losing weight

[IIIIIIII]

Calories in, calories out.

Everything else is a dear diary post.

Next!

haha, some people need an interesting story for the advice to ring truer.

 

[IIIIIIII]

Just eat less calories.

Whenever I want to go from lean to super sherdogger level shredded I change my carbs for salad in one of my meals and cut the junk.

Honestly is not that complicated. Might be hard for some but it is not complicated.

the math behind it isn't complicated. even fatter people know this. what i was trying to explain, is that people should look at food in a different way. it's not just something that feels good when consumed. food is interesting in-of-itself, and you can get more out of food than just eating it by truly focusing while eating.

 

[Natural Order]

haha, some people need an interesting story for the advice to ring truer.

You're not wrong, and good OP. Glad your mom seems to be thinking and living healthier!

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

A calorie burned is a calorie earned.

 

[Uber_Noober]

I’m reading this thread while eating a bowl of ice cream.

 

[Other]

I just made homemade tortillas just because

 

[Sobek]

Cut carbs and sugars as they will make you want to eat more, crave carbs and sugars and make you lazy.

No liquid calories as they are too easy to consume and add up. Try sticking to water.

Walking and weight lifting (or exercise you enjoy). Consistency.

Oh and meat and eggs are not the enemies the media makes out. They are nutritious and filling.

Keep your electrolytes up.

 

[Zeke's Chaingun]

i've waited a good five months or so before making this thread, because i wanted to see the results first. my mother has always been overweight. not super overweight, but i'd say around a good thirty pounds over. never more than that. earlier this year i was visiting my parents over the weekend, and i noticed my mom eating. nothing out of the ordinary. but when i saw her eat, i noticed that she was eating without even realizing it. in other words, not actually engaged in the act of eating. she was talking over the phone with a friend, and between moments of her speaking, she would manage to get in a bite or two before going on another minute-long rant about whatever. after seeing that go on for about ten minutes, and after her conversation was over, i spoke to her and gave her some, what i would consider insight, on how i personally lost weight.

i told her the key to losing weight, at least in my experience, is to focus on what you're eating. by that, i mean if you take your time to focus on what you're eating and treat the act of eating as an adventure and/or experiment, you get a lot more out of eating and you'll realize that you don't need a lot of food, either. when you eat something, say an apple, take a bite and assess whether it's temperature-wise hot or cold, is it mild or spicy, is it hard or soft. when you're biting and chewing the food, what's the texture like? is there an aftertaste? was it sweet or sour? you go through all these mental exercises while eating food, and it becomes much more than just feeding yourself nutrients to continue living. it's fun. the act of eating different foods and noticing differences is interesting. and you can get all that out of just one bite of what you're eating. after one bite, you don't have to continue with another bite right away. give it a minute or two. let your senses clear out then go for another bite. you can then have the same experiences all over again. if you approach eating this way, an entire meal can give you tons of great sensations you never would have noticed before. and in the end, you need way less food and you're more satisfied.

my mother has stuck to this for almost five months, and she has lost more than twenty pounds, but more importantly, has kept it off. i saw my parents this past weekend, and my mother was incredibly lively and happy. anyway, if this helps anyone out there with weight issues, maybe the above will help.

I think most people - and by that I mean most Americans - would be surprised by how little they need to eat.

I decided to clean up my diet back in April, and by clean up I mean that I cut out carbohydrates. Now, my daily routine is as follows:

1. Wake up around 7-7:30. Drink black coffee. No breakfast.

2. Eat lunch. Every day it is chicken wings with a hot sauce mix I create where I use ghost pepper sauce mixed with hot sauce mixed with mustard wing sauce.

3. Eat dinner. I alternate. I choose one of the following: beef kabobs, steak, fish, sashimi, hot dogs on 0 carb keto bread with mustard and 0 sugar ketchup.

4. Either as dinner side or a snack before bed, I usually eat: A handful of blueberries, broccoli, green beans, brussel sprouts, a cottage cheese cup, or sometimes a small bag of popcorn with shredded cheese.

For drinks, I usually have 0 calorie green tea or a Partake 10 calorie 0 carb non-alcoholic beer, or a diet ginger beer.

On weekends I might have some beer, and if I do I usually drink Lagunitas Daytime IPA, which is 3 carbs per beer.

That's pretty much my routine week after week. That's not a lot of food, but it's a lot of protein and fats. I feel great. In fact, after 4 months without a cheat day, I decided to take 3 days off and enjoy myself, and by Day 3 I felt like shit eating the regular garbage people eat.

