I’m currently a lump of chocolate and cheese, but once the new year hits, I’m determined to make 2026 the year I finally get back to a healthy weight (I’ve lost about 20 pounds, with about 80-100 to go). I’m pretty good about exercising regularly, but, as they say, abs are made in the kitchen. Those who have successfully lost weight, is there anything you particularly recommend for maintaining a calorie deficit to lose the weight, and then avoiding gaining it back later on?
I know Lemmy thinks everyone that avoids carbs must be carnivore, but you can use your head and avoid sugar/starches and lose a lot of weight. Fruit is tough to drop but apart from a few blueberries or something, fruit is pure sugar, and juice is as bad as pop. Don’t think because something is “healthy” that it’s not loaded with sugar.
By the time you get full eating things like pasta, you’ve eaten way, way too much. Fats will make you feel full. I used to eat a 16 oz steak with potatoes and vege and still want dessert, and now 6 oz of something fatty like brisket with some broccoli or brussel sprouts will fill me up.
And you can’t outrun a bad diet. Exercise will tone you, but you can’t exercise enough to work off a cup of mashed potatoes without giving up the rest of your free time.
Start by cleaning the house out of that shit, don’t bring it back in, and use something like Carb Manager to figure out the sleepers that are putting weight on you.
Fruit have sugar but not eating fruit for that reason is one of the worst mistakes I used to make. Fruit are full of good things your body needs, including fiber, vitamins, antioxidants. It’s the perfect sweet snack. Eat fruit. It will make you eat less of the stuff that will actually make you fat.
Sugar makes you fat. 15-20g of sugar in an apple. I used to eat a bag of apples in the combine in a day of harvesting, and I still had room for sandwiches and cookies too. They don’t fill you up.
Apples have loads of fiber (especially pectin) which makes you feel full and actually take in fewer calories of what you’re digesting. Apples IN MODERATION do not make you fat. If you eat 10 apples a day on top of your normal food, yes, they will make you fat. They will not make you fat if you eat them when you feel snackish and would otherwise eat a cereal bar or worse. Even if you eat nothing instead and decide to stay hungry, I think studies show that during your next meal you will overeat more calories than the fruit would have had, if you had eaten it as a snack. I can try to find the source if you’re interested.
Eating fats to stay thin when you are young will lead to cardiovascular challenges when you older.
It does work a treat for a few decades. High Cholesterol helps build testosterone and suppress appetite. It’s just long term bad.
Strawberries and raspberries are very low in sugar.
Not only that but many fruits are full of fiber and water. Pretty sure it’s not eating too much fruit that causes weight loss/gain issues, unless it’s all being blended into easily consumed drinks.
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Those are acceptable answers as well.
i was raised on SAD…been trying to break to the habit but goddamn is it hard.
I used Carb Manager to monitor my diet completely and break the habits, but my wife couldn’t manage that, she just went full carnivore. But we farm, hunt, make sausage and jerky, so it’s not hard to get meat. I can see where that would be damn expensive for others though.