Please post your MOST IMPORTANT weight loss tip :)

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  • kelseykamykowski
    kelseykamykowski Posts: 1
    Your weight should be used as a guide to help you reach your goals - a measure of your progress. It's not something you should define yourself by. Your health, fitness, and how you perceive yourself should be your goals. Remember, there is more to you than the number on the scale!
  • BeautifulScarsWECHANGED
    BeautifulScarsWECHANGED Posts: 749 Member
    What a great thread! :bigsmile:
  • zombiesama
    zombiesama Posts: 755 Member
    Send your naked pictures to me. Trust me it works ;P
    lol

    But on a serious note, drink more water.
  • Smashlee_Skins
    Smashlee_Skins Posts: 5
    don't be afraid of being hungry. being hungry doesn't mean you have to eat as soon as you feel it. drink water and wait as long as you can.
  • Bethany39466
    Bethany39466 Posts: 4 Member
    Duct tape?
  • tryinghard71
    tryinghard71 Posts: 593
    Lift Weights and measure weekly. Sometimes the scale does not move but you are still losing inches.
  • carrieous
    carrieous Posts: 1,024 Member
    Use MFP and log every single thing you consume so you can see where your problems are.

    Also, a little bit of hunger is NOT going to kill you and you are not going to develop life-threatening anorexia by alllowing yourself to be hungry. As your body adjusts to eating less you will feel hungry, never full and unsatisfied much of the time but IT GOES AWAY EVENTUALLY so just power through it.

    Finally, LEARN to like plain water and vegetables and other healthy foods. You are not a toddler anymore. "BUT I DONT LIKE IT" is not a good excuse to avoid eating healthy.
  • suz155
    suz155 Posts: 326 Member
    Logging everything and opening up my food diary to friends. Its really worked.
  • Bettyeditor
    Bettyeditor Posts: 327 Member
    Do not make any changes that you wouldn't be willing to continue for the rest of your life. That way you will find a way to eat that is sustainable and you will be able to maintain. I have learned this the hard way.

    YES!!! I second this :flowerforyou:
  • ednaemerson
    ednaemerson Posts: 63 Member
    Have patience. .Do what you need to do to make it a healthy lifestyle but also take the time to live. We all have occasions where we can't be perfect. So live and get on with it. My thoughts on this subject.
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
    Don't blindly follow MFP recommendations. BMR/TDEE calculations are your friend
  • Oppy4722
    Oppy4722 Posts: 9
    One (unplanned) bad food decision doesn't mean you should scrap the rest of the day and start again tomorrow... there will always be a tomorrow to wait for. Start again now. Make good decisions the rest of the day instead of snacking and eating junk- don't set yourself back more than you have to.

    Also- be truthful with yourself, if you have a double portion of something, log it as such rather than just saying "oh it was close enough to one serving." The only person you're trying to deceive is yourself- but you already know the truth- so why?
  • staplebug
    staplebug Posts: 189
    "ONE BAD meal isn't going to make you fat... just like ONE GOOD meal isn't going to make you skinny"

    I love love love this saying!
  • trud72
    trud72 Posts: 1,912 Member
    it's between two...

    1.exersice daily(anything) :flowerforyou:

    2.never just give up and start again tomorrow...eat deal with it and start again NOW! :drinker:
  • hannah_ryann
    hannah_ryann Posts: 259 Member
    Do not make ANYTHING off limits in your lifestyle change. I would have quit the first month if I didn't have my wine, chocolate, beef jerky, etc. With this being said, also realize

    that EVERY MEAL is not special. don't justify eating crap foods all day because you're: on vacation/it's your birthday/someone else's birthday/ out of town/ WHATEVER. If you want wine, chocolate, mcdonalds, whatever, let yourself have those things, just not all in one day.
  • KaraAlste
    KaraAlste Posts: 168 Member
    Following a specific Plan. You could be in a complete zombie mode and these plans still work.:bigsmile:

    Such as Atkins, calorie counting, Carb Cycling, Warrior Diet. Some sort of rules, that are not your own and tracking them.
  • newheart22
    newheart22 Posts: 4
    Get enough:yawn: sleep.
  • JessicaOnKeto
    JessicaOnKeto Posts: 364 Member
    My most important tip I would give someone:
    Don't give up and stay positive!
    Don't beat yourself because you had some slip-ups. One indulgence won't undo a week's hard work, (just like one good eating day won't undo a week's worth of bad eating) just pick yourself up, and move on and start with a clean slate.
    And... This journey and lifestyle change is going to take TIME. And plenty of it. It didn't take you a month to put on the extra weight, so it isn't going to take you a month to lose and be back to where you want to be.
  • BigMech
    BigMech Posts: 472 Member
    Eat Less, and Move More!
  • ecw3780
    ecw3780 Posts: 608 Member
    at least 10,000 steps per day and accurately (weighing and measuring) logging your food
  • Riemersma4
    Riemersma4 Posts: 400 Member
    unplug your hand/wand blender before removing the blade for cleaning....
  • windra06
    windra06 Posts: 50 Member
    Eat Less.
  • Sarge516
    Sarge516 Posts: 256 Member
    Workout with some effort! If your workout isn't hard for you, it isn't hard enough.
  • wildcatnyc
    wildcatnyc Posts: 2,410 Member
    Drink more than 100 oz of non-calorie fluids per day...
  • brittany17love
    brittany17love Posts: 66 Member
    Hmm... keep moving! Even while sitting down, move something!

    It worked for me (:
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    don't be afraid of being hungry. being hungry doesn't mean you have to eat as soon as you feel it. drink water and wait as long as you can.

    I'm sorry.. the water part is good advice. the rest of it is not.. waiting "as long as you can" when you feel hungry leads to over eating and bad food chocies. You should eat *before* you feel hungry so you make better choices, eat smaller portions and stay full. Also drink water.
  • alphabetsoup2013
    alphabetsoup2013 Posts: 208 Member
    Re-commit to your goals a couple of times each day. Each time I log in to record one of my meals or details about my exercise, I scan the success stories message board and read about the successes other MFP members are enjoying. This reminds me to reflect on what I hope to achieve and to consider what I have already achieved -- how good it feels to already be enjoying the health benefits of carrying 30 fewer pounds around.

    Note: I carried two ten-pound weights up a flight of stairs yesterday. I couldn't believe how heavy they were. Then I realized that I had been carrying around the equivalent of three ten-pound weights on my body all the time not that long ago. It feels so good not to be carrying that extra 30 pounds around anymore. I'm looking forward to getting rid of a whole bunch more of those ten-pound weights....
  • Riemersma4
    Riemersma4 Posts: 400 Member
    when you feel like 'trash snacking', grab a book and read. Double benefit for your brain and your body.
  • dacadoo
    dacadoo Posts: 32
    Track the food you eat and lots of WATER
  • navydentalchic
    navydentalchic Posts: 234 Member
    Don't listen to idiots.....
    THIS!!!:drinker: :laugh: :flowerforyou:

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