Need to lose weight for good

[Anonymous]

Physics wasn’t a subject this forum ever studied and everybody is the exception. Or people here make piles of excuses and can’t do the hard work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Physics wasn’t a subject this forum ever studied and everybody is the exception. Or people here make piles of excuses and can’t do the hard work.

What is it to you? Is it any skin off your back or are you just here to sh** on people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Physics wasn’t a subject this forum ever studied and everybody is the exception. Or people here make piles of excuses and can’t do the hard work.

What is it to you? Is it any skin off your back or are you just here to sh** on people?

So you don’t understand physics. Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Physics wasn’t a subject this forum ever studied and everybody is the exception. Or people here make piles of excuses and can’t do the hard work.

What is it to you? Is it any skin off your back or are you just here to sh** on people?

So you don’t understand physics. Got it.

Neither do you. Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations, OP! I know you want it to be faster. But that is still 25 pounds gone. You didn’t say how you were eating. My weight loss doctor (also a gyn so sees mostly women) basically said if I want to lose weight and even just not gain weight, I basically have to eat low carb for the rest of my life. Not no carb. But low carb. I admit it’s hard….mostly because I just get so bored with eating. But I’ve done low carb 3 times, and I recognize now that my body feels so much better without eating all the processed foods. Bread. Pasta. Rice. Even when I did WW, I would mostly eat carbs, and it was harder to lose, and I had more cravings. This has been kind of a revelation to me that I hope will help me to continue this way of eating. I still do eat some carbs. For example, I love frozen grapes. And they are so sweet now that I’ve cut out candy, cookies, cake… I think the other thing I’ve realized is that I need to weigh myself every day. What tends to happen is that I “cheat” and dont want to see and promise I’ll check the next day…and that spirals and then it’s 6 months later and I let everything go. If I get on the scale every day and recognize there will always be some natural variation of a few pounds, I can nip the gain in the bud before it gets out of control.

I agree that a low carb diet is the best bet. I think the tricky thing is to find a low level that you can live on consistently but still lose weight. I have young kids who eat a million carbs (as they should) and if I go to low I lose my self control and eat their granola bars etc. I think I need at least some carbs at every meal, but ideally whole ones like sweet potatoes etc. I’m going to try harder to keep the carbs low until Christmas as a goal…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been doing keto/all protein no carbs for four years and have lost 75 pounds. Works for me but you can't cheat

It works for me too (three years and counting). I don't worry about it too much a few times a year (Christmas, Thanksgiving, parties, etc.) though. I think once you are fat adapted you are a lot more metabolically flexible. It's a great lifestyle. I can eat more satiating food and not count calories or weigh food. It's great.

[Anonymous]

Batch cook on Sundays. Make your own soups. Plan your complex carbs, protein, and non-starchy vegetables. It's not hard to eat healthy.

[Anonymous]

I too have lost a bunch of weight (over 95 lbs) from a low carb, high protein diet. I feel great. Probably a few more months of losing and then figuring out what "maintenance" is for me -- it's probably pretty similar to how I'm eating now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I too have lost a bunch of weight (over 95 lbs) from a low carb, high protein diet. I feel great. Probably a few more months of losing and then figuring out what "maintenance" is for me -- it's probably pretty similar to how I'm eating now.

Can you tell me what foods you are eating please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I too have lost a bunch of weight (over 95 lbs) from a low carb, high protein diet. I feel great. Probably a few more months of losing and then figuring out what "maintenance" is for me -- it's probably pretty similar to how I'm eating now.

Can you tell me what foods you are eating please.

I am eating a lot of salmon and chicken with veg like cauliflower, some green beans, some onion, some mashed cauliflower to substitute for mashed potatoes. That's my main meal of the day for supper, usually, and I usually eat one other meal that is either 2 eggs over easy and some rye toast or (if I'm going in to work) a Healthy Choice simply steamer meal that's less than 200 calories and less than 10g carbs. I also drink a large latte in the mornings. I also eat a tiny bit of chocolate after dinner. I occasionally have a few peanut butter crackers, but usually not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At 100 to 150 lbs, your only options for permanent weight loss are surgical or medical (Wegovy, etc.). There are vanishingly few people who maintain a 100+ loss on diet and exercise alone (this is extremely well-documented in many, many reputable studies). Please ignore the posters who are selling diet and exercise only snake oil. They have no scientific support for their position.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At 100 to 150 lbs, your only options for permanent weight loss are surgical or medical (Wegovy, etc.). There are vanishingly few people who maintain a 100+ loss on diet and exercise alone (this is extremely well-documented in many, many reputable studies). Please ignore the posters who are selling diet and exercise only snake oil. They have no scientific support for their position.

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Links to these “reputable studies”?

[Anonymous]

Eat more vegetables.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At 100 to 150 lbs, your only options for permanent weight loss are surgical or medical (Wegovy, etc.). There are vanishingly few people who maintain a 100+ loss on diet and exercise alone (this is extremely well-documented in many, many reputable studies). Please ignore the posters who are selling diet and exercise only snake oil. They have no scientific support for their position.

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I hear what you're saying, but over the last 18 months I have lost over 95 pounds almost exclusively through diet (added in some walking over the last year or so but honestly not even much of that). I certainly is possible to do. For me it was all willpower, which gets easier once you see results on the scale. Willpower is hardest when you sacrifice food and nothing happens or the scale goes up!

So "Please ignore the posters who are selling diet and exercise only snake oil." wut? You do what I've done for the last 18 months and then come back here and call it "snake oil." Eating a healthy diet for like 95% of the last 600 days is not "snake oil." Those are good habits that are good for you whether you're on weight loss drugs or getting stomach surgery or not. What the heck is your problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At 100 to 150 lbs, your only options for permanent weight loss are surgical or medical (Wegovy, etc.). There are vanishingly few people who maintain a 100+ loss on diet and exercise alone (this is extremely well-documented in many, many reputable studies). Please ignore the posters who are selling diet and exercise only snake oil. They have no scientific support for their position.

+111111

I hear what you're saying, but over the last 18 months I have lost over 95 pounds almost exclusively through diet (added in some walking over the last year or so but honestly not even much of that). I certainly is possible to do. For me it was all willpower, which gets easier once you see results on the scale. Willpower is hardest when you sacrifice food and nothing happens or the scale goes up!

So "Please ignore the posters who are selling diet and exercise only snake oil." wut? You do what I've done for the last 18 months and then come back here and call it "snake oil." Eating a healthy diet for like 95% of the last 600 days is not "snake oil." Those are good habits that are good for you whether you're on weight loss drugs or getting stomach surgery or not. What the heck is your problem?

The PP said permanent weight loss. Your weight loss has not proven to be long term or permanent yet. The data shows that permanent weight loss is statistically nearly impossible.