Asklemmy

I started small, I'd just make better decisions here and there, choose the healthier of two options, not eating the chips. Then I would make more healthier decisions, I should go on a walk, I'm gonna lift some weights. What ends up happening is once you get used to the easier decisions I would feel like I could/should be doing more. Eventually I'm dieting and exercising regularly and didn't even make any hard choices, just easy and small incremental choices.

I eat less for my main meal so now I don't feel hungry after it but not stuffed. I've also cut out added sugar and don't snack between meals - I make sure to leave the snacks on the supermarket shelves as I will eat them.

I also try and get a work in each day but walk harder not further, so usually at a pace averaging 110 steps per minute - walk harder not further.

Being poor. Lost 20 kilos.

This might not work for everyone but this is honestly what I did:

• I made sure my health was in check. Were my Hashimoto's medications up to date? Did I have any deficiencies? etc

• Started eating filling food, without calorie counting. Both when I cooked and when I ate out I picked options that used nutritious ingredients and a variety of food groups, but also weren't absolutely fucking dreadful to consume. Getting rid of enjoyment from your diet completely is the fastest way to relapse into binge-eating and just generally isn't helpful.

• Started not just exercising, but also moving around more. Either alone to run errands or just with friends, we can just walk around and talk, see where the road takes us. (I understand this might be difficult for suburbia Americans though)

• Understood my goals. I wasn't sure initially if I wanted to just lose weight or gain muscle. I had some not-so-great experiences with the scale when I was an athlete that I only just started overcoming. I wanted to decrease my overall volume so I stopped looking towards the scale and just made sure to do the workout exercises that catered to my body's needs and checked for progress in the clothes that stopped fitting me.

Hope this helps! I've been a lot healthier and happier since taking my health into my hands and staying away from the disordered habits of my gymrat family 🫡

I started taking antidepressants

stopped snacking and stopped the everyday pops. easiest start of weight loss. from there its proper dieting and walking as much as possible

Extended fasting.

This is not going to be helpful, but I started weight loss that resulted in about 35 pounds lost simply by going to a con and waiting for people to meet up to eat. Ended up with me not eating until like 8pm each day, so close to 24 hour fasts for 4 days in a row.

Once I was kinda used to it, I did shorter ones and started roughly calorie counting as well.

Logging my calories intake with an app and logging burning calories with a smart watch while playing BeatSaber and Supernatural on my Quest 2/3.

Lost 40 lbs in 1.5 years while consuming 1500-1800 calories per day. I'm now right in the middle of my BMI. I'm proud and I'm now trying to stay right there! I can still eat cake and drink wine! Just need to count those calories and adjust!

"Lose It" app, which is a food log. Awareness does the trick. I set it to about 2/3 of my average daily calorie burn, and stick to it, with a day off every two weeks or so.

Works for me.

60lbs. Calorie deficit. Aimed for 1500 calories, bled over with a reasonable margin to 1800 calories. Per day.

Wherever I vacation to a walkable city, I lose weight.

Europe, please let me move in 😭

Carnivore. Went from 275 to 150 in a year of as close to zero carbs as possible.

Semaglutide. It makes eating less way easier.

Restricted my calories. It works, you just have to eat fewer calories than your previous weight to maintain your new weight, so a lot of people put that weight back on. That said, if you put yourself in a mild caloric deficit, it's extremely easy. Then it's mostly a matter of not keeping binge-worthy foods in your living space (you can eat them as much as you want when you're out), and it's pretty easy.

Worked night stock.

Started eating a shit tonne of rice.

Losing weight really isn't that hard. It's calories in verses calories out. If that doesn't work, congratulations you are breaking the laws of thermodynamics and physics is changed forever.

I just took out some higher calorie food and ate a lot more chicken and rice and the weight dropped off kinda scary fast seeing as I was eating 4 meals a day. Ended up adding extra calories with eggs and was more comfortable with sauces.

Another time I took up surfing. Fucking hell surfing is hard, running 10 miles is easier. Increased my food load and ate a crap load more protein and just changed shape in a few months, lost the fat around my tummy and my shoulders grew huge.

Low carb diet. I count carbs and keep the daily total below 70g and try to keep it closer to 30g per day. My peak weight was 235# and I am now at 172#.

Stopped eating so damn much.

I read the The Hacker’s Diet by John Walker (who recently died, sadly) and followed his advice.

Sport, I run, cycle or swim every day of the week. 1 hour mon-fri and 3-5 hours sat/sun.

And I went to a sport nutritionist who gave me a diet which makes me eat actually MORE (and much more balanced) than before.

Lost 15kgs in 6 months while gaining lots of muscle tissue that is heavier than fat.

I appreciate this doesn't work for everyone and might not be a long term solution, but I dropped 20kg by fasting on a 20:4 schedule.

Eat raw veggies (salads)

In the first week or two you won't feel like it was a real meal since your body still craves sugars, fats and junk. But once you get past the cravings you find out that this huge meal filled with fiber is super filling but the calorie count is really low, and so you start losing weight

Counted calories, ate less, reduced sugar, flour and potato consumption. No exercise.

Exercising has a lot of health benefits and helps with loosing weight but food consumption is the most important.

Eventually I started running but this was after I lost weight. If exercising demotivates you, don't force it

Intermittent fasting. It takes a fair amount of discipline, but if you stick with it past the first week or two it becomes very easy

I ate less.

Shocking, I know.

Exercise and diet. That allowed me to lose 15 kg.

For exercise: I bought Ring Fit Adventure for the Nintendo Switch at the start of 2020. That's the only thing that has motivated me to exercise. Now I even do some additional weight lifting and cardio exercises. This has helped me the most to lose weight.

For diet: I have gastrointestinal issues. Since 2022 I started a diet to alleviate those problems. This helped only a little for losing weight.

Metformin. No other changes. Guess the better blood sugar levels make a difference. Still drinking coke and eating whatever I feel like and dropped 10lbs. The only reason I noticed was because my pants kept falling down.

Lost around 10 kg in lockdown era. Ate less and did some exercises 3 days a week (nothing fancy. Just played a YouTube video and followed along). Most importantly I got used to feeling a bit hungry sometimes.