New girl

... And welcome to MFP!

Log everything you put into your mouth.

Weigh dry foods whenever you can.

Measure everything.

Don't listen to haters.

Be consistent.

Eat your exercise calories, but get an HRM (MFP and machines are inconsistent).

If you find that eating your exercise calories doesn't work (give it at least a month), eat 1/2 your exercise calories.

Look for motivation from friends and on the boards, but take everything you read with a grain of salt.

Weight loss is more an art than a science. Everyone has advice, but what worked for person X may not work for you.

Sometimes you will do everything right and will gain weight. Sometimes you will do everything wrong and will lose weight.

Don't weigh in every day, unless you understand that your weight will go up and down, and you can live with that.

Take measurements of yourself. Inches are a better determination of progress than weight, because a cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat.

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Just be honest with what you log or you can't stay on course. You'd only be lying to yourself.

Just found this site anyone got any tips

Look both ways before crossing a street
Don't take any wooden nickels
Never let a cab driver take a "short cut"
Check flight status before going to airport
Speaking of airports: wear slip on shoes, and less than 3oz of liquid in your carry on...

I miss anything???

Great tips!

Log everything you put into your mouth.

Weigh dry foods whenever you can.

Measure everything.

Don't listen to haters.

Be consistent.

Eat your exercise calories, but get an HRM (MFP and machines are inconsistent).

If you find that eating your exercise calories doesn't work (give it at least a month), eat 1/2 your exercise calories.

Look for motivation from friends and on the boards, but take everything you read with a grain of salt.

Weight loss is more an art than a science. Everyone has advice, but what worked for person X may not work for you.

Sometimes you will do everything right and will gain weight. Sometimes you will do everything wrong and will lose weight.

Don't weigh in every day, unless you understand that your weight will go up and down, and you can live with that.

Take measurements of yourself. Inches are a better determination of progress than weight, because a cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat.

^^This and more of THIS!!

What they said.

Also remember:

Weight is lost in the kitchen and NOT in the gym. The gym is for building muscle (which burns fat), allows you to "earn" more calories for food, builds stamina, endurance. and strength.

Weight loss happens over time not overnight, so keep encouraged any way you can. Plan on a long term goal with a few mini goals along the way. Treat yourself with something nice, or a night out, or whatever when you reach these goals, you deserve it. Also, don't just focus on a certain weight as your goal, try to pick something that will actually drive you to reach your goal. For me, it's the Warrior Dash 5K run in our state in May. I want to participate and run as much of it as possible...at this point, I'm good to run for 2 minutes straight. However, that's 2 minutes more than I could run just 3-4 weeks ago. When I reach that goal, I should be in much better shape than I am now, and then I will set another goal to reach after that one.

Enjoy NSV's a.k.a: Non Scale Victories. Don't rely on ALL of your success to be measured by the scale. It's about being healthy, not about weighing a certain weight. Yes, weight loss is important, but so is being healthy and fit, and sometimes what you think is an ideal weight may just be too low.

A bad day doesn't mean anything except that it was a bad day. Get over it, move on, make it better tomorrow.

Finally, know that you are already AWESOME...so the rest of this is just gravy.

It seems to be working for me I log everything and try and keep to the measures. I do not log all my fitness ie I take the dog for walk every morning its only 2 miles that never gets logged.

I am down around 9lb in two weeks which is great start however I only want to lose 2lb a week so need to find a balance. I would be happy if you want to follow me and check my food diary out.