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Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?
#32* Don't let American portion sizes mess with your perception of appropriate amounts to eat for meal. * When in a restaurant, don't eat an appetizer and an entree. It's way too much. * Eat two or three meals per day. Don't snack * Don't confuse being thirsty with being hungry. Drink enough water.
Restaurants in general are a problem. If you've ever wondered why restaurant food tastes better than the same meal at home, it's because step 1 of fancy restaurant cooking is to, sometimes literally, toss in a few whole sticks of butter as a flavor enhancer.
Re: Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?
#33My "secrets" are motivation and time. I was very motivated to change my diet and changed my life to make sure I had the time (and energy) to cook a real meal every day. I also treated it (almost obsessively) as a quest to improve my cooking skills (and probably taste too) to use as little processed additives as possible. On average I eat more than 500 gram of vegetables a day now and really enjoy it.
Edit: I also only drink water and one cup of decaf coffee with almond milk a day.
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#34Stop eating when you are full.
Really. Pay attention to when your body feels sated and don't eat anything beyond that point.
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#35Tracking calories is annoying logistically. I had quite a bit of success with what I called"clicker diet" - tracking calories in abstract clicks, similar to how points used in agile software planning. A bit more here - http://web.archive.org/web/20180709144838/https://clickerdie...
(This is only taking care of calories counting aspect of losing weight, not a silver bullet on is own)
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#36Hydration is a big one for me, especially drinking one or two normal size glasses of water before a meal. Helps regulate the appetite.
Also, not very secret since I got it from an interview with Salma Hayek but it really works: don’t eat meat more than once in a day. i.e., if you have steak for lunch make dinner a no-meat meal. It really eases digestion.
And cutting out sugar, that makes such a difference.
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#37> Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
- Michael Pollan
Re: Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?
#38Learn the difference between eating until you are full, and eating until you are no longer hungry.
Stop eating when you are no longer hungry. I think that's a lot of it.
There are a lot of ways to make that work, I'm not sure which are best. For me avoiding sugar helped when it was difficult, but now that I've got things under good control my diet matters far less than the fact that I eat to handle hunger rather than as a way to feel full.
But I mean, also roast brussel sprouts, lentils, and nuts are delicious. These are just facts.
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#39A piece of garlic before bed - I don't know why, but the teeth get really white after a few days. As if the garlic kills candida or something.
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#40Muscle protein synthesis only kicks in after you’ve eaten 20g of protein. After working out, you ideally want to do this 4-5x per day, but it’s really hard to get that much protein with a western diet early in the day, especially if you don’t eat meat. Breakfasts are typically lighter than 20g. More than 20 per few hour chunk has diminishing returns. I’m not an expert but reading and listening to podcasts helped me r…
I’ve heard this before, but what does it really mean? Because we are able to still build muscle when eating less than 20g of protein
For an in-depth answer to this question, esp. as it relates to weightlifting, I cannot recommend Jeff Nipard enough: https://youtu.be/lu_BObG6dj8