If you had only one piece of advice...
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Eat slowly and stop eating the minute you start to feel full.
This is what I found hardest, but does automatically reduce calorie intake.0 -
Just keep making the next right, SUSTAINABLE change for you. It is easy to change something for a week but hard to maintain some things long term. For us it was a complete revamp of our favorite home cooked meals. Taking out fat and calories and finding new ways to put in flavor and nutritional value. Then juicing one meal a day (when we are home to do it.) followed by adding in exercise and logging. You would be surprised at how much weight we lost just by that first step though.0
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Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...
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Can't out exercise a bad diet. It took me a long time to get that through my head.0
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Lift heavy. The one thing that has given me the greatest benefit aesthetically, emotionally, and health wise, more then losing weight, cardio, or eating healthy, is lifting heavy. Even though it wasn't my thing at first and I was the dancer girl who wanted nothing to do with lifting because I didn't have a clue how and because of so many stigmas and misconceptions about lifting that the majority of people seem to have. I tried the rest first and it never helped me accomplish the flat tummy I have now I really wish I could get through to the people who think they'll end up looking manly. I hardly think I did.
Yes!! lifting heavy helped get me through a dark period in my life.0 -
Weigh your food. Always.
I had no idea how much I was actually eating even when using measuring cups.0 -
For me...efficient workouts HIIT free weight training and cardio best choices I've ever made!0
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Don't put too much pressure on yourself. But do think through your decisions, ie. Do I really want to eat this piece of cake? How will I feel tomorrow and how will this affect my journey to my goal?
This has helped me immensely. About 10 years ago, I was also on a weight loss kick and had great success initially- then everything went to hell because of my "all or nothing" mentality and the pressure I put on myself. I am having success this time because I don't place so much pressure on myself to do the 'right' things; I just naturally do the 'right' things because of the sense of freedom I have allowed myself to have. I still exercise self control and am careful to think through my decisions, though.0 -
Consistency and endurance will help you succeed in this lifestyle and journey. Start today because next year you will wish that you have.0
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It's a mind thing as much as it's about diet and exercise.
This...........it IS a 'mind' thing as much as it's about diet and exercise - you have to WANT to change your lifestyle - and WANT to make those changes everyday.......otherwise, it's not happening0 -
Don't ever give up!0
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Strive for balance in everything you do0
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Calorie deficit
Strength Training
Measurements (not just scale)
Listen to your body
That sums up my time of doing this.0 -
Overestimate calories eaten, underestimate calories burned.0
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No matter how out of shape/overweight you are, or no matter how fit you think you are, you can ALWAYS be better.
THIS!! Followed by "You DO IT, you don't THINK IT".
Also a friend once said to me: “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”0 -
Go SLOW!!!
You're in this for the long haul, not a quick fix. You didn't get fat in a week or a month, don't expect it to come off and stay off if you lose it that fast.0 -
what they said.
really, this thread us so full of good advice, it could be collected together into a little book of weight-loss wisdom.0
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