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What is the best diet advice you have ever gotten?

flippy1234
flippy1234 Posts: 686 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi all, just curious to know what the best diet advice you have ever gotten...Tips, ideas, etc...
That actually worked!
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  • isulo_kura
    isulo_kura Posts: 818 Member
    Don't put that in your mouth. As you can see from my profile it worked
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    Do your research into the science behind it all.
  • flippy1234
    flippy1234 Posts: 686 Member
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Don't put that in your mouth. As you can see from my profile it worked

    That's funny...
  • MrCoolGrim
    MrCoolGrim Posts: 351 Member
    eat less move more
  • Maries_wine_calories
    Maries_wine_calories Posts: 152 Member
    Best Advice? Buy a good food scale and measure everything...you can be VERY wrong about portion sizes!!
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    The best, most helpful advice I got is a tie between weigh everything, and you don't have to eat a certain way to lose weight - just less than you burn.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    buy a food scale - makes keeping in a deficit easy

    eat what you want just stay in a deficit. - means I can eat all the food

    Exercise is not necessary for weight loss but it's great for health and fitness - makes exercise fun because I don't "have to" do it.
  • daw0518
    daw0518 Posts: 459 Member
    "Everything in moderation." I can't believe my mom told me this my entire life but it didn't sink in until I was nearly 24 years old.
  • hmaddpear
    hmaddpear Posts: 610 Member
    All the above, so I'll add you're only a failure if you give up forever. Until then, regardless of the setbacks, you're still in there.
  • ExRelaySprinter
    ExRelaySprinter Posts: 874 Member
    1) Weigh your food
    2) Don't always rely on the number on your Scales (go by how your clothes fit)
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

    Nobody gave me that advice personally, it's a quote from Michael Pollan, but it's great.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Don't quit. That is the single most important piece of advice there is.
  • Allelito
    Allelito Posts: 179 Member
    CICO!
  • Bj0223
    Bj0223 Posts: 133 Member
    you didn't gain all the weight in a month, its not going to come off in a month- patience
  • mattlynch2015
    mattlynch2015 Posts: 17 Member
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Don't put that in your mouth. As you can see from my profile it worked

    Wow, what a difference, looks like you've turned into a fitness freak,
  • Ohwhynot
    Ohwhynot Posts: 356 Member
    edited April 2015
    You need to be honest with yourself about how much you're eating. Once I started being 100% accountable and truthful with myself, the pounds started melting off.

    ...and by "melting", I mean a slow, steady loss. It's been almost 5 months and I'm down 32 lbs. It wasn't overnight and I've stalled a few weeks. But the difference between this go around and others has been that, even if I cheat, I log it. Even if it kills me to see the big red negative "you screwed up" numbers, I have to look at it and I have a choice - give up or shrug it off and make up for it.
  • LovelyIvy466
    LovelyIvy466 Posts: 387 Member
    The so you want a nice stomach sticky. All of it.
  • BigLifter10
    BigLifter10 Posts: 1,153 Member
    ALWAYS have a balance in each meal. I am currently 40/40/20 (Carb/Prot/Fat) and I'm not too strict with that aspect, but focused on making sure I don't just eat carbs (big bowl of pasta for lunch w/bread). Since I've done the balancing thing....huge, HUGE difference for me. Making it through the day is much better. That was/is the best advice I have ever gotten.
  • slashsixer
    slashsixer Posts: 1 Member
    When my doctor told me about this website.
  • Monikaj4
    Monikaj4 Posts: 28 Member
    A minute in your lips. Forever on the hips.
  • BuckyArden33
    BuckyArden33 Posts: 146 Member
    scoandmur wrote: »
    Best Advice? Buy a good food scale and measure everything...you can be VERY wrong about portion sizes!!
    ^^^^^ this ^^^ i cant live without my scales now
  • htg20
    htg20 Posts: 116 Member
    Eat like you want to eat the rest of your life. Unreasonable restrictions are not sustainable.
  • Gska17
    Gska17 Posts: 752 Member
    I had never really considered weight loss to be about an overall calorie deficit. I was taking it day by day (and stressing) then I read in a thread about weekly deficit.

    Personally it helped me realize going over on my calories one day wasn't going to throw my entire week off. It made me feel more relaxed. I don't use it as an excuse, I use it to be less hard on myself.
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  • DianaLovesCoffee
    DianaLovesCoffee Posts: 398 Member
    That I have to do this for me and nobody else. Nobody else is the cause for my weight gain or loss. It's all on me. And I'm worth it!
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    To get a food scale.
  • TiffanyR71
    TiffanyR71 Posts: 217 Member
    MrCoolGrim wrote: »
    eat less move more

    Yes - this is my mantra... Tracking is the tool I'm using to ensure that this happens...
  • flippy1234
    flippy1234 Posts: 686 Member
    Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
    Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

    Nobody gave me that advice personally, it's a quote from Michael Pollan, but it's great.

    Yes, it is a great quote.
  • flippy1234
    flippy1234 Posts: 686 Member
    Bj0223 wrote: »
    you didn't gain all the weight in a month, its not going to come off in a month- patience

    Patience, easier said than done!
  • Maries_wine_calories
    Maries_wine_calories Posts: 152 Member
    htg20 wrote: »
    Eat like you want to eat the rest of your life. Unreasonable restrictions are not sustainable.

    A billion percent agree. I think those most successful in the long term with MFP have never "dieted" a day since joining!
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