Cute boys lifting weights at the gym are nice eye candy, and before you know it, your thirty minutes on the treadmill is over.

Chocolate does not count as a vegetable/fruit, even though it grows on trees.

Fruit can be your friend, a punnet of strawberries savoured slowly does count as a fruit, and has 40 calories!

It's ok to fail for a day, just don't make it a week.

Sometimes your body needs rest more than it needs the gym.

Plateaus can be your friend, sometimes losing can be hard work.

As soon as you buy a new outfit, your plateau will be over and you'll drop a size :rolleyes:

Peanut M&M's do not love me back.:hug:

keep it realistic. The changes you make need to be changes you're willing to live with forever. (I learned this one the hard way :o )

Chocolate is not off limits, but a whole bar is too much. I have a couple of squares if I'm craving chocolate, not a whole bar. Everything in moderation.

If you hate a certain kind of exercise, do something else. I hate running and would never stick with a running program. On the other hand, I really like the elliptical machine.

Even if you fall into a rut, one good workout has all the power to put you right back on track.

Some foods I really can live without!

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Calorie counting taught me fast food is really, truly evil! I'm not going to be able to count calories forever, but it was instructive to do it for a while.

I second the people who say they learned that this has to be a lifestyle change. It is not a diet. It is something I am going to have to do in one way or another for the rest of my life.