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RyanneS20

hi all. I am new here trying to be successful in my weight loss journeys. Any tips or recipes you are willing to share would be very helpful. I have trie and failed at the weight loss journey several times dnd I need to be successful now more than help. Please help.

sollyn23l2

Look at why you failed before. Did you get too hungry? Tried to cut out foods you love? Didn't track what you ate? Find ways to deal with whatever your reasons are. We might be able to give suggestions if you tell us what went wrong.

cmriverside

Yeah, not really sure what you need.

Set your Goals here to "Lose 1 pound per week." Set your daily Activity Level honestly. Log food and exercise. Study your data and learn from it.

AnnPT77

My favorite tip will always be this: Make a plan that's as easy as possible to follow, while still gradually leading to your weight goal.

Too many people arrive here with the idea that they want to lose weight fast, so they cut calories to the bone for aggressively fast loss. Often, they think they need to adopt some restrictive way of eating: Never eat fast/junk/processed food, never eat treats they could successfully moderate, eat only superfoods, stop eating white foods (WTHeck?), maybe adopt one of the trendy restrictive named diets. Sometimes they even stop going to restaurants or eating at friends' homes because they can't accurately count those calories, sometimes they won't ever partake of special holiday celebration foods, so their social life tanks. Many of them then stack a punitively intense, miserable daily exercise plan on top of that.

Guess what? That doesn't usually end well . . . but it typically does end quickly. Why? It's just too hard. They never figure this next part out for some reason, but it also has near zero benefit when it comes to helping them figure out the new, permanent, relatively happy eating/activity habits they'll need to stay at a healthy weight long term.

Usual result of that scenario: Give up, regain lost pounds and then some. A few months later, throw themselves off that same cliff again. Rinse and repeat. Unproductive, right?

Don't do it. Being overweight isn't a sin we need to expiate through suffering. We just need to find our own best personal, sustainable, slightly more positive habits, habits we can repeat almost on autopilot when other parts of life get challenging (which they will).

There are quite a few people here, including some who commented above, who've lost a meaningful total amount of weight and then stayed at a good weight long term. (I was overweight/obese for around 30 year pre-loss, have been at a healthy weight for 9+ years since loss.)

Most of the long-term successful people here did something really pretty boring: Use their food diary, figure out where to reduce calories in ways that kept them full and happy most of the time eating foods they enjoy, maybe add some movement to their life (either daily life movement or enjoyable exercise . . . at minimum tolerable/practical exercise). With that kind of approach to loss, maintaining the loss is just adding back a small number of calories and continuing on with those new, pretty easy, practical habits. Much easier, if you ask me. Yeah, not as good for impressing friends with the cool new diet we're doing. 😆

"Experiment, find, and practice new practical, positive routine eating and activity habits" is a completely different process and mindset from "lose weight fast".

I can't tell you what to do. No one can tell you what to do. But I'd encourage you to think about it.

Best wishes for success: IME, the quality of life improvement is more than worth the effort it takes to get there.

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https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48694671#Comment_48694671

well put. Lots of help and encouaragement in that post.