We are pleased to announce that on March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor will be introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the upcoming changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

What was the first thing you changed?

mellyboobear
mellyboobear Posts: 117 Member
edited February 18 in Getting Started
Mine was excercising... I needed to do this immediately... I used to be so lazy!
What about you?:)
«134567

Replies

  • thejocool
    thejocool Posts: 46
    Me it was lowering my love/hate relationship with bread ... :D
  • Koldnomore
    Koldnomore Posts: 1,613 Member
    I stopped drinking 4 XLG coffees with 4 cream and 2 sugar every day ;) I think they worked out to very close to 2000 calories extra every single day.. Making many little easy changes was good for losing at least 60 lbs - BEFORE I added any additional exercise. Go for the low hanging fruit first!
  • AddieOverhaul
    AddieOverhaul Posts: 734 Member
    I cut WAY back on the sugary drinks. I used to drink, iced tea, juice and pop all the time, now it's a treat.
  • tyrsnbdr
    tyrsnbdr Posts: 234 Member
    I went cold turkey with the sodas.
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    Tracked my food intake and stayed within my budget.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,150 Member
    Bought a food scale and started weighing out my food portions.
  • techgal128
    techgal128 Posts: 719 Member
    I cut out the fast food. I was spending 200-300 per month on fast food alone.
  • seismicmuffin
    seismicmuffin Posts: 160 Member
    Replacing my morning Starbucks with water. Losing weight AND saving money, lol.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    Ate all my usual foods, but less.
  • matuskap
    matuskap Posts: 131 Member
    Started lifting hard to fix weak asthmatic lungs. Turned out as best thing i ever did.
  • Shell_1384
    Shell_1384 Posts: 80 Member
    Starting to log my food, made me much more accountable for my choices. One McDonald's combo equaled my entire daily calorie limit.
  • catawbalovely
    catawbalovely Posts: 19 Member
    1. Not drinking alcohol 2. getting in an hour of exercise at least 5-6 days a week 3. Substituting healthier options for things like French fries. 4. Taking it easy on pork products (realizing that bacon doesn't have to be put on everything I eat.) 5. Portion control
  • CulturedCowgurl
    CulturedCowgurl Posts: 136 Member
    Mine was actually LOGGING everything I ate everyday. It was an eye opener to see just how many calories are in fast food.
  • nomad1000
    nomad1000 Posts: 206 Member
    Actually weighing and measuring.

    Serving sizes (based on the info on the container) still surprise me, and not in a good way, sometimes. 28g isn't a whole lot of anything crunchy and salty. :)
  • cherekac
    cherekac Posts: 10 Member
    Starting drinking more water. Watching my calories.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Mine was excercising... I needed to do this immediately... I used to be so lazy!
    What about you?:)

    The same. Eating the calories for an active person while being a sedentary person = weight gain = time to get off my bum and become active again.
  • dougii
    dougii Posts: 679 Member
    Starting actually tracking my food intake to find that there were starving children in the world because of the quantities I was eating!
  • dakotababy
    dakotababy Posts: 2,407 Member
    The first thing I changed was my eating habits. Started tracking and slowly implement healthier options, after about 3 months of that I started to exercise.

    You can not out exercise a bad diet.
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
    stopped eatingh a cheese steak sandwich & fries 5 days a week while working at a cheese steak shop
  • hmaddpear
    hmaddpear Posts: 610 Member
    Started logging and tracking my calories, committed to walking at least 20 minutes in a day and cut out the two pints of squash (non-alcoholic cordial) a day.

    Tracking my macros and upping exercise came later.
  • Apple31415
    Apple31415 Posts: 98 Member
    Ditto on the water. New Year's resolution was to drink tons of water and the side benefit was i cut out sugary drinks. Success with that led to logging food and paying attention to portions via MFP. I've only been on for 5 weeks and blasted through a weight loss plateau i'd been stuck on for months.
  • nm100610
    nm100610 Posts: 8
    I stopped drinking 7 cans of soda a day and switched to just water! And sometimes those flavor packets when I really want a soda! Goodbye extra 1000 calories!
  • Kinseykick
    Kinseykick Posts: 59
    First I cut out fast food and soda, then cut out coffee and added water, then started exercising, then started tracking food calories and watching what I ate. Now I'm just trying to keep doing all of that :)
  • kaylatee0
    kaylatee0 Posts: 65 Member
    1. Stopped drinking an XL Tim Hortons Double Double with a bagel and cream cheese for breakfast (every single day!)
    2. Stopped eating after 7:30PM. It doesn’t matter what time you eat at, as long as you come in under your maitainence,. However! I had a bad habit of finishing dinner and standing in the pantry munching on a whole bunch of little things. By stopping eating after 7:30 I easily cut my daily calories by 500-800.
  • ModernNerd
    ModernNerd Posts: 336 Member
    Stopped replacing sleep with energy drinks. After getting over the initial nausea of no longer having them in my system, I was surprised by how much better I felt and how much less "squishy" my figure was :happy:
  • mellyboobear
    mellyboobear Posts: 117 Member
    I hope that is working out for you :)
  • Ryan_Reborn
    Ryan_Reborn Posts: 13
    1.) Abstinence from addiction... 2.) quit smoking.. 3.) Begin to overcome fears.. 4.) Change eating habits ( now intermittent fasting) 5. Proper sleep! 6. GET PUMPED 7. Exercise 8. Do a superset of #'s 3-7 until Failure. 9. Success !!!
  • GertrudeHorse
    GertrudeHorse Posts: 646 Member
    Started eating at least one portion of vegetables per day.
  • 2keiki
    2keiki Posts: 1 Member
    I cut WAY back on the sugary drinks. I used to drink, iced tea, juice and pop all the time, now it's a treat.

    I like how you say "it's a treat" as opposed to NEVER having it. =)
  • missylectro
    missylectro Posts: 448 Member
    Mine was excercising... I needed to do this immediately... I used to be so lazy!
    What about you?:)
    Same as you
This discussion has been closed.

Categories