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

TraceyRobbo
TraceyRobbo Posts: 1 Member
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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 :D

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



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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,398 Member
    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
    megd44 Posts: 189 Member
    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
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,717 Member
    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!

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