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arlostewart
arlostewart Posts: 1 Member
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I’m new to this. Any good pointers for me?

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  • The_Elephant_Man
    The_Elephant_Man Posts: 207 Member
    Welcome!!
    Don't think about this as a diet, but you are changing your eating habits to be healthy.
    Never give up on yourself because you will have some bad days, just get back on track.
    Use a food scale and measuring cups.
    Log everything you put in your mouth and drink plenty of water.
    You got this!!
  • trixsterjl31
    trixsterjl31 Posts: 145 Member
    Welcome Arlo. Welcome to the struggle. Here are some things I tell people:
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    2. @arlostewart will also notify someone you mentioned them.
    6. The food logs are man made so there will be a lot of entries for each food. Pay attention to serving sizes. Search and look at other services for numbers if it seems too good.
    7. When you change your servings (be it from 1 to 2 or 1 to .5 your log will remember that and if you dont watch it the next time you log your food you could be getting 2x or .5 the calories logged.
    8. exercise numbers are a guess at best. I think walking numbers are about the most accurate based on your MPH rate. Other stuff like zumba will assume you are really going at it during the exercise.

    There are a lot of good people here like @AnnPT77 that will give really sensible advice but there often is not a lot of early love on new post arrival posts because a lot of people post and never come back to read replies (IMO).
    6. look at the pinned welcome posts. There is a lot of good info.

    Have a good day.

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