![]() ![]() Tracking every habit I tried to stick to was a big part of my success,” she wrote. Near the end, my loss slowed a lot so I bought a food scale and that took the guesswork out of calorie dense food like peanut butter. “I downloaded the MyFitnessPal app and started logging my food intake there and that helped me really tighten up my calorie intake and stick to a deficit. “Then I quit drinking beer (temporarily- I switched to vodka sodas during weight loss because of the calories in beer but with the idea that once I was done losing, I would add back in the occasional brew)” she explained. A couple months of that and I realized my pants were loose and that’s when I realized ‘.oh my god I CAN lose weight?!’” she wrote. “I started by riding my bike instead of taking the bus. Source: iStock Starting slow and gradually stepping it up worksįor another user who goes by the name 'fresh_meatfree' it was about starting slow and changing one element at a time, not a complete overhaul to lose 70 pounds (32kgs). Jumping right into massive changes can be overwhelming and a lot of women started slow and are seeing results. Young cheerful blonde woman wearing sportswear raising hands in victorious gesture while running outdoors Maintaining the lower weight has been a bit rough, I go up and down but I’m positive I’ll never be that big again,” she wrote. ![]() It took a while to get jogging going, my knees where not in great shape but after a few months I could run for an hour straight. As I got lower in weight I had to again swap for better foods and I implemented exercise at around the 80kgs mark. The simplest things like swapping coke for juice and cake for sandwiches had a great impact on my weight after a few weeks. I wasn’t trying to instantly diet, I was just swapping food for their slightly better counter parts. I ended up creating some of my own rules to weightless as a lot of diets I found impossible to stick to,” she wrote. 'Vettles' has lost more than half her body weight and made up her own rules for weight loss. Source: iStock "My no.1 rule is make better choices" I lost 45 pounds, it took just under a year I think,” wrote one user.ĭiet has a huge impact on your weight loss, but so does exercise. To put it simply you need to be consuming less calories than you’re burning and a lot of women found it worked for them. It's not all or nothing, you just have to figure out how to fit it in,” she added on the post.Ī lot of women use the CICO method, which is counting calories in versus calories out. I lost the weight by eating at healthy deficit most of the time, but if I'd totally banned beer or the odd bar meal with my friends I never would've stuck to it. “Yes, it's so important to take it easy and still let yourself have ‘bad’ foods every once in a while. I tried not to take too much on and overwhelm myself with losing weight and it seems to be working!” she wrote.Īnother user, 'joannagoanna', goes by a similar kind of diet and believes that having a cheat meal won’t kill you or completely set you back. I drank too much soft drink so I completely cut it out and really limited how much fast food I ate. “I've just hit the 80 lb (36kg) mark after 19 months or so. Source: iStock Diet is a big part of dropping unwanted kilosįor user 'ThunderBunsMcGee' it was about improving her diet without taking on too much at the start. ![]() Obese women shows fat on her stomach, Photographyįor a lot of women changing their lifestyle had the biggest impact. ![]()
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