimimunchery wrote: »Not weighing myself. I was so scared of the number on the scale that I just completely buried my head in the sand. Was already heavy and didn’t realize I had gained at least 10 or 15 more pounds.
This is by far my biggest one from the past. Never again. I'd rather know where I stand, always, and find the scale to be a great tool and no longer "scary" even when I have gained weight.9 -
I should have dropped sugar out of my diet years ago. Sugar binges have killed every one of my weight loss attempts over at least the last several years.
I know that this isn't true for everyone, but for me it is absolutely fatal to my diets because once there is a major holiday or something and I overeat on sugary treats, I can't get a grip on my eating again due to monster cravings for not just sugar, but every food. Then I gain all of the weight back.
I should have bitten the bullet last time, or the time before. Any time since I realised this trigger might be a thing. This time I am trying to stay sugar free for good.
Again, I know not all people have this issue, but for a long time I didn't even recognise it as sugar cravings because I would just generally madly crave anything I was hungry for. It made me binge all the time and I had a list of what I thought were binge trigger foods that was as long as my arm. I can now eat most of my previous "trigger" foods without a problem. I bring it up way too often on these forums because I did go so long without recognising it for what it was.40 -
i tried losing too much weight way too fast. through many kind people on these boards, i learned about eating back exercise calories.12
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