I know food is everything, but is there been anything that helped you going down in weight other the food habits?

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Reading the labels on junk I’m tempted by helps me. That much sugar, really? How many calories?!? Palm oil, ugh. And wtf is pentasodium triphosphate?

    Also, when I buy a bag of carrots, I peel them and put them in the fridge, so when I feel snacky I can munch a crispy carrot.

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    3 months ago

    Stress helped me lose 20 pounds in three months last year ^.^

    I wouldn’t recommend it.

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      Wait until you find out about terrible stomach viruses! I did that in about a week. Silly hospital had to rehydrate me with all that water weight, but I still came out way lighter!

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    Step One. Count all of the calories you eat in a day. Check that nutritional info, do the math, add it up, see what you’re eating without leaving anything out.

    Step Two. Try to minimize sugar, carbs, and bad fat, while maximizing protein and fiber. My go-to daily meal plan is steel cut oatmeal in the morning, sweetened with baking splenda, pinch of salt, and cinnamon. Intermittent fast through lunch with coffee. Dinner is open face (so only 1 slice of bread) turkey sandwiches, Black bean soup spiked with tobasco and extra black beans. For dessert, make a big ol bowl of banana cream or vanilla pudding with skim milk. Find a meal plan that works for you, you don’t have to eat the same thing everyday, but have that back-up meal plan ready to go in case you don’t feel like making something different.

    Step Three. Don’t inhale your food. It takes your body 20 minutes between attaining a “full” stomach, and your stomach alerting your brain to that fact. Thus, pacing your food is important. How to do that? PUT THE FOOD DOWN. If you pick up your sandwich, eat half, then put it back down, take a drink of water, then you can finish it. Have a big ass glass of water with every meal. I also buy baby carrots, you can get a nice 1 lb bag, and in between dinner items, eat a handful of baby carrots. They’re crunchy, full of water, and help you pace yourself through dinner.

    Step Four. Go for a walk after you eat. A little bit of exercise, even a walk around the neighborhood for a few minutes, is enough to to tell your body that you want it to take all that energy you just took in, and use it immediately. You’re telling your body “Hey, don’t put all that energy into long term (fatty) storage, make it available, and of use right now.”

    Step Five. Add in Exercise at your own pace. Start with something manageable, achievable, and then make it routine. Whether that means walking your dog instead of just letting them out into the yard, start small, build at your own pace. Make it a daily habit. (Pro-tip, whenever you feel like skipping a day, tell yourself all you have to do is get dressed for the exercise and do it for five minutes. if you do that much and still feel off, you’re allowed to take a rest day. The majority of the time, once you get started, you start to feel better and end up doing it. the key is getting dressed and putting yourself into the position to do it, even if you allow yourself to stop. just keep putting yourself into position to succeed with your new habit.) This also works as an effective daily anti-depressant.

    Step Six. Reward yourself for achievements. When you start these things, your body will respond, and you will feel better, more confident, sexier in your own skin. Celebrate with some new clothes that let you show it off. Feel good about it, it’s something you earned!

    Step Seven. Allow for cheat days. This you can do every week, every two weeks, whenever you decide. If you find yourself going hard-core on the diet and then crashing into a food frenzy, it’s because your going too hard, and need to allow for a cheat day. Be kind to yourself if you break your diet on a miserable day, and use that as information to consult when scheduling your next cheat day. The long term goal is to reorganize your thoughts around food, and having specific times when you let yourself go whole hog on a bag of Oreos or whatever, lets you recognize that behavior as a reward, or special circumstance, and not a daily activity.

    Congrats, you’re now feeling better, looking better, and those two facts will reverberate through the rest of your life like ripples through a pond, making you happier and healthier.

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    3 months ago

    Fill up on vegetables instead of carbs. Eat dinner mid afternoon instead of evening, and exercise, even if just a long walk, afterwards.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Saw dad lose a cannonball of a beer belly. He had run into an old friend and was embarrassed by how fat he had become in comparison. Asking his friend how he lost it, John replied:

    “Easy Bob, I just brainwashed myself into thinking being hungry was a good thing.”

