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Skip breakfast and walk everyday. Not weird tips but they sure work.
Why not skip supper instead?
But to be honest I'm doing intermittent fasting for 4-5 years now. I don't count hours I don't follow up what I eat. I just exercise couple of times per week. Maybe 2-4, and start eating at 1pm, and stop eating at 7-8pm.
But that's most of the days. Sometimes I go out, drink couple of boozes with my friends, etc.
I tried to keep it simple. And here's the catch, I was overweight back then. I did workout a lot, do all the diets. Keto, Paleo etc. They're just hard to keep up with. It's hard to stay in those lifestyles.
So this simple routine makes things easier and simple for me tbh.
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> Just eat less man. It's pretty straight forward. Just eat one meal a day (lunch) and you'll see the weight fly off. You're suggesting a diet that requires a discipline that, empirically, is obviously beyond the reach of most people. Here's much, much simpler advice, that is also more enjoyable to do: Just eat better. Or just somewhat better, and do some exercise. You'd be surprised how easy it is to purchase or coo…
The key to losing weight is to maintain a caloric deficit. You can do this and have the occasional celebratory meal. You don’t have to eat like a monk. Some people use strategies like IF (intermittent fasting), but just being sensible and accessing good nutritional advice is helpful. Eating more fresh fruit and vegetables, and drinking enough water, has been shown to be very helpful. Your point about cooking is also…
How to maintain a caloric deficit is highly personal. I made my own strategy after thinking carefully about what would work and what would not work. I aimed for a fairly controlled daily calorie intake with a 500 kcal daily deficiency, and then thought hard about how to achieve that within my limits.
Once I had a clear strategy and some meal plans, I put it into practice.
For me personally that meant two meals per day, early lunch and dinner, as it was easier for me to avoid excessive calories with just two meals compared to three. I also never like to eat right after I've woken up, so win win.
In order to not feel hungry eating just two meals per day, I focused on high protein, high fiber meals. Things like 95+% whole grain bread for lunch and replacing potatoes with vegetables for dinner. For salads I'd use romaine lettuce rather than more common iceberg lettuce due to its higher fiber content. Every bit helped.
For me it was essential to not stress too much though.
The way I thought about it was that if I messed up today, then the finishing line just moved another day or two further ahead. This lead to my personal mantra "it's not what you did today, but what you do each day that matters", which I stuck to.
I got one. I ended up accidentally losing 25lbs when I did this, but ymmv. Basically, about 6 years ago, I got into freediving while on vacation. Once I got back to the real world, I got obsessed with training to hold my breath for longer. So I started doing breathing exercises just after I woke up and just before I went to bed. Each session took 15-25 min and was done lying down to minimize the danger from passing o…
Training for max breath holds would also help you tolerate higher CO2 levels and breath less.
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> Just eat less man. It's pretty straight forward ... > You don't have to worry about eating another meal or two. You do realize for many overweight people eating isn't something to worry about but to look forward to? It's not that we don't understand thermodynamics. It's just a big part of enjoying being alive.
You can just average your calories over the day and have three smaller meals.
Fresh air, bird song, chatting, river view, 10k steps, and she lost a pound a week for 50 weeks with no diet change (large sugar-based diet).
She eventually injured her foot, stopped walking and gained all the weight back in 2 months.
I think every individual body has some equilibrium activity level it anticipates for a given weight. If you are sitting most of the day, maybe start with a goal of standing most of the day and you will discover your standing weight. Then introduce walking, and so on.
Think of it as a years long process though, be patient.
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Isn't keto associated with higher mortality? I do a review of studies once in a while for private enjoyment, and most studies seem to report a higher mortality for low-carb diets. When they don't the studies are usually epidemiological with lots of confounding factors, like the recent PURE-study I saw linked to the other day in thread about keto.
I know the study which you're referring to, and unfortunately dietary and nutrition science is one of the worst disciplines. You can find evidence pointing both ways. For instance, it's well studied that in animal models (which can be far better controlled than human populations) high fat diets lead to increased lifespans. The rub here is whether murine models translate to humans, which is not a given. Keto often has…
Now I am not a nutritionist, but I like looking at studies and seeing what kind of things can be confounding. Or try to spot methodoligal errors.
I feel like the constant monitoring is important as a reminder to actually keep me on track, and to show me granular changes.
You have to be careful not to let daily fluctuations drive you crazy though.