What is the most useful tip anyone has given you?

What is the most useful weight loss or muscle building tip anyone has shared with you?
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  • sozisfitnow
    sozisfitnow Posts: 209 Member
    for weight loss dont stock goodies incase some one drops by as you will eat them! :)
  • Stop worrying about how other people perceive your body and concentrate on yourself.

    ...and also to start getting familiar with barbells. :)
  • dogo187
    dogo187 Posts: 376
    i cant remember where i heard it...."Monday never comes" is one of my favorites right now...

    in other words, stop making excuses and get honest, you are only fooling yourself!
  • Verla7
    Verla7 Posts: 32 Member
    To Never ever give up!
  • genghis54
    genghis54 Posts: 123 Member
    see Drinking and the munchies
  • liznotyet
    liznotyet Posts: 402 Member
    if you bite it, write it
    More giggle less jiggle
    Sweat is fat crying

    and the grandmother of them all....

    A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips!
  • samantha1242
    samantha1242 Posts: 816 Member
    Don't compare your weight loss journey with others. Everyone's journey will be different.
  • eshanimongia5
    eshanimongia5 Posts: 70 Member
    Always celebrate the small victories. They keep you motivated.
  • Make sleep a priority and LOG LOG LOG your food/exercise (hence, the beauty of MFP)
  • santd
    santd Posts: 234 Member
    Be true to yourself, and not a dustbin for food.
  • ferrytrip
    ferrytrip Posts: 497 Member
    Drink water.
  • hamilton040
    hamilton040 Posts: 60 Member
    if you bite it, write it
    More giggle less jiggle
    Sweat is fat crying

    and the grandmother of them all....

    A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips!

    Like all these!!
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    Adjust your nutrition goals and exercise frequency depending on your own results, not by someone else's results.

    Most diets and pre-packaged exercise programs assume "one size fits all," and when you don't get the results that someone else did, you give up and move on to something else. But we have to learn that our bodies will respond different than other people's bodies do, so we have to use personal feedback to find what works for us.
  • DeeDel32
    DeeDel32 Posts: 542 Member
    Eat less, move more.
  • ferrytrip
    ferrytrip Posts: 497 Member
    Be true to yourself, and not a dustbin for food.

    I haven't heard the word dustbin in years :smile:
  • RoadsterGirlie
    RoadsterGirlie Posts: 1,195 Member
    Eat food that's high in volume and low in calories. Sounded simple enough.

    This was told to me the first week I started WW in 2011. It's stuck with me ever since.
  • megleo818
    megleo818 Posts: 595 Member
    Well, this is the one i give:

    Live as though the way you look today is the best you will ever look. Flaunt it! -- Because one day you'll be right and if you missed it, it'll be gone forever.
  • NatashaShen
    NatashaShen Posts: 295 Member
    Honestly, the best advice I've heard is about MFP.

    My brother joined and was tracking just for fun, but he talked about it a lot. I think at that time he lost 5lbs just by logging. After a while I decided I needed to do it too. In the past year I have lost a total of almost 25lbs. Couldn't have done it with out being on here.
  • 1KiwiChick
    1KiwiChick Posts: 479 Member
    a quote i saw at my gym

    YOU WILL NEVER GET THE BUTT YOU WANT BY SITTING ON THE ONE YOU ALREADY HAVE !!!!

    love it !!
  • ripemango
    ripemango Posts: 534 Member
    love yourself, you are worth it.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    You can do it.
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
    if you fall off.....

    get the FVCK back up.

    (aka don't quit)
  • 1ConcreteGirl
    1ConcreteGirl Posts: 3,677 Member
    Most useful tips are indicated by girth. Personally, I get a lot of use out of those tips, when I am given them.

    Another useful tip is $10.00 or so, depending on services rendered.
  • jennieth
    jennieth Posts: 105
    Water and fasted cardio!
  • jayche
    jayche Posts: 1,128 Member
    Do whatever the **** you wanna do.
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS SKINNY FEELS, YA'LL!
  • BlueEyes2000
    BlueEyes2000 Posts: 11 Member
    I am 53 and once again on the journey to loose 130 lbs, have lost 18 lbs so far folks!! No one has given me this tip, but a life time of dietting has taught me: I will always have a green eyed monster trying to control what I eat - and it loves food, mostly bad food. I have realized it is up to me to decide everyday this is what I want: to eat healthy vs. diet (diet = restriction). So my moto is "Eat to Live". Plus, shop on the out skirts of the store: where the fresh and less processed foods are kept. Use a menu and a shopping list - stick to it. Do not keep junk foods at home. If you want a snack or desert - go out for a single serving, enjoy it, and move on. Lastly, use a 10% Rule. If 90% of what you eat is within your target range of calories (or whatever system you use to achieve weight loss/health) then 10% of the time enjoy a dinner out with foods you miss; ie: 9 meals on target, one meal off (within reason).
    Laugh more, eat less!
  • spokie1
    spokie1 Posts: 23 Member
    Bump
  • av0cad0
    av0cad0 Posts: 20
    Do whatever the **** you wanna do.

    ^ Exactly
  • SwindonJogger
    SwindonJogger Posts: 325 Member
    You can't out exercise a bad diet.