    Worked for me as well.

    You’re not telling yourself food is bad, that way lies eating disorders. You’re simply telling yourself that being low-key hungry is a normal state of affairs for a homo sapien. Because it is a normal state of affairs. Stop horking down pork rinds every time a little hunger pings you. Fucking ignore it, go on. That behavior can become a habit.

    People see my skinny ass eat like a hog and marvel at my “metabolism”. No, hard no. I only put calories in my face two, maybe three times a day. Zero snacks, zero soft drinks. (OK, time to fess up. Many calories from beer. There, I said it.)

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      A long time ago, i decided to myself there are people starving all over the world. Maybe it’s okay if I occasionally feel some mild hunger sometimes, and that helped a lot when I decided to actively drop. I still eat snacks, but it’s zero while the sun is up. Then at night I can easily add up my meals and know how much chocolate I can have, which is a critical nutrient in my book, especially paired with peanut butter.

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    3 months ago

    Drinking much more water instead of diet soda all the time. I’ve never felt so hydrated and sated in all my life.

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    3 months ago

    Not eating works pretty well, though I understand it’s probably harder for someone with a desire to eat.

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    3 months ago

    You have to figure out a diet you can comfortably maintain forever, eat for your target weight. It’s no use just losing weight, you have to stay at a healthy weight.

    So it’s going to be individual. For me, increased activity is the only factor, apparently I eat the same all the time. So walking everywhere or adding extra exercise works better.

    I had a friend who lost weight by just reduced portions - she literally just took 1/3 less of everything. Like left more space on her plate. And another who ate popcorn for supper. Regular breakfast, regular lunch, then in the evening just popcorn. So again was eating 2/3 of what she had been. But then you have to keep it that way to maintain the weight.

  • Sixty@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    One thing the diet industry hates:

    Fasting. Hard to make money off not eating food.

    It’s also highly effective and safe so long as you educate yourself properly before beginning.

    I did 14 day fasts with an electrolyte slurry, psyllium husk, and multi vitamins. Take a month off, eat well balanced meals, repeat until goal weight. I lost ~15-20lbs each fast doing it a total of three times to hit my goal weight. Each time is less, because the daily caloric requirement to maintain your body decreases with your weight.

    After that, I started gym/weight training.

    edit: and never eating junk food or drinking sugar ever again. That includes fruit juice and dairy milk. Unsweetened Coconut “milk” for me now. Processed grains massively reduced too. Basically, flour. Honestly flour probably inflated the waist line for me more than sugar.

    • CrackaAssCracka@lemmy.world
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      So I’m a physician and I support most things people do to import their health but I do try to make sure they’re fully informed. In terms of fasting, this cohort study found an adverse association between fasting and cardiovascular death. There are limitations to the study (self-reported diet, etc.) but it followed 20,000 people for 8yrs which is pretty good. Definitely need more study in this area, especially considering the complexity of human metabolism. Here’s the highlights from the study but the full text is available at that link:

      • People who followed a pattern of eating all of their food across less than 8 hours per day had a 91% higher risk of death due to cardiovascular disease.
      • The increased risk of cardiovascular death was also seen in people living with heart disease or cancer.
      • Among people with existing cardiovascular disease, an eating duration of no less than 8 but less than 10 hours per day was also associated with a 66% higher risk of death from heart disease or stroke.
      • Time-restricted eating did not reduce the overall risk of death from any cause. An eating duration of more than 16 hours per day was associated with a lower risk of cancer mortality among people with cancer.
      • jet@hackertalks.com
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        3 months ago

        It’s a interesting poster, but look at those error bars!

        I wonder why the pre-study ratios of CVD and Cancer were much lower on the 8 hour eating window population?

    • Libb@jlai.lu
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      3 months ago

      Fasting. Hard to make money off not eating food.

      FFS, don’t give them ideas!

