What is one piece of advice you wish you had before you star

ADM1979

What is one piece of advice you wish you had before you started this journey?

I have thought long and hard about this. I really wish I someone had told me that I can still have any food I want, just in moderation. But more importantly, I wish they had tried harder to tell me. Where I actually believed them. Does that make sense?

drich1989

I like this question.
I wish someone had told me how HARD it really is and the amount of dedication it requires. You see the before and after pictures and everyone makes it seem so damn simple. I never hear of the struggles, the cravings and mistakes people make while losing weight. Eating healthy and exercising is something I have to consciously think about every single day and I wish I would have known that. That being said, just because something is HARD doesn't mean its impossible. I'm just looking for the honesty.

cavemancop

Go Paleo

xraychick77

to make sure i lifted a lot of weights to help maintain my muscle mass, so i wouldnt end up this skinny fat.

runnercheryl

I wish someone had told me NOT to listen to what other people tell me. I did a pretty good job of getting into my own journey myself, and I knew right from the start there would be no fad diets involved, but that didn't mean I didn't try plenty of things out before I decided just to go with what worked for me.

Kymmu

Go Paleo

Yes- it makes losing weight so much easier!

ReinventingLisa

I wish someone properly explained to me about how to lose weight!

When I was 13, I read all the magazines my grandmother had (First and other magazines) which promised so much weight loss in a month. But I really didn't understand it all. From my understanding, if I ate less calories and worked out that it just worked. So, I started biking to lose weight and when I wasn't losing fast enough, I would cut out food from my day or even entire meals and I had THOUGHT that was healthy and normal to do.

Thinking back, I had developed an eating disorder without knowing it. I was biking up to 8 hours a day, but I would eat B/L/D. Then I started cutting out breakfast and then lunch.. I realized something wasn't right when in one of my Teen magazines it talked about signs of eating disorders and luckily it was probably only two months in my regime. It really just made it worse at the time realizing it and I struggled for a few more years, but luckily I no longer have those sort of issues and it never got worse.

I remember I had even asked my mom and even my doctor help to properly lose weight before all the above.. but all I was told was that I didn't need to and that's it. All I wanted to lose was 15-20lbs since I was in the mid 140's at 13 and at the same height then as I am today. Yes.. I wanted to look good but I wanted to be healthy. I even ate Total for breakfast for heavens sake! :laugh:

cekeys

As a guy, I thought that all I needed was exercise. Last year, all I did was go to the gym & I ate like I did before. It wasn't until I started MFP that I learned to lose weight (or "loose" weight, if you're funky) you need to combine exercise with diet. It's such a trite answer that I didn't think it was real, like "time heals all wounds." If I could smack myself and say, "You're going to lose weight about 4 times faster if you combine a lower calorie diet with your exercise routines!" I'd be well past my goal and on to building muscles by now.

1953Judith

Biggest ongoing exercise set required is the mind set -- emotional, logical and creative.

FORKDOWN

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Good topic.