10 weight loss tips (picture)

All good tips, but I prefer not to weigh myself daily. I weigh in weekly, but to be honest I couldn't care less what the scale says these days. Rather the way I'm starting to look and how my clothes are fitting are much bigger motivators for me personally. YMMV.

So true.

I agree with the rest of you. Wonderful tips exect for the weight daily. That should be once a week.

There's nothing wrong with eating out, as long as you make healthy choices.

I'm in the weighing daily camp. I'm motivated by metrics, both positive and negative ones!

So much LOL. Do yoga! Eat fruit! Don't skip breakfast! Weigh yourself EVERY DAY! This sounds like a sorority girl's daily checklist.

How about just "Eat fewer calories than you burn." The rest of this is superfluous.

The majority are good tips, except eating breakfast has never worked for me and weighing daily would just drive me insane.

So much LOL. Do yoga! Eat fruit! Don't skip breakfast! Weigh yourself EVERY DAY! This sounds like a sorority girl's daily checklist.

How about just "Eat fewer calories than you burn." The rest of this is superfluous.

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But they're all tips that aim to help you achieve that. Do yoga so you can burn more, don't skip breakfast so you don't end up eating more. They're aimed at helping people who struggle with dieting to achieve that goal, and to not go wrong. And I'm sure no one here is going to say that simply eating less is as good as eating less with a proper exercise regime with things like strength training.

I disagree what weighing daily is bad. I weigh daily. We all know we can fluctuate, sometimes by a number of pounds a day, so how can you know if the one day you weigh a week isn't just a fluctuation? Weighing everyday gives you more data, I don't see how that's bad. As long as you remember that fluctuations happen and to focus on your overall progress, it's fine, and you have to do that with weekly weigh ins anyway. Plus, weighing everyday makes it easier to get out of bed because I'm excited to see how much I've lost since the day before.

Though the skipping breakfast one confuses me. 'Skipping breakfast may make you more likely to indulge'. But if you're counting calories - which presumably most of us are - you know how much you can eat in a day and will eat that much. If you have a snack because you're hungry from not having breakfast you'll take that much out of dinner or whatever. If this is aimed at people not counting calories fine, but that one seems a bit pointless for calorie counters.

The rest of the tips seem great.

I don't think anybody's saying weighing ever day is "bad", some of us just prefer not to. Personally, I've gotten away from worrying about the # on the scale so once a week is enough for me, but I might check it the next day if it seems the # I saw was way different than what I expected. As somebody else pointed out, weight can fluctuate by a few pounds day to day, so obsessing about that would make me nuts. Some people use daily weighing as a means to stay focused, for some people it works great as a tracking tool. Bottom line is that you need to do whatever it takes to be as successful as you can & if weighing daily works for you then, by all means, do it.......

In theory you are 100 % right about the calorie counting, but some people don't have the discipline to stick to the count if they end up too hungry later in the day because they skipped something when their body is used to having it - they end up binging or eating something really crappy which ends up a lot worse for them in the long run than eating a nutritional breakfast. Once or twice isn't going to hurt, but it gets too easy to fall into doing it more often & promising yourself you'll get back on track. Again, this is a different strokes for different folks situation. Some people absolutely cannot eat in the morning while others have to. The key here is knowing what works best for you & what YOUR body responds to.....

I just hope that everybody who has taken the initiative to be on this site & work hard to make the improvements they want/need has the success they are looking for. Everybody just needs to remember that there is no magic one size fits all answer on how to get there. The basic theory is the same for everybody - eat less, move more - but the road to get there is different for everybody....

Calorie deficit=weight loss.

That is all.