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    On weight loss journey , best thing learned-1 sentence!

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    • Posts: 6,423 Member
      Celebrate your successes along the way and don't focus on the end goal - you'll get there!
    • Posts: 411 Member
      Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels

      I really hate this quote, because your goal shouldn't be to be "thin". Your goal should be to be healthy and fit.
    • Posts: 1,530 Member
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      I really hate this quote, because your goal shouldn't be to be "thin". Your goal should be to be healthy and fit.

      Agreed. I understand the idea behind it but coming from an eating disorder perspective, I'd rather be fat and alive, than skinny and have my organs failing... Not all skinny feels good...
    • Posts: 459 Member
      Slow and steady wins the race!

      Thisthisthis!

      I never believed it until I experienced it myself. Not even 3 months in & I've lost 15lbs just eating at a deficit & getting some walking in a couple times a week.
    • Posts: 2,480 Member
      Try to win the war against poor fitness / bad nutrition by being generally good, focused, and disciplined over a long period of time - don't get bogged and discouraged by the inevitable battles here and there that you will lose against laziness / weakness.
    • Posts: 864 Member
      To eat for strength and not taste. And that even small amounts of processed sugar, which is found in everything, will sicken and kill us.
    • Posts: 167 Member
      I was eating too much of bad stuff.
    • Posts: 480 Member
      That I am WORTH the time and the effort to be the best me I can be.
    • Posts: 268 Member
      I'm not perfect and I don't have to be.
    • Posts: 2 Member
      moving, even small or slow is progress in the right direction.
    • Posts: 28 Member
      If you slip up, just get right back on track and keep sticking with it.

      THIS
    • Posts: 223
      Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life.
    • Posts: 55
      Even if you don't feel like counting calories, they still count.
    • Posts: 32 Member


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      Do not compare my progress to others.
      I think im learning this too!
    • Posts: 8 Member
      I was going to use "revenge is a dish best served cold" for those who may not have found me physically attractive in the past, but dang I can't find the calorie count for revenge in the MFP food database! LOL (totally kidding)

      So instead : I look forward every day to "in 5 weeks you'll weigh" which keeps me motivated.
    • Posts: 21 Member
      You can't out-exercise a bad diet.
    • Posts: 205 Member
      Don't underestimate yourself
    • Posts: 387 Member
      A low carb diet kills cravings! (wish I'd listened to the low carbers years ago.)
    • Posts: 14 Member
      Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

      Earl Nightingale
    • Posts: 6 Member
      Just keep swimming. :wink:
    • Posts: 6 Member
      Love your quote.
    • Posts: 6 Member
      I love the "in 5 weeks" feature, too!
    • Posts: 22 Member
      "A year from now you will wish you had started today."
    • Posts: 17 Member
      I love this because it effects me too and I'm not sure why, maybe because my mop I'm used to say it to me all of the time as a teen, although she was overweight as well... I like yours much better :)
    • Posts: 571 Member
      KMF
      Keep Moving Forward!
    • Posts: 644 Member
      It's just physiology.
    • Posts: 8 Member
      Lots of discipline
    • Posts: 23 Member
      That "eat to live, not live to eat" one gets under my skin for some reason, and not in the good way.

      Mine is: Do what works for you, not what everyone else thinks should work for you.

      I agree - my husband and I are foodies - we enjoy good food - I just think it's important if you are going to "live to eat" sometimes that the focus be on quality not quantity.

      also - to be perfectly honest - I spend a lot more time focusing on what I can and will eat when I'm trying to loose weight than when i'm not worried about it because 1200 calories a day is just not filing to me. that said - I get the point - but I sometimes think "eat to live" is a value judgement made by people that don't enjoy food and the companionship/ fellowship that is so often connected to production, preparation and consumption of food in our society. The truth of the matter there are many days of my week when all I do is work, work out, and eat.
    • Posts: 644 Member
      feeding yourself / denying yourself your every desire is NOT loving yourself...taking excellent care of yourself, THAT is loving yourself...and as the adverts say....YOU ARE WORTH IT...whatever stage you are at NOW. :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 83 Member
      ... and above all: be patient ....
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