Your best weight loss tip - Share it here :)

**nothing2lose** · February 29th, 2012, 06:35 PM

Help your fellow BB-ers get fit and fab! Share with us your favourite weightloss tip

Be it advice, a recipe, a mantra...whatever!!

What helps get you through the day?

**Epacris** · February 29th, 2012, 06:37 PM

Eat more vegetables.

(very simple and they displace all the other bad stuff)

**nothing2lose** · February 29th, 2012, 06:41 PM

Let me start.

I love water. Have no problem drinking it 99 per cent of the time but, every now and then I feel like something different...Something a little bit sweet. So, I get a large glass, put about 10 frozen blueberries in and top with soda water. You can mush them up a bit if you like but I find they flavour the water anyway. Every now and then you get a little burst of sweetness from a whole berry

**Sterla** · February 29th, 2012, 06:44 PM

When you feel like you might fall off the wagon, exercise! Even just a quick walk makes me feel healthier and tends to make me want to reach for an apple instead of chocolate.

**~clover~** · February 29th, 2012, 06:53 PM

Dance while you do your housework

I don't get a chance to get out of the house & exercise & walking doesn't do much, coz all kids have to come & that leads to dawdling...

So I turn up my music while I clean & dance & sing. I also started Zumba (2 days ago

), but every time I'm bored, i'll go put it on & have a go. I'm not too worried about losing weight, i think stress has fixed that for me, but I'm sick of my baby belly!

Being now single & knowing I can get attention is pretty good motivation too

**SeppyM** · February 29th, 2012, 06:59 PM

I try to do simple things like cutting down sugar in tea and coffee, drinking a glass of water when I feel like snacking (sometimes it's actually thirst not hunger that im feeling. And eating my meals more slowly so I actually stop when I'm full!

**Marley&Me** · February 29th, 2012, 07:04 PM

It's been a while since i lost a bit of weight, but I remember what I did:

Cut out almost all fats, cut out almost all sugars, drink water and WALK! Simple and effective

Oh and I never weighed myself!

**MrsFabuloso** · February 29th, 2012, 07:08 PM

Use smaller plates and bowls. It means you can't fill it up so much, so it is less calories and psycologically you see your plate is full so when you finish your (smaller) meal, you feel full beacuse you ate everything!

**Floweryfields** · February 29th, 2012, 08:42 PM

Well at the moment, I am all nerves because of this guy I am talking to - and the thought of our first meeting is enough to make me behave food wise!

**beckoes** · March 1st, 2012, 04:21 PM

im doing this great new way of eating and its working SO well for me at the moment. it started as a really mild detox as im breastfeeding and i havnt stopped. basically im not eating ANYTHING with an E number, chemical, anything that i dont recognise as a whole food. i can normally justify the odd bit of cake/ice cream/drink etc cause its only little and inside my daily allowance etc, but with this im limited to what i can actually allow myself. so im not sneaking chocolate cake etc. and i feel GREAT!!! amazing how much all that crap affects our bodies. its not like im saying no to the food i like, but to the numbers, preservatives etc in the food, its a different mind set!!
I have a bar of quality dark choc that i can have a square of, but i hid it at the very back of the garage under the house, its pretty spooky down there and i have to REALLY want it to go and get it, most the time the fear of spiders, snakes and the creapy people that live under my house win and the chocolate stays untouched!!!

And, i dont weigh or measure anymore. i have my 'gauge shorts' i would wear them when taking DD1 to her dance class on tuesday and a few weeks ago i couldnt do the button up!!!! now i can fit half my hand in the top!! so somethings working

**Ambersky** · March 1st, 2012, 05:15 PM

To eat food my Grandma would recognise, when i cook and eat proper food that used to be alive and growing, almost regardless of what it is, i feel better and lose weight.

**Feijoa Mum** · March 1st, 2012, 08:12 PM

I have a bar of quality dark choc that i can have a square of, but i hid it at the very back of the garage under the house, its pretty spooky down there and i have to REALLY want it to go and get it, most the time the fear of spiders, snakes and the creapy people that live under my house win and the chocolate stays untouched!!!

Love it! Now that is discipline, I would be really ****ed off though if you summed up the courage to go get your piece and something had been at your chocolate.

**fionas** · March 1st, 2012, 08:48 PM

I can't exercise as much as I'd like to so I just get back to basics. If I can't exercise then I need to eat less and not drink alcohol. I don't restrict the types of food that I have, just the amount. I had a yummy breakfast this morning with hollandaise so for dinner I had a very small serve of shepherds pie.

Having gestational diabetes during my last pregnancy was fantastic for me. Immediately after having DD2 I was 10kg lighter. So if I want to lose a few kilos I go back to what I was eating when I had GD though not quite as strict.

**Sopdet** · February 29th, 2012, 07:07 PM

Change of attitude

I'm losing weight and all I've really done is change my attitude, as a result I'm not craving junk food. Heck I've had a family sized block of chocolate in the fridge for the last week and it is still unopened.

**Phteven** · February 29th, 2012, 07:13 PM

I have this stuck to my fridge.

I find it hinges on the exercise. If I spend 2 hours in the gym I'm less likely to waste my hard work by making poor food choices.

**Astrid** · February 29th, 2012, 07:19 PM

Have plan/guide. I find it helps if I know what I am meant to be doing, just than just going "oh I want to lose weight" and then making it up as I go.