What is the best advice you have
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What is the best advice you have
| Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:53pm |
to offer for someone who is struggling or just getting started?
I know we all hit times when we struggle, and it seems that our group grows every day, so I thought it would be a good idea for everyone to share some of the things they have learned throughout their journey.
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My best advice for life in general is to not equate your self-worth or self-image to your physical appearance. It gets in the way of everything!!!
I'll have to think about the other things, but so many people in this world are incredibly vain and it's easy to get drawn into that thinking. I've seen it hobble people with the looks of a model!
Annie
Mine is this:
You are always only one choice away from being back on track. If you fall off or take a wrong turn, all you have to do is make a good food choice or choose to move and you're back on plan. Don't beat yourself up.
Kelly
My advice is
preplan your day's eating the night before after dinner when you not hungry.
make time for exercise aiming for 30 minutes
drink your water
journal
if you deter from your program - forget what you did, take a deep breath, take a large glass of water. you are now back on program, and continue to move ahead. Remember we are human and do have good and bad days. try to stay focuses and keep a positive attitude. Most of all be patient. it will happen
Sue
302/137/160
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My best advice is to recognize that to suceed in the long run, you have to make a life-style change (OK, 5000 Life style changes), and the best chance of success is to make them a few at a time.
And be kind to yourself-this is a really hard thing to do.
SJ
225-170-135
My best advice is from Dori on Finding Nemo "Just keep swimming".
Forgive yourself when you have a relapse. We all face situations when we can't be on our plan 100%. This does not mean you're a failure, it means you're human. Forgive yourself and get back on track.
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Don't be too forgiving. Forgiving yourself for missing an exercise session is one thing, and forgiving yourself for missing a whole week of exercise is another. Remember how religiously you followed your plan when you first started? Get back to that and you'll see those results again.
Do not deny yourself! That is what my mom told me and it has helped. I do't find I binge and I can eat just 2 hershey kisses and be happy!
Kim
I have found, for me, making changes in baby steps has helped it all seem not so overwhelming. Once I start working on a goal other aspects of a "healthier" lifestyle seem to fall into place. For example, if I have been working out and doing well at it, and I am looking for a food fix, I think harder about the work I did that day and do I really want to waste it by making a bad choice now.
the other thing that has helped, no "forbidden foods" this time. It only makes me want them more. I have done diets where once I threw in the towel All I ate was the things I once could not. It was not a pretty sight. So if there is a birthday, I may indeed have some cake, But it will be one piece of normal or smaller size. I still have the option to pass on the cake all together and have actually done this, but just knowing it would be ok to eat a piece makes a big difference. then I am not freaking out about not going to functions, just cuz i can't eat the food. **a side tip for such events. Where there will be lots of food, Eat something before you go, like an apple in the car on the way over. (water too) Help to make you feel full and has a little staying power. Ok now I'm just rambling. ;-)
Betsy
251/225/150
I have another one...
Live like you are already your goal weight. Eat, exercise, play, act like you are already that weight. I've let way too much time going by thinking "I'll do that when I lose the weight, I'll feel more confident when I lose the weight, etc"...well too much time has gone by and I've missed out on too much.
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