hey guys what should I do in my first day here in this app and what recommendations do u give me

zpbczptrms
zpbczptrms Posts: 1 Member
edited August 24 in Health and Weight Loss

and I go to gym but idk what im doing

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  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 942 Member

    Welcome! Read the most helpful posts tagged at the top of some of the major threads like "health and weight loss" or "fitness and exercise." There's *a lot* of great info there, so maybe read 3-4 entries a day for a couple of weeks rather than trying to on board everything everywhere all at once.

  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,111 Member

    Log your food as accurately as you can.

    Don't expect immediate or massive results, its a marathon not a sprint

    Dont weigh yourself everyday, do it once a week or something and try to be consistent with clothing etc so you get an accurate measurement.

  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,742 Member

    And don't panic. Realize that your body is so much more than bodyfat. Everything, from the clothes you wear on the scale to the timing of a weighing session influence weight, to hormonal fluctuations, water weight due to starting a new exercise and lots of other things. Weight constantly fluctuates, and any sudden fluctuation from one day to the next has nothing to do with bodyfat.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,232 Member

    your first few days should be spent reading the boards, Plato no around and learning to use the app. Same as the gym. You’re not going to go in and deadlift a zillion pounds with no experience. Same with the app. You’ve got to invest the time to learn to use it.

    I would picture what you ate in a normal day or week before you started making an effort to lose, and try logging that as both practice and a zero mile marker.

    That was an eye opener for me. I was eating easily four or five times what I should have been just to maintain- and most of that as candy, cookies, cake, little Debbie’s, Popeyes and more.

    That was sobering to me and having that knowledge (which also gave me practical logging) helped me face facts and make changes.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,232 Member

    next thing I’d do is order my food scale, stock some extra batteries, and toss the measuring cups and spoons, and tape up cheat charts on how to use metric.

    You’re going to do so much better using metric, which is far more accurate and quantifiable than scooping out “tablespoons”.

    A “heaping” tablespoon is not a tablespoon.

  • rudyzenreviews
    rudyzenreviews Posts: 74 Member

    Just Reading others post and Don't need to Stress

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