What is your #1 weight loss tip?

Don't cut out your favorite foods. For example if you are a chocolate addict allow yourself to have a piece of dark chocolate or sugar free pudding or something so you don't get to the point where you crave it and then binge on it.

Get the junk food out of the house. If someone else in the family eats it, keep it elsewhere. Reducing temptation helps a lot. The more u eat that stuff, the more you want it. After a week or two I lose my cravings for it.

This is a good point I love biscuits and cake but would never buy them, my partner has agreed not to bring anymore into the house and now buys the sweets I dont like instead i.e cadburys cream eggs, yuk Far to sweet.

I've only just started but I did my research!
Sci Lit:
-Extracts of green tea,
-extracts of brocolli
-garlic oil
...each independently stopped animals from getting as fat.

Peter Dingle, based on the sci lit as well, but I didn't check his sources:
-Sprint training, regular fast walks or runs up stairs across the day (breaks from the computer). Weight training.
-Reducing the white bread, white pasta, white potato and sugar. This has the effect of stabilising your sugar levels.

Adele Davis, based on the sci lit as well, but I didn't check her sources:
-OIL! Must have oil to:
a) lose weight
b) stick to the diet (avoid binges)
c) avoid gaining the weight later
-Calcium Magnesium Vitamin E

The days I've found myself satisfied across the day and feeling full without cravings have usually included a combination of some of the following foods:
- oil like coconut oil in my substantial breakfast smoothie
- minestrone with beans and just a little pasta (olive oil added at the end to help you absorb the good lycopene from your tomato sauce)
- big salad with things like finely sliced cabbage, lettuce, seeds, oil with something like lemon juice or vinegar, apple (sweet), maybe with herbs or cheese.
- water
- being productive and not hanging around the house bored. Exercise is good for my mind as well as body.

I feel pretty good and the only thing I haven't reduced that I probably should is coffee. Anecdotally it causes your stress hormones to flair up and make your body want to put on weight around your gut.

I found that cooking everything from scratch helped loads. I was able to drastically cut down on the calories and fat by missing or substituting certain ingredients like oil, butter, etc. It also helped me understand more about what I was putting in to my body.

patience. whether it's 5 lbs or 200 lbs you need to lose, you didn't gain it over night right? weight loss takes time and I see lots of posts of people wanting fast results and reality sets in and people get fusterated, lose hope, give up. etc. etc.

You beat me to it.

It took around 4 years and over 50lbs to get to my ideal weight. There are many bumps in the road and its how you pick yourself up that will determine your success.

Protein keeps me from getting hungry.

Don't be afraid to do things contrary to what you read. All that matters is that your plan works for YOU.

though a number of things combined make the biggest difference to me, i htink not drinking soda was the number one thing that has contributed to any successes i may have.

and it's not because of the soda itself, which is pretty crappy. but the fact that i was constantly going tot he store for it. while there, i may have pickd up other things like chips or chocolate.

i also quit smoking, so now i almost never go to the store except for groceries, but taht's only once a week, too.

the next biggest thing was to cut out all processed foods. anything with a barcode gets the once-over. if it has more than one ingredient, i pass on it.

i don't keep any junk food in the house. if i want a snack, i eat granola, nuts, celery or carrots. sometimes cheese, too. i dont' have a tv, so i'm not tempted by commercials showing "tasty" food (which is really just food dipped in salt and a side beverage of sugar).

we grow much of our own food, joined a CSA. We're in it for our health.

i sold my car almost 4 years ago and now ride my bike everywhere i go. i burn about 1000 cals/day because i commute 20miles (rt).

but maybe mroe than anything else, i don't beat myself up too much. i try to be happy with who i am at every moment.

watch what you eat (particularily portion sizes)