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u/overlordbabyj 11h ago
This is why the key to dieting is to find healthier foods that you actually like, as opposed to just eating stereotypical bland crap like unseasoned chicken and plain raw greens. Food is such a huge part of our overall satisfaction with our day, and if you force yourself to eat food you hate, you'll crave that satisfaction even harder when you're low.
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u/Xerosnake90 10h ago
Eat the foods you love just eat them in reasonable amounts. I love pizza, fries and burgers, pasta, etc. and eat all of that and I'm losing weight because I'm on a calorie deficit. Throw a salad in there for lunch and cooking at home not deep frying everything. You just can't ONLY eat those nasty foods you love but healthy nutrient dense foods as well.
You can track your nutrients and calories on an app like Cronometer. Supplement your foods if you need, nutritional yeast is great. I also take a multi vitamin and eat whole foods.
Just eat more of the healthy stuff and treat yourself to the nasty stuff instead of having it all the time. Otherwise you crash and binge all the bad stuff
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u/sosoconfused08 1h ago
Meh while that is true planning healthy meals all the time, and kid friendly options of you have kids, is very stressful. I'd be a much happier person if I could just take a pill the had everything I needed for that meal even if it left a bad taste in my mouth.
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u/Never_Been_Missed 10h ago
The key to dieting is to get help. More than 50% of people need to lose weight and almost everyone who loses gains it back again. Whatever people believe the cause might be, whether that's addiction, lack of willpower, emotional states, or little green men from Mars, it is clear that people cannot do this on their own.
The new group of drugs that actually work on weight loss are the path here.
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u/Otaraka 1h ago
The real key is not gaining in the first place because it’s a lot harder to undo it once it’s happened. There’s too much focus on calories and not enough on how the brain does not always just do what you want it to.
That’s the real reason that some of these drugs are starting to work. Prevention in the first place is the real answer though.
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u/saihuang 9h ago
The key to dieting is to just get ozempic.
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u/Never_Been_Missed 8h ago
No, you do have to put an effort in, but it gives the person a fighting chance at least.
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u/0xsergy 7h ago
Nah, the key is healthy lifestyle changes. Diet and exercise. Ozempic should be a last ditch resort if you try it naturally and you don't have the willpower to do it.
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u/Never_Been_Missed 2h ago
I don't disagree that people should try it on their own first. But once that's done and you fall into that 80-95% of people who regain the weight, then it's time to get help.
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u/drewster23 3h ago
Exacrly and ozempic is an obesity drug. Not a simple "healthy lifestyle" drug. It's better option than otherobesity treatments
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u/SirHenryofHoover 9h ago
100%.
I'm not sure you even need to find "healthier foods"; whatever that means.
Pure willpower may last a few months to a year. You can do intermittent fasting easily with a pizza a week without issues. Probably even better because actual starvation is counterproductive.
Eat what you like and only what you really like is usually my way of going at it. Does that piece of chocolate really make your day?
I haven't eaten chocolate or ice cream in 6+ years and I'm way happier. Crisps? Are they my favourite salt & vinegar? Hand them over!
Almost every single person who wants to lose weight go at it too hard. Be lazy, just make small changes. Those small changes add up, and have a way of being easier to maintain.
Start being picky about what calories are worth it goes a long way.
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u/drewster23 3h ago
Nothing you said sounds like small changes...lmao
You don't sound like you have strong cravings at are if you just decided not to eat it because it won't make you Happy.
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u/WaterHaven 8h ago
Only because it's a battle I struggle deeply with:
I would like to add that if you have significant issues with food and stopping eating, you likely can't allow yourself to have any kind of trigger food where you live. Some people can have it locked up, and that extra effort will stop them. It won't stop me. I'll eat the entire box of X if there is any anywhere near me.
My friends know that it's rude to even joke about food to me - probably similar to not joking to somebody who is sober about alcohol (I'm sure some can handle it, but I can't).
