What are some of your ‘rules’
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Calories are precious. Make sure they are all delicious.
In practice, for me, this means having full fat milk or none at all rather than horrible skim milk. Using sugar in my tea rather than detested artificial sweeteners.18 -
* Eat a reasonably balanced/nutritious diet consisting of foods that I enjoy.
* Do a reasonable amount of exercise.
* Log honestly and accurately.
* Weigh daily and track my weight in a trending app.
* Hit/exceed my protein goal every day.
* Stick to my calorie goal (whether losing or maintaining) most of the time, allowing occasional off-track days.
* Don't make it any more difficult or complicated than it has to be.7 -
I could not agree with this more! lollthames0810 wrote: »Calories are precious. Make sure they are all delicious.
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lthames0810 wrote: »Calories are precious. Make sure they are all delicious.
In practice, for me, this means having full fat milk or none at all rather than horrible skim milk. Using sugar in my tea rather than detested artificial sweeteners.
Same here. I refuse to drink blue milk.
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Log every bite.
Weigh every morning. But I only record weight once a month.
At least 10 minutes of bodyweight stretching and calisthenics every day no matter what. If I'm not ill, at least 15 minutes of vigorous activity which leaves me sweaty. Usually I get a lot more but this is the bare minimum.
Never eat above my maintenance calories. If I have to, I bank calories from other days.
I'm a diabetic, so most of my other rules have to do with managing my blood sugar. As a side effect, limiting carbs in order to control my glucose levels also helps me stay within my calorie limit. I try never to go over 130 after meals. If I do, I exercise in order to bring my numbers back down.
One of my major rules is no being willfully ignorant. If I think, "I bet this food has a lot of calories, I just won't look it up," then I make myself look it up. If I think, "I feel like maybe my glucose is high right now, if I don't take my blood I can pretend it's fine," then I make myself check it.3 -
Don't drink my calories.
Don't talk about what I'm eating or why.2 -
Cookies, cakes and desserts are fine but have to be home made from scratch. It slows my roll and they're usually more satisfying anyway.1
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My rules:
1. Log everything I eat honestly. I’m only hurting myself if I don’t.
2. Walk at least 250 steps every hour for 12 hours a day. I read somewhere that even if you exercise regularly, being sedentary is super bad for you so I track this with my Fitbit and make sure I hit this goal every. damn. day.
3. Always hit my step goal (15000 steps right now but I increase it like every two weeks).
4. Weigh myself every day (log it weekly).
5. Portion my food/snacks. I used to have a big binge eating problem so now I need to portion things out and leave the box/bag in the cupboard.
6. Don’t let Foods I Love be off limits. I need something sustainable and not being allowed to have cookies or cupcakes wouldn’t work for me. I just make it a treat now instead of a staple.2 -
lalalacroix wrote: »I only have 1 real rule and that is to not stop logging. Everytime I stop logging, I end up in a weight gain cycle. If I want to lose this weight and keep it off, then I cannot stop logging.
Same for me. I don't log on trips and usually come out ok, but when I've stopped logging for a month or more I find that I ultimately gain because I have poor hunger cues and tend to undereat and then find myself craving weird high calorie foods...stuff like that. I need to log.
The main "rule" I can think of is when I go to any type of buffet or potluck situation, I do one plate only. That might mean I have a plate that is 1/3 meat, 1/2 vegetables, and a piece of cake with tons of frosting...I'm not saying it's a well balanced healthy plate. But I think situations like that, for me, are a recipe for disaster because I used to think "well I need a plate of salad, and a bowl of soup, and a plate of entree type food, and a plate of dessert" and by the end it was probably an insane amount of calories. Works well for me.
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Never eat when I am not hungry. Don’t eat after 6 pm. No added sugars. No calories in drinks.12
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Biggster69 wrote: »Never eat when I am not hungry. Don’t eat after 6 pm. No added sugars. No calories in drinks.
I have a similar general rule of being done eating by 5:00 pm. When, I’m home, I say I meet that goal 5 days a week. Last night I attended a Christmas party and closed my eating diary around 7:00 pm.
The 5:00 pm goal works for me and my brain and gut have adjusted.
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1 - Log everything
2 - If I have a craving figure out a way to make it fit into my calories, don't just push it away until I end up binging
3 - Don't expect perfection, just expect myself to keep trying4 -
No fried foods and 10k steps as a minimum8
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pierinifitness wrote: »Biggster69 wrote: »Never eat when I am not hungry. Don’t eat after 6 pm. No added sugars. No calories in drinks.
I have a similar general rule of being done eating by 5:00 pm. When, I’m home, I say I meet that goal 5 days a week. Last night I attended a Christmas party and closed my eating diary around 7:00 pm.
The 5:00 pm goal works for me and my brain and gut have adjusted.
Do you not have dinner or do you not have regular job hours?
I tend to work until at least 7 (I realize many get off at 5 or 6), and then get home at around 8 unless I do errands or work out first. So if I have dinner it's late. Hasn't seemed to be a problem.
Sometimes I regularly work until 8, and at my old job that was common.3 -
My rule is not to have any rules - just guidelines.
Flexibility works for me.13 -
Keep logging
Make room for treats in moderation
Don't buy things I can't moderate (but leave the door open for having a single portion on occasion)
IN GENERAL (not talking about a once-in-a-blue-moon banquet/family reunion/holiday), don't order foods in restaurants where the calories are too hard to ballpark. A slice of vegetarian cheese pizza? Easy enough. The pasta with the signature sauce that comes to me in a salad bowl? Not so much. Don't be afraid to ask the restaurant in advance; I've found that many of them reply quickly to questions asked via email/Facebook messaging.
Exercise daily
Stay real with myself
Focus on protein and iron and let the rest fall where it falls.
See my doctor twice a year and get my vitals taken. Now, he's only doing my bloodwork once a year because things are all normal and staying that way, but he still checks my blood pressure and weight.2 -
What are some of the rules (for want of a better word) that help keep you on track
@trirun703 being a sick old man four I came up with just 2 simple rules that are simple and math free.
No foods that contain any added sugar and or any form of any grain. Eat when I felt I wanted to eat and stop when I did not want more to eat.
At 67 my health and health markers are better than in decades.
Remember the Way of Eating of others may or may NOT be right for your body.
I was going down for the third time and knew it. That helped me to go for the most simple way that came to my mind in form of a hunch.
Best of success but I think for 40 years I did not get serious about finding a way of eating, moving and thinking that promoted good health in my case.
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- log foods
- avoid laziness (which leads to buying food out too often)
- a little treat is fine just make it little!
- do what it takes to enjoy the work out session
- try not to stress
MOST IMPORTANT: WATCH THAT SODIUM!6 -
Count daily. Except for holidays or vacation. Once those are over, back to counting. Nothing is off limits. I can have anything I want, just at the right time and in the right amount.0
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Excellent suggestions everyone!0
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