Top five tips from my first ten pounds lost. Please share your own!

Week 6 | 45M | 5'10" | SW: 206.2 | CW: 196.8 | GW: 179

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1. Engage on r/loseit a few times every day. Like, save, comment, and post. I need you; we all do. And you need us too. You'll find lots of helpful advice and motivational quotes to keeps you going. A few favorites: "Love food or love your body. It's up to you!" and "Losing weight is accepting that you have been eating an unbalanced amount for a very long time. Returning to balance means you have to practice restraint" and "I fight at the table instead of at the fitting room or closet."
2. Become more aware of added sugar. Reducing or eliminating added sugar in all of its forms it is a great complement to CICO; you're already reading labels and probably cutting out processed stuff, so take it a step further: Read and share articles, read and share books, educate friends and family, find new ways to constantly further reduce your added sugar intake. I haven't yet encountered a more sustainable, natural, and simple way to reduce hunger, increase the nutrients you're able to absorb, and help your weight loss along. As added sugar gets less palatable, you find yourself eating less of it, and therefore eating more actual grains, greens, fats, fiber, protein, and water, and therefore getting healthier and losing weight. You'll find yourself stuck in the very best kind of endless feedback loop.
3. Distance, distract, delay, decide what's important. Use the "Four Ds" at every opportunity. Each time you successfully implement one (and you'll find plenty of small chances throughout every day), you notch another success/small goal met, and you feel more in control of yourself, your weight, your destiny, and your happiness. Given that plenty of bad things "happen" to us and our loved ones, and will continue to, it's reassuring that these are four things we can actually control.
4. Journal and log faithfully. At the same time I committed to logging for six full months, I committed to writing a sentence, paragraph, or page every day about what's working, what's not, and why. For me, numbering each entry (1 of 180, 2 of 180, 3 of 180) reminds me both of my achievements to date and the larger goal(s) in mind. It also helps smooth out the smaller ups and downs.
5. Concrete rewards for meeting medium-term and long term goals. I'm keeping a list of small but important things I can get for myself as I reach mini-goals. None cost more than $20, and all are affordable since I'm saving a lot more than that by not eating lunches out or buying processed foods at the grocery store.

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