Weight loss plans

heart3313

I was just doing some research into weight loss plans. It's interesting to me. People say they want to get their life on track and get healthy but they don't know where to begin.

I think it starts with the want and then you have to have some goal in mind. You need to then find a way to work towards that goal.

So this brings me to... has anyone had success with plans? I remember doing the Beach Body 21 Day fix back in 2016. It really did help me to see how my eating habits had to change. These days I am seeing more of Arbonne 30 days to healthy living.

I really do like these and feel like they can help those getting started. So with these plans and tracking on here, have you had success with these?

mtaratoot

I have found that eating at a calorie deficit leads to fat loss, and it doesn't matter what approach.

It is indeed very important to develop good goals, both short-term and long term. Then, as you say, develop strategies to make them work. Finding a way of eating that keeps you from feeling hungry while maintaining a deficit can be a very personal thing since we're all different.

The plan that works best for me for fat loss is to track what I eat and how much I move and try to maintain a reasonable deficit. Then, once the excess fat is lost, to continue tracking fuel and output to keep a balance of calories to energy expended so that I maintain my weight.

Slow and steady is another part of the plan. Twenty-one or 30 days ain't going to cut it. It takes months with a reasonable deficit to lose fat at a safe rate, and that builds the habits to maintain.

Elphaba1313

I second what the above poster said.

And also add that IMO Arbonne is a cult and it will just end costing you a fortune for exactly what you could have done by yourself for free.

yirara

What the people above said. Also, some weightloss plans have one big disadvantage: people often don't know what kind of food keeps them full and happy before starting to lose weight. There's a whole period of discovery associated with this. Imagine doing a keto programme because the advertizing for something sounded good, and then you find out high fat doesn't keep you full at all or you don't enjoy eating this way. What do you learn from that? High fat is not for you, or losing weight is not for you? And if by any luck you manage to reach your goal weight despite it being hard, what happens then? Most likely you go back to old habits because the plan was so hard and you don't want to do it anymore. Lost the chance to learn about healthier habits and on how to maintain the weight going forward. The same is of course also true for every other way of eating.

heart3313

Thank you for your inputs! It's a great discussion because we are surrounded by this so much socially. It's a simple topic... our survival... food. I don't think that food should ever be negative. It gives us life, happiness, brings memories. There's just so much. I always believe that there should be balance. At the end of the day, you need it to fuel your body to keep moving but at the same time you can emotional eat. How can you take that away?? Isn't that in itself emotional eating. I know I'm going into a tangent but I do feel strongly on this. Thank you again for your opinions!

AnnPT77

I just did this:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1

Everyone's unique, so that won't work for everyone, but it seems to have worked fine for me through just under a year losing from class 1 obese to a healthy weight, and for staying in a healthy weight range for 7 years since.

That's just the eating, though. My basic advice about "exercise" - pretty much what I did myself - would be to find some way(s) of moving more that are so fun you'd do them even if they weren't good for you. . . short of that, at least something tolerable and convenient enough to keep doing regularly long term.

Again YMMV, and those answers are both pretty low drama and non-revolutionary.

heart3313

AnnPT77 wrote: »

I just did this:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1

Everyone's unique, so that won't work for everyone, but it seems to have worked fine for me through just under a year losing from class 1 obese to a healthy weight, and for staying in a healthy weight range for 7 years since.

That's just the eating, though. My basic advice about "exercise" - pretty much what I did myself - would be to find some way(s) of moving more that are so fun you'd do them even if they weren't good for you. . . short of that, at least something tolerable and convenient enough to keep doing regularly long term.

Again YMMV, and those answers are both pretty low drama and non-revolutionary.

I just read through that and it contains lots of great info! Thank you for sharing!!!

sjl0210

To be honest every workout is progress, even if you do it "wrong". Personally I just use MyFitnessPal, find my maintain macros, then add or lower the numbers depending what goal I have. For workouts, it also depending on your goal. But any plan is good, if you stick to it and progress each week with for example more added kg to the exercise etc.