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Originally Posted by JP513
Please list the 5 more important things you did, or rules to follow, that allowed you to lose weight.
Oh . . . and how much weight did you lose?
I'm trying to lose 30 pounds (225-195). 5 down, 25 to go. Please coach me losers (of weight).
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It helps to know what your habits are - namely your bad habits, both regarding your eating habits and exercise. If you drink soda for instance, it might help you to know the first 25-30 lbs I lost were entirely from quitting soda - in that it was the one and only change I made and that happened over the course of about half a year. I lost about 75 lbs before having gained some back, but some eating habits are really hard to kick...soda was however easy to kick once I found other not-so-sugary drinks to enjoy. Now I drink things like Propel, diet teas, occasionally even Gatorade or Vitamin Water which has some sugar but nothing close to soda.
Other than that, the most beneficial thing for me has been finding a regular strenuous activity that you enjoy doing. For me it's tennis. I have been to the gym maybe twice since I started playing tennis regularly again, whereas before, the gym WAS my main form of exercise. I can do a lot more playing tennis and I enjoy it, so ultimately I now have a good habit I can stick to.
Basically the best general advice is to figure out your bad habits that you have the best chance of eliminating successfully and good habits/improvements you can make that you have the best chance of keeping up, do those first, and see where you're at in a few months. People keep doing diets and exercise routines that they know full well they will only do temporarily and likewise it only grants them temporary weight loss.