the body will adapt, if you diet by reducing how much you eat, your metabolism will drop and your body will start storing more fat to overcome the low supply of resources. Eat healthy; Cut out refined carbs, drink plenty of water, sleep well and move about. Sleep is often overlooked and is so important in weight loss. Wok out the difference between craving food and actually being hungry. Drinking water if feeling hungry can often dispel the fake hunger.

 

I've lost about 15kg recently. Most of what has been mentioned above is right although there are a few extra things to keep in mind.

If you suddenly reduce your calorie intake you body will go into starvation mode (thank-you evolution). For most of the time humans have been around, they've struggled to get enough food so your body is well-adapted to periods of famine and will try to store calories to keep you alive if it thinks there's not much food around.

Another thing is that increasing the amount of exercise you do will increase your appetite which can lead to eating more so be aware of this.

What worked for me is a long, slow period of weight reduction where I avoided as many high-calorie foods as possible (especially "empty calories") and controlled my portion sizes. No snacks! No junk! I aimed to lose around 0.5 kg per week, any more and I get too hungry.

And finally, you need to get used to the feeling of being hungry and not eating - this is hard and requires will-power.

Good luck!

 

Red meat is NOT a superfood, full of saturated fats and directly linked to Bowel cancer, It's delicious but eat it sparingly. Take diet tips from anonymous people on a message board with a pinch of salt.(But watch your sodium intake).

 

So you can consider yourself as "normal" then! Sugar is a hell of a drug...

 

Sleep well and increase your protein intake while decreassing carbs. That's the more important part, more that exercise. You can hit the gym 1 hour a day and you will develop cool muscles under the fat but the fat will remain there if you don't go into a calorie deficit. The sole digestion of proteins burn a lot of calories and gets your brain to segregate leptin, the hormone for satiety, way better than any other food. Eat lean meat and eggs. While some here recomends going into the "hunger state" that will only make your body to adapt and cling to that fat longer. So don't starve yourself. Just eat until you're satiated which is easier and faster if you do it with proteins. Also you have to enjoy what you are eating or the chances of going back to sugar and other untrapalatable food like desserts will be high.

 

That's a weird question.

Meat can be rabbit, that is 0% fat.

Deserts can be 0% fat too.

So depends. But starving is good for your look & for the planet too

 

There are many different types of diets because there is no such thing as a diet that works for everyone. Same goes for good/bad ingredients lists. It all depends on the individual and its current health and diet. For some people, increasing their red meat consumption could be a great thing, while for others, replacing it with fish or vegetables would be better. Amounts are crucial when it comes to nutrition. For instance, current science shows that saturated fat is not dangerous when it represents less than ~10% of our total calorie intake. So it's not a problem with a balanced diet, and is actually a very good cooking fat as it's very stable in high temperatures.

That's why when they give general advice for everyone, dietitians and nutritionists will give very vague and broad advice. "Stay away from processed food, eat a balanced diet with a variety of foods, don't eat too much..." blah blah blah. It might be frustrating for people looking for a quick and dirty answer, like "Olive oil is liquid Jesus" or "Red meat is same-day delivery cancer", but these are rare. If you need advice, it's always best to consult a board-certified professional, multiple ones ideally.

Red meat is food. Humans have been eating it since the beginning, it's certainly not poison. It might be a superfood for some, or something causing problems for others.

All we can agree on, is fuck junk food, fuck sodas, and fuck sugar. And fuck those braindead social-media gurus telling people to only eat raw liver or that salad is all you need.

 

Wholeheartedly disagree with the "effortless" portion. Losing pounds does take effort, unless you're sickly/drug addict. You are right in that you have to reduce your calories, but it's far from "effortless".

 

The fat in your body is synthesized by your body - it is identical regardless of what you the source material was used to create it.

What is heavier a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?

If you are active, you will burn the calories you eat and you if you are super active you'll find it hard to keep weight on regardless of how much you eat.

There was a time in my life where I consistently ate a whole chicken (5lbs+) fried or rotisserie with a loaf of bread or an entire baguette along with a two litter of coke (or equivalent) at least twice a day. and still had room for dessert or coffee afterwards. I ate an entire 1/2 of a sheep on a stick with salad in Greece one time before I was made to stop because it was 10 of us that went in on the entire sheep on a stick and I was being a douche bag.

At that time it didn't matter what I ate or drank, my weight was consistently between 178lbs and 189lbs depending on whether I had my two daily shits or not.

