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Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
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#202"If it tastes good spit it out" - Charles Barkley
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#204I am not an expert and don't have the motivation to lose weight. But I am weird so here it goes Tire out your jaw. Chewing gum, those stupid jaw exercise rubbers will help. Chew something to make your jaw super fatigued and you will find yourself giving up half way through a meal. Drinking a ton of luke warm water helps. You will end up having no room in your stomach. Menthol chewing gum makes everything taste horrib…
On chewing gum. Buy them in bulk. Sugarless obviously. Start with half mouthful of gums. Keep chewing. When the flavour runs out don’t spit out the gum add another one to freshen up the stack. Give your jaw a real workout.
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#205Eat less. Move more. Burn more calories than you consume. Every piece of advice will go into exceedingly detailed depth on how to achieve one or more one of those factors. And it is worth listening to those details - but don't lose sight of the basics. Way too many people get caught up in their rituals of weight loss and forget to stay simple.
+1, as other user wrote, this is the only correct answer, including reading, learning and applying details like what to eat and what to not eat.
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#206There is no magic: your body needs to burn more than what you eat. I think those advices are fairly "easy" to implement:
- eat less - intermittent fasting is easy: just skip 1 meal, everyday, make sure to have 16hours fast. For me 1 skip breakfast.
- drink water, coffee, tea when you want to eat during the fasting time , or want to snack. If you really need to snack, eat nuts.
- stop any soda and fruit juice - they have so much calorie and sugar into it... drink water, tea or coffee instead.
- workout / do any sport, at least 3 times a week, at least 1 hour session each.
- you gym needs to be at 5 minutes reach so you can't make any excuses.
- gym can be boring, try a new sport you can stick with. I usually do volleyball and go to gym, but willing to go to hikes or bouldering with friends from time to time.
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#207It’s worth asking what the root cause of being overweight is?
This leads to two approaches to weight loss that are non-obvious: 1. Cognitive behavioral therapy. Often food is used as a coping mechanism to manage stress or negative emotions. It’s very possible to improve these coping mechanisms. Many of the guys we work with see other life improvements when doing CBT. 2. Medication, particularly the new wave of GLP-1 therapy including Wegovy. Once you’ve been at a heavier weight for a long period of time your body’s hormonal systems resists change, making it hard to have significant weight loss.
We’re a Y Combinator backed company which combines these two approaches specifically targeted towards men.
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#208Xx
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#209David Sinclair's "Lifespan" Podcast changed my relation to food (although I can't vouch for scientific accuracy).
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#210Please 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 wi…
Yes, specifically, highly concentrated oxygen can burn out the lungs and the retinas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
does this apply to hyperbaric chamber therapy?