What are some of your ‘rules’
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funjen1972 wrote: »I don't let others pressure me into eating foods I do not want to.
This is especially critical for me over the holidays since treats and decadent dinners are in abundance.
My mother is such a food pusher, lol. She offers me everything in the house.0 -
1. Log
2. Exercise
3. Be strict about my sleep schedule (this is to manage my migraines, which would interfere with exercising)
4. Eat a lot and a variety of vegetables and get plenty of protein
5. If something that was once working stops working, change gears and come up with a new plan. Be flexible rather than letting a shift derail me.
Example for number 5. For years - since the '90's - I've been a breakfast skipper. I found that doing so made me less hungry throughout the day. I had no problem doing fasted workouts. And then suddenly, that stopped working for me. I woke up hungry, got very hungry and started flagging in the middle of my usual morning 5 mile power walk. Something had to change. So I started eating breakfast and now rely on a schedule with a rough sketch of calories allotted for each meal to keep me in check. Since my TDEE is fairly constant, I can either maintain or lose doing this. Knowing when my next meal is going to be and exactly what I'm having (or thinking about what I might have for the calories) helps keep me on track.5 -
My only rule is to not let one “bad day” snowball into a bad week or bad month.8
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There is no failure, just a chance to get back up again.
Find fruits and veggies I like and eat them as much as I can2 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »5. If something that was once working stops working, change gears and come up with a new plan. Be flexible rather than letting a shift derail me.
Example for number 5. For years - since the '90's - I've been a breakfast skipper. I found that doing so made me less hungry throughout the day. I had no problem doing fasted workouts. And then suddenly, that stopped working for me. I woke up hungry, got very hungry and started flagging in the middle of my usual morning 5 mile power walk. Something had to change. So I started eating breakfast and now rely on a schedule with a rough sketch of calories allotted for each meal to keep me in check. Since my TDEE is fairly constant, I can either maintain or lose doing this. Knowing when my next meal is going to be and exactly what I'm having (or thinking about what I might have for the calories) helps keep me on track.
I love this rule. It is important to remember that no rule needs to be stuck in stone. Flexibility is essential.5 -
I decided very early on that I would never eat food I don't like in order to lose weight.
Also, I typically try not to drink my calories.7 -
jennifer_417 wrote: »I decided very early on that I would never eat food I don't like in order to lose weight.
Also, I typically try not to drink my calories.
Yup and yup.
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I don't buy prepared food/eat out if I'm going to be eating by myself. This way, eating out can be primarily about socializing. This has worked much better for me than saying "no fast food" or "must bring my lunch," though it indirectly has both of those results.5
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I’m restarting my log in
I’m finding the comments useful
So far I’m sticking with logging everything I take until it becomes a habit1 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »
IS THE WOO NOT NICE??? I always read it as “Woo way to go!!!”
My rules:
1. Eat what I like
2. Don’t waste calories on eating anything I don’t like
3. Exercise doing what I like- my time is precious to me and I will not waste a single minute on something I dislike
4. Always come back to log
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my rules?
the only one i have is its VERY rare for me to drink my calories. i like my food.
other than that, my rule is no rules. make what i want to do, or eat, or whatever, fit into my lifestyle.0 -
Log the truth. Log truthfully in the food diary and log truthfully in the exercise diary.
Sometimes I even truthfully say in the "Note" section that the food diary is not accurate.2 -
moontyrant wrote: »Lillymoo01 wrote: »
IS THE WOO NOT NICE??? I always read it as “Woo way to go!!!”
My rules:
1. Eat what I like
2. Don’t waste calories on eating anything I don’t like
3. Exercise doing what I like- my time is precious to me and I will not waste a single minute on something I dislike
4. Always come back to log
It means "that information is too good to be true" meaning essentially "you've fallen for a scam or old wives tale." But many people (not me!) seem to use it to mean "I don't like you and/or your post" or at least that's what I take from threads where a few people disagree with someone and that person seems to start wooing every post by the people who disagreed thereafter. (Which is transparent and hilarious.)
But plenty of people like you seem to assume it's positive, so I like to assume the occasional woo is positive even though the meaning has been clarified (originally it could be either positive or negative).jennifer_417 wrote: »I decided very early on that I would never eat food I don't like in order to lose weight.
Also, I typically try not to drink my calories.
Agree with these.2 -
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »my rules?
the only one i have is its VERY rare for me to drink my calories. i like my food.
other than that, my rule is no rules. make what i want to do, or eat, or whatever, fit into my lifestyle.
This!!0 -
Keep a food diary no matter what!!!0
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I don’t know if it’s a rule more so than a compass but-
Get your mind right (healthy), everything else will follow.2
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