Feel free to offer any good advise that you feel helps you stay on track

TraceyRobbo

Hi Everyone,

First step made signed up - Now to get started.

Its taken me forever to find out where to send a welcome message from

Am here to change my lifestyle and to make it a healthy fit one. which will become a habit hopefully.

Any tips would be welcome.

still looking round the site and some details to fill in.

Hoping to get started in a couple of days.

Look forward to reading some of the discussion group

Alatariel75

Sustainable changes which will apply for life!!

My biggest mistake in the hundreds of time I committed, lost, slipped, and regained, was losing the weight doing something I didn't plan to do life long. There's no "going back to normal", that normal got me fat. I've now make sustainable changes which I plan to keep for life.

megd44

Great advice above. The game changer for me was a digital scale. Really learning how much I was eating was eye opening. And there is a ton of great information here. Ask questions and figure out what works for you.

AnnPT77

My tip for staying on track will always be to plan the very easiest possible track that gradually heads toward whatever your personal goals may be.

I think this is a different way of saying something close to what @Alatariel75 is saying upthread. Like her, I decided I wasn't going to do anything to lose weight that I wasn't willing to continue forever to stay at a healthy weight long term, except for a sensibly moderate calorie deficit until I reached goal weight. That meant learning how to fit in things like treats, celebrations, quick meals on the road and more. So far - 8+ years into maintaining a healthy weight, after around 30 pre-loss years of overweight/obesity - that's working out pretty well.

So many people seem to arrive here thinking they need to do some much-hyped named diet that cuts calories to the bone and restricts many foods they enjoy, and a lot of them then stack punitively intense, unpleasant daily exercise on top of that. That isn't necessary, and it usually doesn't end well.

Make a plan that's easy to stick with, and work toward new routine habits you can keep up almost on autopilot long term: Food that's enjoyable and filling, activity (daily life stuff plus exercise) that's ideally fun, but at least is tolerable and practical. That's a different mindset from "lose weight fast so I can go back to normal".

No one thing works for everyone, but that's worked pretty well for me, so far.

Best wishes!