If you had only one piece of advice...

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  • Debbjones
    Debbjones Posts: 278 Member
    Do what feels "RIGHT FOR YOU", produces the results you hope to see while remaining healthy level of energy. Too many people here give advice without knowing all the facts surrounding an individual's situation. The advice, although many times given with good intention, may not produce the results you hope to see that will keep you motivated in your journey.

    You and your physician, are the best source for guidance...
  • 1yoyoKAT
    1yoyoKAT Posts: 206 Member
    I would say "act as if". If your actions (that includes diet, exercise, caring for your health physically and emotionally) are those of a healthy person, you will become a healthy person.
  • annakow
    annakow Posts: 385 Member
    Counting calories, eating unprocessed clean food, no soda, exercise
  • mamadon
    mamadon Posts: 1,422 Member
    NEVER QUIT
  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,371 Member
    Have faith in yourself and don't set yourself unrealistic goals.
  • retirehappy
    retirehappy Posts: 3,973 Member
    For me I think it is "Stand in my Truth." Whatever I do, just log it. I'll have great days, so so days, and awful days, but I have to "own" them.

    This approach helped me get my financial life in order and now it is helping me start to manage my weight. Once I lose the weight, I want to continue standing in my Truth and be successful at maintenance.

    When I retire I have a big to go list, I have to be healthy to do it all, and yes, I want it all.
  • Libi_KK
    Libi_KK Posts: 572 Member
    Start slowly with easy, sustainable changes.

    Parking at the end of the lot when you shop. Air popped popcorn instead of microwave, cut your soda or latte habit by a little each week, add in more veg per week. Massive, immediate changes rarely work in the long term because they are hard to stick with and neither do fad diets.
  • kellyskitties
    kellyskitties Posts: 475 Member
    I would say the key for me is to make 1 change at a time. I have always been one to dive into things and go overboard. This time, I started with just logging. When I got a handle on that, I started trying to hit my calorie goal. Next, I stopped having wine every day. Now I am working on hitting my macros.

    This has been absolutely key for me. I've never approached it this way before, but I was inspired by the quote "If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done."

    I recommend this approach to anyone who has an "all or nothing" tendency. It's a good way to break yourself of that. It's also a good way to get started when you feel stuck and lack motivation to begin. Start logging and the momentum starts to build.

    Sounds just like me!

    My advice - when it starts to fail you and you are ready to give up - loosen up some until the motivation returns. As opposed to just giving up. Just saved myself with that advice. Was done with it. Frustrated. All the "stay motivated, keep going, hang in there" advice sounded hollow right then. I was in a bad place and didn't have the "push through" in me I needed. I loosened up and BAM I'm still here.
  • Camera_BagintheUK
    Camera_BagintheUK Posts: 707 Member
    Just do it.

    I spent years feeling helpless, believing nothing could change, making half hearted efforts to do more exercise, or eat more sensibly, and convincing myself I couldn't lose the weight.

    For me the android app did it! I downloaded it and just started controlling my calories, and the weight started falling off!

    There aren't any shortcuts or miracle cures - if you weigh more than you should, you have to eat less and move more to weigh less. But you have to start doing that - so just do it, stop talking yourself out of it!
  • Wildflower0106
    Wildflower0106 Posts: 247 Member
    Don't let diet, fitness, macros, ect. control your life to the point you have no life.
  • madhamey
    madhamey Posts: 70 Member
    Eat slowly and stop eating the minute you start to feel full.

    This is what I found hardest, but does automatically reduce calorie intake.
  • stacyhaddenham
    stacyhaddenham Posts: 211 Member
    Just keep making the next right, SUSTAINABLE change for you. It is easy to change something for a week but hard to maintain some things long term. For us it was a complete revamp of our favorite home cooked meals. Taking out fat and calories and finding new ways to put in flavor and nutritional value. Then juicing one meal a day (when we are home to do it.) followed by adding in exercise and logging. You would be surprised at how much weight we lost just by that first step though.
  • JaceyMarieS
    JaceyMarieS Posts: 692 Member
    Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...

    Yep, absolutely.
  • WhoDat5o4
    WhoDat5o4 Posts: 50 Member
    Can't out exercise a bad diet. It took me a long time to get that through my head.
  • WhoDat5o4
    WhoDat5o4 Posts: 50 Member
    Lift heavy. The one thing that has given me the greatest benefit aesthetically, emotionally, and health wise, more then losing weight, cardio, or eating healthy, is lifting heavy. Even though it wasn't my thing at first and I was the dancer girl who wanted nothing to do with lifting because I didn't have a clue how and because of so many stigmas and misconceptions about lifting that the majority of people seem to have. I tried the rest first and it never helped me accomplish the flat tummy I have now :) I really wish I could get through to the people who think they'll end up looking manly. I hardly think I did.
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    Yes!! lifting heavy helped get me through a dark period in my life.
  • belle_of_the_bar
    belle_of_the_bar Posts: 474 Member
    Weigh your food. Always.

    I had no idea how much I was actually eating even when using measuring cups.
  • Winston1717
    Winston1717 Posts: 184
    For me...efficient workouts HIIT free weight training and cardio best choices I've ever made!
  • JL2513
    JL2513 Posts: 867 Member
    Don't put too much pressure on yourself. But do think through your decisions, ie. Do I really want to eat this piece of cake? How will I feel tomorrow and how will this affect my journey to my goal?

    This has helped me immensely. About 10 years ago, I was also on a weight loss kick and had great success initially- then everything went to hell because of my "all or nothing" mentality and the pressure I put on myself. I am having success this time because I don't place so much pressure on myself to do the 'right' things; I just naturally do the 'right' things because of the sense of freedom I have allowed myself to have. I still exercise self control and am careful to think through my decisions, though.
  • aisha42
    aisha42 Posts: 9 Member
    Consistency and endurance will help you succeed in this lifestyle and journey. Start today because next year you will wish that you have.
  • becky10rp
    becky10rp Posts: 573 Member
    It's a mind thing as much as it's about diet and exercise.


    This...........it IS a 'mind' thing as much as it's about diet and exercise - you have to WANT to change your lifestyle - and WANT to make those changes everyday.......otherwise, it's not happening
  • ktsmom430
    ktsmom430 Posts: 1,100 Member
    Don't ever give up!
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    Strive for balance in everything you do
    Also a good one.
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    Calorie deficit
    Strength Training
    Measurements (not just scale)
    Listen to your body


    That sums up my time of doing this.
    120lbs? Holy cow! And you're looking fantastic!
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    Overestimate calories eaten, underestimate calories burned.
  • estelamdo
    estelamdo Posts: 11
    No matter how out of shape/overweight you are, or no matter how fit you think you are, you can ALWAYS be better.

    THIS!! Followed by "You DO IT, you don't THINK IT".

    Also a friend once said to me: “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
  • taeliesyn
    taeliesyn Posts: 1,116 Member
    Go SLOW!!!
    You're in this for the long haul, not a quick fix. You didn't get fat in a week or a month, don't expect it to come off and stay off if you lose it that fast.
  • mahanaibu
    mahanaibu Posts: 505 Member
    what they said.

    really, this thread us so full of good advice, it could be collected together into a little book of weight-loss wisdom.

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