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Re: People took some potassium and lost some weight

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Post by TeMPOraL »

fbn79 wrote: post #106
raffraffraff wrote: post #88

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I used an app with a barcode scanner and a huge library of products. It not only tracked calories but gave a nice daily count on fat, protein, carbs and sugar. Simply staying under 2100 calories will drop your weight. No doubt! However, if you want to be able to maintain that long-term, you need to figure out what to eat so that you get the right balance of carbs, sugars, fats and protein. If you don't then you're ei…

Another improvement step is to stop eating food that comes with a barcode.

That's almost all of the food. The food that doesn't have a barcode when you're buying it was most likely delivered in a barcoded box or bag to the shop itself.

Re: People took some potassium and lost some weight

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Post by WastingMyTime89 »

melling wrote: post #113
matthewdgreen wrote: post #77

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This worked beautifully for me when I was in my 20s. Now that I’m in the second half of my 40s it doesn’t work well at all. My body requires a starvation diet before I see even a little weight loss, and I can’t keep it up while remaining productive in my job. This is one of the useful lessons of age: you essentially get to experience living in more than one body within your lifetime. Younger-me would have posted the…

I’m more than a decade older than you. that’s what my girlfriend said: “Can’t lose weight after a certain age” She looked at me one day when I was down around 25 pounds and declared “It does work” Next thing I know, she lost 15 pounds.

I think people feel hunger very differently.

When I want to lose wait I just stop eating lunch until I start to feel it makes me sluggish. I can tell I should probably eat but that’s an easy to ignore signal.

My ex girlfriend felt hunger as an all consuming normal activity ending feeling.

Re: People took some potassium and lost some weight

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Post by TeMPOraL »

wrp wrote: post #97
melling wrote: post #27

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I didn’t even count calories and lost 30 pounds last year. Eat less food. Stopped snacking between meals, and ate a salad for dinner a few nights a week. Also, tried to reduce my meal size, in general. Getting that hungry feeling between meals that I would always satisfy meant I was creating a deficit.

As we get into middle age, our hunger sensations grow more out of alignment with our body's caloric needs. I think the focus of most diet strategies is to find ways of minimizing hunger pains while keeping caloric input at or below maintenance level. Aside from calorie counting, which is very effective, the most important thing I found for avoiding discomfort is to go short on calories earlier rather than later in th…

> Both caffeine and nicotine suppress hunger. I don't recommend smoking, but I rely a lot on coffee sometimes.

I drink a lot of black tea and use nicotine gums, and my hunger is... enough to keep my weight way higher than I'd like. So either I'm doing it wrong - perhaps it needs to be actual coffee and cigarettes[0] - or... I should never stop, because my baseline hunger must be off the charts.

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[0] - Wouldn't be the first time people, including scientists, confuse tobacco (a processed product whose consumption involves smoke and complex chemical reactions releasing a lot of biologically active substances) with nicotine (a single chemical that is one of the many things you ingest when smoking).

Re: People took some potassium and lost some weight

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Post by elzbardico »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #12
Waterluvian wrote: post #9

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I lost 50 pounds in 2020 with this one trick: I counted calories and stayed under 2100 per day. I didn’t even pay attention to what kinds of food I ate. That came automatically as I would look at a treat and think, “130 calories? That’s so expensive.” I naturally learned what foods made me feel full for longer. It was fun. Diet can be complicated, but I have a feeling that for most of us, it really doesn’t need to be…

“130 calories? That’s so expensive." That's exactly how I came to lose all the weight I have - I started counting calories which caused me to treat it like a budget. I never deprived myself of what I wanted, but new if I splurged on supper I'd not be able to do as much dessert.

Counting calories helped me with adding more greens to my diet. I found out that I could start lunch (which is my main feeding event) with a healthy portion of lettuce salad and then eat more moderate portions of carbohydrates and meat as my main course and still feel satiated.

Re: People took some potassium and lost some weight

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Post by MagicMoonlight »

These posts are so stupid. The data graph is literally a normal distribution.

