Simple trick that took an embarrassingly long time for you to figure out...
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I would say knowing I CAN eat what I want, it is simply a matter of watching the amount I eat. For the longest time, I thought losing weight meant eating food I did not like and just toughing through it. Praise da lordt that is not the case, because I am a major foodie.
This is a huge insight for a lot of people. I'm a little sad for the folks who never quite grasp this very simple, but incredibly liberating concept.
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The "copy meal" feature. For the longest time I would reenter every ingredient when having leftovers from the day before.10
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I thought the whole goal of dieting was to eat as few calories as possible, I thought 500 was a good goal and didn't understand the concept of your body needing x number of calories just for normal living. I was thinking this way around 270-280 lb and of course if I tried to eat 500-700 I would wind up eating a ton more because I really needed it! I also thought the calories you burned were pretty much only through intentional exercise, like I didn't get that you burned calories from breathing, walking from room to room, etc. I basically thought if I ate a 300 calorie item and didn't work out to burn 300 calories it would ultimately cause weight gain and that seemed so depressing that I just kind of shrugged & accepted my fate!?
Once I figured that out it was like a light bulb came on and everything got so much easier. Kind of embarrassing that I truly didn't "get" calories until my mid-thirties, shortly before I joined this site.10 -
Good portioning is equally as important as food choices when monitoring calories and nutrition, along with consistent exercise.0
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In my 20s, I didn’t know anything about dieting, but everyone said “weight watchers”. I tried weight watchers several different times in the next 20 or so years. Each time, I would eat what they told me. I would lose a lot of weight the first 2 weeks, then crash the third week. Literally didnt have the energy to get out of bed. Sick for about a week, then up and around again, but not feeling well enough to go back on the diet. Never did really lose any weight on weight watchers. 20+ years later, went to an excellent dietician who taught me so much! I know now ww was giving me about 1200 calories/day. I am 5’10. At the time I was farming, hauling hay, feeding 70 lb bales of hay to the cattle and 40 and 50 lb sacks of feed to sheep and pigs daily. I needed FUEL. I was literally starving myself on weight watchers.
I don’t lose as fast now, but I can lose consistently, enjoyably, with just a little effort.
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Rejecting willpower and implementing discipline. Not sure exactly what my hangup was in regards to food - a combination of buying into high/low metabolism and confirmation bias.2
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Today, thanks to this thread, I learned what the “Tare” button on my scale does. I’ve been doing it the hard way all along. I honestly thought that button was just some useless fancy scale thing that I’d never need to use. How wrong was I?! Wow 😮11
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Today, thanks to this thread, I learned what the “Tare” button on my scale does. I’ve been doing it the hard way all along. I honestly thought that button was just some useless fancy scale thing that I’d never need to use. How wrong was I?! Wow 😮
don't feel bad, it took me a couple weeks to figure out what that "extra" button did too! :-P0 -
Today, thanks to this thread, I learned what the “Tare” button on my scale does. I’ve been doing it the hard way all along. I honestly thought that button was just some useless fancy scale thing that I’d never need to use. How wrong was I?! Wow 😮
I love the meta nature of how the thread where people tell about things they belatedly learned was the source of said learning. That's not the first time that's happened on this thread either. Quite a while back someone posted about how they randomly figured out that turning their phone to 'landscape mode' meant that they could see all their macros and not just the calorie totals in their food diary, then about a million people—myself included—piled on in amazement because they didn't know that either until they read her post.4
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