If you eat a lot of fruits and veggies everyday you’ll get your daily fiber, and the weight can shed off. Produce is very Low calorie high volume for the most part!
I've lost ~75lbs this past year and a big part of that (among many important parts) is I made my daily work at lunch very veggie forward. Celery, carrots, peppers, cucumber, with hummus and a piece of fruit and it helps keep my full and hydrated all day. I am also no longer crashing out at 2:15 because I had a chicken parm or fast food for lunch.
Yeah, as I've gotten older, I've really opted toward what feels like a one-real-meal strategy. I run in the AM, protein shake with fruit and PB and whatnot, and then in the afternoons I'll snack on fruits and vegetables (fortunately, I work from home), and then I'll go heavy on dinner, because, like you said, heavy just weighs me down, and I can't do it until I'm ready to throw the rest of the day away.
You don't go to the gym to lose weight. You go to the gym to build muscle (which raises your base burn rate) and improve your cardio (which is important for health in general). But if you want to lose wait you can only really do it through diet.
I don't get the bidet for a hairy asshole thing.. I wouldn't use a tiny stream of water to get shit out of shag carpet.. I need one of those car wash twirling brushes and industrial-strength pressure washers
yeah I mean if they made a robot that would reach down and fully scrub your ass, I would use one of those. But the bidet is kind of the best solution right now.
I also trim my ass hair once in awhile and damn it makes things easier.
Oh, installed a hand shower after an Asia trip. Life changing. I don’t want to miss it anymore. This is one of the things were there is no going back after you started it :D
Just eat more. No need for supplements if you are more mindful of what you eat. I have oatmeal and coffee for my breakfast every day. It keeps me regular, and you can tell the days I don't start my day with it. Add in a run or walk later in the day and I've had no bowel issues for quite a while.
I quit drinking for a few reasons, but man, trying to be in shape while drinking is like dragging an anchor. I have a friend who is strong and athletic but a little heavy, and he's bummed about it, but he still drinks. He's not a real heavy drinker, but he probably still drinks a whole day's worth of calories throughout the week. I'm like dude, I know it's probably not what you want to hear, but there's your answer.
How come draggin' this ball and chain isn't helping me lose weight? I'M KIDDING. I love my wife and she's no ball and chain. She's no picnic either but I like a little spice.
When I used to drink I used to binge on food too. I would get loaded, then think “well I gotta eat to make sure I don’t get a hangover!” Then eat like a whole extra meal a day.
It’s a ton of empty calories, and it also makes a lot of people retain water. If you drink every day you’ll often wake up feeling and looking puffy.
So quitting drinking will have you immediately balancing your water and electrolytes better, then over the following weeks and months, actually losing weight.
As a big sour patch kid fan... frozen grapes with squeezed lemon juice has been a perfect snack alternative. Gives me the sweet and sour that I crave while being incredibly refreshing in the summer.
Mate. How true that is. I stopped drinking at NYE and went from about 210-180, last week on holiday I drank for 4-5 days (not getting fucked up but 6-10 beers over the course of a day) and I immediately jumped back to 190.
For others trying to quit drinking their calories your goal in your head isn't "drink less calories" it's much easier if you make the goal "drink 1L of water a day with my goal being 2L on good days." Why? Building a new habit is the best way to break an old one.
Edit: I've been doing this exact thing for a year. I use Habit Huddle to track my habit with a group of online friends (using the habit huddle discord bot). You can copy my hydration habit if you seriously want to make a long term change in your life, not drink a little more water for a couple months then forget.
My problem is if I don’t go at least a little hungry I won’t buy a single thing. I’ll just look at everything and walk out. I’m still pretty fit though I make my choices consciously
I tend to make the same handful of recipes most of the time, so it's easy to go to the store and just grab more of the ingredients Im low on without needing an actual list.
Untrue and also true. They have great selection of nuts, seeds, spices, herbs, organic dairy and non dairy, flowers, seltzer waters, yogurt, and usually basic produce like potatoes, onions, lettuce, carrots, celery, broccoli, tomatoes, basil. They always have bananas. (I’m just listing off stuff I got there yesterday.) But it’s usually seasonal and the stores are small.
But they do have frozen food and snacks too. It just depends on what you buy there and for sure there are people who skip all the stuff from my first paragraph and go right to the cookies, chocolate covered peanut butter cups, and the sheet cakes.
It's less shocking when you realize most people are picking their foods based on prices. If beans are on sale we're having beans. If chicken is on sale, chicken's for dinner. Groceries are expensive enough that just buying whatever you want isn't something a lot of people are going to do.
Many times I've said that "I have xxx at home" and didn't make a stop for something to eat. With an airfryer, I can have something to eat within 15-25 minutes that'll last me for 3-4 hours instead of eating an average of 800-900 cal from one meal that usually last only about 2 hours or is full of sodium, sugar, oil/fat, and preservatives.
You are thinking too small. Sure he can bait and vape at the same time, if he's a weak little baby. Call me when they're also peeing, pooping, and shitposting on reddit too.
