What would you tell your old self?

cherrychubbs
cherrychubbs Posts: 11
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For those who have lost weight, if you could go back to the beginning with what you know now, what would you tell yourself? (If that makes sense).
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  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Basically I would tip off my long-ago self about MFP ... Although that really wouldn't work because I don't think it's been around for years and years ;-)

    Seriously though. Counting calories has worked for me amazingly well and I feel like I could have been under 200 lb my whole adult life instead of pushing 300 most of the time.
  • SugaryLynx
    SugaryLynx Posts: 2,640 Member
    That I am and will always be beautiful and the scale doesn't change that. Would've saved me some self loathing and more focusing on the real goals: improving myself in lifting and self control.
  • ajsdream
    ajsdream Posts: 223 Member
    To stop wasting money on diet book after diet book after diet book. If I could have all of that money back.... :happy:
  • lisalsd1
    lisalsd1 Posts: 1,519 Member
    First, I would go back and thank myself for getting my crap together early in life.

    Second, I would say to start strength-training sooner.
  • GothyFaery
    GothyFaery Posts: 762 Member
    I would say this is so much easier than I first thought and I will have wished I hadn't quit after a week in 2010. And to read the foums, there's a lot of good info on there!
  • safetyqueen25
    safetyqueen25 Posts: 38 Member
    If could go back to three and a half years ago when I first starting being healthy I would impart all my knowledge about nutrition etc, I could have been done in half the time I bet! If only I could go back 10 years to 17 year old me and get the ball rolling there, But no point in thinking like that, just gotta concentrate on making a great future.
  • mrsmarit
    mrsmarit Posts: 229 Member
    I would tell myself that you can't eat like you did in high school. I would have started eating better and moving more.. if I had done it ten years ago instead of 2 things would be so much better.
  • WheezyFbb
    WheezyFbb Posts: 41 Member
    Winning lottery number
  • rgb93
    rgb93 Posts: 17 Member
    Start losing weight earlier. Also, join a sport/start lifting.
  • FoxyLifter
    FoxyLifter Posts: 965 Member
    LIFT HEAVY!
  • sigsby
    sigsby Posts: 220 Member
    Weight come off easy. Just quit smoking.
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    I would be gains are made in the gym. I would get my cardio walking there.
  • qtgonewild
    qtgonewild Posts: 1,930 Member
    That we should have done this a long time ago.
  • bellesouth18
    bellesouth18 Posts: 1,071 Member
    1) Don't stop being your active self.
    2) Don't eat like you're a 7 foot tall football player.
    3) Go to a dentist and have your sweet tooth removed. :bigsmile:
    $) When you gain a couple of pounds, change your eating pattern and get them off right away.
  • firelight4321
    firelight4321 Posts: 60 Member
    Don't start drinking soda. Stay a pescatarian. If you're going to eat fast food, get a healthier option like Pollo Tropical or Subway or Panera. How did you eat all of that junk?!!?!
  • acogg
    acogg Posts: 1,870 Member
    GET OFF YOUR *kitten* AND GET MOVING! LIKE RIGHT NOW! Yes, I did mean to yell. LOL!
  • ChancyW
    ChancyW Posts: 437 Member
    Find something that you LOVE! :heart:
  • LRoslin
    LRoslin Posts: 128
    Don't become vegan. You'll end up, after 10 years, with a serious carnitine deficiency that will endanger your baby's life from the minute he's born.

    Learn about portions. A bowl of pasta is not a serving. Neither is a bowl of rice.

    Just because it's fat free doesn't mean it's calorie free.

    Bulimia is not a weight loss plan.
  • fortally
    fortally Posts: 78
    "You'll never get the butt you want by sitting on the butt you have."

    and

    "Suck it up now so you don't have to suck it in later."

    (saw those in another thread, apologies to original posters - I've forgotten who you are!)

    (edited for typo :smile: )
  • tacosandbeerthatswhyimhere
    tacosandbeerthatswhyimhere Posts: 75 Member
    -Get some friends your own height. Maybe then you'll see that you're not fat...or "big boned"!
    -Starving yourself and diet pills are not a good plan for weight loss.
    -Don't let yourself get too hungry. It causes most binges.
    -No! You didn't gain 5 pounds in 2 days! Your weight fluctuates due to water retention Ect.
    -Dont give up just because you fell off the wagon.
  • TriShamelessly
    TriShamelessly Posts: 905 Member
    Logging calories on MFP is a hell of a lot easier than the spreadsheet my nutritionist and I used at the beginning!
  • rnctipton
    rnctipton Posts: 134 Member
    Lift heavy things!
  • rosevalleygirl23
    rosevalleygirl23 Posts: 55 Member
    I'd tell myself to quit being in such a hurry to lose weight. Just accept that it takes a long while, and that's ok.
  • 99clmsntgr
    99clmsntgr Posts: 777 Member
    If I could go back to teenage-me...

    First, I'd go back with a handful of photos, particularly the one that helped kick me down the weight loss path (for realz, not for sort-ofs). We'd talk about being a total fatty and the life that it lead to up to "the decision."

    Then after letting teenage-me seeing the pictures, I would slap teenage-me. Hard. Hard enough to leave some kind of forever mark. This would serve two purposes - first to try to get myself to wake up a little. Second to prove/disprove that part of Looper with the scars (no spoilers, sorry).

    And after that I'd talk to teenage-me about some of the more stupid things I've done in my life and the things I regret the most (sorry, not open for public discussion). And the things that are absolutely wonderful and that I love (wife, two wonderful kids, the runner's high after a 10 mile run, which pales in comparison to the first two on the list).

    Then I'd probably wonder how the f**k I'm going to get home (remember that whole wife and kids thing...I'd want to get back to them)

    Of course, if I were to do all that, I'd have to wonder...if I could have actually changed my past, would the "future" that lead me to do any of that happen? And if it never happened, would I have the impetus to go have that conversation. And if I didn't have the urge to change my former self (because my former self, as I know it today, never existed) then I wouldn't have changed anything which leads to teenage-me making all the same bad decisions which leads to me going back to change things which leads to change which to me not needing to change things which leads to.......you get the point.
  • jitsuda
    jitsuda Posts: 230 Member
    You will LOVE Zumba!
  • dakotababy
    dakotababy Posts: 2,407 Member
    Try MFP now! Don't wait and put it off for another year - just do it, now!!
  • momtastic2014
    momtastic2014 Posts: 99
    New self: put down that whole pizza!
    Old self: go f@#k yourself :drinker:
  • slimtms
    slimtms Posts: 2
    Always log your intake of calories in daily. Its better than the weigh in.
  • alisonlynn1976
    alisonlynn1976 Posts: 929 Member
    Pay attention and do something about it when small weight gains happen, before it gets so out of control that it's going to take a year to get back to a healthy weight.
  • arrseegee
    arrseegee Posts: 575 Member
    You CAN run, you just gotta start slow and keep at it.

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