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Re: Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?

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Post by pengaru » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 6:33 PM UTC

masteruvpuppetz wrote: post #70

pengaru wrote: post #64

Integrate a substantial calisthenic exercise into your daily routine. Something like a hundred pushups and a dozen pull-ups. Increase the count as you get lighter and stronger so you're always within 10-20% of the maximum you could do in a set. Make it a non-negotiable part of your day akin to brushing your teeth and showering. This way when you fuck up your diet/lifestyle, you have a very strong negative feedback si…

100 pushups?? I can't even do 5 in a row. No upper body strength at all.

Intended those figures as a ballpark minimum goal to sustain when plateaued, not something you'd start with.

This is a maintenance/hygiene routine, the objective is to do this daily until you're dead or otherwise disabled. Just make sure the amount is enough to both have great negative feedback and confer obvious health/fitness/physique advantages you'll be upset about losing.

It doesn't matter if it takes you 10 years to reach 100/day, what matters is that you kept doing it every day up to and beyond that >=100 point in time.

Re: Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?

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Post by in9 » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 6:55 PM UTC

smallstepforman wrote: post #41

Energy in = Energy out That tasty Christmas cake is allowed if you compensate by lowering other Energy in, or alternatively increasing Energy out. Think like an engineer. And stay away from processed food, sugars, wheat, and eat what your ancestors for thousands of years ate. That is what your body evolved to process. Also, fasting is great for detoxing, cleaning your intestines, and regenerating cells. Try 7 days of…

> 7 days of cold pressed vegetable juices Is that a thing? Like an actual program? Or is that the recomendation you are giving? Becuase if it's an actual program/book/protocol, I'd love to know more about it :D If it's the recommendation it self, how do you portion it in a way that is enough for your metabolism? Do you perform exercises normally? Increase or decrease how hard you train/exercise during those juice only days?

Re: Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 11:22 PM UTC

I stopped drinking alcohol. Immediately dropped weight. I wasn't a very heavy drinker as in not many drinks per session, but I had frequent sessions per week. Turns out alcohol encourages fat production. The drinks themselves have a bunch of calories, and when drinking I would also snack. Couple that with feeling a bit off the next day and sometimes that meant skipping a workout or doing it half-assed. Add those all together and its was enough to go from calorie surplus to deficit.

Re: Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?

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Post by brad0 » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 12:56 AM UTC

ido wrote: post #19

brad0 wrote: post #4

I just read this review of The Hungry Brain. It sounds interesting and matches some anecdotal experience I’ve had. Basically: eat boring food. I live in the USA but I grew up in Australia. The USA is big on highly rewarding food. Australia is too, but not to the level the USA is. Whenever I go back to Australia, I will always lose 5-10 pounds without changing anything about my diet. It’s just less rewarding to our ca…

This sounds like the saddest way to lose weight though…Like using abstinence as means of birth control and STD prevention.

A more apt comparison would be sex vs pornography.

Both junk food and pornography hijack the reward center of your brain. Whereas real food and sex are both normal, healthy things.

Re: Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?

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Post by Apreche » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 1:17 PM UTC

Balgair wrote: post #87

Apreche wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t do 1 in a row.

https://hundredpushups.com/ Poke about. I've done the challenge twice now. The progression was at the correct rate for me. It's tough, but it does work.

This is useless to me. It tells me to start out doing sets of 2 push-ups. I am not exaggerating when I say I can do ZERO push-ups. NONE. I can sit there all day and keep trying, and I will not be able to do any. A program that helps me get from 1-100 is useless. I need a program that helps me get from 0-1 first.