Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?

If I ate as you described Id be very unhappy, often hungry and have very little energy to continue the diet. The difficulty comes from the combined influence of types of food, how they influence metabolism/blood sugar, your mental state and stressors. A holistic approach is typically better than a simplistic or dismissive one, though "keeping it simple" is best. E.g. finding time in daily routine for food prep (buying coffee, bananas and bread to unpleasantly spike your blood sugar in your case), identifying and restricting binge foods, identifying ideal portion sizes, making reasonable comprimises with family/house mates, replacing comfort eating etc. You cant white-knuckle a diet and expect it to work till you die, for many it will (and should!) be a lifelong process.

Man, just poop more than you eat.

As you're specifically asking for "weird" tips...at 6'1" I was able to go from 85kg to a persistent (as in, no Yo-Yo effect) 75kg gradually in two years, without any deliberate dieting by changing my own mental stance towards being "one of the fatties".

1. Develop a "I'm better than you" attitude towards overweight people. In the woke age of "no body shaming ever", a lot of external motivation (i.e. fat jokes) has gone away. But for me, it was exactly those fat jokes or remarks about being chubby that finally put me over the edge of doing something about my weight. Let's face it, nobody actually thinks that being overweight is OK. It's merely tolerated, but thin people judge you for it. I know, because I was judged when I was at 85kg and I am judging overweight people now as I'm not one of them anymore. You're simply lesser than me, no matter how much you make, what car you drive, or how beautiful your girlfriend may be. Because deep down I know you're still not happy until you are thin, which for some reason is a higher mental hurdle for you than getting and keeping a high-6-figure job. You're weak.

2. In the same vein as 1. but more specifically, I was always interested in street wear, and especially Japanese street wear brands. But the thing is, until you're rail thin (like a 20-something Japanese skater dude, for instance), those clothes will look bad and try-hard on you. Nowadays I don't wear street wear anymore but I still want to be able to tuck a dress shirt without showing "the bulge". Making clothes look good on myself was another huge motivating factor to lose weight.

How exactly you limit your calorie intake while starting to burn off more, i.e. the specific diet is the uninteresting part. You first need the mental framework that allows you to change your habits, and will keep you adamant in the hard times of resisting that will definitely come. You're already starting to realize that, using the nickname "fatmoron" which hints at a healthy self-hatred caused by your current weight. Keep on in that spirit and soon you'll be the one who judges, not the one who's being judged.

Stone is not a bizarre measurement in England