What do you wish you'd known sooner?
AliceNov2011
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White wine spritzer. I feel sure I'd never have gotten overweight if I'd known about this sooner. I shake my fist at you, God of Secret Good Stuff!
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I wish I had known years and years ago to set small, achievable goals, and to make only one change at a time. Losing weight takes not a diet, but a lifestyle change. It takes 6 weeks to make something become a habit, and let's be honest--our weight wasn't gained overnight, so it won't come off overnight, either. However, IT WILL COME OFF!!! I'm living proof of that, being perimenopausal and having PCOS.
What I did was slowly change how I ate, first adding in an extra veggie a day, or working on increasing my daily fiber intake through food and not supplements. Then I increased my exercise over a series of weeks, eventually finding myself going to the gym 6 days a week. That was when the weight really started to come off and my body began an amazing metamorphosis.0 -
you are what you eat!0
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I wish i could have looked into the future 7 years ago. I would have lost 200 pounds real quick. LOL (My ex):mad:1
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I wish that I knew to stay on the course of clean eating. I worked at Whole Foods for a year and got spoiled with the foods and the wealth of info. visiting the health & beauty aisle reading up on natural cures etc. I got off course a few years later and let stress in and it changed my life negatively hence the weight gain and hypertension.
Now, I'm slowly but surley getting back on track. It's not hard but it can be expensive food wise & I'm getting a little impatient with myself as I'm doing this whole life overhaul 1 day at a time.0 -
I wish I would have realized when I was young, how badly yoyo dieting would be for my health. Had I taken care of myself, I peobably would not have have all my heart isues, Fbromyalgia, A-fib, arthritis, IBS. It really does matter what you do in your teens, 20's, 30's, 40's, cause it really bit me in the *kitten* at 50 and I will be 60 on Friday, and everything is a battle.0
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I wish i would have realized that the most important thing is taking care of yourself from the inside out. If you don't understand why you gained the weight, you will never be able to fully keep it off.0
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Oh too funny!!!I wish i could have looked into the future 7 years ago. I would have lost 200 pounds real quick. LOL (My ex):mad:0 -
Don't do today what you're not willing to do forever. It's a lifestyle, not a "diet."0
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That food was controlling me rather than me controlling food.
That making small but achievable changes add up to big results.
That making one bad choice doesn't mean you lost the battle or that it can undo all the work.
That its a lifestyle not a diet.
That its okay to have an occasional treat just don't let it get out of control.0 -
How important weight lifting/load bearing is to overall health. And the proper nutrition to feed your muscles.0
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I wish I had known that fat doesn't make you fat. I was eating the most disgusting fat-free cheese - blech0
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I agree on the fat free stuff. They made us all paranoid about eggs and fat and all sorts of foods and now we're learning the stuff they told us to eat is healthy for us. Sigh. Basically, I suspect a conspiracy involving food companies wanting us to buy all sorts of diet junk.
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I wish i could have looked into the future 7 years ago. I would have lost 200 pounds real quick. LOL (My ex):mad:
Too funny :laugh:0 -
Wish I'd eaten more vegetables/fruit along the way, over the years, and not believed the "carbs are bad" myths. I wish I'd known then that complex veggie/fruit carbs are not the same as refined carbs -- nowadays I eat all the vegetables/fruit I want.0
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I wish that I had know that being overweight would make menopause a living hell for me. :devil: Yep, that would have motivated me to drop the weight and work out like my life depended on it.0
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That I didn't have to eat "diet" food in order to lose weight.
I already knew about white wine spritzers
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I've always battled with my weight. However, when I was younger and went on a "diet", the weight would come off fairly quickly & easily for me----all I did was focus on healthy eating and excercise. Now that I'm in my mid-forties, it's just simply not that easy any more. I wish I would've realized all of this 10+ years ago, and kept the weight off at that point!!!! It's coming off again now,...but BOY! It's taking a lot of HARD WORK and dedication!0
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Until about 10 years ago, could eat whatever and whenever with no thoughts of calories, fat..if i liked it, ijust ate it. Well everything has changed and this i did not see coming.
So the plan is to somehow get healthy by eating clean, continue to exercise...this is my life now that reality is setting in and yes, do i ever wish i'd known sooner!0 -
As a charter member of the yo-yo dieter club, I wish I had known that no foods are bad and off limits. It's all about portion size and logging. That little bit of info would have saved me a lot of obcessing and failure.
Now what is the scoop on the white wine spritzer?0 -
Not to sweat the small stuff. And to take things a day at a time. Oh, and patience is always needed for anything worthwhile.0
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I wish i would have realized that the most important thing is taking care of yourself from the inside out. If you don't understand why you gained the weight, you will never be able to fully keep it off.
I Agree!!!0 -
I've always battled with my weight. However, when I was younger and went on a "diet", the weight would come off fairly quickly & easily for me----all I did was focus on healthy eating and excercise. Now that I'm in my mid-forties, it's just simply not that easy any more. I wish I would've realized all of this 10+ years ago, and kept the weight off at that point!!!! It's coming off again now,...but BOY! It's taking a lot of HARD WORK and dedication!
This is the big one for me! I just gave this advise to my 25 year old daughter who is trying to loose weight. She cant believe the difference at 25 compared to teens. I told her its soooo much harder in your 40's, so just keep it off now!0 -
...That making small but achievable changes add up to big results...
This principle is what is helping me change now, and not just health-wise but in other aspects of my life, too.
Baby-stepping into new habits and mindsets really is life(style) changing. 0 -
I wish I hadn't thrown in the towel so early....instead of making a bad decision and moving forward, I would often say "eff it" and just quit trying. I did this not only with food but some other things in life. It's kind if funny, I always thought of myself as a tough chick and as I've aged I realize what a scared quitter I truly was...well, I was still kinda kick *kitten*.
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I wish I knew sooner that running wasn't a natural born skill, and it could be learned.
I wish I knew sooner that while you need to eat less than you burn, you don't need to eat THAT MUCH less than you burn.
I wish I knew sooner that weight lifting makes you sexy as hell. :laugh:0 -
I wish i would have realized that the most important thing is taking care of yourself from the inside out. If you don't understand why you gained the weight, you will never be able to fully keep it off.
^^ bump this ^^ I'm still soul-searching on this issue too...0 -
That I need to love myself and take care of myself before I can really love and take care of anyone else.0
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I wish I would have listened to my head and not my heart. (Or anything below that, like the stomach ) 0
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