Best diet advice you ever got

[Maggie]

Alright, I’m looking for some really great advice. The more of it the better. I have found that some of the tips that I’ve learned on this discussion board have been the best ones I ever learned for losing weight. I stopped making a lot of big mistakes because of this place. So I thought it might be good to be able to put all of the best ones in one place.

If you ever got really good advice for dieting, please share it with me here. I mean like good tips that stopped you from messing up or things that stopped problems from happening or things that really made weight loss faster or easier. That kind of thing. THANKS!

[lia]

The best advice I ever received was not to use the scale as the only measure of my success. Sometimes the scale doesn't show a lot of the changes I have achieved.

[char]

Let yourself earn a treat now and again

[tammybear]

No one thing works for everyone. You need to learn for yourself. That's my best advice

[AngieMaria]

My 60 Pound Weight Loss Advice

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[jenny25]

I found that adopting a healthy diet and becoming aware of what I am eating and how much I am really exercising is the best way to lose weight and keep it off.

People can try to tell you that there's one tip or another that is the very best for losing weight. Some people will try to get you to buy unproven diet pills and other products.

When it all comes down to it, its' not about what you're doing for the next few months, specifically. It's what you do now that you plan to continue for the rest of your life.

I've lost 17 pounds in three months and it hasn't been hard. I'm not starving. I'm not tired. I'm just living and paying attention to what I'm doing. If someone had told me all of this, and explained it out, I wouldn't have gained the weight in the first place. I thought that living healthy was a lot harder than it is. It's not hard at all.

[tara]

I found that adopting a healthy diet and becoming aware of what I am eating and how much I am really exercising is the best way to lose weight and keep it off.

That's really true, Jenny25. The only problem with that is that it's really hard to get started and it doesn't giv eyou a heck of a lot of specific advice with what you should be doing. It's way easier to say "eat healthy" than to know actually how to do it.

I think that the best diet advice I ever got was not just to stick to the healthy plan because it'll take care of you, but also to give yourself the time to learn it.

Always just do your best and dedicate yourself to learning what foods are actually good for you, what recipes are low in calories but high in nutrition, how you should be exercising at your best. It's hard but you won't learn it all at once. It's something that you pick up gradually and you will get better at it. That's the best advice I got.

[suzie]

I find that really good advice is to not think of it as a diet. If I diet, it means that i think of it as something that will stop. When I think of it as a lifestyle, I focus on achieving and keeping my goals. Your goals might be different from mine, but mine are:

- I want to live a healthy, disease-free life
- I want to love the way I look and feel in my body
- I want to prevent cancer and heart disease
- I want to be able to do whatever I want without letting weight hold me back.

[ffviifan]

I find that really good advice is to not think of it as a diet. If I diet, it means that i think of it as something that will stop. When I think of it as a lifestyle, I focus on achieving and keeping my goals. Your goals might be different from mine, but mine are:

- I want to live a healthy, disease-free life
- I want to love the way I look and feel in my body
- I want to prevent cancer and heart disease
- I want to be able to do whatever I want without letting weight hold me back.

That's a really good piece of advice. I guess if you put your goals on a list that you can place somewhere that you will see them a lot, that would be good, too. Reviewing your goals on a regular basis will put your drive back into you, especially if they're things that you really want.

I try to throw in goals that have time limits on them, too. Like "I want to have reached this amount of weight by this event". Such as "I want to fit into a size smaller pants by halloween" or that sort of thing.

[Ron]

That's a really good piece of advice. I guess if you put your goals on a list that you can place somewhere that you will see them a lot, that would be good, too. Reviewing your goals on a regular basis will put your drive back into you, especially if they're things that you really want.

I try to throw in goals that have time limits on them, too. Like "I want to have reached this amount of weight by this event". Such as "I want to fit into a size smaller pants by halloween" or that sort of thing.

That's actually a great strategy. Thanks for sharing that. I think I will call that the best advice I ever got for weight loss so far haha. In fact, since it's halfway through October already, I'm going to set a goal for myself for Halloween and I'll see how that goes.

I also find that using discussion boards like this is a really good piece of advice. the support can be very interesting and you learn stuff that is different from what your usual friends know.

[bhollytba]

Count your calories. I know it sounds counter-intuitive to be saying that in a diet forum. Of course you should count your calories! That's fairly well known! But for a long time I didn't. I vaguely estimated and just tried to choose low calorie options, or I'd track every other day or whatever.

When I started religiously adding EVERYTHING I ate to my calorie counter I finally started losing weight consistently.

I'm just saying, don't half-heartedly count or think you don't need too, I was a skeptic but I was proven wrong!

[dennisharter]

Here are some Healthy weight loss tips

• Take the weight off gradually – no more than a couple of kilograms each month.
  
• Eat three meals a day, starting with breakfast.
  
• Enjoy your food, just eat a bit less of it. Try eating until you feel satisfied, but not full.
  
• Listen to your stomach, not your eyes, for when it’s time to stop eating (that is, don’t just eat everything on your plate).
  
• If you think it’s a waste not to eat everything on your plate, remember that it’s a waste whether you throw it away or eat food you don’t need. The only way not to waste it is to put it in the fridge and have it later on for a snack or meal.
  
• Serve dinner onto smaller-sized plates – still feels like a big meal, but you’ll eat less.