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A couple diet strategies that have worked for me: Drink a lot of calorie free, caffeinated liquids. I probably drink more diet soda than I should, but tea and coffee are great as well and healthier I find eating small amounts of crap can actually help. If your diet wasn't amazing in the first place, and your goal is to lose weight so you cut out all unhealthy foods, you're fighting two battles at once - cravings for…
A good diet should almost never leave you hungry. The problem is the no meat/no fat diets that people try to go on. When you eat high carb you get very little bang for your buck in terms of both volume and satiety.
1 pound of chicken is only 520 calories and the protein will keep you fuller much longer than 520 calories of Oreos. 1700 calories is a good target for a typical male who wants to lose weight, which on a high protein diet can look something like:
Breakfast: 16 oz non-fat cottage cheese (300cal)
Lunch: 10 oz chicken breast (330cal), 1/2 cup dry rice = 1 cup cooked rice (300 cal)
Dinner: 10 oz chicken breast (330cal), two pieces bread (220 cal), bbq sauce (140 cal)
You're at 1620 cals so you can still have an afternoon snack and be right at your target. Add some veggies to your lunch and dinner and I challenge you to eat all that and still feel hungry.
I'm not even recommending keto or paleo or any of that stuff, just that the reason people feel hungry when they diet is that they generally don't eat enough protein.
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It's weird how that stuff works. I'm 32, my last physical revealed that I'm 63 lbs overweight, I smoke (pack a day), drink fairly regularly, my blood pressure is fine, my cholesterol is fine, and have a great insulin response. Lung capacity is definitely not where it should be though. I also eat almost entirely meat and carbs, save for lettuce/salad. I can drop 5 lbs in a couple weeks just giving up soda, 10 lbs if I…
Have you kept going past the 5 - 10 pounds? It's doubtful that you'll continue to shed weight at that rate. What happens is that without carbs your body's glycogen stores begin to deplete when you stops eating carbs (carbs are essential to glycogen production). Your muscles will take a week or two to flush out all the fluid they were holding on to before eventually stabilizing at a new level. Most people tend to drop…
Office job plus free pop and chips plus stress = massive weight gain. I think for me at the core it's a stress + easy access to unhealthy food issue.
This is great and certainly don't want to discourage anyone. Some people need extreme transformations like this to be successful. Most people, however, don't. You'll have a much higher success rate if you're patient and change just one little thing at a time. Once you're comfortable, you move on to the next. I myself have lost over 30lbs and increased strength tremendously (power clean 250+). I went about it by doing…
While it's always great to hear success stories, I think the broader point of this post (and others like it) is that there's no "great secret" to weight loss. There's no silver bullet and certainly no short cut. The simple truth is: people in the western world eat crap and don't exercise. The success stories all boil down to a few simple points: eat real food, cut down on alcohol, and do some exercise that you find e…
At least when you're in the west second hand food smells better than second hand smoke.
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Not everyone is salt sensitive. Talk to them about measuring your salt sensitivity (or you can do it at home, but less reliably). If salt is hard and the rest is easy, you may find losing weight and exercise the two you worry about, and ignore salt.
Salt sensitivity is also far easier to manage, and its impact is limited to putting you over the top when shit hits the fan (eg: high-sodium diet can make or break you when you stray into heart-attack territory).
This is great and certainly don't want to discourage anyone. Some people need extreme transformations like this to be successful. Most people, however, don't. You'll have a much higher success rate if you're patient and change just one little thing at a time. Once you're comfortable, you move on to the next. I myself have lost over 30lbs and increased strength tremendously (power clean 250+). I went about it by doing…
I'd have to say of the three things, the one that definitely has to be given up to lose the weight is beer. Beer is not only caloric, but contains alcohol. When alcohol is ingested, the body's fat metabolism practically stops until it's out of your system. Drinking a beer each day would almost make it impossible to lose fat efficiently. It wouldn't matter if you were eating under, because your body would not be able…
That's the first I've ever heard that a human body would burn muscle before fat. Also, a beer each day would be out of your system relatively fast, so it should have no lasting affects on your body's metabolism.
Also, if you're drinking a beer a day, then be sure it's at least bottle-conditioned craft beer since the suspended yeast has many nutrients. ;)
Since this is another weight loss post on HN, I'll tread out the old lines again[1]: If you only care about weight loss: calories in vs calories out. However If you care about maintaining muscle while losing fat, the story is still pretty simple, and calories still count, but the macro ratio of those calories are very important. In this case, keep protein high and get the rest from carbs and/or fat. I personally reco…
Bullshit. The fallacy is that someone can care only about weight loss. I tried it for years. I burn 2200 cal/day so I can eat a large Cinnabon every day (800 cal) and still lose weight. The problem is it fucks your insulin resistance and turns into diabetes. So, I don't consider a solution viable if one of the side effects is death.
Medically speaking, it is always about fat. If a doctor tells you to lose weight, they mean fat.
This is great and certainly don't want to discourage anyone. Some people need extreme transformations like this to be successful. Most people, however, don't. You'll have a much higher success rate if you're patient and change just one little thing at a time. Once you're comfortable, you move on to the next. I myself have lost over 30lbs and increased strength tremendously (power clean 250+). I went about it by doing…
I tried keeping soda and fast food to only one day per week, but bit by bit, "just this once", it kept spilling back into day-to-day habits, and/or miserable cravings. Only when the stimuli were removed entirely (and substituted with other goodies likes steaks and raspberries) did I start to get results, both in behavior and health (45 lbs in two months).
YMMV, different strokes, etc.