[Magalo]

Fats don't make you fat ! They are really important.

[summerlove]

eat less move more!!

[green chick]

"If you don't put it in, you don't have to take it out!"

[Harriette]

Originally Posted by summerlove

eat less move more!!

This is what I tell everyone when they ask me how I have done it!! It's simplistic but exactly true!

[fatmad]

Originally Posted by christine123

Don't blow the day just because you blew the meal.

absolutely number one best advice. and its corollary, if you have a bad day/week even, don't blow off the eating plan, just get back to it. and forgive and forget the cheat.

[butterflymama]

It a lifestyle not a diet and habits can be changed one at a time overtime.

Also

Losing weight is part of a process of getting healthy and to have compassion for yourself

I also love the "chose your hard" quote...fantastic and I have quoted it often to others.

[dragonwoman64]

I agree with the one about you move less than you think, and eat more than you think, ha.

choose your hard is great too

a couple of things for me:

coming to see it's not a deprivation to pass up a "goody" (something that's more calories than fits in with my program or screws up my efforts to be healthy/lose weight), that the real deprivation comes with overindulging and gaining.

exercise gets easier the more you do it

it's not a "quit" or "give up" situation, it's a switch in lifestyle that has its ups and downs, and finding what works and finding out that what works changes all the time.

[belmagick]

Best advice: Protein, Protein and more Protein

[RealMeSomeday]

i have no advice yet but to all of you ladies: wow, you are all amazing!!

[Loli]

Originally Posted by RealMeSomeday

i have no advice yet but to all of you ladies: wow, you are all amazing!!

I have to second that! This is all so inspiring and motivating. I'm saving this thread as a link in my signature, to keep reminding myself to never give up!

"Choose your hard!"

[RealMeSomeday]

OK, I'll go there.
What does "chose your hard" mean?

[christine123]

Originally Posted by lin43

Okay, this one I read on Emme's thread (in Calorie Counters) so I'm giving her full credit (and I think she wrote that she read it on someone's else's post): It's something along the lines of Being fat is hard. Losing is hard. Maintaining is hard. Choose your hard. I have really kept that in mind, and it has motivated me.

This is the choose your hard quote that some people on here referred to.

[H82Sweat]

I really liked reading- "It's much easier to love yourself to good health than it is to hate yourself thin."

[124chicksinger]

Not that it ever sank in, but here goes:

Imagine that tomorrow you'll wake up at your ideal weight.
Wouldn't that be sweet?
Attached to that gift, however, is a caveat: eat to maintain that ideal weight.

[noregrets4me]

Chicken skin didn't make you fat!

I was on WW once a long time ago and was "confessing" to a friend my "cheats" of not "counting" the milk I put in my tea and the fact that I didn't remove the skin from my chicken. She looked me in the eye and said "Mary, chicken skin didn't make you fat." For years and years "dieting" was all or nothing. I was either on a diet -- or I was gorging myself because I would be starting a diet next week....... How thankful I am that I gave up dieting and now choose to try my best to eat healthy. I now eat chicken skin with no guilt --ok, maybe this week I could lose 1.1 pounds instead of 1.0 pound if I omitted the chicken skin --- oh well!!

Forget dieting -- just eat as healthy as you can and control your portions.