What's the biggest small change you've made?
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Made a firm decision to stop measuring progress by pounds lost and instead focus on no. of days I care for my body by feeding it nutritious food25
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The first and most important change that really helped me is constantly checking my iron and vitamin d level and making sure it is alright.
Other changes:
* Ordering water instead of juices or coke or diet coke or anything when they ask me "and what about drinks?" in restaurants
* Sharing food always whenever possible especially while travelling and trying new food
* When I go grocery shopping I never buy anything unhealthy to enter my apartment; only veggies, protein, tea and coffee, and other healthy food. For example, If I go out to eat, then I may eat pasta when I feel like indulging but I never buy the ingredients of pasta, that would be a deliberate sabotage with intention
* Drinking lots of unsweetened tea (decaf in the evening) it really helped with my snacking habit
* Walking whenever is possible. Always suggesting walking instead of the metro to my friends
* Trekking and walking holidays
* Doing things moderately. It is okay if I add carrots to my stew or if I had grilled potato from time to time. Whole wheat occasionally. Doing this made me able to stick longer to my healthy eating habits and I was able to lose weight slowly with time. Strict diets only made me crave things and crash and over-eat.5 -
changed mayo for greek plain yougourt with a bit of horseradish...really good in a chicken wrap!10
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Deliberately incorporated walking (uphill, too) in my commute by picking my route and getting off the bus early. Overall I get 9 - 10 000 steps or so only from the commute, if I don't do any walking at lunch (and I normally do). This takes me right up there in lightly active despite my sedentary desk job.
My history shows that I just can't sustain (read: really really hate) eating below a certain threshold, so the moment I slacken with exercise my deficit gets smaller, and I won't go hungry to maintain it. Now the exercise is built right into my day and I can eat enough to stay sane and lose weight.
All this just from getting my kitten off the bus at a strategically chosen spot.17 -
. Yea!! I always get so tired of peopleGrowing up I never ate breakfast bc I wasn’t hungry until lunch time and I was always thin. Well after I had my first child 11 years ago I never lost my baby weight. I forced myself to eat breakfast bc “it was the most important meal of the day and it jump started your metabolism” (so I read). I ALWAYS want a bedtime snack and NEVER had enough calories to eat anything satisfying. I eventually would get frustrated and binge snack and then give up. The past two weeks I’ve only eaten breakfast if I’m hungry for it. Most days I just have my coffee. This leaves me a fair amount of calories for my bedtime snack, I’m not feeling deprived in any way and the scale is moving in the right direction! I usually end up even a tad under my calories! I don’t know why it took 11 years for this one obvious thing to click with me!!
Telling me I should eat breakfast! Blah blah. I did that for 20 odd years and look where it got me. Now I only eat it if I’m hungry, then I have calories and snacks left for later in the day when I am
ACTUALLY hungry!
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louisepaul16 wrote: »
. Yea!! I always get so tired of peopleGrowing up I never ate breakfast bc I wasn’t hungry until lunch time and I was always thin. Well after I had my first child 11 years ago I never lost my baby weight. I forced myself to eat breakfast bc “it was the most important meal of the day and it jump started your metabolism” (so I read). I ALWAYS want a bedtime snack and NEVER had enough calories to eat anything satisfying. I eventually would get frustrated and binge snack and then give up. The past two weeks I’ve only eaten breakfast if I’m hungry for it. Most days I just have my coffee. This leaves me a fair amount of calories for my bedtime snack, I’m not feeling deprived in any way and the scale is moving in the right direction! I usually end up even a tad under my calories! I don’t know why it took 11 years for this one obvious thing to click with me!!
Telling me I should eat breakfast! Blah blah. I did that for 20 odd years and look where it got me. Now I only eat it if I’m hungry, then I have calories and snacks left for later in the day when I am
ACTUALLY hungry!
