I know food is everything, but is there been anything that helped you going down in weight other the food habits?
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.
Stress helped me lose 20 pounds in three months last year ^.^
I wouldn’t recommend it.
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.
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
Heha, I’m scared, but I’m also interested! (frankly)
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
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?
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.
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?
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
