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I think exercise is useful, my point was it wasn't essential for my weight loss or maintenance. I've heard more times than I can count that how you look/weight is 80% what you eat, 10% exercise, and 10% genetics. I'm living proof of that statement.

@makattack220 I was asking because I am an eating habits coach and I had one person ask me how I differed from noom, which I didn't have an answer for because I had never tried it. So my questions are a bit from a market research perspective. I appreciate the feedback from @ONUnicorn and @Cat0703a as well.

Good morning and welcome! There are so many things I could recommend, but I don't want to overwhelm you. So to start, I recommend interacting with people as much as you can. It helps to make that personal connection and you'll find people will check in with you. Those are the ones to really invest your time with. You're…

What could the coaches have done that would have made your experience with them ideal or beneficial? Thank you again for your thoughts. I genuinely appreciate it. Karen

I actually lost all of my weight without exercising. It helps, but I believe the quality of the food we eat is the most important part of this journey. Thank you for sharing.

So completely true! Perfection is unobtainable, so when we fall short, it can have a devastating effect.

Good morning and welcome back, I was on the yo-yo dieting hamster wheel for 30 years. I felt your post. My ex-husband and I were never on the same healthy eating plan at the same time so I understand the challenges you're facing. I know the weight loss journey is more fun when you can watch the scale, but I found my…

@Cat0703a Thank you so much for your response and insight. Do you think, assuming your coach was real and not AI, you had the same coach or someone different every time you reached out? Did you have an allotted amount of sessions you could use? Thanks again for your time! Karen

Welcome to MFP. If I can share a piece of advice from my 30 years of the yo-yo dieting hamster wheel. We all have the ups and downs and the one things that I learned is to get back up and keep going when I stumble. When I thought I wasn't going to have stumbles, I was really disappointed when I did and, in the past, was a…

I'm curious about noom, I've heard people talk about it but what makes it different from MPF, WW, or Jenny Craig? Karen

I do, Imagine Dragons, Fall Out Boy, and OneRepublic are my favorites.

Thank you for your post. It's incredibly insightful and candid, which I appreciate. I would not be surprised by a lot of what you said, it's just refreshing to hear someone be honest for a change. Karen

I've been eating keto for the last 2 1/2 years and it is the only eating plan that works for me and it's been easy to modify meals when I'm eating out. I see all the dislikes you are getting and that is because people are comfortable regurgitating what they spoonfed, so they truly believe keto is unhealthy. It's not. That…

The only way to know for sure is to cut it out and see if it clears it up for you and reintroduce it and see if it comes back. Just because it doesn't have that reaction for a lot of people doesn't mean it isn't a genuine reaction for you.

It does. I was married for 23 years and my ex and I were never on the same healthy eating plan at the same time and that was always a challenge for me. I would love to be a part of your network of support and encouragement. I also have been on and off this site for several years.

My favorite book is Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Side note, my favorite superhero is Captain America and I'm a huge Marvel fan!

Good afternoon Carolina and welcome! You have good mindset by focusing on your health. Quick question, have you defined for yourself what healthy is? I ask because it can be different things to different people and it will help you stick to your goals if you can explicitly describe your terms. I look forward to chatting,…

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Welcome Susan and congratulations on your new journey. Staying positive is a great place to start. I spent 30 years on the yo-yo dieting hamster wheel before I finally learned how to maintain my weight loss (2 1/2 years and counting) and focused my masters degree on the research done on weight loss maintenance so I can…

First and foremost, reword what you're telling yourself. If you say you've failed, you'll live up to that. Assess what you are learning about yourself and your struggles in this time and make adjustments based on that.

I would suggest listing out the whole foods you like and can live with eating for the rest of your life and build your own eating plan from there. That's the problem with "diets" in my opinion, each person has unique likes and dislikes. You can also have a meal prep one day a week, on a day where your willpower is not…

when you're happy with who you see in the mirror.

First thing I will say, it reword what you tell people and yourself, specifically "I can't maintain to save my life." I used to say I sucked at weight loss maintenance and I lived up to what I told myself and others. I was on the yo-yo dieting hamster wheel for 30 years and never kept the weight off for more than 2-3…

The problem with weight loss and weight loss maintenance is what works for one person won't necessarily work for someone else. While getting my master's degree, I researched the studies done on weight loss maintenance and found there are no real patterns because people are a unique mix of their experiences and habits. I…

Your mindset is spot on. Make the changes to and stick with for the rest of your life! This is what I tell people all the time because I talk to many people who only make changes to get to their goal weight, but don't plan for what they are going to do once they are at their goal weight.

I got my master's degree and focused my studies on weight loss maintenance with the intent of learning how to maintain my own weight loss. Along the way, I learned a lot about mindset, including some interesting information on willpower from a book titled Willpower. I put everything I learned in a complimentary workshop,…

You just described what I have labeled as the yo-yo dieting hamster wheel. I'm good at losing weight and even better at putting it back on. I always struggled with the maintenance part of the equation. Several months ago I realized I was in uncharted territory and decided to take a good hard look at what I did differently…

I can tell you from the maintenance standpoint, to have a game plan before you get to your ideal weight. Consider now what an eating plan you can be happy with for the rest of your life. If you don't, you'll slip back into old unwanted habits and before you know it the weight will creep back on. That was the mistake I made…

Some people cannot deal with you accomplishing what they have convinced themselves as impossible. The mind believes what we tell it, especially when we tell it something repeatedly. This can be to our detriment but it can also be our greatest strength if it is used wisely. Karen