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Good idea for a thread.
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Going to extremes to lose weight faster. Pushing myself to workout hard every day from being sedentary, cutting out foods I love, or sacrificing foods that keep me full in order to save calories for foods I love but aren't filling. All of those caused me to rage quit. I have had to learn to live with moderation, and it has been a hard lesson to learn.17
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Kept eating at a deficit after laparoscopic gallbladder surgery. Should've gone to (or near) maintenance calories for a few weeks.
Separate issue: Didn't initially realize MFP calorie goals could be quite far off for a very few people, and that I was one, so underate by accident and lost weight too fast at first, to my detriment.8 -
"I should have bitten the bullet last time, or the time before. Any time since I realized this trigger might be a thing. This time I am trying to stay sugar free for good."
This is true for me too. I also recently had to quit salt (Dr. ordered) and I dropped some pounds right away, probably water weight but still a good incentive to work at it.
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This has been a long journey for me, mainly due to the mistakes:
Not logging honestly
Stopped logging and regained (5x)
Keto and other diets that weren't for me
Not taking exercise more seriously
Too much wine
Dieting too aggressively
As someone else said upthread, the mistakes have taught me what I needed to get where I am today which is my current success and gratitude.19 -
Eating that 1st cookie. - No 1 cookie can derail you from your diet.. But that 1 cookie turns to 2, then 3, then 4.
I wish that the 1st cook was Cookie next door (J/K)10 -
So many but that is part of my journey. Some key ones are;
Thinking I could have that one low call cookie then wind up eating the whole pack. I am not good in moderation.
The quick fix and fast weight loss. Now focused on lifelong changes and not thinking of the term diet.
Not being positive and forgetting to celebrate each milestone victory.
Eating too much processed food.
Listening to negative people14 -
in the beginning (several years ago) i was following the fads and getting frustrated (keto, water fasting, juicing) they were just making me so sick. then i started to just count calories and weightlift and it's all good now12
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Many, many mistakes in the past--especially because I didn't understand eating at maintenance. I could lose weight like crazy but I couldn't stop losing weight until I started eating a lot; then I quickly regained way past what I wanted and couldn't stop. Hopefully, with this website, I'll be able to lose what I need to lose and stop when I'm finished and not regain. It's scary to me!!
Right now, I think I'm losing too fast, but I'm loving the results so I'm disinclined to stop. Since I had high A1C's, my doctor is supportive of the relatively rapid weight loss (for now). I'm in it for the long haul.6 -
Different times at losing weight, different lessons:
1. Losing the weight by fad diets only, no exercise - scale was at the numbers I wanted, but I didn't like the way my body looked;
2. Not eating enough calories and not really understanding how MFP works, what TDEE is, what NEAT is, what Net calories are;
3. Giving up at the first more stubborn and longer plateau and not pushing forward;7 -
lalalacroix wrote: »This has been a long journey for me, mainly due to the mistakes:
Not logging honestly
Stopped logging and regained (5x)
Keto and other diets that weren't for me
Not taking exercise more seriously
Too much wine
Dieting too aggressively
As someone else said upthread, the mistakes have taught me what I needed to get where I am today which is my current success and gratitude.
I would love to know why my personal diet mistakes got wooed. Because keto wasn't for me? Or because I wish I had exercised more earlier?9 -
Something I still do unfortunately.
I tend to allow certain things to "trigger" me...i.e. if I eat something that I consider "bad" (I hate that word when used with food) it still at times tends to make me think, *kitten* it,might as well blow the rest of the day and then start fresh tomorrow.
Or if my plan was to get up in the morning and hit the gym and for whatever reason I did not go, that would trigger me to saying okay then just blow today and start tomorrow.
Such a weird way of thinking and have gotten a little better at it but depending on the day still can happen.13 -
Kept eating at a deficit after laparoscopic gallbladder surgery. Should've gone to (or near) maintenance calories for a few weeks.
Separate issue: Didn't initially realize MFP calorie goals could be quite far off for a very few people, and that I was one, so underate by accident and lost weight too fast at first, to my detriment.
@AnnPT77 May I ask what happened when you ate at a deficit instead of maintenance following your surgery? I’m in a similar situation right now!0 -
mariececilia10 wrote: »Kept eating at a deficit after laparoscopic gallbladder surgery. Should've gone to (or near) maintenance calories for a few weeks.
Separate issue: Didn't initially realize MFP calorie goals could be quite far off for a very few people, and that I was one, so underate by accident and lost weight too fast at first, to my detriment.
@AnnPT77 May I ask what happened when you ate at a deficit instead of maintenance following your surgery? I’m in a similar situation right now!
Fortunately, my body prioritized healing, so that went OK. But I gradually became more fatigued and weak than ideal - not instantly after the surgery, so I don't think it was a surgical effect - but over the next week or two. I think I was taking a risk on the healing side of things, and that taking a break would've been a better plan, and maybe have gotten me back to a full energetic schedule faster. None of this is guaranteed to be a problem for others, but I think going to or near maintenance for a while is a sensible, conservative health choice. YMMV.4 -
I'm not sure I really made mistakes, as I knew what needed to be done. I was just lazy.
@derbygraham what are yours?0 -
Something I still do unfortunately.
I tend to allow certain things to "trigger" me...i.e. if I eat something that I consider "bad" (I hate that word when used with food) it still at times tends to make me think, *kitten* it,might as well blow the rest of the day and then start fresh tomorrow.
Or if my plan was to get up in the morning and hit the gym and for whatever reason I did not go, that would trigger me to saying okay then just blow today and start tomorrow.
Such a weird way of thinking and have gotten a little better at it but depending on the day still can happen.
Yeah, in the past this kind of all or nothing thinking has been a problem for me.
Another one that some others have mentioned is being reluctant to weigh myself. Regular weighing is my best tool.7 -
mariececilia10 wrote: »Kept eating at a deficit after laparoscopic gallbladder surgery. Should've gone to (or near) maintenance calories for a few weeks.
Separate issue: Didn't initially realize MFP calorie goals could be quite far off for a very few people, and that I was one, so underate by accident and lost weight too fast at first, to my detriment.
@AnnPT77 May I ask what happened when you ate at a deficit instead of maintenance following your surgery? I’m in a similar situation right now!
Fortunately, my body prioritized healing, so that went OK. But I gradually became more fatigued and weak than ideal - not instantly after the surgery, so I don't think it was a surgical effect - but over the next week or two. I think I was taking a risk on the healing side of things, and that taking a break would've been a better plan, and maybe have gotten me back to a full energetic schedule faster. None of this is guaranteed to be a problem for others, but I think going to or near maintenance for a while is a sensible, conservative health choice. YMMV.
Thanks for sharing. I was okay in a deficit for about a week and a half and then suddenly I snapped and had a binge-y weekend. I’m trying to not let it mentally ruin me in my efforts and I’m trying now to stay as close to maintenance as possible!2 -
I regret not taking before pictures, I honestly didn't think this would work so I didn't see the point.
And not starting strength training earlier.
I didn't count coffee creamer for a long time because I knew someone with an unhealthy relationship with food and her body who stopped using coffee creamer entirely because of the calories, so I thought weighing and logging my creamer would be taking it too far. Then I realized that stuff adds up, so I count it now.13 -
Note to self: take full body before pictures.6
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Over-restricting and eating too low fat in the search for the lowest calorie things ever. Ended up on mostly sugar-free jello and sugar-free jello mixed with fat-free greek yogurt. Had a "binge day" to eat all the foods I'd been restricting and couldn't recover from it. Didn't turn out well.14
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