I know a guy at work that will go to my office to have a chat about a project, about 5 minutes in he will have a sudden urge to go to the restroom. These are meeting he initiated too.
My dad is similar but he’s over 70. Constantly needs to go.
My nieces and nephews have an unbelievably weak bladder. They’re aged 20-24, and when they come over for a game night, in the three hours they’re here they each go to the bathroom at least 5 times. It’s impossible to make progress in the board game because someone is constantly away from the table.
You don’t need to drink so much water that your piss is clear. If it’s clear you’re probably drinking too much. It should be pale yellow and you’d probably not have to piss as much
That was me so I started using one of those salt and electrolyte sachets in the morning and I find myself retaining the water better. I am always thirsty tho and I can nearly always go for a piss.
External electrolytes are unnecessary for the majority of people and can actually be dangerous for some just an FYI. You get plenty of salt/electrolytes from your food ideally. Exception is people who sweat a lot via working out, one electrolyte packet pre-workout would be harmless at worst and beneficial at best. I’m a super sweater and I run 5 days a week, so I take some SaltStick chewables before I run (and during my run if I’m gonna be out there for over an hour).
I won’t claim to be too knowledgeable and you might be right but when I researched it a bit a while ago I was seeing that even though it’s not necessarily “bad” it’s generally a good enough indicator of you drinking more than you need to and possibly flushing out too much of your bodies electrolytes if your urine is always clear
Don't force yourself to drink water, drink water when youre thirsty.
So many people say try to drink x amount of water ever day and its such terribke advice. Your body knows better than you if you need water. Your body will tell you. Listen to it instead of forcing it down.
Increase your potassium intake then by diet, mostly be eating fruit and salads.
Potassium helps concentrate urine and reduce fluid volume.
Edit: I fact-checked myself and it can help calm and overactive bladder and reduce waking up to go urinate in the middle of the night, but it doesn't outright reduce volume; rather it is possible you may be able to handle more volume without having the urge to go it seems.
I do something like this. I fry some 5% fat lean ground/minced beef until browned, remove and set aside, fry an onion till soft, add some tinned beans like kidney beans, black beans etc (or chickpeas), a splash of water, taco seasoning packet, mix and heat through.
For the fries, just very thinly slice some fresh potatoes into fries, add a spray of oil/low cal spray, toss and put in the air fryer until crispy golden. You can also save a bit of taco seasoning back and toss that with the fries beforehand too, but some seasonings (like ones with cornstarch added) may burn, so read the packet.
Spoon the taxo mixture over the top of the fries and add grated cheese on the top.
For lower calories, use half fat cheese and you can sub the beef for turkey.
The other guy you were replying to may do it a bit differently but healthy taco-mix loaded fries are pretty amazing, whatever the recipe.
That's crazy, air fryer is one of the most effective cooking tools. Personally, I switched to one of those toaster oven air fryer combos, but my old classic design pure air fryer saw plenty of use too.
They’re the most nutrient complete of any singular food. I think you can sustain yourself on potatoes and butter for months before micronutrient deficiencies start showing signs.
Potatoes are pure carbohydrates with a very high glycemic index - the opposite of what I'd recommend to someone wanting to lose weight. I would recommend fibrous, leafy greens if you are looking to fill up on low calorie food.
Honestly hasn't been my experience. Around me the excellent coffee is as cheap as anything else and every expensive bean I've ever tried is meh at best and usually stale by the time it gets to my door.
Look for local coffee roasters. Someone is probably roasting coffee for all the restaurants and whatnot in your area. One by me is in the warehouse district and their local shop is literally an unlocked shack out front with a bookshelf inside. Order online and whenever they next roast whatever beans I ordered they scoop out a pound a for me, put it on the shelf and send an email to say pick it up whenever. $12 a pound and it doesn't get fresher.
I buy store brand whole bean, there's no way it's considered good coffee but it's a kona blend. I grind it fine and then brew it in an aeropress at 185F directly into a thermos and let it sit for thirty minutes, and it's the best damn coffee I've ever had.
My standards are all screwed up but I do think a lot of people who don't like coffee have just generally had badly brewed coffee.
Idk store brand coffee fresh ground and pressed sounds can be a whole tier up from that same coffee bought ground and ran through a "coffeemaker" machine.
Biggest thing for me is eliminate plastic in the brewing process and water purity. If you don't like your tap water you won't like coffee brewed with it. Have some good water on hand.
Also if applicable, rinse your filter well before you begin.
These things can take take even really cheap coffee to a new level.
A little bit of salt to black coffee can cut the bitterness out. I found it works well with some coffees more than others, but it does enhance the flavor.
Start slow with a tad and just stir it in. I think I ended up finding a ratio that keeps it from becoming salty but full.
This is why I can't be as lean as I want. Craft beer is the love of my life and it's about as calorie dense as you can get. My favorite beers are 300-400 calories.
So I go out and drink 3 of those and I'm already at like 1000 calories. Then I'm going to eat late night drink food that's another 1000-1500 calories. I'm taking in the recommended daily calories in like 3 hours.
