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

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  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    Celebrate your successes along the way and don't focus on the end goal - you'll get there!
  • greentart
    greentart 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.
  • Quasita
    Quasita Posts: 1,530 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.

    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...
  • daw0518
    daw0518 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.
  • Bry_Fitness70
    Bry_Fitness70 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.
  • caroldavison332
    caroldavison332 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.
  • 123stefania
    123stefania Posts: 167 Member
    I was eating too much of bad stuff.
  • dicoveringwhoIam
    dicoveringwhoIam Posts: 480 Member
    That I am WORTH the time and the effort to be the best me I can be.
  • Schlackity
    Schlackity Posts: 268 Member
    I'm not perfect and I don't have to be.
  • kyleklaver
    kyleklaver Posts: 2 Member
    moving, even small or slow is progress in the right direction.
  • AnaMarian
    AnaMarian Posts: 28 Member
    If you slip up, just get right back on track and keep sticking with it.

    THIS
  • raven_ous
    raven_ous Posts: 223
    Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life.
  • jjkarnitz
    jjkarnitz Posts: 55
    Even if you don't feel like counting calories, they still count.
  • treycee883
    treycee883 Posts: 32 Member


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    Do not compare my progress to others.
    I think im learning this too!
  • suzyque32
    suzyque32 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.
  • ontherunat41
    ontherunat41 Posts: 21 Member
    You can't out-exercise a bad diet.
  • aprilflower18232
    aprilflower18232 Posts: 205 Member
    Don't underestimate yourself
  • cherys
    cherys Posts: 387 Member
    A low carb diet kills cravings! (wish I'd listened to the low carbers years ago.)
  • kristilynnhales
    kristilynnhales 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
  • Muirhead67
    Muirhead67 Posts: 6 Member
    Just keep swimming. :wink:
  • Muirhead67
    Muirhead67 Posts: 6 Member
    Love your quote.
  • Muirhead67
    Muirhead67 Posts: 6 Member
    I love the "in 5 weeks" feature, too!
  • jodsap
    jodsap Posts: 22 Member
    "A year from now you will wish you had started today."
  • momof2boys2014
    momof2boys2014 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 :)
  • JG762
    JG762 Posts: 571 Member
    KMF
    Keep Moving Forward!
  • jayb0ne
    jayb0ne Posts: 644 Member
    It's just physiology.
  • lunaphiliae
    lunaphiliae Posts: 8 Member
    Lots of discipline
  • gbutterfly
    gbutterfly 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.
  • harribeau2012
    harribeau2012 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:
  • perfectlytrained
    perfectlytrained Posts: 83 Member
    ... and above all: be patient ....

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