      Now with exclusively made for you daily AI motivational messages! 2 months free if you subscribe annually. Fast better, fast with your wallet!

      ;)

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      3 months ago

      Yes, came to say fasting. Start with intermittent. Work up to OMAD (one meal a day). Then push it further out to 48 hr. plus depending on your weight, with just water, vitamins, electrolytes.

      Autophagy is an amazing benefit of it to look into as well. Kicks in hard around 48 hrs, depending on how much sugar and carbs you have to burn off. Which is also why a ketogenic diet is good when you aren’t fasting.

      Green tea, coffee, tumeric are good at stimulating autophagy too, if you want to dirty fast

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          3 months ago

          Cravings wear off fast. Especially if you are not dry fasting. It’s actually easiest after the second day or so if you are getting you electrolytes

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            Cravings wear off fast.

            Long story short, some years back I damaged something in my esophagus / stomach, and was unable to eat for ~10days. Water was about it for all that time. Maybe a lollipop here and there. Anything more like ‘real food’ was true agony. I forget if I took man-made vitamins during that time; perhaps a tiny bit here and there.

            Finally, whatever it was had healed up, and I was able to eat again, and had lost a good bit of weight, and felt so much more energetic for a few weeks, afterwards!

            electrolytes

            Stuff like gatoraid, or more exactingly-formulated stuff?

            • badbrainstorm@lemmy.world
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              Any calories or sugar ends the fast and any autophagy benefits, so drinks like gatoraide aren’t good.

              I get a powder blend from health food stores that I mix in water or green tea that’s sugar/calorie free. There are lots to chose from, but most have sugar. Stevia sweetened are okay, but may stimulate your appetite.

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                3 months ago

                Please.
                I’m drinking G-zero.
                It’s a grand total of virtually *nothing* upon every sig. count.

                One more time, mssr-- what is your magical mixture?

                • badbrainstorm@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  I avoid all artificial sweeteners aside from a few plant based ones like stevia.

                  Technically, no sugar very low/no carbs don’t break fast.

                  But drinks like g zero have ingredients like starches and artificial sweeteners, which if you research the keto diet, your body basically processes just like sugar. Both are bad for insulin levels, could stop ketosis, and may be bad for autophagy.

                  Which is why processed foods with starches are very unhealthy even when they brag about being sugar free.

                  Do you, but I personally avoid always, not just when I fast as I try to stay in ketosis even when not fasting

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve tried a dozen ways.

    All diets work, if you stick to them.

    Try a few and go with the one you find easiest to stick with.

    Long term you’ll have to figure out how to change your habits if you don’t want to stick on the diet forever. Or you’ll regain it again.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    I went vegan and bitch is skinnnay now, although it’s not why I did it. Also low fat high carb, NOT keto, but just paying attention to your carb intake, and having a diet high in healthy fats will keep you full. Keto is for specific genetic epilepsy syndromes and not good for anything else no matter what people tell you.

  • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
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    Calories in must be less than calories out for weight loss to happen.

    Every other method is trying to sell you something.

    Better diet can absolutely help loads, but if you are eating 15 pounds of broccoli and fish a day it’s still too much fuel and not enough burn. You can definitely work out to burn some of that energy off but at some point you just have to eat less.

    I say this as a current fat person who has lost the weight and put it back on in his life.

    I eat my feelings away and I got BIG over the last few years. I was at 340 at my worst. I’m still overweight, but I’m slowly working on it again. It takes time and discipline. Two things I’m not great about.

    Person for me I like to start off with a fast of a day or two without any solid foods. Just water and maybe some tea or something. this helps me get over the appetite hump and my huge black hole or a stomach.

    If you stop eating huge meals your body will alter where it’s “I’m full” feeling is at. Unfortunately food is delicious and I push past that feeling all the time because it’s yummy God dammit lol.

    Weight loss is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. Don’t quit if you fall off the wagon. Just get back up and keep joggin.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    Weigh your portions. Especially on things like pasta.

    What the pack says is a portion is unlikely to be what your eyes think is a portion.