• eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    the best way to make it stick is to take it slowly. Become more aware of the food choices you make - a food log is helpful here - without necessarily looking to correct them first. Just note the times when you think about food, the times you’re able to eat healthy and smaller portions and the times when it’s harder. Then try and inject some alternatives, make healthier options available for yourself at home, and gradually move your food decisions toward more nutritious food and smaller portions of comfort food.

    Even then, thinking in nutrition has moved on from eliminating “bad foods” to eating “good foods” first, and finding a level of moderation with less nutritious food that fits with your goals.

    “Stop eating” diets and “fast weight loss” as a primary goal are very good ways to sabotage yourself in the long term. The psychological costs of very restrictive diets are real and lead to losing adherence down the road. Maybe it works for some but the more gradual choice-focused approach worked a lot better for me. Just do what you’re capable of day to day, always trying to push that needle a little further, and you might be surprised at how fast noticeable progress comes!

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    Is this a serious question?

    Look if you don’t care about your health, you can crash diet, sure, but you’ll lose water weight first, and then will lose muscle alongside the fat, especially if you don’t exercise. You will also feel miserable and will make others feel miserable being around you. And you’ll most likely pack it back on when you quit the diet.

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    Lock yourself in a cage with only water. Carefully reintroduce food once you’re out as to not get refeeding syndrome.

    Get a tapeworm, and suffer the other negative effects of it.

    Ozempic.

    Gastric surgery.

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    Stope eating anything processes , drink only water, WALK several miles a day.

  • rando895 [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
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    How quickly are we talking? Then we can talk about concrete answers, and strategies to make it work for you specifically. And whats the goal? Temporary (like for a day or 2) or more permanent?

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    I’ve been a bodybuilder for six months and this is my take. The diet is big. Remove excess junk from your food and focus on eating nutrient dense foods. I go hard and measure all my food in grams so I have consistency with my food. Do you have to do this monk level BS? No but I’m pushing myself for health reasons and want to see where it will take me. If you can do four to five meal breaks per day. You just eat a lot less per sitting. It helps keep hunger pains away and I never feel like I’m starving or so full I’ll burst.

    If you find your caloric needs per day you can slowly enter a deficit. KEY. Deficit is not starving yourself. So don’t think you can do 1/2 your daily needs and magic will happen. Something will happen but not what you’ll want in the end.

    Be safe. Be smart. Good luck.

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          If someone says, “First things first, I want to sit still all day. Given that, how do I…” then it’s worth calling out their mad constraints.

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            It’s not a “counterpoint” to the actual answer though, it’s a sidenote.

            You don’t know their circumstances. I can’t exercise effectively for various medical reasons so (for now) I only do caloric deficit and intermittent fasting. It’s slower than I’d like of course (and slower than OP wants, presumably) but it’s what I can do now.

            • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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              Exactly!

              For the last year I’ve been a primary wheelchair user, I can walk a bit but that only gets me to the bathroom. Since then my weight has become a bit of a problem but I’m already doing the maximum exercise I’m capable of. I have dropped 10 over the last few months just by diet, which is less than I would like but it’s what I can do.

              You cant assume the “mad constraints” is just laziness without knowing the full picture. Either answer the question or scroll on, but its cruel to attack someone over what they can’t do.

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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        You don’t improve quality of life by losing weight ‘quickly’ at all. Steady and sustainable are the only way, and exercise is part of that.

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    Get really sick. Cancer will often do it. A broken thyroid. There are a number of GI disorders too.

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    If you don’t want medicine then you need to reduce calorie intake. There a bunch of tracking apps out there you can try. Essentially if you burn more calories than you ingest your body will burn fat reserves to make up the difference.

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      The tracking aspect also creates a mental barrier for food intake. If snacking is a bit tedious because you need to write it down, there’s a larger chance you really think about eating something or not.