Only drink water. I know it might sound weird for some, but the amount of calories that people get into them by drinking all kind of juices, alcohol and all kind of drinks is insane. You if want to spice it up, just drink coffee (high quality, "hipster" brewing methods - you will never feel the need of sugar or milk to make it drinkable) and tea. This includes orange juice or any other kind of fresh juices. Just eat the fruits, but when drinking, stick to water. This might not be a silver bullet, but it will be an important step in weight loss.
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#142I would be careful with the oxygen thing. Not sure if it would work either, since if oxygen were the limiting factor you'd probably feel it.
Number one tip is this. Spend money on a real life internet personal trainer. I have one, I think of him when I'm about to eat something I shouldn't. Weird how a stranger can provide accountability.
Two, buy a Bluetooth scale with two decimal places of precision. Super easy to weigh and record each day. You can literally see the weight loss during sleep, it's a good few hundred grams a night. You can also weigh your toilet visits, haha.
Three, and this is from my coach. Eat enough. Don't try to have a mega deficit, that can only work temporarily. Have a moderate deficit and hit your macro ingredients count, a third of your calories each.
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#143There are no gimmicks. "Going on a diet" might help you lose weight for a while, but you'll gain it back after you get off the "diet". What you need to do is to change your diet, and generally to change your lifestyle.
For most people, the real challenge is motivation - why do you want to lose weight? Is it a means to an end, or is it an end in itself? For instance, if you want to lose weight so you can go backpacking (less body weight to move around means less energy spent means can go longer distances; also means joints like knees don't wear out as quickly) you can focus your goal on that, rather than saying "I'd like to lose 10 pounds." Or if you're less outdoorsy and more inclined to competitive motor sports, you can think of each pound you lose as a fraction of a second off your lap time (or quarter mile, depending on your preference).
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#144Diet 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.
Seems like an interesting project would be to hack in an audio sensor to a Beats style game so that you can whack targets with a large cardboard tube and have those register as hits.
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#145If you drink, cut back or stop. You'll lose the bloat, and find yourself eating more healthily.
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#146Earlier 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
What country is that? I've never been anywhere that doesn't have junk food available.
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#1473 simple steps to lose weight:
1) Make yourself familiar with the energy contents of foods you usually eat.
2) Identify 500 kcal that you can cut out of your daily diet by eliminating the highest energy items or eating less of them.
3) Lose about 2 kg each month.
By reducing your caloric intake by 500kcal a day you save about 15,000 kcal a month. That is equivalent to 1.7 kg fat (assuming 9kcal per gram fat). Since there is also some energy lost in conversion of food to bodyfat the weight loss will be slightly higher than that.
500 kcal can often be saved by simple measures like swapping fizzy drinks with water. Another big saver is to not have second helpings (or renounce the third helping if you tend to have it).
Awareness of the caloric content of the foods you eat will enable you to control your intake much better. And reducing intake is the key to losing weight.
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#148Get ADHD meds. Appetite suppression is an effect. :P Joking aside, the path to losing weight is not dieting, but changing what and how you eat permanently. Weight is an equilibrium, and to reach a new equilibrium, you need to change something about your habits permanently or you'll just bounce back once you stop "dieting". For me personally, reducing sugars and filler carbohydrates was the most effective change to ma…
I've never lost weight faster than when I was on ADHD medication. It makes you stop realizing you're hungry, and you can easily go an entire day without eating anything at all. You'll feel tired, but not instinctively realize why.
It was really unhealthy, too. I felt like my heart was racing throughout the day, and I couldn't stand it.
Ultimately, ADHD is a unique kind of superpower when applied correctly. It gives you a certain kind of hyperfocus and flow, and the medication wiped that out completely.
I haven't been on meds since.
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#150I've lost 15Kg in around 3 months. All I needed to do was stop eating all the time and stop eating a lot. I also stopped eating anything with very high caloric content.
I had been going to the gym for 2 years before that and no signs of losing weight... once I reduced the amount of food and calories I was ingesting, surprise: quick weight loss.
Your weight is a function of your diet and the amount of physical activity you perform. The problem is that when you increase the amount of physical activity you do, you unconsciously also increase calories intake.... very hard to not do that. It's a psychological problem: just accept that being hungry is fine sometimes. You don't need to have your belly full all the time. Go to bed hungry! With time, you learn that you won't even feel hungry anymore and consequently you lose weight... up to the point where your weight reflect your new calories intake again... I stopped at 75Kg exactly, and it just goes a few 100's grams up/down but I am happy with that (started off at nearly 90Kg).