To all those who lost all or some pounds..

I've had a lot of success with running. I didn't do very well when I concentrated on keeping my calorie intake low (1200). It led to "starving" myself and then binging Now, I allow myself more like 1400-1600 a day, and I run or walk on the treadmill every night, which takes me back down to the 1200 calorie goal. I've lost 40 pounds in 10 months. In my opinion, the most important thing you can do to insure that you'll stick with it, is this- don't make yourself miserable. Eat delicious food, and exercise in a way that makes you feel accomplished and motivated. Best of luck

Great idea to post this thread! Following closely!

TheVirgoddess wrote: »

I've lost 69 pounds in 9 months. Still about 16 to go.

But, here's what worked for me:

1. Weighing my food with a scale
2. Being consistent (logging in every single day, logging my food every single day)
3. Eating the foods I've always eaten - just in smaller portions
4. Realizing that one bad/off day will not ruin the other 280 days that I've done well - there is no wagon get to on, or fall off. There is only my choices, right now.
5. Finally - pre-logging my days. I log what I think I'll eat for lunch/dinner in the mornings - that way I know how close/far off I am from my macro goals and how much wiggle room I have for treats.

Point #5 is another one I do too! It's totally helpful to do this!

This is the slowest I've lost weight, but also the most I've ever lost in one try and I don't have any plans to give up yet. I have lost almost 28 pounds in just under six months.
What worked for me:
1. Being patient.
2. Being consistent with logging daily and weighing food.
3. Finding exercise that I really enjoy (got a recumbent trike last May but didn't start really riding until late summer). Bummer that I can't ride in the winter, but I've since added weights and I'm trying to just walk 3-4 days a week until I can get back out on that trike.
4. Eat what I want in moderation and log it- don't eat tasteless, "diet" food and don't try to follow some regimented plan- just eat a variety, healthily and enjoy the occasional treat.

Some hinderances and how I try to overcome them:
1. Being busy causes me to be sometimes too tired to cook healthy or eat healthy- just want to eat junk when I'm too tired to cook or even too busy to cook; and sometimes the hectic nature of my days and nights causes my kitchen to stay a mess and that discourages me from cooking too. I just have to plan and also just keep healthy snacks around.
2. Emotional eating!! Stress can cause me to eat very badly. I like the weight watchers commercial that is to the song, "If you're happy and you know it" but they substitute all emotions and say "if you're sad and you know it eat a snack". For this I just try to grab something healthy before that candy bar, but if it's the candy bar that wins- well just log it and if I go over every once in a while that's okay. Overall consistency is the key.
3. Sometimes my husband kind of teases me about weighing food- "I can't believe you are weighing that" and makes me self-conscious about it. Well my response is- "I'm getting results."
4. Being too tired or busy to exercise. This week I actually went to Anytime Fitness at 9:00 p.m so I could do my workout. It really doesn't take that long and I would otherwise spend the time sitting on the couch.
5. Holidays followed by several birthdays makes for a lot of junk around for two months- this is hard when people bring things into work almost daily in December. Again, I try to just avoid it, eat healthy and if I do eat it- log it!