What is the most useful tip anyone has given you?

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  • Sanya77
    Sanya77 Posts: 172 Member
    Be true to yourself, and not a dustbin for food.
    love it..
  • Zommbunny
    Zommbunny Posts: 42
    nothing tastes as good as thin feels

    Also personally when my bf told me - do it for yourself, not anyone else. its not a race and your only trying to prove to yourself you can do it no one else
    this made me wait until i was mantally ready to take it on and has worked wonders for me personally
  • Betty_Canada
    Betty_Canada Posts: 85 Member
    "Replace grains with greens" (Precision Nutrition)
    "No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping the guy on the couch" (Unknown)

    =Betty=
  • SuperSexyDork
    SuperSexyDork Posts: 1,669 Member
    The best kind of exercise for you is the kind that you will actually do. It doesn't matter if it's insanely beneficial if you hate it, you won't stick with it.
  • danibarro
    danibarro Posts: 42
    The one I have learned for myself and keeps me on track is planning planning planning. Every night before I go to bed I post what I plan to eat the next day on MFP (of course), and I usually stick to it. Knowing beforehand leaves less room to stray, and you can do the same with exercise. Log it before you do it and you'll be more likely to follow through.
  • 34000volts
    34000volts Posts: 25 Member
    -Your looks are 70% diet and 30% exercise.

    - understanding how dieting makes you fat, skinny fat
    - 1 pound of fat is about three times the size of one pound of muscle.
    - 1 pound of muscle burns about 35 to 50 calories a day
    - 1 pound of fat burns about 1 calorie a day
    - dieting without lifting you loose similar pound amounts of muscle to fat, 1 to 1 for 2 pounds lost. (that's a lot of cals that muscle was burning that you lost)
    - with heavy lifting It takes a month to put on 2lbs of muscle.
    -since you can gain fat quicker than muscle the dieting cycle leaves you skinny fat by changing body composition to a higher fat percentage.
    - when you stop dieting and eat to old patterns you have less muscle to burn calories and put the fat back on quicker.
    - lifting heavy and eating protein while on a calorie deficit helps maintain most of the muscle while losing just fat changing yor body composition by lowering your body fat percentage.
    - the bottom line is you can be at a lower weight and still have the same tdee ( total daily energy expenditure ) as when you were heavier.
    - this let's you eat more and keep the weight off forever while maintaining better fitness on the inside and out!
  • KBGAgent
    KBGAgent Posts: 165 Member
    Do whatever the **** you wanna do.

    Several people posted this line. I don't get it. Does it have a meaning I'm not getting? Is this a joke? Someone explain please.
  • Lynnebrg
    Lynnebrg Posts: 1 Member
    Just because I can't eat something now doesn't mean I can never have it again.
  • agtitus
    agtitus Posts: 26 Member
    Don't sacrifice what you want most (your health) for what you want in the moment. (chocolate cake) :)
  • mogz36
    mogz36 Posts: 38 Member
    I have a few -

    It doesn't matter how slow you go, so long as you do not stop.

    If hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the answer

    And eating 1200 calories when your BMR is way over is silly. Know your BMR and TDEE and eat between the two.

    "Know your BMR and TDEE and eat between the two."

    Top. It doesn't get better than that. It all boils down to that single sentence.
  • x_pix_x
    x_pix_x Posts: 21
    Fail to plan, plan to fail.

    Was being used in a totally different context but is definitely true for me with weight loss too. If I don't prepare my food for the next day at work I don't take it and will end up not having anything or having a quick (bad) fix. I plan my shopping so that I always have good choices in so that I'm not ending up ridiculously hungry and going to the shops starving and buying crap and I always put my next days food into my diary so that I know what I've got left to play with.
  • GuybrushThreepw00d
    GuybrushThreepw00d Posts: 784 Member
    Do whatever the **** you wanna do.

    Several people posted this line. I don't get it. Does it have a meaning I'm not getting? Is this a joke? Someone explain please.

    In every one of these guys videos, they say it at the end;
    http://www.youtube.com/user/twinmuscleworkout
  • Meamo
    Meamo Posts: 89 Member
    After giving excuse..."yeah,you just got to be ready."...and.. "Do what you know to do"
  • walkingmywaytohealth
    walkingmywaytohealth Posts: 21
    Prior proper planning prevents pi$$ poor performance!
  • CrossFitSandra
    CrossFitSandra Posts: 21
    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.

    This. See n=1
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 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.

    What are some examples of High volume, low in calorie food you ate?

    Food high in fiber, high in water and low in fat. Think produce and lean protein. Baked goods usually score pretty low (crackers, breads, etc.)

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