What's the single most effective change you've made?
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Being more consistent with workouts. Also eating out less than before.0
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tracking my food... makes me think twice befor i put it in my mouth!! lol0
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My revelation: If you eat healthy 90 to 100% of the time, you don't really need to count calories. Nobody gained excessive weight by eating to much broccoli. lol. Although I still count because --ironically-- I don't eat enough otherwise!0
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Weighing bits, or counting stuff, instead of just sticking it in my mouth
Also me not eating 4 bowls of cereal a day, or munching late at night!!0 -
Keeping snacks in my bookbag/purse! Man did this do wonders for me. I am a college student that is on campus a majority of the day and keeping a Clif bar, a small bag of almonds or a banana really made a world of difference. I would get so hungry and wouldn't have to try and find something remotely healthy on campus to eat.0
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Meal Planning on Sunday for the entire week.0
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Moving over to TDDE minus 20% method. Having my exercise included in activity level is so much easier now for me.
Also I have 2 kids and am up at 6-630am every morning, so I get the baby a bottle, give the 2 yr old some porridge oats then get my workouts in. Usually the 2 yr old watches tv for an hour then when Im done we'll play. So Im making my self workout soon as I wake up then eat breakfast about 9-10am0 -
Pre-logging, once I had truly become much more aware of how many calories were in the usual things I eat.0
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picking the exercise i thought to be the hardest,most pointless and most punishing.
I am due to run my first Marathon in May. Everybody can do easy stuff.0 -
Avoiding the impulse to grab food while I am out (i.e fastfood, workplace cafeteria, vending machine, ect..) I eat what I cook at home and pack & take it with me when I am on the go.0
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Digital scale and working out.0
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My revelation: If you eat healthy 90 to 100% of the time, you don't really need to count calories. Nobody gained excessive weight by eating to much broccoli. lol.
Yeah, I allow myself unlimited snacks of low-calories veggies (that would exclude the starchy ones such as potatoes and vnavy beans, which I still watch).
The biggest change for me was 5:2 fasting, which I developed on my own. I learned ot ignore mild hunger paings, or snack on veggies, and those good habits carried over into the other 5 days.0 -
Weighing and measuring my food intake. It makes me accountable and honest with myself everyday0
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Wow! Congrats on your weight-loss and I agree working out makes all the difference.0
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Portion control and exercise.0
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cutting out the junk food( cakes, chocolates, pepridgefarm cookies..)yum... and replacing it with clean food.0
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Not drinking cokes..helped get rid of empty calories plus my heart doesn't palpitate anymore..unless I eat too much or run...0
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Switched from Sodas and Sweetened Tea to low/no calorie beverages (Vitamin Water Zero, Water, Unsweetened Tea, and Lipton's Tea and Honey drink mixes)0
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Finding a personal trainer who used to be overweight but is now fit and healthy. She can sypathise and offer advise for something she actually went through and it gives me a clear goal to aim for "5 more squats and I'll be closer to looking like her" or "would Donna eat this?"0
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Portion control0
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