Write just 1 tip which triggered your weight loss.

akm0615 · January 2021

Waking up on January 1st 2020 in excruciating pain from sciatica and knowing the pound of cake from New Year's Eve party had caused it. Started to track calories same day. At 5'.1" and 145.8 Lbs it took 3 weeks for the pain to subside. Added workouts in slowly. September 2020 hit my goal weight at 105 Lbs. I will always remember that day and how I felt for the rest of my life.

kimny72 · January 2021

A food scale and a Fitbit. I was in complete denial about how much I was eating and how little I moved outside of intentional exercise.

fallout990 · January 2021

Not allowing special events to get in the way

I was constantly falling off of the wagon after the weekend, birthdays, traveling, or any special occasion. I had to learn how to continue to make healthy choices through these events and how to balance my social life with my goals

DavWillTry · January 2021

LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »

Logging calories - it was a game changer!

My trigger was signing up for a cruise next year. Thought about how I could lose just 1 lb per week and be 50 lbs lighter by then!

Signed up here and started logging calories. Yep, game changer.

4Phoenix · January 2021

Lots hard to limit it to just one but these transformed my eating habits.....log and weigh every day to keep myself accountable and aware, reflect on macros/micros and accommodate for any weak areas in nutrition, treating myself as I treat others with kindness, IF 18/6 usually, telling myself that I can eat anything I want, just now I only want what is healthy and when I am hungry. Enjoying and lovingly prepare beautiful whole foods that are tasty and serve me spiritually, mentally, emotionally, as well as physically.

ClaireBri74 · January 2021

Seeign my tripple chin in web meetings and knowing that wasn't how I used to be

charmmeth · January 2021

Finding that the clothes I bought after losing weight a few years ago were becoming too tight - and then watching the post-Easter-egg scale rise to show a weight that I have never been before. (Now I have lost it again the challenge is to keep it off.)

jeri30 · January 2021

I was in pretty bad shape after my mom died. I was so depressed and out of shape. I had to start taking care of myself. I'd let myself go until my legs shook when I stood up I was so out of shape. That's what triggered the walking.

I started walking, esp outside, which is a absolutely necessary for me to do to have normal weight loss as it turned out. If I don't exercise, weight loss is very slow for me compared to others since I'm hypothyroid. I can diet all I want, but it won't really change without the exercise boost in my metabolism to make it more normal instead of slower. I logged everything for a month and a half not 1 lb showed on the scale, but within 2 to 3 days of walking I lost 5 lbs. As long as I walk I don't gain it back/keep it off/lose the weight.

ExpressoLove11 · January 2021

Setting myself free from an abusive situation. Now I am free, I look good, and I'm strong af.

TealTrinket · January 2021

Learning the calories in all the food I was eating. I wasn't eating a large volume of food, but the food I was eating was very high calorie. I just didn't know. I had moved to a tiny village in another province and the local grocery store didn't sell most of what I was used to eating so my diet changed.

Once I downloaded MFP and started tracking stuff I was amazed to see the calories I was consuming. I was able to reverse things from there, and now I'm back home and eating my original diet for the most part and back to normal.

Redordeadhead · January 2021

kimny72 wrote: »

A food scale and a Fitbit. I was in complete denial about how much I was eating and how little I moved outside of intentional exercise.

This for me!

dbanks80 · January 2021

Stopped drinking alcohol

girlwithcurls2 · January 2021

Logging. If I log my foods (everything), I will stick to it. I'm like a six year old that way.

Also, seeing a 30 second video on TikTok in which the main point is, "Action precedes motivation." I have been using this mindset without realizing it for my workouts. I rarely "feel like it" when it's time, but I tell myself to just get there-to the gym, to the pool, whatever. During COVID, put my shoes on, get out the door for a walk. Once I'm out there, I rarely cut it short. I've adopted the mantra, "It's what I do" when it comes to physical activity. It's much more reliable than motivation.

bebeisfit · January 2021

Consistency. One good day does not cure weeks/months/years of mayhem eating. Nor does one off day negate the hard work you've done for days/weeks/months.

Same for exercise, once or twice a week doesn't do it.

Fit_Happens_2021 · January 2021

Getting a dog. It was 2005 and he became my best friend, my exercise partner, my comfort, and my constant companion, I was in the best shape of my life! Then he died. I was so devastated I said I would never get another. I couldn't bear the idea of going through it again. I became quite depressed and stopped exercising, lost muscle tone, gained 20lbs.

Then my Dad died. I became more depressed but I thought of all the advice he gave me, and I tried to hang on to every word. He was always saying: "You will regret wasting time, you will regret the things you didn't do, and you should never be so afraid to love that you shield your heart and miss out on the most amazing part of living."

