Reddit mentions: The best weight watchers diet books

Huge drops in weight are frequently attributed to water weight. 6-15 lbs over the course of a couple weeks with a dramatic shift in diet is pretty common.

That's not to say it's bad or rain on your parade. Rather, it's meant as a warning to NOT be discouraged if weight drops shrink over time.

I've lost around 65 lbs over the past 2 years. I've had several plateaus where I'd have no decrease in weight. I got down to the 200s in 2012 and plateaued throughout 2013. I dropped down to the 180s earlier this year and plateaued through March. I'm in the 170s now, and my going is slow. My Current goal weight is 170, but I hope to get down to the 150s-160s. For reference, I'm 30, Male and approximately 5'10.

I recommend reading The Diet Fix for good information on how to plan a sustainable diet.

The common wisdom for losing weight is to make a "Lifestyle Change", but not everyone knows what that means. It means taking a regular eating day and asking yourself "Can I do this for the rest of my life?". If the answer is "no", your diet is unsustainable.

I recommend ditching "cheat" meals altogether and figure out the smallest quantity of "bad" food that you can eat to make you happy. For me, I can get by with a single spoonful of ice cream (we buy a pint of the good stuff and I eat one spoonful every once and a while when I crave it).

Don't eat food you hate in the name of "healthy". You have to find nutritious food you like and you have to be HONEST with yourself.

Finally, the best advice I can give anyone wanting to lose weight: You can't run from your fork. I've seen way too many people who believe that weight loss will come from manic exercise routines. Exercising regularly is hard. I, personally, got sick of the tedium of indoor cardio (I've been exercising on and off for well over a decade) and life gets in the way. Moreover, I've seen plenty of people use exercise as an excuse to eat more calories, however, you have to be wary of machines that over-estimate burned calories.

Ultimately, you just need to find something you like and plan out your diet and meals.

Good for you!

There is lots of good advice here.

Get some support. This sub will be a good place. Don't be afraid to ask for help.

Buy the book 'The Diet Fix' by Yoni Freedhoff. http://www.amazon.com/The-Diet-Fix-Diets-Yours/dp/0804137579 It will provide step-by-step plans for tracking your intake (myfitnesspal), changing the way you think about food and much more. If you don't want to buy the book, at least check out Freedhoff's blog at weightymatters.ca.

More power to ya!

I really loved reading Yoni Freedhoff's "The Diet Fix", his 10 day process to get started on weight loss is spot on advice:

1. Banish Hunger. Don't skip meals or save up calories for the end of the day. Don't withhold healthy foods to "buy" junk later on.
   
   
2. Diarize. Track everything, use the data to learn and make decisions (not to police or punish).
   
   
3. Cook. Prep your own meals as often as possible. Weigh everything.
   
   
4. Exercise. Work out to feel good, not to lose weight.
   
   
5. Indulge and Eat Out. When you indulge ask yourself, 'how much do I need to feel satisfied?' and 'is it worth it?'
   
   
6. Set Goals. Goals should be SMART, not numbers focused but behavior focused.
   
   
7. Troubleshoot and Move Forward. Reflect on your 10 days, make a plan, and move forward.

This book might give you some ideas: The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work. It was written by a family doctor in Canada who runs a nonsurgical weight management and nutrition clinic, who has a very good medical reputation.

The book is a plan to help replace bad dietary habits with good ones and to set up new healthy habits by introducing them as small changes implemented over time. It also lays out reasonable definitions of "healthy diet" and "healthy lifestyle" and gives steps to take to achieve both. It's almost an anti-fad diet book.

I read a great technique on how to handle times like that from this book. The summary for the technique is, when you're ready to eat something like that, start establishing a single rule and learn to follow it. Ask yourself, "how little of this can I eat to make me happy?" It might be all of it. Or it might be 1/2, or perhaps, just a slice of that pizza. Maybe you take some of it home with you and spread it out over a few meals.

So now whenever I have a craving for something I know will blow my calorie budget wide open, I go through that exercise. Sometimes the answer is still, "all of it," but I've found myself able to experience the joy of something more easily as a bite, taste or small piece, and that makes a hell of a difference.

Posting it here as it's related to this comment - /u/haveallthekryptonite , I highly recommend reading the book "The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work" - it covers a lot of things, like, you know, not making your life suck!

The author talks about things that really resonate with me, and probably any other dieter, especially repeat ones. Faults like viewing our diet as deprivation, and beating yourself for a perceived lack of willpower. He talks about how the mentality surrounding food and even our programming for it can influence our decisions, and if we don't take it into account we're pretty much doomed. Because eating can be social, and we're prone to turning to it for things like stress-relief, too, because we're wired in a way where the "reward pathway" lights up when we eat food, especially high-sugar or high-carb foods (which were once rare).

Your mentality surrounding food and dieting can be a really big driver in long-term success. Even if you're eating "right" - if you don't address how you're thinking about it all, you may not find it sustainable.

https://www.amazon.com/Diet-Fix-Diets-Fail-Yours/dp/0804137579/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522349247&sr=8-1&keywords=the+diet+fix

https://www.facebook.com/MFMpodcast/posts/1567298770064954

The Diet Fix by Dr. Yoni Freedhoff.