Since you are looking for different tips other than the usual "eat less" and "lift weights", both of which are important but the former far more than the latter, let me submit using the pen instead of the sword. Try this: Before you put anything in your mouth, write exactly what you are going to eat, including the portion (get a cheap scale), down in a food log. Then go ahead and eat it. Do this for a couple weeks without trying to make any changes and then take an afternoon and review your data. You'll see some patterns emerge and then the next week, don't make radical changes, but continue to capture your data and try to change one thing. For example, if you drink things with sugar in them, like Sodas, substitute flavored water. It takes a long time to change habits and also lots of people suffer from eating "mindlessly", e.g., opening up that bag of chips and then nomming the whole thing without thinking about it until they look down and the whole bag is empty. Build a foundation of awareness and then continue to make tweaks week after week until you find an equilibrium and then start moving in the right direction. Be patient, don't rush things. It takes a long time to gain a bunch of weight and also a long time to lose it if you want to lose it in a way that you also develop the awareness and habits to keep it off. Good luck! You can do it!
Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
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#692You need a lifestyle change, also give a lot more priority to exercise (needs to come first than work, because it is a multiplier of it), and forget about your weight, if you double down on exercise everything else will fall into place, you need to have your own system! Whatever works for you! The key is consistency!!
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#693This is a weird tip I think I could only share with the hacker news crowd. Once I learned about gut bacteria I started thinking of my cravings as something external to me. Like instead of saying "I'm hungry and I'm in the mood for something sweet" I would realize "the hormone ghrelin is sending hunger signals to my brain and the gut bacteria in my body is asking for something that's not actually in my best interest."…
This is a great point. I think my gut bacteria was something I really under estimated.
For a couple months between Nov-Jan I would constantly have cravings for ice cream and other sweets. Being in NYC I can easily order snacks now and they will be delivered within 15 mins. I just hit a point where I ate a whole box of mini cones and just thought about it and didn't really know why I was eating them. So I just started to think about it before I would eat and try to stay present at night because the cravings happen and its just paying attention to them and not acting.
I started on a meal plan and this really helped keep me focused on my diet. Since I've been doing that my cravings for sweets and ice cream are almost gone. Its takes a lot of time, and real work, but by staying present it has helped me think, is this good for me and do I really need to eat this?
Also for a weird weight loss, look up: Spirulina and Chorella algae supplements. Algae has so many nutrients and health benefits
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#694Skip breakfast. Don’t eat until noon. Then eat dinner at 5:30 and be done for the day. When you do eat, opt for plants - they’ll fill you up faster with lower calorie density.
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#695Vyvanse 70mg. I suffer from Binge Eating disorder and it literally changed my life.
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#696Avoid things with added sugar/corn syrup/honey etc as much as possible, the amount of sugar they are stuffing into everything is insane, watch out for drinks especially and switch to diet.
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#697Try intermittent fasting, or just simply skip breakfast and eat within a 10am-6pm window, leaving the rest of the time for fasting
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%09Intermittent+fasting
Opposite problem, trying to gain weight
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#698Lift weights two or three times per week, and walk just barely enough to avoid being completely sedentary. Nothing crazy, I'm talking about using the weight machines at a gym, and walking just ~8k steps per day with a pedometer watch to gamify it. I'm a naturally obese person, and I've read a thousand of these threads over the years. Nearly every comment is either: * Telling you to "hack your body", with keto or what…
> 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…
> Like a lot of us I do occasionally still have back problems from too much sitting
Like you I had back problems at regular intervals. Then I read about building muscle using moderate weight exercises and have been free from back pain ever since. Whenever I stop doing my exercises for 1-2 weeks because of holidays or whatever, I feel the oh so familiar back pain creeping in again...
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#699I looked into your O2 theory recently but under the idea of " Is more oxygen better". From what I learned, your blood is 99% saturated at 21% oxygen; so, I don't think that would work. Maybe just try breathing more? Expel twice as much Co2 as you usually do.
But my tips, drink more water, eat less and move more. If you do a combination of these things relative to where you are now, you will lose weight.
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#700Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also prefer 2-3 lifts per week for health, but it amplifies my already prodigious appetite to rediculous levels. I can and have eaten 6000kcal in a sitting. I usually end up gaining fat when I start lifting and haven't ever managed a cut. I always lose weight by not lifting and restricting calories. Right now the intermittent fasting is working well for me. I'm curious how that will work when I start lifting again.
Ya the key to not eating thousands of calories in a single sitting is to just stop after a single serving
Preload your stomach with 1 litre of water.