What are your best HABITS for losing weight?

-Drinking tea
-Walking every day
-Logging/weighing food
-Logging/weighing myself
-Packing lunch and travel-friendly snacks
-Taking the stairs
-Parking further away than I need to
-Getting off the bus a stop early and walking the rest of the way
-Wearing my FitBit
-Making my own recipes
-Believing in myself

journal writing.
Keep track of exercise, diet, goals. Keeps me honest.

Regular long duration cardio

I am assuming you don't consider following the calorie amount listed by MFP using a food scale as a good add on habit

That is a core part of just following the plan.

I no longer always find an excuse. I used to have an excuse for everything, I'm a busy single mum etc. I work out at home when the little one is in bed if I can't get to the gym and I pre cook two weeks worth of meals and freeze them. Then I can make healthy convenient choices all week and a little treat on the weekend

Wearing a Fitbit Charge HR (love that thing)
Using a food scale
Staying over 10k steps a day
Getting enough sleep
Strength training

Doing some form of conscious exercise daily: walking, bike, golf, Pilates...
Planning ahead
Having healthy snacks available at home
Weigh and log all the food
Plan heavy meals in advance to ensure I have enough calories for nights out.
Weighing regularly and taking measurements
Staying positive

Similar to so many posters:

• At least 10,000 steps/day (but always aiming for as many as possible), measured with my FitBit (Flex, then Charge HR)
• Not eating when travelling (i.e. during the journey)
• Pre-logging with MFP everyday
• Accounting for big meals in advance
• Weighing all my food
• Weighing myself
• Reading threads in the maintenance forum before I got there myself
• Taking up running
• Drinking more water and really limiting calories from drinks
• Learning to say no to offers of delicious morsels at work
• Stopping spoiling myself (and others) with food
• Stopping feeling like I was hard done by because I couldn't have everything I wanted, in the amounts I wanted, whenever I wanted
• Letting my partner know what I was up to and accepting his support
• Rejoicing in the small wins- a smaller dress size, the end of chub rub, high heels being more comfortable again, realising I wasn't actually a completely different shape to my enviably slim sister, I had just been covered up with 70lbs of fat instead...

Also, setting a long-term goal (lose 67 lbs with no time limit, just an estimate of how long it might take) allowed me to be more accepting of short term plateaus or small gains along the way.

Great tips here! I've recently made it to maintenance and am so worried about gaining back that extra weight. I never dreamed that I could ever feel proud and pleased with my body (and I'm 51 yrs old). For me:
1 - weighing myself daily to keep me mindful
2 - getting 30 min of fairly intense exercise every single day
3 - realizing that I am a small person, so typical portion sizes are just too big for me
4 - learning to just take a bit of something delicious and not feel guilty about putting the rest in the trash

As a former binge eater, my most effective way to lose weight was learning to eat 3 times a day and not snacking. I still do this in maintenance and it works great for me. Does that mean I never have treats? Course not, but I have them with my meal and then "fast" until the next meal. Meal times vary based on hunger levels. I even ate this way on vacation and lost a pound.

Have your food weighed accurately using a scale
Drink 13 8oz glasses a day.
Drink Earl grey tea.
Use coffee as a pre workout.
Exercise whenever you can depending on your schedule, no excuses. 24hour gyms exist or a night run would do more good than harm.
Get a fitness tracker + HRM chest strap to further record your calories burned on your activity.
Don't be afraid of having a rest day
Don't be afraid of having a cheat meal. But get back once you feel satisfied that you've tasted the food you wanted to eat.
Fiber is your friend.
Protein is as important as Carbohydrates.
Adjust your carbohydrates according to the intensity of your activity.
Plan your meals with the corresponding macronutrient goals in check.

Important***
Know the amount of calories your body needs to maintain your current weight. Depending on your goals decrease or increase that with +-300 calories, and then get some exercise.

I arrange the foods in my fridge and pantry so that the lower calorie foods are in front and the higher calorie things that I don't eat often are in the back. Silly, but this has helped me a lot because I'm the kind of person who would open the fridge and grab whatever is in sight. If I really want a higher calorie food I will have to consciously want it and reach for it instead of mindlessly grabbing it.

As for the foods that I don't have often like sweets and chips I don't stock them. If I really want them I have to make a trip to the shop and buy a single serving. If I don't want them enough to make that trip (a 10 minute walk) then I don't need to have them.

One of the things that has helped me is a fallback plan, one easy go-to meal that fills me up and is super low in calories. For me this is a bowl of vegetarian pho at the noodle house down the street. It's a huge bowl full of veggies and rice noodles and tofu, and it keeps me full for hours. Because it's only 210 calories, I can plan a day around it to either compensate for overeating the day before, or have it for lunch when I have a big dinner planned later on.

I make soup at home for this same purpose: http://ohsheglows.com/2013/09/25/luxurious-7-vegetable-and-cheese-soup/

Eat clean organic foods. Avoid things with msg, high fructose corn syrup, and gmo. We rarely eat out and I honestly can't remember the last time. Oh and avoid alcohol. When I do these things I lose weight and don't have to track or measure my food.

Turns out a lot of these things turn off your leptin signal (fullness) and this is how they make lab rats fat. I still eat a good amount of meat, eggs, cheese, etc. If we want pizza or French fries we make them at home. When we move to Georgia I will be growing my own organic veggies and this will save us a lot of money.

I'd much rather eat this way and not have to obsess about calories or tracking. It's the way nature intended before all these other things were inserted into our food to make us eat more and crave it. Eating organic makes losing for me effortless.

idk why but sitting on sites like these and watching diet/food related shows helps me a load.