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stephanieascencio1
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Hi! Need some support! Need to lose about 150 lbs. Short goals!
My lifestyle needs to change. I have some habits to kick and need to get motivated.
What I have done..drink more water
Working on more steps daily
Tracking food
Hardest
Stop smoking
Exercise
Finding time for me
Any help or ideas?
My lifestyle needs to change. I have some habits to kick and need to get motivated.
What I have done..drink more water
Working on more steps daily
Tracking food
Hardest
Stop smoking
Exercise
Finding time for me
Any help or ideas?
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Welcome!
Set goals. Make them difficult but reasonable. Make them time-bound.
What goals are you setting for yourself tomorrow, next week, next month, and for the rest of the year? That's the first step. Then meet your goals!
Food scale if you don't have one. Need. Need. Use it to make your powers of estimation better when you're away from it. Our brains are silly when thinking about food.
And don't forget to enjoy the journey!
Take pictures and measurements now. You won't like it, but do it. Later you'll be glad you did when you can see how far you came.0 -
Hello, and welcome!
Good advice from mtaratoot, as usual. I'd add this: When you take the photos, do front, side, back, in form-fitting clothing or a bathing suit. Don't take photos in your undies. Well, you can if you want to. But I'd predict that when you reach your goal, you'll want to show off your amazing before and after - even if that's hard to imagine right now. You may not want to show your friends/relatives your undies, and MFP rules forbid those kinds of photos. Keep it "safe for work".
Personally, when it comes to goals, I like process goals. What does that mean? It's things like "log all food every day - good, bad or indifferent", "weigh myself at X frequency", "eat N servings of veggies per day now, increase to N+1 next month", "do some kind of movement activity Y times per week". Those are things we pretty much completely control.
Outcome goals will be achieved if the process goals are on point. But they don't always show up on a predictable schedule, which can leave us feeling like we failed when what really happened was that we succeeded, just on a slightly different time scale. (Examples of outcome goals: "Lose X pounds by Y date", "Walk X miles in Y time by Z date").
Way too many people come here with the ambition to lose weight fast. Some of them will try to do that by adopting extreme restrictive diets, intense and unpleasant exercise, etc. None of that is necessary, and it too frequently ends up in burn out, compensatory over-eating triggered by restrictions, breaks in the healthy routine, sometimes even giving up altogether. Slow and steady, finding new habits that are pleasant - at least doable and tolerable - is the way a lot of people here who succeed seem to have done it.
For any of us who have meaningful amounts of weight to lose, it's realistically going to take many weeks to many months, maybe even a small number of years. Then, there's the issue of staying at a healthy weight long term, ideally permanently. IMO, that puts a premium on finding tactics that are sustainable, that - once established - can continue almost on autopilot when other parts of life get challenging . . . because they will, sometimes.
Best wishes for success!1
