What was the best lifestyle change you made to get fit/lose weight?

There are two changes I personally made to get to a healthy body I like to look at.

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1. I started to count calories. A lot of you probably already do this, but I have to say it helped me immensely, not just with staying on track, but primarily with seeing WHERE the extra calories (and extra weight) were coming from.

Again two things:

a) candy and snacks

b) 'healthy' snacks such as nuts

A caveat on nuts: Nuts are of course super healthy... but perhaps not when you're eating up to 200 gram of them a day. That's 1300 additional calories with most nuts that your body really doesn't need. The daily recommendation is around 30 grams.

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1. I started to exercise 30 minutes 'a day'. I put 'a day' in apostrophes because sometimes it wasn't possible and sometimes I didn't care to or didn't want to do it because I felt a bit tired or exhausted or had done a lot of walking/biking to and from the station/grocery shopping already. There was always room to say 'no', which both allowed me to not feel overwhelmed (I HAVE TO do this today!) and to develop a healthy mentality.

Fitness and weight loss isn't about torturing your body (I did a lot of that too...), it's about finding a path you can stay on without feeling deprived or out of control. Sometimes, saying YES to the chocolate is good and saying NO to the exercise is good.

As with all things in life, it's a balance, and you cannot 100% 'be good' all the time or you'll start to feel deprived. It's ok to want that ice cream (although the less sugar you eat in general the less tempted you are!), and it's ok to say no to the gym, but if you do it twice or three times in a row, both having the ice cream and skipping gym (or whatever exercise you like to do) will become a habit. So don't let it! Have one ice cream scoop, not two (unless you really really can't live without that second flavour or just WANT that sugar today), and even if you're not going to the gym or doing your regular exercise regiment, try and just do some sit ups, push ups, jumping jacks, a ten minute walk, etc, at home!

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So, guys and girls, what was the life change YOU made that helped you drop some kgs or pounds? Let's see if we can share something valuable for others on the path to health!

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