1. Walk a lot (fast and uphill)
2. Limit added sugar and processed foods (and fake sugar).
3. Don't drink your calories (easy for me since I prefer black coffee and rarely drink alcohol - I gave up sweetened iced tea)
4. Eat more fruit, veggies, high protein snacks
5. Make sure you eat foods you truly enjoy so your diet is sustainable.

I lost 25% of my body weight by making these changes without counting calories (but I was pretty sedentary and ate a lot of junk so I guess this advice is for my fellow lazy junk food addicts)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apart from common sense ones we all do, count calories, move, cook at home with veggies as the main part of meals..
These are a few things that work:
1. Buy no sugar added condiments, such as ketchup, etc., and buy no calories pancake syrup. Buy fake sugar.
2. Eat nutrient-dense, low-calorie foods
3. Buy meat that has fewer calories
4. Homemade popcorn with salt for a snack, fewer calories than any other popcorn this is.
5. Eat cabbage, a lot of cabbage
6. Read the labels for calories.
7. No nuts ( I can't just have a few)
8. always have frozen riced cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, peas, etc... in the freezer
9. No dairy nor substitutes for it (I have a dairy allergy and that is easy since I have to)
10. Fish, I eat a lot of salmon
11. Have a treat day, where I eat more and don't feel like I am doing something wrong.
12. Any day that you eat a bit more, don't feel guilty, just do better the next day.

Is this cabbage lady? I'm not shocked cabbage lady has some weird thoughts but overall I agree with her! I do think the bolded is very bad advice. It is far better to cut sugar or eat it in genuine moderation than to buy fake sugar IMO. That stuff is all bad news.

Yes, of course, I am the cabbage lady! I am back in the MD, was away till the end of March... I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on fake sugar, though, but everyone has their own. I think if you have a serious weight to lose, and yet you love sweet things, fake sugar is a lesser evil, so to say. I buy monk fruit sweetener and don't see anything bad with it. Nor with the Walden Farms no calorie pancake syrup. Granted, I don't use much of it, only once every few weeks.

Anonymous wrote:Apart from common sense ones we all do, count calories, move, cook at home with veggies as the main part of meals..
These are a few things that work:
1. Buy no sugar added condiments, such as ketchup, etc., and buy no calories pancake syrup. Buy fake sugar.
2. Eat nutrient-dense, low-calorie foods
3. Buy meat that has fewer calories
4. Homemade popcorn with salt for a snack, fewer calories than any other popcorn this is.
5. Eat cabbage, a lot of cabbage
6. Read the labels for calories.
7. No nuts ( I can't just have a few)
8. always have frozen riced cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, peas, etc... in the freezer
9. No dairy nor substitutes for it (I have a dairy allergy and that is easy since I have to)
10. Fish, I eat a lot of salmon
11. Have a treat day, where I eat more and don't feel like I am doing something wrong.
12. Any day that you eat a bit more, don't feel guilty, just do better the next day.

Is this cabbage lady? I'm not shocked cabbage lady has some weird thoughts but overall I agree with her! I do think the bolded is very bad advice. It is far better to cut sugar or eat it in genuine moderation than to buy fake sugar IMO. That stuff is all bad news.

Tracking the food I consumed was the biggest thing for me. It made me realize how much I was eating and the impact of that.

Apart from common sense ones we all do, count calories, move, cook at home with veggies as the main part of meals..
These are a few things that work:
1. Buy now sugar added condiments, such as ketchup, etc., and buy no calories pancake syrup. Buy fake sugar.
2. Eat nutrient-dense, low-calorie foods
3. Buy meat that has fewer calories
4. Homemade popcorn with salt for a snack, fewer calories than any other popcorn this is.
5. Eat cabbage, a lot of cabbage
6. Read the labels for calories.
7. No nuts ( I can't just have a few)
8. always have frozen riced cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, peas, etc... in the freezer
9. No dairy nor substitutes for it (I have a dairy allergy and that is easy since I have to)
10. Fish, I eat a lot of salmon
11. Have a treat day, where I eat more and don't feel like I am doing something wrong.
12. Any day that you eat a bit more, don't feel guilty, just do better the next day.

