What are you doing differently this time?

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  • JosephPulaski
    JosephPulaski Posts: 304 Member
    Food scale, logging everything, no excuses.
  • LyssaRonnell
    LyssaRonnell Posts: 182 Member
    I'm starting over again as well. I've been so close to my goal multiple times, but when classes roll around I don't have the time. Here are some things I'm currently doing this time around. Hopefully when classes roll around late August I can stick to it this time.
    1. Don't eat when I'm not hungry.
    2. Only buy healthy snacks at the store
    3. Making a healthy cook book.
    4. Sweat every day.
    5. Make a step goal for everyday.
    6. Eat salad for lunch
    7. Don't weigh every day, try once a week or even month.
    8. Sleep!
    9. PRELOGGING MOST OF MY MEALS WHEN I WAKE UP.
    10. Don't set unrealistic goals. Mine was my calorie intake before, I had to bump it up because I was starving.
    11. Don't drink your calories!
  • dlm5975
    dlm5975 Posts: 3 Member
    Eating as clean as I can and not diet food. Feel so much better! And the weight just falls off.
  • healthyrich50
    healthyrich50 Posts: 3 Member
    I just started AGAIN, and I've decided to do something simpler this time: log every bite. I'm hoping that logging consistently will help me become more aware and make better choices. Thanks for the topic :-)
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,759 Member
    during seasons when I feel like I need more food, I go to .5 lb/wk instead of 1 lb loss. I've also eaten in maintenance mode for a week at a time, that way I'm not eating over my calories & at the same time keep my eating change the same. I've also started eating breakfast (gross for me) I either make a smoothie or PB2 on a waffle. I eat bigger meal for dinner around 6 or 7 so I won't be hungry at night & have yogurt at 8pm. all this seems to work for me
  • junodog1
    junodog1 Posts: 4,792 Member
    OP - you have great responses here. This quoted one is my favorite. I can add nothing to this except that I bought a fitbit and for me it really helps tracking my activity, which is at this time still limited pretty much to cardio - walking and jogging, and is also helping my determination to reach goals.
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    I've been concerned about my weight for almost 30 years. Most of the time half-arsedly, but also in bouts of serious "lifestyle changes". That never lasted. It felt different, and like "this is it!" every time, but of course it wasn't. This time, with MFP, it also feels different, but not like much. I'm wary. Time will tell, and in the meantime, I'm taking it one day at a time. So far, 2 1/2 years maintaining my weight, virtually effortlessly, has told me that I'm doing it right.

    This time, I'm
    working hard to expose myths and propaganda, to think for myself and pay attention to real life experience.
    Not demonizing any foods, food groups or nutrients.
    Not deeming any food off limits, but at the same time reducing the temptation load by not keeping overeating-foods at home, and shopping purposefully.
    Regulating sleep better.
    Not exercising, but moving more every day.
    Planning meals I actually want to eat, and stick to those meals.
    Never force myself to eat anything I don't like. I will try new foods occasionally, and some of them will end up as part of my diet, while others won't.
    More flexible. I change things up when needed, and sometimes I challenge myself to just do things a bit different.
    I eat a much more varied diet.
    I taught myself to drink unsweetened tea and coffee. No calories between meals is a good rule for me.
    I learnt to recognize and am working on respecting my appetite, hunger and satiety.
    I cook more, and more regularly.
    I eat more appropriate portions of everything.
    I weigh myself every day and have a weight range, instead of having a point and then start to be afraid of the scale and stopping weighing myself and eat more because weight maintenance felt miserable/hopeless/useless.
    I feel relaxed around food and in charge of my food intake. Others may want to feed me, but I can say yes and no as I please.
    I distinguish between normal days and special occasions. Normal days I eat normally, and they outweigh special occasions by an order of magnitude.
    I don't want or expect to be "thin". At a normal weight, I have the body I'm supposed to have.
    I accept and like my body.
    I don't expect my life to be perfect and every problem disappear just because I have a normal body weight.

    I was tired of being overweight, struggle with clothes, etc, but cravings and lack of healthy appetite was what annoyed me most. All this is completely different now.

  • dhbookee53
    dhbookee53 Posts: 9 Member
    I have taken the taboo out of my food. I decide what I want and plan accordingly. I'm working out again but no rush. I started with walking. Goal is 4 miles per hour. Once I get there, then I'm going to incorporate weights.
  • Cute_White_Pink_Purple_Foxxx
    Cute_White_Pink_Purple_Foxxx Posts: 75 Member
    For me, weighing every single day is a big factor in my success and generally how motivated I am. If I don't weigh consistently, I tend to go into denial mode and be like, "oh it's not THAT bad, I haven't gained that much" and blah blah blah, excuses excuses. If I have the cold, hard truth and the numbers staring up at me when I look down, it makes it more "real" in my mind if that makes sense, like "I need to do something about this now" instead of continuing to be in denial.

    And I know that numbers aren't everything and it's more important how you look and feel, but for me the scale is a very important and very real way of keeping myself in check. I also know some people don't like to weigh every day either, which is fine. This is just what personally works for me and prevents me from making excuses or denying how much weight I have really put on.
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