So fast forward to today, my husband and I are planning to get our new puppy this spring, and we realized we are totally not fit! We want to do agility training with our new dog when he is old enough, so we need to be in shape, we need to be strong and fit for then new life that is coming into our home

Triquetra86 · January 2021

There are so many things I could write here, but I guess the biggest thing that started off my weight loss journey was cutting out sugar and carbs like bread/cake/cookies/pasta/rice.

coffee_n_weights · January 2021

Logging every bite honestly

jugar · February 2021

Every shower must be earned. No sweat? No shower.

Jthanmyfitnesspal · February 2021

Logging.

Working backwards, when you know you are going to log your day, you act differently. You don't eat a spoonful of this and a bite of that because you know you'll never account for it accurately.

MikePfirrman · February 2021

Oddly enough, ruining my right knee. Was coaching BB Ball at my heaviest and, stupidly, without an ACL for years (I blew it in college and didn't have health insurance, so I had gone without one for 20 years), I was demonstrating a zone defense and I slightly cut left. My knee stayed right and dislocated. Two surgeries later and facing the fact that I might not ever walk again (or at least without a limp -- I was too young for a total knee replacement at that time), I started losing and tracking in rehab.

I was 41 then. I'm 56 now and, although I struggle to walk down stairs first thing in the AM (without relying heavily on the handrail), my right knee has held up and I not only walk fine, but I workout six days a week.

Although I would never recommend my trigger, I still look at it as a great thing for my health, long term. I don't know if I would have lost the weight without going through all of that -- literally took 6 to 7 months to be able to bare weight again.

LisaGetsMoving · February 2021

Walking. I let myself get so out of shape that walking for 15 minutes was a real chore, I vowed to get up to an hour a day, 5 days a week. A week later, I joined MFP and started logging my calories. The walking activity and the logging of foods/keeping within my calorie window have, so far, yielded slow but consistent losses. My biggest problems are patience, because it seems like it's taking too long (it's not really) and the snack monster that seems to waken in the evening after dinner. I wrestle with that monster almost every night, it's just a little voice in my head that wants, wants, wants...

briscogun · February 2021

The one thing that started my most recent weight loss: Went in for a physical (about a year ago) and the doctor told me I was in the "overweight" category. Aw hell no...! Lost 40+ pounds after that.

What helped me/still helps me is logging every day. Good or bad. If I stop, I gain (see the last 2 months).

reversemigration · February 2021

There were a constellation of reasons at the time (health, etc), but one motivating factor was entering nursing school.

I felt it would be the height of hypocrisy to try to help patients move towards better health if I wasn't also willing to make the necessary changes.

gwenster89 · February 2021

being sick of my body feeling so terrible all the time.

WandRsmom · February 2021

What triggered it? I was 100 lbs over wieght. And I had been very low carb for quite some time, lost wieght but gained it back.. I had done tons of things to lose it but always gained it back.

What made it click so those 100 lbs were lost and have been gone for over 2 yrs now?

When I really paid attention to the words " you already have a diet. You just need to adjust it."

I didn't need to "go on a diet". I didn't need to villanize foods I loved. Food isn't good or bad it's just food. yes even though I have PCOS no food is good or bad, some I just eat more moderatly than others. That's it. I cut my cals ,not my food. I eat when I want to, 400 Cal's at 6pm is still 400 Cal's at 6:02 😂. I lift heavy and I eat within my cals. 🤷🤷

I now hang out around the 155-165 range but I care more about how much I can lift than how much I weight tbh. I love my active lifestyle I love my diet.

MadisonMolly2017 · February 2021

Being told to walk 10,000 steps. Every day. By a famous transplant surgeon. For the rest of my life.

Doctor’s orders. Like a prescription.
It’s not “if” I will walk each day, but “when” I will take my walk.

Changed everything. Every other time I lost weight, I was cold all the time. Not now.

I could eat more while losing & I can eat more while maintaining.

Helps with stress & helps me sleep better.

And nature is a Joy to me!

springlering62 · February 2021

Seeing my parents’ health deteriorate because they just didn’t care already had me teetering, but a prescription for thyroid medication pushed me over the edge.

I realized I had turned in to them.

Bluetail6 · February 2021

Just didn't want to be overweight anymore.

slb2slb2 · February 2021

As many others have said, recording my food honestly. I'd argue with myself about eating a cookie and then say, Heck, I'm eating it but I'll also honestly record it. I did the eating and the recording, which brought a greater self-awareness.

Now I'll still eat a cookie, but not one that's worth 450 calories. However, if I do eat a monster cookie, I'll own it, enjoy it, and record it.

ridiculous59 · February 2021

My husband has one of those pill cases with snappy little compartments for every meal, every day of the week. His type 2, high cholestrol, and high blood pressure are all covered. One day, I just realized that that would be my future too if I didn't take responsibility for my own health (something he has never done). I found MFP, increased my exercise, and 90 pounds later here I am.

Write just 1 tip which triggered your weight loss.

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