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PReed115
PReed115 Posts: 2 Member
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Hello! My names Pamela and I'm new here just started tracking my food. Any tips to stay on track?

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  • waddell88
    waddell88 Posts: 10 Member
    Pamela good morning and you are welcome , first tip is get more of fruits, swapping your daily soda for mineral water or adding a vegetable to your lunch and dinner, such as using less meat and switching to small amounts of olive oil and vinegar or lemon on your salads.. okay
  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 460 Member
    Hello Pamela. The only tip that works is to keep at it. this has to be an every day for the rest of your life habit. If you read the posts from those who were successful at losing the weight and keeping it off, they all kept using mfp to track their maintained.

    You have to figure out the way of eating that works for you. There are many philosophies here that will allow you to achieve a calorie deficit. Also get moving. The more active you are the better your health will be.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/147555-speak-friend-and-enter
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,204 Member
    My first tip to stay on track is to plan the easiest possible track that still leads you gradually toward your goal.

    Too many people arrive here with a "lose weight fast" intention, rule out most of their favorite foods, think they need to eat all organic superfoods or something but zero treats, adopt complicated rules about what end when to eat, cut calories to a bare minimum for fast loss, then maybe stack punitively intense, unpleasant daily exercise on top of that. That usually doesn't end well, and does usually end quickly. It may also have something to do with the high number of "I'm back" posts here in the Introductions section.

    Losing any meaningful amount of weight isn't a quick project with an end date, after which things go back to normal. That's how weight yo-yos happen. Weight loss, and more importantly staying at a healthy weight after loss, ultimately depends on finding and grooving in new, happy - at least tolerable and practical - eating activity habits that can continue almost on autopilot when other parts of life get challenging . . . because they will.

    Find new routine, relatively happy habits is a completely different mindset from "lose weight fast".

    Pick a path you think you can follow, and if there are slips along the way, think about how to improve the plan so they don't recur. Stick with that kind of mindset, be persistent and patient, and you can succeed.

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