All u successful people: What are your top 3 tips for weight

Top three are:
1. Eat only whole foods/lean meats as a rule. If you are eating whole foods IN CORRECT PORTIONS, you won't have to concentrate as much on counting calories because it would be unlikely that you would go over your calories for the day. Also, whole foods are much more nutrient dense and will help your body to function more efficiently.
2. There's no such thing as too much water....okay, well, maybe there is, but you'd have to drink an ungodly amount to get to that point. I would definitely say, with the exception of one or two glasses of fat free milk/day or the occasional fruit juice, drink nothing but water.
3. DAILY exercise/activity. You don't necessarily have to do a full workout EVERY day, but try to get some sort of vigorous activity in your day for at least thirty minutes. In addition, make sure you are getting enough recovery/rest in between each workout as well.

If I were to add a fourth tip, I would say, Make sure you are getting plenty of sleep. Everyone is different, and I realize personal schedules determine, to some degree, how much sleep you can get each night. If possible you should try to get AT LEAST 7 hours of good sleep per night.

I'm not going to argue what LEGITIMATE IF is. I know, I've done it before. But I certainly know an unhealthy starvation diet when I see one, and not eating for two days certainly falls under that category!

Two days out of seven doesn't, by necessity, mean two continuous days.

Say your TDEE is 1750. 2 Days is 3500. Over a week, that is 500 per day. 1 pound of fat per week.

Stupid question maybe, but what is BUMP or what does it mean here?

a) keeps the topic current
b) a way for you to respond to a thread in order to have that thread show up in your "My Topics"

I've lost 152 pounds in the past 2 years. I'm still losing. If I can do it, you can do it. It's easy, its free.
Don't listen to those still inslaved by calorie counting. It doesn't work.
It's all about what you should eat and what you should avoid, not how much you eat.

1. Cut out all wheat products. Whole grains are bad too.
2. Cut out all sugars, even the so called natural sweeteners and especially the artificial sweeteners.
3. Cut out most vegetable oils, like corn, soy, canola...
4. Eat lots of good fats like butter, coconut oil, and olive oil.
5. Eat lots of meat like beef, poultry, and fish. The fattest cuts are the best.
6. Eat lots of green leafy vegetables.

You can't over eat on good healthy food.
You will never have to count another calorie, ever.
The weight will fall off.
Your energy level will increase.

Check out my profile for my blog. I talk about my two year weight loss journey. A journey that began with the sudden death of my wife of 37 years to diet related causes.

Obesity causes many health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, liver disease, and strokes. Obesity can kill you by the things it causes!
About 822 people a day, 300,000 a year die from obesity related illness.

On the day my wife died about 822 people died of the same thing that killed her.

We can't go on dong the same things and expect change. Stop worrying about calories and eat right.

1. Make small lifestyle changes over time. Trying to toss everything out and hit the ground running is really hard. Little things like switching to whole wheat bread and walking 30 minutes even once a week get you started down the road to a healthier you.
2. Understand that it does take time and falling off the wagon is okay as long and you climb right back up.
3. Stay away from haters. Surround yourself with people and situations that will support you. Forgo the potluck or the happy hour until you are sure you can control youself.

#1 - Honesty : in logging and goals

#2 - Keep a head light : pushing too far doesn't make any good

#3- I work my *kitten* off 1 hour earlier every morning to cook my lunch and brush my kitten

#4- Log everything, thus you'll learn pretty quickly how to contain excesses

#5- Never making excuses for being lazy, never ever

#6- Laziness kills

#7- Remain realistic : I won't have the Brad Pitt's body in Fight Club the next week

#8- Endurance makes the trip worth it - "easy" and "lazy" : sound same

#9- Anticipation - people who fail don't anticipate

#10- Look at myself every morning in the bathroom - dam, I rock

EDIT :
#1a : Make yourself comfy here on MFP with cool MFP friends - I love mines

1. Eat enough
2. Log honestly
3. Move - I do something every day, aiming for 60 minutes of moderate and 30 minutes of high intensity right now
4. LIFT!
5. When I'm confronted with a food situation, I ask myself, what will I do when I'm at goal? I'm on a low carb diet and the doctor said I probably will be for the rest of my life. So - Am I okay with turning down rice/potatoes/pasta for the rest of my life (Yes, I am - those aren't my big things). Am I okay with turning down birthday cake with buttercream frosting or home made rolls forever? (Nope, I love those things). So, I eat a sensible small serving, get my exercise in, and realize that if I lose a little slower because of my treat that day, it's okay, because I'm LIVING- it's my lifestyle and it's one I can do the rest of my life.

I calculated my BMR it came to 2549.13 calories per day. I currently have my daily calorie goals set to 1500 cals but my weight loss is extremely slow?? Any suggestions?

Since you are Moderatetely Active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/week), Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is 2389.48 calories per day. If you are trying to lose 1 lb per week, then you would cut 3500 calories per week from your diet, or 500 per day. That puts you at 1889 calories per day. I would only eat back exercise calories that exceed 240 minutes per week

The research certainly does NOT agree about HFCS.

http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=19

"The bottom line is that there is no valid reason for HFCS to be any different than sucrose in the way that it affects your body. They are both nearly identical in their composition, containing roughly half fructose and half glucose. They are both nearly identical in the way they are metabolized by your body. There is no practical difference between the two as far as your body is concerned. Now, I’m not saying that you should go out and consume all the HFCS that you want. The point is that there is nothing uniquely “bad” about HFCS compared to regular sugar. HFCS is not uniquely responsible for weight gain as some people would have you believe."

"[N]early identical in the way they are metabolized by your body."

Oh?

I don't have the study reference at hand, but another study did a simple test of keeping all macronutrients the same, just varied fructose/sucrose.

The fructose rats got fatter.

The research certainly does NOT agree about HFCS.

http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=19

"The bottom line is that there is no valid reason for HFCS to be any different than sucrose in the way that it affects your body. They are both nearly identical in their composition, containing roughly half fructose and half glucose. They are both nearly identical in the way they are metabolized by your body. There is no practical difference between the two as far as your body is concerned. Now, I’m not saying that you should go out and consume all the HFCS that you want. The point is that there is nothing uniquely “bad” about HFCS compared to regular sugar. HFCS is not uniquely responsible for weight gain as some people would have you believe."

"[N]early identical in the way they are metabolized by your body."

Oh?

I don't have the study reference at hand, but another study did a simple test of keeping all macronutrients the same, just varied fructose/sucrose.

The fructose rats got fatter.

Instead of arguing over sugar vs HFCS, we shoudl just be limiting our exposure to both of them. A family friend of mine is a diabetes researcher and once told me that the human body is not designed to process sugar (cane, processed white, HFCS, etc), It is a major cause of disease. We should be getting our sugars from fruits.