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

#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.

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.

and on a side note, H2O is one atom away from hydrogen peroxide. One is necessary, the other will poison you. Similarity doesn't prove much.

1) fake it till you make it!! -- tell myself every day i super hot and that each day i go exercise it only makes me hotter
2) pick somebody at the track to battle with in my mind LOL hey, it works
3) take lots of pics bc you see lots of results
4) try and eat clean

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1. log it ALL (i keep my diary private bc i log the good and bad and I won't if i know people will be reading/judging. however, if you feel you need help with your food choices/like to share your food, by all means keep it public)
2. exercise - make yourself do it and find something you LIKE (for example. don't just do the 30 day shred bc everyone else on your friends list is. if you like to play just dance, do that. if you like to ride the bike, do that. do what you like and do it often but change it up sometimes! keep your body guessing/working)
3. keep a blog of your progress/trials/foods etc (i have a tumblr, had 1 from like april to september/october, and then made a new one. feel free to check out angelagetsfit.tumblr.com
4. fruits and vegetables - eat them
5. MODERATION. You like ice cream? good, eat it. but don't eat a whole carton. eat a serving. plan out your treats. don't deprive yourself bc you will just binge later.

Truly love yourself!

Watch your portions, drink plenty of water, and do something every day that makes you sweat!

1. Find a way to stay motivated - Watch inspirational youtube videos, join other fitness sites, surround yourself with people with the same goals, etc......

2. Make the right choice - Every day you are faced with choices where one will lead you to your goal or farther from it. I always tell myself, "for once in your life, man the F up and make the right choice!"

3. Knowledge is key - Informing yourself on how to properly lose weight is the best thing you can do for yourself. Don't base your weight loss attempts on "what other people say" or "I saw this on tv or read it in an article" Really educate yourself properly on the aspects of losing weight or whatever your goals are.

Good luck on your 2012 goals!

I love this!

1. Stop falling for diets, Dukan diet, Atkins, Jenny Craig... just learn simple math and consume less calories than you burn.. try to avoid chemicals.

2. A day or two binge does not mean you have failed.. just means you owe yourself a couple days it is not a reason to revert back to old ways.

3. You are beautiful and worth every drop of sweat.

Wow! Love this post

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.

You mean this study:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091305710000614

"The female rats fed HFCS for 24 hours a day gained significantly more weight than the other groups. Now compare these results to the chart for Experiment 1 earlier. Do you see the disparity? In Experiment 1, the rats fed HFCS for 12 hours per day gained the most weight. However, in Experiment 2, the rats fed HFCS for 24 hours per day gained the most weight, and the female rats fed HFCS for 12 hours didn’t gain any more weight than the other groups. Why did the 12-hour group gain the most weight in one experiment, but the 24-hour group gain the most weight in a nearly identical experiment? This is a glaring contradiction in the results, and a problem which the researchers did not discuss. We also have the same statistical problem that we did with Experiment 1. Since there are 6 comparisons, there is a 1 in 4 chance that the results are wrong (and ironically, we have 1 out of the 4 groups showing a significant result). In fact, when we take both experiments combined, we have at least a 50% chance that the results of one of the experiments are wrong. Out of all the comparisons being made, we would expect to see a couple groups show a significant result based on random chance…and that’s exactly what happened in this study."

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

Also This:

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/straight-talk-about-high-fructose-corn-syrup-what-it-is-and-what-it-aint-research-review.html

The paper concludes, as you might imagine, by reiterating the points I’ve made above. HFCS is in no way unique amount sugars, with a composition identical to sucrose as well as the supposedly ‘healthy’ honey. Increased caloric intake since the 1970′s is the driver for increased obesity, with no relationship with HFCS intake per se.

In that all fructose-glucose solutions (whether HFCS, sucrose or honey) are metabolized in exactly the same fashion in the body, there is simply no reason to think that HFCS per se is particularly obesity promoting outside of being a caloric source.

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