Weight Loss Tricks

I think you're going to find that people here tend to be very resistant to the idea of "tricks" or supplements for weight loss. It really is about putting the work into it and staying at a calorie deficit.

Yeah, this X 1000. There's plenty of low calorie recipes online as well. I did these two recently:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1070721-easy-black-bean-burgers
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1331440-carrot-fries-seriously-good

First of all, congrats on your weight loss!

Secondly, shortcuts aren't sustainable. Keep doing what you've been doing. It obviously works and there's nothing wrong with slow and steady!

No tricks. Assuming you've been losing weight in a healthy manner, all you can do is be patient and keep doing what you're doing! :flowerforyou:

How do you get the Signature where it says you lost so much weight??

How do you get the Signature where it says you lost so much weight??

At the top of the boards where you see * Home * Recent Posts * My Topics * Settings * Search choose "Settings." There is literally one box there. Check it and save if you want your ticker to appear at the bottom of your posts. Uncheck it and save if you don't want it to appear.

Eat less...Move move.

Seriously...it worked for me. When I got really close to losing #100, I got a Fitbit and starting walking daily.

One day, one pound, one step at a time. Hang in there, the last few pounds are stubborn. :flowerforyou:

Gelato every night. Foot rubs.

Few tricks I've found in the past;

- drink water when hungry, or at least 15/ 20 mins before you eat. Often it will kill your appetite, as well as the fact we can often mistake dehydration for hunger
- finish each meal with caffeine. In my experience, this helped kill my appetite after eating in the past, thus preventing me from going for a second helping
- smelling your food before you eat. You would be surprised how easily just inhaling the smell from your food can curb your hunger a little.
- chewing slowly. Easier advice to give than to take, but anything that gives your body more time to realise its full is a good thing, especially when carbs make up a good portion of your diet, as protein and fat are quite difficult to overeat on.
- in the past, if I couldn't resist something, especially in the early stages, and ate it before I could help it, I was not above spitting it out again.
- eat less at main meals, and snack more frequently. Admittedly this is more effective, and sometimes even essential when it comes to a carb-rich diet. With a diet comprised mainly of fat and protein, I'm not finding I need to snack as much.
- do whatever it takes to avoid low blood sugar. Again a carb-rich diet tip, as blood sugar is only really an issue you need to take care with when eating a carb-rich diet.
- dark chocolate. When hungry, and I need to kill my appetite, I eat a square of dark chocolate that is at least 70% cocoa and simply wait a couple of minutes, and suddenly I do could not eat if I wanted.
- chromium supplement. It tends to be a mineral most of us are short of usually, and with a chromium supplement, it can help curb the appetite.
- don't avoid fat and protein. These are things that naturally fill us, so I don't give anything low fat a second glance, as I've found that for one full fat portion of something I could be full, whereas with several low fat portions of the same food I could eat several, so low fat has always been a false economy for me, aside from the fact low fat products tend to have things like sugar added.
- cut down on sugar. The less you rely on sugar, the more control you will have over what you eat, is the opinion I've reached.

Hope these help, and I would not be one to share the attitude there are no tricks, as sometimes a trick is just whats needed to get us past a sticky moment where we might otherwise overeat. My only attitude when it comes to weight loss, is whatever it takes, of course excepting any of the quick fix/ unnatural nonsense like dieting pills, etc.

Oh, my biggest tip is to try be as happy and active as possible. I find this motivates me more than anything to lose weight for positive reasons as opposed to seeing it as some form of chore or duty. Actually guarding that delicate flame of motivation can often be the most important thing, as once we're adequately motivated and driven, there's not much most of us can't do

Fitbit helped me turn my plateau into fat loss again. Notice I said "fat loss." Scale still hasn't moved, but my measurements are improving.