Thermodynamics is a cruel but fair mistress

It's also much more sustainable. Make small tweaks as you go versus making big, drastic swings at your eating habits.

Also, fruits are better than fruit-juice, unless you really need those quick calories.

This might sound weird, but after a point it's easier to just forego eating. It can be kind of dangerous how effective it is, but anyone who has gone a long time without food probably recognizes how their body stops bothering them with hunger.

Lots of things are easy to do once, but doing them continuously for as long as necessary is extremely hard.

That being said I was starving for like two weeks but eventually I found I can’t eat that much anymore and it got easier.

Yep. And the last time I did this I helped by keeping my house around 50 degrees all the time. I figure if we spend most of our energy keeping warm then making that harder would burn more calories.

Now that I’m used to eating less I’ve found that I simply can’t eat like I used to without discomfort.

Case in point: last night I got an Italian sub and was full after half of it, while previously I would have housed the entire thing.

Not the same person, but I'll add my 2 cents.

Eating less of what you always eat is HARD, because you eat that much to stay full. Feeling hungry 24/7 is super fucking hard, and I don't think anyone can maintain that for long.

But it's amazing how not-filling most processed foods are. Swapping out high-calorie, unfilling food for low-calorie filling foods made it pretty much effortless.

I didn't feel hungry, I didn't need to eat that much. But dieting is still hard, because I also ate out of habit. A bag of snacks in front of the tv, a snack with a drink after lunch, etc etc. Not because I was hungry just because it's tasty.

Breaking that habit was also pretty easy. See, you don't need to diet 24/7. I only need to focus on dieting half an hour every other day, when I'm buying food at the supermarket. If I don't buy snacks, I can't eat snacks, it's really simple. Anyone can be strong for 30 minutes every other day, that's easy.

So yeah, dieting is done first your head, and then in the supermarket!

Step 1: admit your obesity is your own fault, and thus within your control.
Step 2: buy better food, buy less crap.
Step 3: eat what you buy.
Step 4: keep doing step 2 and 3 forever.

I believe that was the reference yes

That sounds terrible.

The one fad diet doctors really dont want you to know about!

We tens to visualise the people typing like us. At least, I do

Most.

A combination of sugar subsidies, market penetration of transformed food while the food industry figured they could make their customers sugar-addict, the start of GDP and minimum salary drifting away from each other, meaning poor households no longer able to afford quality food, and running through 2 or 3 jobs doesn't leave you much time to cook.

So, in a summary: that's completely a personal responsibility issue.

Isn't the correct answer that glucose-fructose syrup got subsidised?? (I might have my history wrong)

I've changed my mind. Pennywise working at mcd's because ronald is the vastly more successful killer clown is hilarious

It's nice and crunchy and refreshing in the summer. Except to make it taste like something, I usually fill the crack with peanutbutter and raisins, so it also has calories. 😮‍💨

Nature has even given us food with -ive calories.

You mean water held together by fibre?

I've actually tried fasting for fun and it doesn't really cause binge eating, as long as you do it right.
But then again, my regular diet does not contain stuff from industrial fast food chains.

It's a lot easier to remove 200 calories from your diet than burning 200 calories more.

The big two things exercise does for weight loss is it expends calories to build new muscles, and then those muscles increase your base calorie burn because they're body mass. Weight loss without exercise can consume muscle as well as fat as the body treats excess muscles as a calorie store. At the end of the day, for most people in most circumstances, losing weight as a goal really means losing fat. If someone's 110 kg and trying to lose weight, many wouldn't mind being 110 kg with a somewhat thin waist and just being ripped (ok, a lot of women would hate looking like that, but actually doing that is an incredible feat)

The vast majority of obese people are not willing to admit they caused their obesity, because it's a human trait not to admit your faults.

Humans would much rather paint themselves as the victim because that's mentally much easier. "I'm obese because of PCOS/thyroid/magic/metabolism" or "obesity isn't unhealthy, everyone should be like me". The alternative is "I caused this, I'm maintaining this, and thus I can stop maintaining this".

Once I made the realisation that I was working hard to be obese every day, it was super fucking easy to lose weight. But to find the solution, you need to identify the problem first, and if that problem is you, it's going to be an uncomfortable problem.

Sort of and also not. Not getting energy from food also means I have no energy for you know, existing.

So while I might not need to worry about getting fat, I've also nowhere to display not being fat.

I tend to sleep quite a lot.

no no it is not.

being a bag of skeletons that do not like each other, eating 5000 calories a day and losing weight, that is not fun.

Well I've been tested for celiacs a bunch. Blood tests and even an upper GI endoscopy (prolly one of the worst medical procedures I've had and I've had a bunch, you're forced to deepthroat an endoscope so that they can go from your mouth to your small intestine and grab a sample), my villi don't show signs of coeliac damage.

But yeah, my poop does float whenever I have gluten in my diet, which is why I'm now without it. Also milk proteins seem to have an effect. But goddamn leaving gluten has been a somewhat challenge, not to mention how hard it is if I can't have any nice yoghurt (Greek or Turkish mainly) or cheeses.

But yeah I told healthcare about my poop consistently being yellow/orange and floating and I even have photos from almost a year of me following it. Nah they just dismissed me said "it's probably just air trapped in your poop". Sure, yeah, except I've also considered that and the photos clearly show that's not the case. They don't care. Just do whatever is the easiest for them no matter how it affects me.

Unfortunately, common rhetoric among boomers and their cattle is that we shouldn't skip meals if we want to lose weight.

So many people proudly spread that bullshit, and it's caused so much damage they don't have to deal with.

When I vacationned in the US I was always taken aback by how much fast food used to be cheaper than an actual hearthy meal you cook yourself... Unless you forego the protein...

That's all sorts of fucked up.

When I was younger... you could buy a cheese burger at McDonalds for 1 buck. It's not even that long ago. Like 10 years ago

Are you telling me an AI made this stew?