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Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
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Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
#282I've become one of those crazy intermittent fasting people. Lost 75 pounds in a year. It really reduces hunger!
Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
#283I lost around 10 kg in a few month by radically changing my food and sports habits. - At breakfast I ate a fruit, some cereals and yogurts or milk. - at lunch, eat a 1000gr plate of wholemeal pasta (I'm Italian) with whatever you want, expecially vegetables: i do pasta with sauce, with broccoli, with asparagus, with zucchini... - at dinner, i divide my plate in three parts. First part is proteins and it can be a 100-…
> at lunch, eat a 1000gr plate of wholemeal pasta
gr = gram?
1kg of pasta? Or do you mean 100g?
Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
#284I would suggest coming up with a set plan for meals and eat the same thing every day for two out of three meals. For me, during the work week, I have a bowl of oatmeal (steel cut oats, nuts, and a banana) for breakfast, a salad with lots of veggies for lunch, and then dinner varies. Once you get this stable, you can try doing things like occasionally eating once a day (but eating a much larger, _healthy_ meal).
I would absolutely not use a tank of pure oxygen.
Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
#285Since the body adjusts quite a lot to all sorts of circumstances, kind of balancing out where your available energy goes, the prime and main method of adjusting body weight is always going to be through nutrition intake.
I personally would advice to stay away from wonder-diets, and all "quick-weight-loss" methods entirely. Rather aim for a permanent change in eating habits - something you can keep up indefinitely and that slowly helps you become more healthy (and maybe reduce weight in the process).
Trying to go the "quick and easy" way only sets you up for a relapse. Take it slow, and with baby steps.
For a first step, maybe don't even aim for weight loss at all - but try something like integrating more fiber into your meals. Like, add a salad, or some vegetables and completely replace white bread with whole-grain. Eating a salad as a starter, before your regular meal, can help to naturally reduce the portion size, without having to force yourself.
Take your time - it will take weeks for your gut bacteria to adopt to digesting more fiber (pro-biotics like yogurt, kimchi and sauerkraut can help with that), and it will probably take longer for you to get accustomed to it taste-wise. But I assure you, once you do get accustomed to it, a salad can become a tasty and enjoyable treat.
For further steps - slowly, one after the other - you can: Try to reduce intake of refined sugars. Get accustomed to drinking plain water. It may taste bland and boring at first - but it's the most refreshing drink you can have, once you got accustomed to it. Try to cut back on snacking between meals, and replace your snacks with nuts (neither roasted nor salted - just plain nuts) and stuff like oatmeal soaked in yogurt and fresh fruit like apples or berries. Try to stay away from processed foods - go for fresh produce instead. Maybe try to get into cooking - preparing your own meals can be easy and fun and gives you full control over the ingredients used. Try to eat more legumes (beans, lentils, etc.). Try to opt for preparation methods other than frying, whenever you can. Try to prefer fish and poultry over red meat. Try to reduce intake of animal fat: opt for olive oil over butter.
Don't feel guilty about occasionally splurging on some less than healthy food - just do so in moderation. Like once a week, or less.
Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
#286Weird tips like that? No, no definitely not. Just eat less man. It's pretty straight forward. Just eat one meal a day (lunch) and you'll see the weight fly off. It's what I did for a bit and lost the weight quickly. You'll lose 5lbs/month easily even for people who have a relatively lean body mass already. (Easier to lose a lot of weight when you're heavier because your BMR is high to begin with) I've done it as some…
Four main angles of attack:
- eat less
- change what you eat
- work out more
- change your workout
Numbers 2 and 4 are by far the easiest.
Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
#287If you have a habit of mindlessly browsing Youtube, subscribe to some cooking channels. That way if you end up mindlessly browsing Youtube you might end up learning techniques and meals that improve your cooking - which in turn will improve your diet, which will make you lose weight.
(I'm talking about healthy meals / nutrition-oriented channels. If you subscribe to generic cooking channels that include sugary desserts or cakes that will be counter productive!)
Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
#288A cheat meal has to do with a hormone that is produced when you're body is starving ( i thought it was Leptine ). Eat more than what you need ( not much) every 4 days.
Muscle grows 0,03% / training. Daily muscle training will accumulate over time.
Protein diet destroys your metabolism, you can't just hop on and off. It will make things worse. People that have success with protein diets AFTER the protein diet have a "migration path" for getting off of it.
The goal is to improve your metabolism. Not to lose weight, losing weight is a side effect.
Note: lost 25 kg ( 1/4th) thanks to the book of Tom Venuto - Burn the fat, feed the muscle. It gives a lot of knowledge of why, instead of only how.
Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
#289Tase yourself every time you open the fridge.
Re: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
#290maybe not exactly what you were thinking:
o hair cut
o fasting
o amputation (It will messed up BMI-calculations)
o going to the toilet
o undressing
o going off-world and g o avoid stress
o make sure you get enough sleep
o exercise/activity
o muscles are heavy, if you start exercising, don't worry if you gain
o reduce intake of of calories, but must match you level of activity