Inconsistent who wants to lose weight 🙂

Keep one thing consistent....logging calories. Log both good and bad days. You don't have to be perfect to lose weight. Allow yourself to screw up from time to time, because we all do. Shrug if off - move on.

Progress not perfection.

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TeaBea wrote: »

Keep one thing consistent....logging calories. Log both good and bad days. You don't have to be perfect to lose weight. Allow yourself to screw up from time to time, because we all do. Shrug if off - move on.

Progress not perfection.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300331/most-helpful-posts-getting-started-must-reads#latest

quietmousie wrote: »

I am in the same boat, been out of my groove for most of a year. Need to get back into my healthy habits... Feel free to add me...

As @TeaBea suggests, the great thing about a calorie-counting approach is that the only thing you have to be consistent about is logging. You don't have to be consistent about sticking to some set list of "healthy" foods or habits about when you eat, or how you eat ("always sitting down," "always from a plate," "never after seven p.m." etc.). You don't even have to be consistent about how many calories you consume. You just need to have that accurate record so you can see that, on average, over time, you're falling below maintenance.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." --Ralph Waldo Emerson.

(To be fair, I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about losing weight, but matters of ethics. )