Mistake #1. You have to visualize yourself as temporarily overweight, then go about exercising/changing your diet (you know, more fiber, less carb's) to reach that new set-point.
Measure your caloric intake, and your weight every day. If your intake is less than your standard metabolic activity, you'll lose weight. It's that simple.
> I feel like, eventually, people just end up settling and stop fighting to better themselves.
Don't do that! Yes the majority of people do that, but that doesn't mean you have to as well. I have too many old healthy people in my family to fall into that trap.
Weighing every day is terrible advice for those trying to lose weight. Weigh yourself at most once a week else the short term fluctuations (hint, drinking a pint of water is half a kilo) will distract you over the long term goal of getting to a healthier base weight.
I find that weighing daily helps me notice changes in the weight trend fairly quickly. I've also calibrated my sense of what the normal fluctuations are by graphing my weight and taking moving averages for a while, though. So I can look at the scale reading four pounds above yesterday morning and say "hmm, maybe I shouldn't have eaten that whole pizza by myself".
Faster feedback loops are better for training. You just have to spend a little time installing a filter sometimes.
Mistake #1. You have to visualize yourself as temporarily overweight, then go about exercising/changing your diet (you know, more fiber, less carb's) to reach that new set-point.
Measure your caloric intake, and your weight every day. If your intake is less than your standard metabolic activity, you'll lose weight. It's that simple.
> I feel like, eventually, people just end up settling and stop fighting to better themselves.
Don't do that! Yes the majority of people do that, but that doesn't mean you have to as well. I have too many old healthy people in my family to fall into that trap.