Just read some of the older posts. Claims that us on average eating 500 calories a day more than our ancestors is nothing to do with obesity. 500 extra calories a day gains you a pound of fat a week. Over years that would certainly make you obese. People don’t get fat in a two week period.

Re: People took some potassium and lost some weight

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Post by elzbardico »

melling wrote: post #27
Waterluvian wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I lost 50 pounds in 2020 with this one trick: I counted calories and stayed under 2100 per day. I didn’t even pay attention to what kinds of food I ate. That came automatically as I would look at a treat and think, “130 calories? That’s so expensive.” I naturally learned what foods made me feel full for longer. It was fun. Diet can be complicated, but I have a feeling that for most of us, it really doesn’t need to be…

I didn’t even count calories and lost 30 pounds last year. Eat less food. Stopped snacking between meals, and ate a salad for dinner a few nights a week. Also, tried to reduce my meal size, in general. Getting that hungry feeling between meals that I would always satisfy meant I was creating a deficit.

This. Our generation was conditioned to abhor any feeling of hunger absolutely. But feeling hungry from time to time is normal.

Re: People took some potassium and lost some weight

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Post by spirit557 »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #117
spirit557 wrote: post #72

I don't understand the purpose of this "study" in the sense that if you practice some forms of water fasting whether for multiple days or practice eating only one meal per day OR a short 6 hour feeding window per day... you will know the role potassium plays in your body. You need water, salt, potatassium and magnesiums. If you're eating healthy whole foods your liver should have enough nutrients stored away. So basi…

Yeah just this week I've been eating only once per day in the morning. Plus a small protein shake if I got really hungry later. But the key is to get plenty of magnesium and potassium. If you fast (no carbs specifically) and don't supplement with electrolytes you can go from feeling fine to suddenly feeling like you just need to lay down and have no energy. It's kind of scary

Yes - Honestly i think most people on any given day have no idea what it's like to go 24 hours with zero carbs or zero calories, most are just not aware of this whole paradigm. It's the complete opposite to the last 50+ years of official guidelines.

The keto diet, avoiding ALL manufactured vegetable seed oils (canola, cottonseed etc) ,rejecting ancel keys and the last 50+ years of completely horrible dietary guidelines and toxic food pyramids, fasting for autophagy, growth hormone, and restoring insulin sensitivity. Most cancers and diseases find their origin in high processed carbohydrate + seed oil diets, constantly triggered high insulin of the modern day.

calories in/out is nonsense.

So yea, no thanks on the Eat Potatos study lol

Re: People took some potassium and lost some weight

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Post by wildylion »

fbn79 wrote: post #106
raffraffraff wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used an app with a barcode scanner and a huge library of products. It not only tracked calories but gave a nice daily count on fat, protein, carbs and sugar. Simply staying under 2100 calories will drop your weight. No doubt! However, if you want to be able to maintain that long-term, you need to figure out what to eat so that you get the right balance of carbs, sugars, fats and protein. If you don't then you're ei…

Another improvement step is to stop eating food that comes with a barcode.

So, no zebra meat? Bummer. >:3

Re: People took some potassium and lost some weight

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Post by raverbashing »

Waterluvian wrote: post #13
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #12

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“130 calories? That’s so expensive." That's exactly how I came to lose all the weight I have - I started counting calories which caused me to treat it like a budget. I never deprived myself of what I wanted, but new if I splurged on supper I'd not be able to do as much dessert.

My favourite part of it is that it’s so simple you can barely call it a system. The diet industry/community really disinterests me because there is so much complexity.

Yeah, I feel like it's "complicated" only if you DGAF about what you eat

The nutrition info is "in your face" for a reason. Use it.

How many calories on that bag of chips? On that big cookie you ate? On that fast food sandwich/burger?

On that soda which is 100% empty calories with a high GI?

The biggest fraud in nutrition has been replacing high-caloric food that actually help with satiety (high protein/"high" fat/high fiber content) with sugary crap

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