Your best advice given to help you lose weight

Best advice I ever got, eat less calories that you burn & get active.

Get active and stay active. Also run but right up there was: "So how long did it take for you to get that way? And why do you think it will all come off in 3 months or less?"

Take time to reflect on the real specific reasons why you're looking to get healthy. Write those reasons down and review them. If you don't stay motivated....if you don't keep your inner fire lit....you won't stay on track. Staying motivated begins with really understanding why it is important to you to get healthy (and it goes beyond "I want to lose weight").

Primal Blueprint and Mark's Daily Apple was the best advice I ever got. I'm 42 years old and in the best shape and health of my life.

dont make it so hard, it is easier than you think.

Two things.

1. There is no secret to weight loss. Eat less or move more, or both.

2. TDEE-20%

Eat more protein and lift heavy.

Be patient and be consistent. When I gained over 50 lbs due to a pregnancy (well that and eating whatever the F I wanted - because I felt entitled.. due to said pregnancy... lol) The hub (at the time) told me it took 9 months to put it on... and rule of thumb is it will take at least twice as long to take it off!

Here are a few pieces of advice to use in conjunction and you cannot fail:

1. Everything in moderation (goes with #2 below)

2. Eat within your calories (and macros as best as you can) for 90% of your meals every week. If you eat 3 meals a day, there are 2 meals per week where you can eat whatever you want.

3. Exercise regularly. On days when you don't feel like doing it, force yourself. Eventually it will be come habit and you will always want to because if you skip a workout, you will feel irritated and antsy.

4. LEARN TO COOK. Use measuring cups and a food scale and start cranking out recipes. You'll be surprised at how much you'll grow to love awesomely prepared veggies and lean meats. Fresh herbs will be like freaking heaven.

You don't have to reach your goal to start feeling better, confident etc. If you can get through the first part where you are making lifestyle adjustments, once you start to see results, you are already going to start feeling better about everything and feeling better about your body, so the first few weeks really are the hardest.

^^^ Well put. My version of this is to remember to Be Kind to Yourself Today.
(And by that I mean, don't have all of your energy invested only in the future you. You have to like yourself enough today to keep going.)

Don't quit when you mess up.

Don't say "screw it" and binge when you get frustrated.

Start over and stick to your plan every meal, every day, every week.

One "bad" meal won't make you fat any more than one "healthy" meal will make you thin. It's what you do over a period of months and years that matters.

There is no "end" and you will never be "done." You have to make choices and build habits that you can sustain over time, because as soon as you quit, you will regain everything you've lost.

Welcome.

I personally feel the biggest and most important advice I can give is to stay persistent. You will fall off the track. You might not see the results as soon, or even at all for a while. You might try a workout and not like it and wanna give up. Don't. Just keep pushing.

If you eat too much one day. Don't say "oh well, there goes the week". No. Keep persistent. Start again TODAY.
If you don't like a workout. Try something else. Don't just sit around.
If you don't see results, stay persistent. I have lost my weight in over 1.5 years. For that duration, thats a small amount. But thats fine because in between I feel a lot and had to pick it back up. And now I am in a habit of eating right and working out.

The second best advice, surround yourself with people who will motivate you and educate you and inspire you. Everytime I fell, I had people push me and I try to do the same for them.

Wish you all the best. Stay persistent!

Don't drink your calories!

This was something I saw on a motivational picture that stuck with me...."Saying Oh I've already ruined my good eating today, I'll just eat crap is like saying Oh I dropped my phone on the floor, I'll just smash it till it breaks" But personally the best thing I have found from my many mistakes and ups & downs in my own experience is that a positive attitude is the number one thing that helps me.

A year from now you will wish you had started today.

No food is off limits. If you make it taboo you will feel deprived, and deprivation cannot be sustained in the long run.