What is the best weight loss advice you ever heard?
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Pertaining to food, I always say, "I've had an elegant sufficiency." Basically stop eating when you are comfortably full!
Pertaining to exercise, I remember a conversation with my sister from some years ago, which I recalled more recently and it helped to kickstart my change:-
[General chat about weight and exercise, Sis comments on my sedentary lifestyle]
Me (in protest): Well yeah, but I'm not the fattest person in the world!
Sis: That's no saving grace Lenny, the only person who can't say that IS the fattest person in the world.
A bit blunt but it got me thinking anyway, about having to take ownership of my own body and stop making excuses.
The other best thing was my friend telling my to join this site! :happy:0 -
"Don't make any changes that you can't see yourself keeping up for the rest of your life." After gaining and losing several times, this is what made it click for me that "dieting" doesn't work, and that the process is never over. If you make extreme changes to meet a goal and then go back to what you were doing before, you'll be back where you started before you know it! Sustainability is key.
exactly! this time around i tweaked what i eat to be less of the bad stuff, more of the good stuff but still make all the same dinners i used to make before. This time around i am not feeling deprived. This time around i happily run to the computer to log my food.0 -
Dont eat sugar and cereals!0
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It's mind over matter. You CAN do this. (Jillian Micheals)0
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"If you want to keep seeing me naked, you had better help me lose a bit of weight"
From my wife
That's AWESOME!!0 -
Best advice I think so far has come first from my friend who told me to check this site out and the other was from an old classmate that has been cancer free for a few years. This statement helped him to keep going and it has helped me so much I can not even begin to make you understand. The days where I felt like giving up (especially at first) this statement got me through those times.
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. " Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
I don't have to be the best, the fastest, the strongest...or lose weight the most or be the skinniest. The determination and persistence I feel is definitely driving me to a much healthier and fuller life and on my down days I remember to take this ONE DAY AT A TIME and to also be a little kinder and gentler to myself and not be so hard on myself.
Learning to be my own best friend instead of my own worst enemy!0 -
"If you want to keep seeing me naked, you had better help me lose a bit of weight"
From my wife
:laugh: love it!!0 -
"If you want to keep seeing me naked, you had better help me lose a bit of weight"
From my wife0 -
Food is fuel first, pleasure second.0
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You can't outexercise a bad diet.
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Stop wishing and start doing.0 -
Long term weight loss doesn't require perfection.0
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Muscle weighs more than fat.
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It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.0
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stop eating crap it will kill you0
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"Eat less, move more".... basic and from my dad... and OH SO TRUE!!!
I'm with this - I find now that I just can't eat the volume I used to - but I can still eat a good amount because of all the movement! :glasses:0 -
Eat mindfully0
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Jack Lalanne
IF MAN MAKES IT, DON'T EAT IT!0 -
Be patient it took X number of years to put on the weight it will take some times to work it off0
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The best advice given to me was to WORK OUT!! And although I know exercise is not necessary for weight loss - exercise opened up a whole new world to me and showed me all the benefits of a healthy lifestyle!0
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This advice/quote was said to me by my man. He told me this years ago when I would gripe about losing weight and never actually try that hard
"Keep doing what your doing, you'll keep getting what your getting"
beautiful thing about this quote is it works both ways! It really opens my eyes to the fact of whats going on because it is truth.
AWESOME IDEA FOR A POST BTW!0
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