 

[lowlife]

OP you are one logical mfer aren't you? I don't think I've ever seen you be emotional or irrational here. Just a silly observation lol. Good job getting your mom healthy and feeling good, truly priceless.

 

[ssBaldy]

haha, some people need an interesting story for the advice to ring truer.

It's just hard for some to eat in moderation, so they may be well off using psychological tricks like the one you described.

 

[IIIIIIII]

I think most people - and by that I mean most Americans - would be surprised by how little they need to eat.

I decided to clean up my diet back in April, and by clean up I mean that I cut out carbohydrates. Now, my daily routine is as follows:

1. Wake up around 7-7:30. Drink black coffee. No breakfast.

2. Eat lunch. Every day it is chicken wings with a hot sauce mix I create where I use ghost pepper sauce mixed with hot sauce mixed with mustard wing sauce.

3. Eat dinner. I alternate. I choose one of the following: beef kabobs, steak, fish, sashimi, hot dogs on 0 carb keto bread with mustard and 0 sugar ketchup.

4. Either as dinner side or a snack before bed, I usually eat: A handful of blueberries, broccoli, green beans, brussel sprouts, a cottage cheese cup, or sometimes a small bag of popcorn with shredded cheese.

For drinks, I usually have 0 calorie green tea or a Partake 10 calorie 0 carb non-alcoholic beer, or a diet ginger beer.

On weekends I might have some beer, and if I do I usually drink Lagunitas Daytime IPA, which is 3 carbs per beer.

That's pretty much my routine week after week. That's not a lot of food, but it's a lot of protein and fats. I feel great. In fact, after 4 months without a cheat day, I decided to take 3 days off and enjoy myself, and by Day 3 I felt like shit eating the regular garbage people eat.

that's awesome. great to hear it. the other thing i should have mentioned in my initial post, is that drinking a lot of water helps out as well to reduce overeating. if you ever feel like you may be going overboard, drink a glass of water. get your stomach full of water to avoid filling it with unneeded calories.

 

[IIIIIIII]

OP you are one logical mfer aren't you? I don't think I've ever seen you be emotional or irrational here. Just a silly observation lol. Good job getting your mom healthy and feeling good, truly priceless.

hahaha, i've never thought of myself that way. have not always been this way, though probably with a lot of people around my age (44), i'd say once reaching my forties i've naturally mellowed out. getting emotional becomes tiresome and you just try avoiding drama where you can.

thanks dude, am really happy for her. she gets excited about wearing clothes she couldn't fit in before. my dad has lost a bit of weight as well.

 

[Plutoburn]

What you described is what I've been told people looking for weight loss advice. You have to address the root cause of why a particular person's is overweight. The cookie cutter advice of eating healthy and exercise does work, but it mostly work on people have no idea what food are healthy and exercise can help lose weight. The cause of being overweight, 99% of the time it is a combination of eating more than the body is using, that's the math of weight gain, but why is the person overeating? TS's mother is an absent-minded eater, so the solution is to practice mindful eating. For some people, they overeat because of stress, if you don't address the stress part of the equation, even after a successful weight loss, they are very likely to rebound. Some poeple are overweight because they have terrible sleep, or they follow the rest of the family's lifestyle and it's hard to detach from it.

 

[High Test With da Best]

Planning on going to Cambodia (and maybe Japan)
I need a beach body for the asian bitches.

I bet the old user @rocco sifredi is somewhere out there just marinating in jealousy

On topic, nice advice @IIIIIIII

Anything we chose to do is best in moderation however that can be adjusted over different spans of time based on needs. Like, let's say COVID takes one's sense of taste, might be a good idea to eat quickly until it returns since the food might be unappealing and could cause secondary malnutrition

*edit*
I know that's a specific and rare situation but just a random example

 

[Legumes]

I eat cause I'm unhappy and I'm unhappy cause I eat

It's a vicious, but, delicious cycle.

 

[William Huggins]

I was in the supermarket and this sweet old woman started telling me about her annoying son that kept going on about her weight, she said he's always been a bit backwards but she wanted him to feel useful and asked me if I could help...... I told her I could sell her some generic ozempic cheap......

She was so happy when I saw her and she lost all the weight..... And she said that her son was so happy and stopped annoying her......