Counting calories is the best.
If you can't or don't want to, walking around 15K steps daily works for me. I have a good appetite, but even when I think I ate a ton I am around 2000 calories at home and a bit more if I go out to eat. (Which I started in April again, but rarely)
Eat what you cook.

Make your meals from scratch. Eat out once every 2 weeks. Eat all the whole fruits and vegetables you want as long as you prepare them yourself - even if it's a potato or banana.

All nucking futs. I got extremely fit over several years lifting heavy, eating mostly healthy (but not all by far) foods until I’m completely full, and if I feel like I want to puke during a workout I honor that and choose a less intense option that day. I’ve gotten very strong (woman who can bench bodyweight and squat 1.5, and lots of unassisted pull-ups) and gotten pretty lean. How do you all sustain these awful low calorie or high intensity lifestyles? It sounds either unhealthy or miserable.

I would agree 100% with the earlier posters who mentioned cut back or eliminating alcohol. That has been the single biggest change that has been effective for me. I have found I am more willing to eat healthy foods without alcohol in my life during the week, and I actually want to eat those kinds of foods. We try to limit alcohol to Friday night, and have been moderately successful with that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t be full ever. Stay between hungry and eating just enough to not be hungry.

Work out smarter and harder. Walking, treadmills and ellipticals are a waste. Go crazy Rocky style. Run up and down bleachers, do sprints over and over with push up sets in between. Lift heavy weights and run laps in between sets. You should be borderline ready to puke after a workout.

This would turn most people off of working out.

Maybe for some. But if you are highly motivated and aren’t injury prone, kicking up the intensity and efficiency of your workout can help a lot, both from the huge endorphin release and from the metabolism boost that lasts for hours

Aren't injury prone? What you described will most certainly result in an injury sooner or later.

Yeah, you might as well have your wife/husband/partner/whomever chase after you with an axe or something. Why not? Will definitely get the blood pumping for sure.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t be full ever. Stay between hungry and eating just enough to not be hungry.

Work out smarter and harder. Walking, treadmills and ellipticals are a waste. Go crazy Rocky style. Run up and down bleachers, do sprints over and over with push up sets in between. Lift heavy weights and run laps in between sets. You should be borderline ready to puke after a workout.

This would turn most people off of working out.

Maybe for some. But if you are highly motivated and aren’t injury prone, kicking up the intensity and efficiency of your workout can help a lot, both from the huge endorphin release and from the metabolism boost that lasts for hours

Aren't injury prone? What you described will most certainly result in an injury sooner or later.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t be full ever. Stay between hungry and eating just enough to not be hungry.

Work out smarter and harder. Walking, treadmills and ellipticals are a waste. Go crazy Rocky style. Run up and down bleachers, do sprints over and over with push up sets in between. Lift heavy weights and run laps in between sets. You should be borderline ready to puke after a workout.

This would turn most people off of working out.

Maybe for some. But if you are highly motivated and aren’t injury prone, kicking up the intensity and efficiency of your workout can help a lot, both from the huge endorphin release and from the metabolism boost that lasts for hours

Anonymous wrote:Don’t be full ever. Stay between hungry and eating just enough to not be hungry.

Work out smarter and harder. Walking, treadmills and ellipticals are a waste. Go crazy Rocky style. Run up and down bleachers, do sprints over and over with push up sets in between. Lift heavy weights and run laps in between sets. You should be borderline ready to puke after a workout.

This would turn most people off of working out.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t be full ever. Stay between hungry and eating just enough to not be hungry.

Work out smarter and harder. Walking, treadmills and ellipticals are a waste. Go crazy Rocky style. Run up and down bleachers, do sprints over and over with push up sets in between. Lift heavy weights and run laps in between sets. You should be borderline ready to puke after a workout.

Disagree about the bolded. I’m not the only one who got fit during the pandemic on exercise equipment.

For me, only IF really worked