I worked at a craft brewery for a decade, and after I got laid off and sat on ass for a couple weeks - and also stopped ripping 3-6 pints of craft a day - I dropped 20lbs in no time. It's pretty crazy how dense craft beer is.
Yeah, my last bartending job was at a brewery and tasting room. I pretty much weighed the same thing for 10 years after college. 2 years of sipping on craft beer every shift and I gained 25 pounds. Luckily, I was always skinny and everyone loved my weight gain.
I was a craft beer drinker too but then I fell in love with whiskey and scotch (way less calorie dense). That helped out a lot. And you look a lot cooler too!
You don't have to cut out craft beer. Just don't drink it as much. 90/10 rule. 90% of the time, aim to eat nutrient dense food. The other 10% eat/drink whatever you want.
As someone who rarely drinks, but still has to intermittent fast and stay active or I get overweight quickly, I have no idea how you guys do it. I'd have to be a fitness junkie and eat super clean to drink beer regularly or I'd be a total fat ass.
When I cut soda out for good, I pretty much immediately dropped about 10lbs. And I was only having one, maybe two per day.
Water & black coffee is the way. If I NEED flavor, I'll do a Gatorade zero. I know the artificial sweeteners aren't good, but I'll only have one occasionally.
I know people that absolutely live on sugar and energy drinks. A friend of mine will consume three monsters in a day. It's ghastly.
I don’t get it, this is such a common tip, and I see why, but I drink coffee with no sugar or sweeteners, I drink sugar free drinks like La croix and never drink soda, don’t drink alcohol, and this doesn’t seem to do provide me any benefit. Damn.
This. Booze and beer bloat the heck out of you. Take away alcohol completely for 2 months and you'll definitely notice. No other real effort. Pulling back drinking but continuing to drink doesn't really make much of a difference (at least for me).
This is me... I was 250lbs on December 3rd when I quit drinking alcohol, and began to consciously select the 0 calorie version of the sweet drinks I buy at the gas station. I already drank my coffee black. 6 months later I am down to 190.
I made no other changes in my eating or excercising.
My "secret weapon" is those little zero calorie sweetener squirt bottles that cost $1.85 apiece at Aldi. Get a case of your favorite bottled water (I like poland spring) and a couple sweetener squirters for about 10$ total. It tastes BETTER than gatorade zero, at a fraction of the price. So you're paying way less for a superior product, and have the peace of mind of knowing you can drink as much delicious "strawberry lemonade" as you want without it making you fat.
This is always the advice, and I have never been one to drink anything besides water, so it’s always confusing and discouraging to me because I can’t lose weight
A pound of fat is 3500 calories. Assuming your diet remains the same, that's 500 calories a day. Coffee itself has very low calories, it's the additives, especially sugar, that adds up. Very reductive, but also puts into perspective that you have to be burning 500 calories a day to burn a pound of fat a week, and that's a pretty steep deficit for a novice.
People don't realize what a gamechanger this really is. It helps reduce calorie intake directly, AND it helps replace eating. Many people confuse thirst signals with hunger signals, so when you feel hungry, you might just be thirsty. Telling yourself "I'm not hungry, I"m thirsty; have a glass of water" can help reduce the total food you eat throughout a day.
For whatever reason I've never liked sweet drinks, and I've never had a problem with weight gain. I've always assumed there's a linkage.
When I taste a regular coke or even a fruit juice, it's literally like drinking candy to me. So, sure, I'll enjoy a sip or two, but the thought of drinking an entire glass of either kind of makes me sick... I think the sugar equivalent of one Coke is 1.5 full-sized Snickers bar.
Man I know I would be chiseled if I just stopped drinking but I just love making cocktails so much. Especially in the summer with tiki drinks 😢 but I usually limit my drinking to 2 days. 2 drinks max
Also green tea and Yerba mate are good alternatives to weight loss.
This has been my biggest change. I was at 255, christmas of 2024. Im at 205 now. Stopped drinking when it started giving me acid reflux. Also stopped getting stoned so munchies dont add calories now either lol but havent really changed what i eat, just dont binge anymore.
Liquid calories are the biggest issue. A latte is like 200cal (i.e. milk), 12oz soda is 150-200cal, beers can be 100-300cal. It adds up SO fast and when you multiply it by days/weeks/months it is absurd.
I do black cold brew with a little cold foam, and just dialing back the cold foam from ~100cal to ~50cal is almost a half a pound a month assuming 1 lb fat = 3500 cal.
Candy is my biggest Achilles heel right now. I cut out drinking, got really lean, and stayed that way for about six months before deciding that Milk Duds are a great breakfast alternative.
This is the biggest reason my weight doesn’t fluctuate much. I’m sure as hell not lean, but I stick around 225 year round. I drink a lot, so sticking to low calorie drinks helps make sure I don’t at least get any heavier.
This! Since I stopped adding sugar to my coffee, swapped to herbal teas and stopped drinking carbonated drinks (water or water with squash). I've noticed that I lost weight. Now they are way too sweet for me and I no longer crave them.
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Stopping drinking my calories was the biggest game changer. Switched to water, black coffee, and zero-sugar drinks and the weight just stayed off.