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Blue says

First make sure you sleep enough if you can afford.

That sounds like a pretty messed up life to have chosen if you can't afford to sleep.

BayArea says

Hi guys, has anyone here gone on any weight loss journeys? Would love to hear what routine you followed and what worked for you.

I think everyone knows what they should do but they just don't want to do it. Quit eating crap at restaurants and at home and quit stuffing yourself until you are full. And quit eating snack foods and other processed crap...when the doc says you need to eat cereals and nuts, he doesn't mean cocoa puffs and canned smokehouse almonds by the handful. You don't need an app to count calories. Its not about dieting, it's about looking at food a different way. Its not about pleasure, it's fuel for your body.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

Eat a salads a day.

Bigass Salad (circa 700 calories):
Two Massive Handfuls of Spring Mix/Lettuce/Whatever
One Good Handful of Spinach
8 Slices of Tomato or a dozen Cherry Tomatoes.
Three Hardboiled eggs, chopped roughly
12 Pepperoni Slices, cut them in half for 24 semi-circle bits - about as much as you'd find on a couple of slices of Pizza
One Regular Size Cheese Slice cut into strips and sprinkled over salad.
Two Pickle Spears (two quarters of a large pickle)
Balsamic Vinegar or some other minimal/no sugar salad dressing

Put in a container and shake the shit out of it so all the cheese/pepperoni/whatever isn't all on the top and when you get to the bottom there's no protein left.

Then eat for dinner (~700-800 calories depending on Cheese/Sausage Type)
400g Chicken
OR
3-4 Large Italian Sausages
You can spinkle two tiny pinches of moz cheese and a tablespoon or two of Newman's Italian to make it nice on a cold night or more he...

That just seems like too much work and sacrifice to me.

I stick to the fasting and I can pretty much throw anything I want into my pie hole in my feeding window. I eat pretty sensibly, but I love my carbs....chips, pizza, beer, bread.

That said, I do a 16 hour fast at minimum each day, and usually stretch them to 18 or even 20 during the work week.

mell says

Exercise as early as possible on an empty stomach and skip breakfast, 16 hour fast is enough.

Running and surfing on an empty stomach has been a huge benefit to me. I have tons of energy and am usually burning fat by then getting the most out of the exercise. I am getting ready to do my long weekly run this Sunday morning and will reward myself with a big eggy, bacon and bagel breakfast around 12:30.

I used to think I needed to carb up before exercise. Then I wondered why I sometimes felt like shit surfing and couldn't breath paddling with a gallon of milk, OJ and cereal squeezing against the board and my diaphragm/lungs. I just need a couple cups of coffee and I am good to go!

socal2 says

That just seems like too much work and sacrifice to me.

I stick to the fasting and I can pretty much throw anything I want into my pie hole in my feeding window. I eat pretty sensibly, but I love my carbs....chips, pizza, beer, bread.

That said, I do a 16 hour fast at minimum each day, and usually stretch them to 18 or even 20 during the work week.

Yeah, Fasting works really well. When I lose some of this gut I'll probably just do your 4-6 hour eating window thing.

I used to get such a sour stomach after eating breakfast within an hour or so of waking up. Whether it was an Egg and Cheese, o just a piece of plain toast. Now I simply don't eat it - And I feel much better.

"Three Meals a Day" is one of those "Nutritional Wisdoms" that nobody can point to the study/origin justification for it.

For ME, my diet works, I eat the same shit 6 days a week on autopilot, right up to remembering all the ingredients when shopping. I actually feel good on it. And after about a week I have one or two cavings for something specific, and devote one meal to satisfying them without worry.

And quit wearing stretch pants. They make it easy to avoid noticing how fat you are getting. Look at all the fat women in yoga pants.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

"Three Meals a Day" is one of those "Nutritional Wisdoms" that nobody can point to the study/origin justification for it.

It comes from Zee Germanz!

Couple of days per week I go with 2 larger meals by skipping breakfast aka intermittent fasting (16 hours). I also try to exercise 300+ calories more each day than recommended, which at my build puts me around 3000 calories daily to keep the weight balanced. Can eat well for 3k calories ;)

I find it's easier to fast when you're exercising or doing hard physical labor. During the latest Northeastern Blizzard, I spend 15 hours over 2 days just shoveling and blowing snow. My appetite was pretty subdued. Normally in the winter, when I'm relatively inactive, I tend to get hungry more than in the summer.

If I had to guess, physical activity greatly increases blood flow to the brain and the rest of the body, and as long as the work doesn't become essentially aerobic activity (oxygen deficit requiring energy to mop up lactic acid buildup), that the body taps fat/glycogen stores to nourish the brain and body.

