Just getting started up on here...any advice?

You can do it cheaply. I lost the most weight by not using my car and walking everywhere instead. Log daily. Eat more fibre, drink more water and make sure protein is in your diet. I found mayo clinic weight loss site to be helpful

Log every day and be honest with what you eat and how much you exercise. Oh, and drink water. More water than you ever thought possible. Good luck

I TOTALLY agree.. log the good, the bad, and the ugly! Drink your water. If you fall off the wagon - just get back on. One of my fave fitness quotes is ... "No matter how slow you go, you're still faster than anyone on the COUCH!"

Good Luck with your goal. :flowerforyou:

Exercise and log your food. See what your calorie goal is then work toward meeting that. You may need to change up your diet a little or look at portion control.

Regarding MFP message boards:
Search to see if something you want to ask has been asked before.
Don't take things personally.
Don't believe everything you read.

Try to find some friends who will support you and motivate you. Good luck!

Weigh and Measure everything. Log everything :drinker:

(1) Log every single day.
(2) Log every single item.
(3) Exercise.
(4) Don't lose hope.

You look really pretty now in your photo, but for you to feel really good about yourself, follow everything everyone has said x

good luck in you quest and I am sure we will be seeing your progress pics in June x

One good tip is don't post any threads about "mean people and/or bullies".

Log every day and be honest with what you eat and how much you exercise. Oh, and drink water. More water than you ever thought possible. Good luck

I agree with this as well. You have to log and be dedicated. I don't always eat well but I have completely stopped drinking anything but water and log everything I eat. I also try to exercise at least 3 times a week, even though goal is 5 times. GOOD LUCK!

1. Log on daily and log everything u eat even if you go over. It works if you do it, and I find a lot of the time the people who are baffled by their lack of results are the same people who go days or weeks without logging in.
2. Be prepared for serious backlash on the forums for using the following words: PLATEAU, JOURNEY, DR. OZ
3. Try to avoid threads about sugar, eating back exercise calories, bullying, drinking soda, milk, and women supposedly getting bulky from weights. They never end well. They go from naive to ugly in a hot minute.
4. Time of the month questions (shark week) will be met with sarcasm and telling you to see your gyno. And questions about your relationship (anything from fitness activities to what to get him for xmas will be met with sarcasm and "just break up." Just to save u time and effort I thought you might wanna know that.
5. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them a bully. It's the internet.
6. Have an open diary. You have to actually go in to settings to change it because the default setting is either closed or only open to friends. Without an open diary you get more generalizations than personal advice. And people get snarky when you ask advice and show no diary, no pics. Then we have to take your word for it, from your pretty good diet and pretty good exercise to your bulky woman muscles, we like to see for ourselves. If you wanna be secretive search the forum for your topic and follow that advice. Few people have unique problems. But they all think they do. You are special, just like everyone else.
7. the exercise calories estimated by mfp are about double than what you are really burning. If you go by those numbers I wouldn't recommend eating back more than half the exercise calories. If you can afford it get a heart rate monitor (hrm) they are worth the money.
8. And just my opinion, try to keep the whining and threatening to quit to a minimum. If you think you can't, you won't. None of the people on here who have been successful got there from quitting.
9. If you dont know how to spell prepare to be crucified.
10. Welcome and good luck! I probably sound like a biotch but I think you'll find most of this to be true :-)


*Edited for a typo correction. Darn auto-correct can get u killed in here ya know

Keep it simple. Every time you go to the gym look to burn 500 calories doing cardio. Mix in weights but cardio should be the basis of your program.

WHY?

lots of advice. You are going to catch yourself in the middle of WARS here on theories on how to do xyor z? do you eat back exercise cals? to lift or not to lift? etc etc etc. There is only few bits of advice we all will agree on, and that's what I'm going to give you:

REMEMBER THAT SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE

and

NEVER GIVE UP

anythign more specific than that, you'll have to figure out on your own. Find people who look how you want to look, ask them what they did.

I am working on losing a total of 50 lbs by June of this next year....that is, of course, if we make it past December 21st...LOL. Anyway, I am new to the site, so hoping to get some advice and input on results from using it.

Thanks.

Everyone has listed great advice. The key is to stay motivated because you are the one behind it all. Success is a choice and as long as you follow through and keep punching, everything will work out great. Remember that all is possible. Just make a plan and stick to it. You'll do great.

stock up on ibuprofen and Ben-Gay.