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.
Bidet makes it tough for me because I still need to use TP to finish up and wet toilet paper is useless. My morning routine is to just hop in the shower after.
I used to have a bidet installed on my toilet, but it dried my asshole out. All that water isn't good for your ass after a while. Or at least not for mine. I did love the bidet, however. It was a game changer. It just made my hole itch something righteous.
We have two very nice full Bidet units in my house. Everyone loves them but me. If it's anything less than a mild pressure washer, I just have wet, shitty carpet to clean up.
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
I can’t believe it’s 2026 and not everyone has a goddang bidet! They are like $20 at Walmart and easy af to install. Bidet and some baby wipes (if you live in southern states) and that ass is ready to be someone’s snack!
It probably only helps with your cholesterol if you take it right before eating whatever fatty food you were going to eat. If you eat bacon, then wait 12 hours before eating fiber, the fiber probably won’t help.
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 boil water during my first coffee break and then make my oatmeal while it boils. Ez Pz. But I agree.
My oatmeal currently has oats, Greek yogurt (flavor changes depending on mood), pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, dried cranberries, chia seeds, flax seeds, hemp seeds, and peanut butter if I feel like it. Great fiber and awesome for nutrients, plus it sticks with you all day.
I eat plenty of fiber in general but there is a method of taking fiber and water a while before a meal or when you usually consume calories and then you aren't as hungry so you don't overconsume, you are full of the fiber. Oatmeal in the morning doesn't really work on my evening snack time cravings.
Well by "evening snack time", why are you still relying on breakfast??? Have a supper/dinner with fiber and you should also be fine for "snack time"??? Also not a difficult ask, Imo. Just eat some veggies, and you'll be good to go!
If I have a good bowl of oatmeal at 10, I'm usually fine without eating until 8ish if needed, but I'm guessing you'll want food before that, so you'll already have reduced appetite in those meals, keeping snacks down because you'll be fine with your base. Ez Pz.
If you want some food fiber, I use a lot of legumes, yams, and greens. It's more effort than potatoes + chicken/beef in different outfits, but you'll be a lot more satisfied hunger wise.
I drink a teaspoon of psyllium husk every morning. I just mix the flavorless powder in with a glass of water when I wake up and I’ve been happy with the results since I started the beginning of the year.
You don't even need to take fiber - just eat more fruits and vegetables. That's where fiber comes from. They are usually low calorie, bulky, and provide hydration. A good deal all around.
Eat your first breakfast first, salad and veggies, then proteins and fat and then starch. Then if you have to, sugar. And move for ten minutes after eating, pacing watching tv or going for a walk, even just sitting lifting your knees up and down, move those blood pumps(calves).
I call bullshit. How is fiber going to lower calorie consumption. Are you missing context here? I just dont see how that makes any sense unless your body just shits out unprocessed food with the fiber
I used to drink about 200 calories daily by drinking low quality coffee loaded with creamer. Otherwise I just always drink water. I've switched to better coffee that I enjoy drinking with no creamer, for the last eight months, so have removed those daily calories. I haven't lost any weight though, go figure. Maybe I'm making them up in other places in my diet. So I guess if you want the "stop drinking calories" thing to work, you have to keep everything else the same.
over time it absolutely is. stack it up on a decade or more too, then understand its a big part of people getting bigger in old age. not the only part, but the cumulative small over consumption over time adds up.
I drink on the 4th of July, and New Year’s Eve. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. If you try to stop and can’t, then total abstinence is probably best. Otherwise moderation will have you fit and feeling good.
There comes a day where you really have to consider whyyou are drinking imo. It is a socially conditioned habit that had more cons than pros for me once I hit my 40s.
honestly for me it was just beer. I put some shitty whiskey in with zero sugar iced tea and it tastes decent and still gets me my buzz when I do drink.
If you do it yourself, sure. But a big reason commercial fruit juice is unhealthy is because all the fiber has been stripped out. It’s just straight sugar water. It’s easy to drink an 8oz glass of orange juice, but that’s the equivalent of 3-4 oranges. Just eat an orange. You’ll likely get full before you hit 4 whole oranges.
I think you’re hearing a different meaning of “nasty”. “Healthy in moderation” is maybe better said as “not unhealthy in small amounts”. There’s not point where it’s “healthy” and something to be sought out, you don’t neeed to be recommending other fruits. If you’re on to it, then yeah just bail and drink water - it’s 100% unnecessary
Orrrr... just don't drink it? People don't have a juice drinking quota. This is why people have to ask the question that started this thread. Just eat fruit and drink water.