I also swam 2 miles a day, rode a stationary bike an hour every morning and walked a few miles with heavy gear strapped to my back daily. Only needed 4-5 hours of sleep daily and was almost never tired or at least never for more than a couple of hours at the most.


Age and mostly will tend to be the main issues when it comes to loosing weight. Of course there are exceptions, if you are unable to move and have a disease that causes you to eat 50 hamburders with fries and kemchupp and drink 100 diet cokes a day and pathologically lie about being active or your ability to not move at all then no amount of will is going to overcome that until the root issue is solved.

 

Don't bother dieting and exercising and eating healthily when your doctor can just jab you with Ozempic! What could go wrong with that?

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The official Dietary Guidelines - good for health and climate (booklet)

https://foedevarestyrelsen.dk/Media...Health_and_climate_2021_PRINT_ENG__webtil.pdf

 

Why is the "b" in "bowel cancer" capitalized?

 

I can also recommend and Spanish diet: "La dieta del cucurucho"

Spoiler

Comer poco y follar mucho

La dieta del cucurucho translates as ‘the ice cream cone diet’ in English.

It’s the way Spaniards often talk about going on a diet, but mainly in a joking manner.

That’s because of what follows la dieta del cucurucho in the rhyme - comer poco y follar mucho - eat little and have lots of sex.

So when a Spaniard says they want to go on a diet (ponerse a dieta) to lose weight (perder peso or adelgazar), the other person will often suggest la dieta del cucurucho.

They won’t necessarily go as far as mentioning the second more lude part of the rhyme, so la dieta del cucurucho acts as an innuendo.

It’s an ongoing joke in Spain with people suggesting other ‘diets’ that they then rhyme with something a bit under the belt. Some examples are:

Dieta del melón: siempre el mismo cabrón (The melon diet: always the same bastard)

Dieta de la lagartija: primero con la madre y después con la hija (The lizard diet: first with the mum and then with the daughter)

Dieta de la pasta: follar y follar hasta decir basta (The pasta diet: f*ck and f*ck until you say stop)

Believe or not, if you Google dieta del cucurucho you will find a wide array of articles which actually sing the praises of this infallible method of losing weight.

In any case, you can expect to hear la dieta del cucurucho mentioned a lot this summer, so it’s a great expression to know if you want to share some banter with your Spanish friends (perhaps not with your Spanish mother-in-law).

Example:

- Tía, me tengo que poner a dieta. ¡Es la hora de la operación bikini!

- Pues ya sabes que recomiendan. ¡La dieta del cucurucho!

- Mate, I need to go on a diet. ¡It’s operation bikini time!

- Well, you know what they recommend. ¡The ice cream cone diet!

 

This is demonstrably false, this myth has been debunked many times over. I told you, this information was not from someone on some message board - I consulted qualified experts, due to past health issues, and learned a lot. Did you not even read that?

Processed meats are indeed dangerous. Perhaps you are conflating the two.

 

 

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Meat because of the fat makes you also fat unless you eat beef which is almost without fat ( not all parts but most ) . Also carbohydrates ( bread ( no.1 fat ) , potatoes , rice , pasta , bakery products etc ) makes you fat . Last one is sugar ( coca cola , soft drinks , alcohol drinks , fruit juices are full of sugar ) and salt ( which keeps water in your body ) .

 

fasting is your friend it will reset your insulin resistance and lower your desire for sugar.

 

eating fat doesn't make you fat, fat is either digested and use for things like making cholestrol or just pushed out the other end of your digestive system, if you've got floaters in the toilet thats fat, cause fat floats.

carbs become sugar, sugar becomes fat. Fat does not become fat, because that's not how our digestive system works.
fat becomes floaters
also salt is sodium chloride, notice the chloride it is used to make hydrochloric acid in your stomach for digestion
its one reason you die if you don't get enough salt, also salt is an electrolyte and needed for proper chemical and electrical balances in your body.

what really makes you fat is eating more than your body needs to maintain itself, surpluses are used to create fat stores. no surplus, no fat.

 

and its not magic, its because those are all processed foods that are calorie dense,meaning a small serving has a metric shit ton of caloric load.

meat and fish and other proteins are much less calorie dense, and they additionally require the body to work harder to digest them which burns calories in and of itself, the lack of sugars and carbohydrates in protein means their is little to no surplus left over after digestion to create fat cells in the body.

Proteins therefore cause you to be less hungry, less often, because they take longer to digest so the gut does not produce hunger signals to the brain saying, lets have a bite to eat soon..