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Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?

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Post by dsego »

ram_rar wrote: post #95

Unless you have any underlying medical condition that prohibits you from fasting, just time restricting eating to 8 hr (or less) window helped me cut down a lot of weight. Nothing fancy, just remove sugar and flour from diet or at least keep it minimal and get good sleep. I occasionally go for a walk, no gym. thats it. OTOH, I have friends who can afford to eat whatever the hell they want, but they work out like craz…

I started not eating after 18h and already lost a kilo this month. Calorie counting also worked for me in the past, lost 10kg that way, but it's a bit demanding.

Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?

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Post by dsego »

smackeyacky wrote: post #86

Drop alcohol consumption. Less sugar. Less of everything. Start moving more. Throw in some simple body weight exercises (push ups, sit ups burpees). Most people can drop 1kg a week by being mindful.

This, I think a few beers are equivalent to a meal.

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Post by qeternity »

Fasting (or IF) + keto.

It’s mostly mental, but you adapt quickly, and there are tons of health benefits beyond weight control.

To a lesser degree: eggs. They are a miracle food imho. Amazing fat/protein/vitamin combo. And anyone talking about cholesterol content hasn’t read any good science on serum cholesterol drivers in the last two decades (you can eat a dozen eggs a day and be fine).

Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

maury91 wrote: post #85
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

any unhealthy side effects of only eating one meal a day? what if that meal is 1800+ calories?

Intermitted fasting works on the principle that if you eat 1800kcal in one sitting you are going to puke. I can easily eat even 3000-4000kcal in 1 day, but in one meal going over 1500kcal is very hard. Edit: Yes I'm wrong I should have said "if you eat 1800kcal of clean food", I forgot the existence of fast food because it is not something common in my country

I believe your whole premise is wrong. I only ever eat "clean food" (haven't really tried fast food for 10-15 years) and can easily go over 4 kkcal in one sitting. Feel just fine afterwards, the stomach can stretch very far if you work at it hard enough.

Nuts, cheese, and vegetable oils are really energy dense.

I also don't consider myself to be a glutton a have a BMI of 21.

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Post by psiops »

b3lvedere wrote: post #107
psiops wrote: post #97

Diet change is probably the most important for weight loss. But for getting into a routine of exercising my weird tip would be: Get yourself an Meta Quest 2 and install Thrill of the Fight, Pistol Whip, probably Beat Saber. If you're like me and you dislike the monotony of "normal" cardio exercise, this will make it easy to get your daily dose. Somehow the immersion and gamification allow me to push myself harder tha…

The first time i saw Beat Saber i was pretty convinced this would be the ultimate weight loss game for me. Unfortunately a VR device it's way too expensive for me at the moment.

Yeah they're pretty expensive. But I guess gym memberships can be too. Of course there are great free ways to exercise at home. This machine is just a massive boost to my motivation to actually do it.

Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?

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Post by ehnto »

Please be careful with oxygen, you cannot handle breathing 100% oxygen for long, it starts to cause all kinds of acute health issues all throughout your body.

The biggest hacks are all mental though, and to know what you're actually up against. As hyped up as the fitness industry makes it all seem, there's nothing particularly special about fitness, you just gotta do it.

The majority of weight loss is dietary, but without exercise you can't really enable that diet process properly. So make sure you love what you're doing for exercise and that gives you all the necessary context for the diet.

Just dieting because you kindof should is a losing strategy. Dieting because you want to get faster on the bike, or because you want to be a beast at rock climbing, or because you want to look good doing laps, are all really great motivators. Also, to be frank, if all you want out of it is to have better sex, that's hardwired into our brains to motivate us to do crazy stuff, no harm in wielding that power.

Trying to convince yourself to diet when your only goal is to look good while sitting at the computer is a losing strat.

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