What is your one piece of golden advice?

[JonSnowsWhore]

What's your one golden piece of weight loss advice, your best tip, to share with us all? Anything that helps you shift some lbs, stick to it, keeps you motivated, or gets you back on it after a bit of a binge.
I'm doing weight watchers so for me it's knowing I have the group leader to weigh me every week, so I'd look a bit of an idiot if I just put on weight every week although I think I've majorly messed up this week!

[JonSnowsWhore]

Sheepishly creeping back to this thread, I'm ashamed of myself the past 2 weeks. Haven't been scoffing all day long but eaten out loads which is never good! Giving myself this next week to give myself a kick up the arse & stick to all this advice because I'm fully pissing myself off now

[Annabelle4]

I never go for seconds.
Only allow myself max 2 chocolate biscuits or 1 mini bar per day (can't cut out chocolate completely) .
Drink loads of water.
Walk as much as possible.
Look after my appearance in general which means I'm more inclined to watch what I eat (hair, clothes etc)

Do not wear elasticated trousers or leggings etc bitter experience
. Wearing jeans means I'm aware of a gain and have to do something about it.

Weigh myself at least once a week

Switch to brown (bread, rice etc)

[oldlaundbooth]

Portion size.
Boiled egg if hungry.
Lots of water.
Pre diabetes isn't good.
Bed hungry is fine.

[cherrytree63]

I've lost 3 stone and I've kept it off for 2 years so far.
I gave up sugar, except for fruit and veg.
I read Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Thin.
His two rules for weightloss are my mantra... eat only when hungry, stop when full.
I tried MFP but
a) I ate more as I felt it was ok to use all my calorie allowance, even if I wasn't hungry
and b) there seems to be so many different calorie amounts for the same food I got confused. IE, if you looked up toast, butter and beans, the 3 calorie totals would be different to beans on buttered toast.
Exercise wise I power walked with the dogs and did Davina McCall's 7 minute HIIT routines.

[domesticatedidiot]

Lemon water first thing on a morning and all through the day.

[JonSnowsWhore]

She definitely doesn't do that. I've been friends with her since secondary school & we're 29 now & ive never once known her to count a calorie or plan what she eats, she's never been on a diet in her life, never needed to. She's one of life's very lucky people haha, good for her I suppose!

[Mrstumbletap]

To be fair my friends actually say that to me a lot. If we go for an Indian/Chinese/carvery I will load my plate and usually go up for seconds, and they all say "where do you put it?" "How do you eat so much and stay slim?" But it's because I will know I'm having that Indian/ carvery and eat healthily in the week leading up to it, fast the day before, (just eat 500 calories) and probably eat very little the day of the carvery.

So the calories just balance out over the week, it's essentially the same as saving up your weight watching points/syns for one big meal out.

[JonSnowsWhore]

Haha I need that fridge magnet! On the whole I agree with the watching slim people thing, but I do have this one friend that confuses the hell out of me. She's a size 8, & it's a running joke among us about the amount she eats when we go out, she'll eat all of her food & what's left of ours, and go to work & order 2 plates of food from their cafe! Never known anything like it, maybe she's not the best slim person to be watching 😂

[stevie69]

A friend used to have a magnet on her fridge saying "A moment on your lips, a lifetime on your hips."

I have one, with a cat on it, that says: WeightWatchers Cat says 'No points left, Chubby'

[MiddlingMum]

Alcohol is just wet calories.

Clean your teeth frequently.

Go to bed hungry.

Close the kitchen at 7.00 pm.

Keep busy and active, easier to ignore hunger pangs.

Sip water, you might be thirsty, not hungry.

Learn to say "no, thank you."

A friend used to have a magnet on her fridge saying "A moment on your lips, a lifetime on your hips."

[Lotsofsausage]

1. do not do a fad diet, they don't work long term.
   
2. be well prepared, pre plan/ cook meals, but lots of healthy snacks - fruit/ nuts/ protein bars.
   
3. up your protein and good fats - reduce refined carbs massively. no carbs apart from veg for dinner.
   
4. EXERCISE
   
5. drink a pint of water before meals

[Mrstumbletap]

Ah yes, another one -look at what slim and healthy people and copy them.

If you are at a party or a buffet, find the slim/healthy person and copy their food intake you will be surprised!

A woman at work will eat curry with broccoli and leave the rice, or meatballs with peas and carrots and leave the pasta. Whenever I sit with her I tend to copy her as she is slim and doesn't struggle with her weight. Neither do I really at a size 10, it she helps keep me on track without even knowing it, I don't tell her what I'm doing!

[JonSnowsWhore]

😂 greylove I don't think I'm ready for that level of commitment

[greylove]

Only eat cake on your birthday not on everyone else's lol

[JonSnowsWhore]

I've got a Fitbit, funnily enough I can't find it... I'm not painting myself in the best light here

[Peanutbuttercheese]

I have had an entire lifetime of being slim but am messed up about body image I literally have the mindset that I can't be fat. Modelled when young and had to sign a contract that meant I couldn't change shape, weigh more etc.

That's what Kate Moss philosophy is as mentioned upthread but she made it sound poetical. That's more the reality.

[Ninjakittysmells]

I've on this super strict regime done by my gym to lose 20lbs jn 6 weeks. For me the things that have worked are:

Portion control - sizes are tiny compared to what I would normally have!

Drink lots of water.

Cut out sugar / salt - first few days are hard, but then I feel SO much better for it.

Like others have said, get a Fitbit. It really helps me keep on track of how much I've moved / calories I've taken in.

Food prep and keep to the plan. My mantra at the moment is follow the plan! It really works and stops me wobbling!

Good luck :)

[JonSnowsWhore]

Haha guilty this might show up in active though & attract some tips from people who have lost. And some of us here have lost before & put back on so are losing again

[guiltybystander]

Here's my bit: gaining and losing weight is simple mathematics. If you take more calories in than you burn off, you'll gain weight. No need for bollox like it's your body type, your hormones and blabla...bullshit.
BTW asking people who struggle with their weight for weight loss tips is bad. Ask the skinny ones because they must be doing something right.

[JonSnowsWhore]

Why I'm asking for tips & why I'm rarely successful, I'm extremely unorganised!! Chicken & mushroom omelette instead

[JonSnowsWhore]

Well, my bloody salad has gone off 😄 this may give you an insight into

[Peaceandl0ve]

Measure the dressing, at least until you get an appreciation of portion size...
And have a lovely afternoon. No food tastes as good as feeling slim feels!

[JonSnowsWhore]

God yes to the things you don't even realise, little bits of dressing, handful of nuts, milk in your tea etc! I'm giving in now & having my lunch before I go out, salad with chicken breast & low fat dressing. Had my big treat the other day so need to be disciplined

[Peaceandl0ve]

For me, counting calories and weigh everything. When i fancy a handful of nuts or dried fruit by the time i have worked out the calories i have thought better of it. Ditto sauces like mayonnaise, dressings etc, they add so much to the calorie load.

[TidyDancer]

Record everything you eat and don't drink your calories.

I use My Fitness Pal and pay for the premium option, you end up getting lots of useful insight into what you're putting into your body.

Diet drinks for me are saviour, they don't induce the same cravings in everyone and if I'm going to drink a soft drink other than water I'd rather have a Diet Coke (for eg) than a normal one or a fruit juice full of sugar.