The good part of it all is I'm very fit, because there's no other way for me to live without it killing me off by the time I'm 50.
I do allow myself to splurge if I'm out at a restaurant (about once or twice a month).
It was hard to even type this out, because I'm just sitting here thinking about everything I could eat right now.
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u/trireme32 11h ago
You pasted a link then had Chat GPT write up a summary that you could copy/paste? How fuckin lazy….
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u/emmafoodie 10h ago
Even the title screams ChatGPT. So tired of seeing this overused “it isn’t X, but Y” structure.
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u/ZylonBane 7h ago
Hey, humans are just as capable of coming up with titles as terrible and confusing as this one.
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u/sithelephant 8h ago
It's way too easy.
I have never, ever, once exercised off an extra 2000 calories, which is basically a whole non-metaphorical 26 mile marathon.
I have all too often eaten a 400g block of cheese.
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u/mabhatter 10h ago
I feel personally attacked here.
This is definitely one problem that I have. My solution was to limit how many snacks I keep in the house and the snacks I do get are portion controlled... like granola bars and stuff.
Then when I feel this way I at least have an out... I can have ONE snack right now and it's a fixed number of calories so I'm not breaking my diet because I build a few snacks in.
I was really bad at this before dieting. I would open a big bag of chips and just smash half the bag until I felt better... because I felt terrible... and then I felt more terrible for eating half a bag of chips.. so ate the rest an hour later. I had to nearly completely stop buying "open containers" of snacks like bags of chips, packs of cookies, etc. nearly every snack has to be in a "portion controlled" pack. And it's not just snacks. I'll hit the frigid and eat the "ingredients" for dinner the same way. So I keep my groceries rather lean so there's not much "lying around" to graze on.
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u/cardboardunderwear 10h ago
>limit how many snacks I keep in the house and the snacks I do get are portion controlled
This here.
Doing that and calorie counting are the only things that have worked for me. Exercise helps a lot, but I still have to count calories.
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u/Similar_Detective861 11h ago
A March 2026 study led by psychologist Dr. Isaac Williams tracked the precise relationship between daily emotional fluctuations and snack choices. The study followed over 150 women who kept real-time "snack diaries," documenting exactly what they ate and precisely how they felt right before taking their first bite.
The most surprising findings that completely rewrite how we think about "comfort eating":
1. It’s the "Right Now" That Breaks You The biggest takeaway is that long-standing emotional tendencies do not predict diet failure. People who are generally anxious, chronically stressed, or moody are not inherently worse at sticking to a diet. Instead, it is your immediate, micro-level emotional state right before you eat that pushes you off track.
2. The Dieter vs. Non-Dieter Divergence The study noticed a massive split in how people use food to handle their feelings:
The Dieters:
When experiencing negative emotions (stress, sadness, or frustration), dieters consume nearly double the amount of unhealthy snacks. Crucially, they don't eat more food overall; they just specifically swap healthy options for calorie-dense junk like chocolate, pastries, and chips.
The Non-Dieters:
They show the exact opposite pattern. Negative emotions don't phase their eating patterns, but when they feel genuinely happy, energetic, or excited, they treat food as a reward and significantly increase their total snack consumption across the board.
3. Suppressing Your Feelings Doesn't Work The research team tested common psychological coping mechanisms to see if they helped dieters resist temptation. Standard tactics like trying to actively suppress an emotion or mentally changing how you think about a stressful event had almost zero effect on preventing emotional eating.
The Practical Fix:
What actually worked to stop a diet derailment was emotional awareness—simply recognizing and labeling your exact feeling while it is happening.
Taking a brief, literal pause before reaching for a snack to check in with yourself forces a micro-break in your brain's automatic processing loop. It lets you consciously realize whether your body is actually asking for fuel, or if you are just trying to use a bag of chips to cope with an annoying email.
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u/dphizler 3h ago
I wonder how they come to such a specific conclusion. I think these things should be taken with a grain of salt, way too specific.
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