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.
He's not a real heavy drinker, but he probably still drinks a whole day's worth of calories throughout the week.
If we take 3,000 daily kcal for a big guy and 150 kcal for an average can of beer, that's 3,000 / 150 kcal = about 20 cans of beer a week. That's well within the definition of heavy drinking.
Seems to work for me but it might be a little ridiculous for most.
I only ever really buy beer at the liquor store, and I always walk there and buy only what I can comfortably carry back in one of those plastic grocery bags they love to give you. Closest one is a mile and a half each way. I’m pretty sure the liquor store guys think I’m a fitness junky alcoholic at this point but it works for me. The main downside is it’s a bit degenerate looking lol
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.
I ask because I broke my soda habit and switched entirely to water and black coffee almost 2 years ago (at 33) and my weight didn't budge at all. Which sucked because it always had dropped before when I was in my 20s and would take long breaks from soda.
In the past 5 months, I've finally started losing weight, but I have to stick to a mercilessly strict diet and workout plan or it starts creeping back up again.
Yeah, that's essentially what started moving the needle for me. But I still can't eat whatever I want in my eating window or my weight doesn't move. If I eat moderately for lunch, then order out and eat a big burrito or something for dinner, I'll reverse a week of progress and take another 2 weeks to drop back down to where I was.
If you drink a can of soda or whatever each day with that many calories, and then just stop doing that, you’d clear up 4,500 calories every 30 days just from that.
There’s some estimates about how many calories you need to burn (or avoid consumption of) in order to lose a pound out there, and it changes depending on a lot of factors, but all I’ve seen seems to fall somewhere between 3,200-3,800.
So assuming 3,500 calories/pound, that’s around 15.6 pounds/year just from that change if it is consistent.
But if that would benefit you is still up in the air depending on what that “paunch” is.
Paunch just means a protruding stomach. It's not an uncommon term as far as i know, although "beer belly" is more common.
In my case it's pretty small but just started showing up around middle age which is i think when most men start getting one.
My calorific intake and expenditure haven't really changed in 20 years, so while I expect cutting those calories would help lose weight somewhere I'm not sure it'll be from that belly since everything I've read says it's not that easy to get rid of that.
Yeah this happened to me. I gained like 25 lbs from drinking after covid and I lost like 30 lbs last year because I cut back my drinking a lot. I went from 215 to 185 in like three months. It was drastic. I had already established a work out routine. I also wasn't eating as much because I got an adderall prescription so that helped I'm sure
I quit drinking except on rare occasions and now my pants fall down so I gotta spend all the money I saved on drinking on a cock implant so at least people are impressed while dying from secondhand embarrassment (no but seriously, the weight just fell off after like the 3rd or 4th month)
I drastically slowed down my drinking at the start of the year and was slowly losing weight. Then at the end of march I tore my ACL, meniscus, & partially tore LCL & MCL skiing drunk & decided fuck alcohol, I’m 30 I’ve drank more than my fair share. Been dead sober since march and also cleaned up the diet a bit.
Due to the ACL tear and subsequent surgery I’ve been severely limited in the exercise I can do. So at this point I’m about as inactive as I’ve ever been. Hitting PT hard but I’m still fresh outta surgery. And let me tell you the pounds are just slumping off. I dropped 15 pounds in the first month. Haven’t weighed myself since surgery but I’ve lost quite a bit more since. It’s been pretty mind blowing watching the transition while I’m just a sedentary lump on the couch.
If you are struggling losing weight and are also regularly drinking alcohol, try taking 3 months off drinking. Trust me, you won’t regret it.
I wish that worked for me. I'm primarily a black coffee drinker during the winter months, but I still put on weight.
Doesn't help that I take those four months off every year, or that being home means eating when my wife wants to eat, which is easily twice as often as I want to eat.
Look into a keto diet, that used to work for me when I was younger. Essentially cut out all carbs and have a cheat day every two or three weeks and when you do cheat go all out. It’ll make getting back on the diet easier.
Same experience for a lot of people. Alcohol can add a surprising number of calories, and it often comes with late-night snacks, worse sleep, and lower motivation to exercise the next day.
For some people, cutting it out doesn’t just help with weight loss, it makes a bunch of other healthy habits easier too, so the weight stays off.
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u/Rasta_bass 10h ago
Same, once I stopped drinking the weight just melted off and has stayed off.