Tips, hacks and intros welcome…

andrewloganprojects188
andrewloganprojects188 Posts: 2 Member
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Hello from Aus….let me know your best tip, hack or secret for stripping kilos and reducing body fat - thank you! 💪💪

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,968 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10943109/tips-hacks-and-intros-welcome

    search engine is your friend Almost 90,000 results in this site alone, not include searching for trendy term “hack”:

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    If you’re looking for a fast fix to “strip kilos”, no such animal. You’d be rich beyond your wildest dreams if you had a legit one. Heck? Even if you pawn a bogus one as an influencer, there’s enough gullibility out there to get rich.

  • andrewloganprojects188
    andrewloganprojects188 Posts: 2 Member

    Ain’t that the truth! More just looking for habits and hacks that have worked for people.

    Part of the problem with search, is that 90% of it is either obvious or wrong. You spend so much time trawling through looking for the good stuff!

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,510 Community Helper

    I don't believe in hacks, honestly.

    As context, I used MFP to lose from class 1 obese to a healthy weight starting nearly 10 years ago, have been at a healthy weight for 9+ years since loss, after around 30 previous years of overweight/obesity.

    If someone has a meaningful total mount of weight to lose, it's not a quick project with a nearby end date, assuming sustaining good health is an important thing, too. Actually, it's not a quick project if simply sustaining the effort is important . . . and it is. Serious weight loss takes time, patience, perseverance.

    Then there's maintaining a healthy weight long term: Most people find that harder than loss. Reportedly, something like 80% of people regain within around 2 years. I don't - didn't - want that.

    Personally, I think the big deal is experimenting to find new, relatively happy routine habits, both eating habits and activity habits . . . and activity includes daily life stuff, not just official formal exercise. Looking at it as finding new, permanent habits - habits that can continue almost on autopilot when other parts of life get challenging - is a whole different mindset from "lose weight fast".

    What those habits are, IMO, looks very different from one person to the next. We all have different preferences, strengths, challenging, lifestyles, social context and more. Personalization is a key success factor, I think.

    Consequently, my first and biggest tip is to make the easiest-to-follow possible plan that gradually leads to a happy weight, and ideally delivers good overall nutrition at the same time. That may take some personal experimenting, and not all the experiments will succeed. Those non-success trial tactics aren't personal failures, they're a useful learning experience about what doesn't work for us as an individual. We can cross an idea off the candidate list, try something else. As long as we keep going in that way, don't give up the effort, success will happen.

    Just my opinion, though . . . and I suspect not generally a popular one. 😆

    Best wishes for success - however you decide to proceed!

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