What is your best diet tip?!?!

Drink Water, Water and Water each and every day. This will help get rid of the waste (fluid) in your body. Keep water with you doing the day and even take a bottle to bed with you at night. Keep your bottle full of water. Start drinking water when you get up in the morning and don't stop until you go to sleep. Get rid of the sodas and have very few glasses of juice.

I agree-log everything not only does it help with progress but then you are accountable for it!

Eat broth based soup. And plan ahead.

Track your sodium..you will majorly surprised!

This is Math, not Magic. Don't get discouraged when pounds don't just FALL off you, calories in, calories out. pure math.

Never let yourself get hungry.

Never let yourself get full.

it works.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels!!!

I need to tell myself this a lot!

- When at home, or even in a restaurant, after eating, sometimes pushing your plate away is not enough. sometimes it takes pouring a ton of salt or water, etc. over the food as to make it inedible.

-The garbage disposal is a wonderful way to get rid of food permanently- cant dig it out again!

- Sometimes verbally telling tempting food "NO" or " I'm done with you" out loud will set it more in your mind- and make other wonder of your sanity. Smile as you tell that Twinkie "No" and entertain the minds of others!

- Putting things in a regular dish sometimes helps- rather than eating that fat free pudding right out of the plastic cup, put it into a bowl to make it seem more like a treat.

-Taping a picture of a slender woman /nice legs, etc ( doesnt even have to be a full body) on your fridge might act as a constant reminder of what youre doing.

- When coming home at night, dont immediately change into comfy roomy sweats. Easier to feel small in loose clothing. Stay in clothing that gives you a gentle reminder that you are not going to graze in front of the TV

- I honestly have forgotten I was eating better on a new lifestyle change. When I first start, often times I will literally tie a string on my wrist, put a post it on my computer, something that I see hourly to remind me that I'm eating well again.

-Keep snacks in the car/desk drawer/backpack that can easily be counted and will satisfy you for a bit until your next meal if needed.

- Test your hunger- When I first started, I was appalled that I was hungry, and felt the need to do something about it immediately. I would not live if I was hungry, right? In time, I learned that I will survive hunger! I will not immediately die if I'm hungry. When I'm not watching what I eat, I simply dont get hungry becuase I eat all the time, so when I start watching it again, and feel hunger, it feels very extreme- but guess what? its not! Whodathunk!?I noticed in time again, I was never hungry- my body got used to less food.

-Its perfectly healthy and I think normal to have "secret motivations" such as making an ex jealous or showing off in front of your *****y thin neighbor. There's nothing wrong with it as long as you keep it under wraps and be pleasant. Mental revenge can be wonderfully rewarding, as long as you dont become overly confident- Stay true to yourself!

-Give yourself a mini-goal every week. Small ones like " I will not eat the candy on Bill's desk" or " I will drink 100 ounces of water every day" and stick to it for a week. Others might inlude eating low sugar, eating low carb, drinking NO sodas, eating no fast food. Its only for a week and as long as it aids in your weight loss, it should be beneficial.

-Find small ways to excercise- lifing weights, or cans of soup or the cat on commercial breaks....jogging in place while waiting for dinner to heat up. Do lunges or leg lifts while talking on the phone.

- Do wall push ups while you shower. If only 10 a day, it's still progress, and you'll feel it. Another suggestion I heard of was doing wall push ups in the stalls in the bathroom everytime you go.

-Break up your goal into tiny, minuscule goals if needed. Right now I have about 100 lbs to lose and the thought of that is like trying to walk from California to New York. So forget it. 5-7 pound goals are what I focus on. Makes me feel good when I reach one and it keeps me going.

-Get creative with ways to move. You dont have to be stuck in a gym, goodness no! Set up a volleyball court in your backyard. Run the stairs at your complex. Get a Dance Dance Revolution Video Game, put on music and dance with the kids. Walk to the grocery store when you only need a few things.


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When you fall off the wagon, and you will, get right back on.

This minute, or hour, or day....it is now gone. Dont dwell in it.

The #1 sabatoeur of diets is felling crappy about yourself for eating the wrong thing and thinking you messed everything up.

I say to myself...Ok, but 20 pounds is gone FOREVER and I will begin NOW.

Oh and never go to bed mad.....oh wait, that is my newly married advise!!

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greenbaum9

Stop friggin eating ALL THE TIME!:bigsmile:

Oh yeah and I brush my teeth after my last snack, and if I get the feeling to eat an hour later (boredom, not real hunger) I brush them again

The best diet tip I can give is to slowly make one small change after another. Don't stress yourself out. Just do what you can at first and when you've mastered one thing, then contnue on with other changes. This will help with a slower, easier transition to a new lifestyle.

Also, don't view this as a diet or anything temporary. Have your focus be to change your relationship with food and your entire lifestyle.

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greenie