Although I appeared to be 'fit' on the outside, about 15 years ago, I developed a serious, life-threatening *heart condition. Thankfully, instead of following the traditional path of conventional medicine, I was determined to find out the root CAUSE of my problem. My search eventually led me to Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, who served as the director of the Heart Disease Reversal Program at the Cleveland Clinic. He is also the author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (2007). Esselstyn believes that most of our illnesses and disease is directly related to lifestyle, along with unhealthy eating habits. He is a strong advocate of committing to a high nutrition, plant based, non-processed food eating habit, while eliminating meat, poultry, fish and dairy products. It sounds radical, but it really works.

The long and short of it is this: FAD DIETS do not work for the long term. And, something most people do not consider: our food supply has been tainted with hormones and chemicals designed to bring the meat, poultry, farmed fish to market as soon as possible. These hormones and chemicals are being digested by humans, causing them to
'fatten' up as well. Virtually all processed food, including restaurant food, uses an excessive amount of fat, salt and sugar that provides, LITERALLY, an addiction.

If you REALLY want to lose weight permanently, and be much more healthy, look into plant based, high nutritional lifestyle diets. It dramatically changed our lives for the better!

I also wanted to state that I purchased a soft-bounce Needak rebounder. I do aerobics just about every day for at least 15 minutes, along with light weights and resistance
bands, also some light stationary bike work. My total workout time is about 30 minutes per day.

*The survival time for patients with my heart condition is between 1-3 years after the point of diagnosis. Due to following this lifestyle change, I'm on my 15th. year and counting. Thankfully, I never had an operation, nor did I take any prescription drugs. I have ZERO weight problem (my wife is on this as well, same results). My blood pressure is in the "athlete" range.

stereotomy says

I find it's easier to fast when you're exercising or doing hard physical labor. During the latest Northeastern Blizzard, I spend 15 hours over 2 days just shoveling and blowing snow. My appetite was pretty subdued. Normally in the winter, when I'm relatively inactive, I tend to get hungry more than in the summer.

If I had to guess, physical activity greatly increases blood flow to the brain and the rest of the body, and as long as the work doesn't become essentially aerobic activity (oxygen deficit requiring energy to mop up lactic acid buildup), that the body taps fat/glycogen stores to nourish the brain and body.

Agreed. It's counter-intuitive, but exercise lowers appetite. I notice this when I'm exercising regularly vs. when I'm not.

For what it's worth, I started supplementing with 10K units of Vit D about six to seven months ago. I think it raised my BMR (basal metabolic rate) because I noticed some small weight loss without dieting over a couple of months. So, was I suffering some kind of mild rickets?

All my test lab results are normal/excellent, good blood pressure, lipids, resting pulse 55 to 60, except for some elevation of sugar. For almost five months now, I have gone paleo, with a 'Clif High' type diet of 90 percent oil and protein and 10 percent carbohydrate, with the carbohydrate mostly coming from fruits and vegetables. What I avoided: any refined sugar, cakes, candies, diet sodas, etc. No refined wheat or starches, no Ramen soups, no cereal products, avoid processed foods and 'fast foods'. Two meals, breakfast ar lunch, are paleo i.e. eggs, cheese, some kind of meat, and lots of veggies with either a dash of unsweetened apple sauce or a banana. Only olive oil, no canola.

Dinner can have maybe a small slice of sour dough bread or half a potato or a corn tortilla or a small serving of dirty rice or pasta with salad and some kind of meat. No desserts. Snacks and niblets are raw carrots/ celery and some nuts, which seems to do a reasonable job short term hunger cessation.

My caloric intake per se has not reduced, but several comments including my wife say I have lost significant weight over these four or five months. Something re-jiggered my metabolism, too, so now I believe that there are, in fact, metabolic toxins in many standard foods and oils, most likely in the grains and processed foods and just about anything containing sugar. I have also started growing some body hair where it had been missing in action, so something in those given up foods probably also messed with hormone balance. How and where I don't know, but there are foods that are definitely fucking with us.

My general appetite has become more even keeled, and my aerobic capacities have increased at the gym. Take it for what it is worth, I am kind of afraid of the processed and sugar/carbohydrate laden foodstuffs now.

I guess this is surprising because it was a change of food emphasis, not dieting per se in the sense of food deprivation.

I have a set of tests to be done in January, so I guess I will have those for comparison to see if the sugar dropped.

if you don’t want to up and down, then change lifestyle so it naturally reduces to desired weight man.

i wouldn’t make work out something to rely on, just eat less and do physical activities… walks, fix car, shovel snow… gardening. no gym needed, and youll naturally be all right.

Burn what you eat. Drink lots of water.

