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lindzann88
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What was your favorite piece of advice that was given to you when you first started your journey? :happy:
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Be honest with your logging, use a scale to weigh food, and diet is the most important thing..you cannot outrun a bad diet!0
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Be honest with your logging, use a scale to weigh food, and diet is the most important thing..you cannot outrun a bad diet!
^That's my fav, too!0 -
Be honest and be patient! Oh and you don't have to be perfect just try to do better today then yesterday.0
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Have to +2 on the scale and diet advice.
Wrapping my head around the importance of nutrition was one of the best steps forward I ever took. I had battled with weight for years. At over 300 pounds, I was losing.
I read a book, by some guy, I don't remember what his name was. He gave a breakdown of what percentage of my diet needed to be protein, fats, carbs, and fiber. When I realized how easy weight loss was when you understand nutrition....the weight started falling off.0 -
diet (calories, tdee, activity #'s, etc etc), scale, patience.0
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Lift heavy.0
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"If you're not going to challenge yourself, you should just quit."
I know it doesn't sound like advice, or even good advice but it shifted my perspective big time and allowed me to do things differently.0 -
Just fcukin do it.
It actually worked really well for me.0 -
"You can't out-exercise a bad diet"0
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Just fcukin do it.
It actually worked really well for me.
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Really like this. I tell myself this constantly. "Ah well maybe I will just skip the gym today....dude just fcukin do it."0 -
Be honest with your logging, use a scale to weigh food, and diet is the most important thing..you cannot outrun a bad diet!
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Every day is a new journey. Some good, some bad and some ugly.
Was good advice given to me by a wise friend and is what's kept me going. I have all 3 and always try to do better when I slip but slip ups do happen, to everyone.0 -
Leaves of three let it be. Leaves of four eat some more!0
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All the above, plus don't give the scale power over you. Gains in fitness are better than weight loss.0
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Make small lifestyle changes each day - they all add up and then it doesn't seem like time is ticking by/you're on a diet
ETA: "eat to live, don't live to eat"0 -
Be honest with your logging, use a scale to weigh food, and diet is the most important thing..you cannot outrun a bad diet!
Exactly! I was exercising regularly for months, but it wasn't until I got serious about watching my food and stopped giving myself a "cheat" day a few times a week that the weight came off. I love that line, "you can not out run a bad diet!"0 -
Keep your eye on the big picture rather than the minutia of the day to day. It's about "lifestyle" not "daystyle" or "weekstyle"0
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'Be patient and results will come'
and during it I keep hearing
'Everything happens for a reason'0 -
Not really advice I got so much as something I learned, but to someone who is just starting out, I would say don't quit. People are so eager to lose weight that they seem to expect it to happen easily and overnight. There will be days when you feel like you're not making progress and you wonder why you're even bothering. You just have to keep chipping away at it. You don't have to get where you're going tomorrow. You just have to get on the right path and keep moving forward. You'll get there eventually.
But I also agree that educating yourself about nutrition and about how weight-loss happens is critical. Not only will it help you figure out what to eat and how much to eat; it will also give you a defense against all the horrible diet advice on TV and in magazines and help you separate fact and fiction. But you have to be diligent and be willing to look at primary sources and do some critical thinking of your own. I say this a lot: information is power.0 -
Just fcukin do it.
It actually worked really well for me.
This for me, too. For working out, for logging EVERY bit of food, for making a healthy meal instead of take out. Don't want to? Too bad, just do it. I also try to keep in mind that this time is going to pass, whether I choose to do something good for myself or not. When I turn in for the night I want to be happy with my decisions, when I reflect back on the year I'd like the same thing. Pride or regret...ultimately you make that choice one decision at a time.0
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