[midwife]

Originally Posted by paperclippy

Midwife, you are right, I should have said 3FC too!

Yup. Cause it's where/how I learned to pull together whole foods, weightlifting, running, portion control, consistency, maintenance, willingness, etc., etc., etc.!

[WhitePicketFences]

Calorie counting, for me. But no matter what you do, I think the most important thing to do is to ... keep doing it.

[Bright Angel]

Originally Posted by DisgruntledOne

Suppose one day President Obama came up to you and made an executive order.
You must tell him one and only one thing
that you think has helped you the most in taking off and keeping off weight?
What would it be?

Consistently (every day) logging all of my food into my DietPower computer software program,
which gives me nutritional values, making it easy to count and keep track of my calories.
and makes me Accountable for everything I eat every day.

[BlueToBlue]

Realizing that my weight is something I control by the choices I make and that I could lose weight and maintain that loss if I wanted to.

[megwini]

Having a plan.

No matter what, every single time I've messed up, gotten off-track, I didn't have a good plan in my head. I hadn't decided beforehand what I was going to do (and that was that). That's actually what I'm struggling with now (I've been giving into temptation for the past 2 months more than I should) and it's hard because I DO know the answer--if I have a plan, if I tell myself beforehand, this is what I'm going to do and that's that, I DON'T MESS UP. Yes, I KNOW life is unexpected, but I can't handle the unexpected, so by gonnit, if I don't make up a plan when I wake up in the morning for my eating in the day, I'll be lucky to stay on track. It's something I need to work on that seems a lot easier to do while losing than maintaining... but that is most definitely the thing that is most important for me.