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AmericanKulak says

stereotomy says

I find it's easier to fast when you're exercising or doing hard physical labor. During the latest Northeastern Blizzard, I spend 15 hours over 2 days just shoveling and blowing snow. My appetite was pretty subdued. Normally in the winter, when I'm relatively inactive, I tend to get hungry more than in the summer.

If I had to guess, physical activity greatly increases blood flow to the brain and the rest of the body, and as long as the work doesn't become essentially aerobic activity (oxygen deficit requiring energy to mop up lactic acid buildup), that the body taps fat/glycogen stores to nourish the brain and body.

Agreed. It's counter-intuitive, but exercise lowers appetite. I notice this when I'm exercising regularly vs. when I'm not.

I used to eat a huge bowl of cereal before morning surf sessions thinking I needed the sugar and carb energy for the paddling. Only to wonder why I felt like shit, starving a few hours later and was short of breath on wipeouts with a gallon of cereal and milk pushing against my diaphram. I was a total moron.

Fasting is where it's at. I've been on it for over 3 years now. Can't imagine going back to eating breakfast.

I've only eaten two meals a day for years now. Just don't have room for more food, although if I was more active, that would change. Just ate once the other day, but was a big meal.

socal2 says

In addition to weight loss, intermittent fasting provides loads of health benefits from increasing human growth hormone (which builds muscle/bone density and even hair), decreasing insulin production, reducing inflammation and triggering cell autophagy with longer fasts.

This guy agrees:

https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/one-of-the-biggest-lies-in-medicine#play

According to the CDC, 41.9% of American aged 20 and over are obese, and 73.6% are overweight. So, whatever most Americans are led to believe are effective strategies for losing weight, the data suggests those methods are not working.

Another 37 million Americans are living with diabetes, and about 96 million have prediabetes. According to the Cleveland Clinic, 50% of people with prediabetes will develop type 2 diabetes over the next ten years.

But Dr. Fung conveyed during an interview with The Epoch Times that there is an undisclosed strategy that is effective at addressing both issues. What is that strategy? Intermittent fasting, also known as time-restricted feeding. ...

“I started using it [recommending intermittent fasting to patients]. I saw just these amazing cases, people with type 2 diabetes that I had been treating for 20 years. All of a sudden, within a month, some of them had completely gotten rid of their type 2 diabetes. So it completely reversed that diabetes. And if you don’t have diabetes, then you’re going to be at much lower risk of diabetic kidney disease, diabetic eye disease, heart attack, stroke. So it wasn’t just some trivial thing.” ...

So, why is this not being shouted from the rooftops?

One likely reason is that it conflicts with the financial interests of breakfast food companies.

“There’s a whole bunch of studies that were published by the breakfast food company companies that said breakfast is the most important meal of the day. There is actually no scientific basis for saying that,” Dr. Fung attested. “There’s no good studies that have really shown any sort of benefit to eating breakfast. But advertising dollars go a long way, so when you repeat it often enough, it becomes sort of dogma.”

Another potential factor is hubris.
“Why there’s so much resistance from universities, predominantly, and academic centers is mind-boggling,” Dr. Fung expressed. “Although it’s mostly that universities and stuff, ivory towers like that always think that if they didn’t come up with it, then it’s stupid, right? That’s generally how they think. So since they didn’t come up with it, it must be stupid because otherwise, [they] would have recommended it already.”

“Well, they can’t face that, right? It’s really tough for them to face that. There are smart things to do that they didn’t come up with. In fact, every diabetes association, the American Diabetes Association, the Canadian Diabetes Association, they all said it [type 2 diabetes] was chronic and progressive. As you got it, you had it for life. They had no possibility of reversal. I said, ‘That’s stupid.’ That’s one of the biggest lies in medicine,” Dr. Fung declared. ...

“It’s reversible,” he attested, “but it’s a dietary disease. Therefore, you need to fix the diet. You can’t use drugs. What they had mixed up was that they thought it was reversible by drugs, which it wasn’t because it was a dietary disease. You have to reverse it with the diet.”

Academic corruption killing people, yet again.

The problem with most Americans' eating habits is this: they eat high calorie, nutritionally deficient foods which are typically processed with a lot of fat, salt and sugar. When you eat nutrition based natural foods, your metabolism eventually adjusts and you are able to maintain a healthy body mass naturally, without gimmicky diets.

RayAmerica says

The problem with most Americans' eating habits is this: they eat high calorie, nutritionally deficient foods which are typically processed with a lot of fat, salt and sugar. When you eat nutrition based natural foods, your metabolism eventually adjusts and you are able to maintain a healthy body mass naturally, without gimmicky diets.

I would argue that the problem with most American diets, is that the food is adulterated.