What is the best weight loss advice you ever heard?

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  • Silver14
    Silver14 Posts: 141
    DEAD LAST
    is greater than
    DID NOT FINISH
    which trumps
    DID NOT START.

    As long as you try, your winning :)
  • ColtyHan
    ColtyHan Posts: 59 Member
    It won't be easy, but it will be worth it.
  • Robin_Bin
    Robin_Bin Posts: 1,046 Member
    wreckedredhead60, Thank you for starting this thread! It's one of the most positive and encouraging ones I've seen in awhile.

    (Maybe I've been reading the wrong threads... that bit of advice about not reading about eating back exercise calories sounds good, as well as not reading any anything about "why doesn't it work" or whether muscle weighs more than fat, or...)

    Although it made me laugh, I think the best advice was to come join this MFP site. Close to that is "It's a lifestyle change." And i might add, eat healthy to live healthy... which is just a compilation of lots of advice, as is "take it one step at a time" or "do better today than you did yesterday".

    Good luck everyone! And thanks for sharing the good advice you've heard!
  • JennieAL
    JennieAL Posts: 1,726 Member
    Lift heavy and eat at a moderate calorie deficit.
  • PercivalHackworth
    PercivalHackworth Posts: 1,437 Member
    Eat big - Train big
  • ctflute
    ctflute Posts: 22
    Listen to your body!
  • Wonderob
    Wonderob Posts: 1,372 Member
    Listen to your body!

    Mine is telling ,me to go eat some cake!
  • Gaz3376
    Gaz3376 Posts: 17 Member
    Fat or Carbs dont make you fat, too many calories do.

    also get your calories from healthy sources, makes such a huge difference for me.
  • cloggsy71
    cloggsy71 Posts: 2,208 Member
    My favourate bit of advice is;

    "Eat less, do more" Simples!
  • millyvanilli321
    millyvanilli321 Posts: 236 Member
    "A year from now you'll be wishing you had started today."

    This ^^!! I have tried diets before and I just think if I'd stuck at it I'd be at my goal weight by now!!
  • Fat_Lenny
    Fat_Lenny Posts: 38
    I remembered another: "Never shop on an empty stomach."

    When you are hungry in the supermarket, you are more inclined to pick up convenience foods and snacks, which more than likely won't make it past the car park!
  • Cordy_in_CT
    Cordy_in_CT Posts: 134 Member
    From a 14-year WW leader- "It really is just math, folks."
    And to me this is the worst. There's so much more to it than this statement implies.

    Depends how you take it, the statement itself is correct.

    The problem with it is that is assumes the listener has a basic level of common sense when it comes to nutrition. Which sadly, many don't.
    Nice insult! :drinker:
    If it just came down to this (which really IS common sense) - most of us would have the weight issue licked! But there's more at work than our "common sense" - it's usually emotional eating, or other "reasons" why we overeat. Knowing what to do, and doing it - are two different things. But for the most part - it really is an "equation" or math. Burn more than you take in.
  • Cordy_in_CT
    Cordy_in_CT Posts: 134 Member
    "Never stop starting"

    and

    "Every little bit counts" (I like this one, cause it applies to exercise, and food - in opposite ways) :wink:
  • MzBug
    MzBug Posts: 2,173 Member
    Shut your mouth..... if your mouth is closed you are not putting food in it. (or your foot).
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    From a 14-year WW leader- "It really is just math, folks."
    And to me this is the worst. There's so much more to it than this statement implies.

    Depends how you take it, the statement itself is correct.

    The problem with it is that is assumes the listener has a basic level of common sense when it comes to nutrition. Which sadly, many don't.
    Nice insult! :drinker:
    If it just came down to this (which really IS common sense) - most of us would have the weight issue licked! But there's more at work than our "common sense" - it's usually emotional eating, or other "reasons" why we overeat. Knowing what to do, and doing it - are two different things. But for the most part - it really is an "equation" or math. Burn more than you take in.
    And you have to know what that equation is for you over time. Because guess what, it changes.
    And you're right, there are lots of reasons folks are overweight...it does come down to numbers, but to simplify it to just numbers doesn't help many folks reach their goal. It just frustrates and belittles them.

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