 

[Adamant]

i've waited a good five months or so before making this thread, because i wanted to see the results first. my mother has always been overweight. not super overweight, but i'd say around a good thirty pounds over. never more than that. earlier this year i was visiting my parents over the weekend, and i noticed my mom eating. nothing out of the ordinary. but when i saw her eat, i noticed that she was eating without even realizing it. in other words, not actually engaged in the act of eating. she was talking over the phone with a friend, and between moments of her speaking, she would manage to get in a bite or two before going on another minute-long rant about whatever. after seeing that go on for about ten minutes, and after her conversation was over, i spoke to her and gave her some, what i would consider insight, on how i personally lost weight.

i told her the key to losing weight, at least in my experience, is to focus on what you're eating. by that, i mean if you take your time to focus on what you're eating and treat the act of eating as an adventure and/or experiment, you get a lot more out of eating and you'll realize that you don't need a lot of food, either. when you eat something, say an apple, take a bite and assess whether it's temperature-wise hot or cold, is it mild or spicy, is it hard or soft. when you're biting and chewing the food, what's the texture like? is there an aftertaste? was it sweet or sour? you go through all these mental exercises while eating food, and it becomes much more than just feeding yourself nutrients to continue living. it's fun. the act of eating different foods and noticing differences is interesting. and you can get all that out of just one bite of what you're eating. after one bite, you don't have to continue with another bite right away. give it a minute or two. let your senses clear out then go for another bite. you can then have the same experiences all over again. if you approach eating this way, an entire meal can give you tons of great sensations you never would have noticed before. and in the end, you need way less food and you're more satisfied.

my mother has stuck to this for almost five months, and she has lost more than twenty pounds, but more importantly, has kept it off. i saw my parents this past weekend, and my mother was incredibly lively and happy. anyway, if this helps anyone out there with weight issues, maybe the above will help.

I need to lose weight again. I lost a bunch a couple years ago but ended up gaining it all back. My very first month I hit it so hard I lost literally 20 lbs (in 1 month). I eased up after that and lost probably another 10 over a period of 2 months. Maintained that for a while and then slowly gained it all back, because I just started eating like shit again and eating whatever the hell I wanted, whenever I wanted, at all times of the day. What an idiot.

The very first like 4 days of starting a serious diet are brutally difficult but once you get through that period it's actually quite easy to maintain. But the cravings on those first 4 days are INSANE. It's probably why I haven't really tried again since. I just crave too much and my willpower is weak.

I'm at a point now where I need to lose about 35lbs if I want to start looking good again (where I don't "look" fat), and like 70lbs if I want to get back to my ideal weight (where I actually look "skinny"). It seems so daunting. I know I NEED to do it, for my health (both physical and mental) but god damn, the first step is so hard.

I did actually just start BJJ, so at least I'm getting some cardio in.

 

[AFewDollarsMore]

I'm weak and lazy. Ozempic took 30 pounds off since May. Another 10 or so. Really helped with food noise....aka eat eat eat!!!

 

[SaiWa]

Pics of mom? ( you knew it was coming)

I'll send 'em to you homey. Check your inbox.

 

[IIIIIIII]

I need to lose weight again. I lost a bunch a couple years ago but ended up gaining it all back. My very first month I hit it so hard I lost literally 20 lbs (in 1 month). I eased up after that and lost probably another 10 over a period of 2 months. Maintained that for a while and then slowly gained it all back, because I just started eating like shit again and eating whatever the hell I wanted, whenever I wanted, at all times of the day. What an idiot.

The very first like 4 days of starting a serious diet are brutally difficult but once you get through that period it's actually quite easy to maintain. But the cravings on those first 4 days are INSANE. It's probably why I haven't really tried again since. I just crave too much and my willpower is weak.

I'm at a point now where I need to lose about 35lbs if I want to start looking good again (where I don't "look" fat), and like 70lbs if I want to get back to my ideal weight (where I actually look "skinny"). It seems so daunting. I know I NEED to do it, for my health (both physical and mental) but god damn, the first step is so hard.

I did actually just start BJJ, so at least I'm getting some cardio in.

it sounds like you've lost weight before, so you can definitely do it. ah, you ate the weight back. i'm just guessing, but it sounds like you may have thought ahh, well now i'm skinny and i'll always stay this way now. staying skinny requires being mentally aware of yourself and what you eat, especially the older you get. if staying in shape was easy, everyone would be fit. there's no way around putting in the hard work.