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This. Keto makes fasting shockingly easy.
Keto makes eating less super easy. Insulin is such an evil hormone.
I lost a lot of weight pretty quickly a few years ago. I gained some back, so I can't say my tip is "sustainable", but it worked very well at the time. Most people agree that cutting calories is the key, and exercise helps. No magic. But one major fact that is too often overlooked is the mental aspect and how to persist with your diet until you have lost the weight you want. My trick was to target a very specific dat…
To remain thin you need to adopt a thin lifestyle. There are no dates and no targets. You just find a lifestyle that works for you and live it.
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Exercise is great, but I found it was not enough. I looked for low-hanging fruit in my diet (example: soft drinks) and cut those (lost 10 pounds just losing the lunchtime soft drinks). Even with the exercise (have "closed all three rings" since COVID) I hit a wall below which I am not losing weight. From experience though I know I need to cut the portion size of my meals. Years ago when I was preparing to undergo sur…
> Exercise is great, but I found it was not enough. I just want to reach through the screen and shake you while screaming. This is what I'm talking about, with every mention of exercise being dismissively pivoted back to diet hacks! Exercise is not a substitute for eating better, it is a tool for helping you eat better. Of course you should cut out sugary soft drinks and eat smaller portions! It's just that a minimum…
It's much easier to eat better than it is to try to burn those cookies off through exercise.
Become snobbish and arrogant asshole. Look down on those who consume junk food. Consider yourself to be above such lowly habits. This way you can social pressure yourself for your own betterment. You might make a few enemies along the way but if you're successful enough you might make new friends who are all equally obnoxious as you have become with your new attitudes. Surround yourself with those you aspire to be. E…
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> 2. It... takes... so... LITTLE! Even just not using your car to do journeys of less than a couple of miles. I don't exercise at all, really. I just walk everywhere, to do my shopping, and for fun. I don't run or jog or lift weights. I cook food from fresh as much as I can, avoid too much meat, and I don't have a car. I have a healthy weight and a small (usually) waistline. Like a lot of us I do occasionally still h…
I presume you're American because my society already works like this. The only people I know who use their car on a daily basis live or work very isolated and far from civilization.
Britain (England in particular) is half and half, really. Lots of people live in towns and can walk to everything.
But a very large number of people make the choice to live in the kind of "out of town" developments that would be familiar to Americans: a car-journey from everything and served by large supermarkets to which you can't so easily walk, rather than in the kind of smaller more traditional communities that are a walk from everything. And nowhere is cycle-friendly yet, really.
Covid will exacerbate this -- people looking to live in houses with gardens will choose to live further away from towns.
I have lived mostly in towns and I prefer that, but where I am living at the moment, the corner shop is not a corner shop, it's a small supermarket, and it is a hilly half mile away. This is right on the cusp of impracticality for a lot of people who don't have the freedom to work from home during the day and who are shopping for more than just themselves.
I live by myself and I don't have a car, but I work from home, so I choose to do that journey on foot, rather than get deliveries, but I am unusual in this; most people get deliveries or will take the car (and then go to the bigger supermarket further away).
Additionally, weight is lost mainly as CO2 because of the metabolic processes that convert fat into energy and this process' byproducts ~(84% CO2 and 16% H2O). Additional O2 intake would not cause your body to burn more calories, and it's unlikely this strategy would result in passive weight loss.
If simple thing like exercise doesn't work for you then just stop eating for few days. You'll suffer on 2nd day, the rest should be fine. Then run on juicing for 2 months.
The funny thing that happens – and nobody mentions it - is that while mostly fasting if you sip those juices - your body will quickly learn to love them. You'll very quickly start craving them. You'll not have to change yourself, you'll simply start liking this kind of healthy, nutritious food.