Exactly! Thanks for agreeing!4 -
louisepaul16 wrote: »
. Yea!! I always get so tired of peopleGrowing up I never ate breakfast bc I wasn’t hungry until lunch time and I was always thin. Well after I had my first child 11 years ago I never lost my baby weight. I forced myself to eat breakfast bc “it was the most important meal of the day and it jump started your metabolism” (so I read). I ALWAYS want a bedtime snack and NEVER had enough calories to eat anything satisfying. I eventually would get frustrated and binge snack and then give up. The past two weeks I’ve only eaten breakfast if I’m hungry for it. Most days I just have my coffee. This leaves me a fair amount of calories for my bedtime snack, I’m not feeling deprived in any way and the scale is moving in the right direction! I usually end up even a tad under my calories! I don’t know why it took 11 years for this one obvious thing to click with me!!
Telling me I should eat breakfast! Blah blah. I did that for 20 odd years and look where it got me. Now I only eat it if I’m hungry, then I have calories and snacks left for later in the day when I am
ACTUALLY hungry!
Exactly! Thanks for agreeing!
A big one for me too. Breakfast is actually a health sabotaged for me because this are calories I’m happy to forego, and only left me hungrier than when I started.10 -
Sugar free popsicles for dessert, only 15 calories!6
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i think that buying groceries did it for me. i mean, i sort of bought groceries before i was lifting
but once i began to do that the whole question of food became urgent in a new way.
i buy groceries most of the time, and then i cook them. and then, the really big one: i eat what i cook instead of just winging it.3 -
I stopped stress eating the chocolate one of my nurses brings by the bag-full to be "nice" to her staff.7
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Wiseandcurious wrote: »Deliberately incorporated walking (uphill, too) in my commute by picking my route and getting off the bus early. Overall I get 9 - 10 000 steps or so only from the commute, if I don't do any walking at lunch (and I normally do). This takes me right up there in lightly active despite my sedentary desk job.
My history shows that I just can't sustain (read: really really hate) eating below a certain threshold, so the moment I slacken with exercise my deficit gets smaller, and I won't go hungry to maintain it. Now the exercise is built right into my day and I can eat enough to stay sane and lose weight.
All this just from getting my kitten off the bus at a strategically chosen spot.
Just had a light bulb moment
Thank you and love your profile pic. 3 -
I came back. Been tracking for 5 days after a break since late October. On track to eat at/just above my calories for the second day in a row. This is huge, I've been struggling with coming back.
I'm also cutting out my sugar free creamer in my coffee. Probably will never give up Splenda, but I'm learning to enjoy it without creamer, which is huge. I wasn't measuring, and I'd estimate that I was using a quarter cup or so every day. The sugar free stuff is only something like 15 calories a tablespoon, but I was probably drinking close to 60 calories a day. And not counting it. That's fine now, I have 1860 calories a day, but it won't always be!
Besides, I buy flavored coffee and the creamer interferes with the flavor. 2 -
UltraVegBabe wrote: »Eating breakfast later in the day, so I end up only eating 2 meals a day.
Me too
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Since all change is huge in terms of changing habits, the easiest habit I changed was the occasional failure to eat breakfast on weekends. After I had started using myfitnesspal to log my food and track my daily weight, I detected a tendency to binge on weekends when I skipped breakfast. By simply having breakfast on weekends, I've made it possible to get through more than half my weekends without overeating.9
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- Pack my work lunch
- 30 minute walk at lunch break
- Keeping busy6 -
changing my mindset from "living to eat" to "eating to live."8
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Meal prepping, so I never have to cave and mindlessly eat garbage.2
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Keeping scrap paper and a pen next to the kitchen scale so I don’t have to log while I’m cooking13
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I've been writing in a journal since June 2017. It's been a great tool for working through my feelings about food and motives for inhaling food just because it's there. Sometimes, I still go ahead and overeat, but at least I recognize why. I've noticed a real change in my relationship with food since I started.10
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