Anon figures out how dieting works

For weight, yeah. It's still unhealthy for many reasons but if you only care about weight that'the thing that matters

Yes, you can eat the same shit. Only way less, though.

I almost literally lost forty pounds eating nothing but buffalo wings

And then I turned into a vegetarian

Sorry chickens, ty for your lean protein (before they Buffalo'd it), I put it to good use

Someone I look up to more convincingly said the same thing. I scoffed but he knows what he’s talking about.

I lost so much weight so fast—during the beginning of the pandemic no less—by only staying beneath the magical number everyday.

Fun story. 12 years ago I lost 80 lbs with keto. 4 years ago I quit keto for convenience because grad school. Gain 10 lb/yr since.

January this year I started keto, didn't lose an ounce in 2 weeks. Eat less via IF and portion control but still keto, start losing. Eat a carb meal but still IF and portion control, still losing. Now I am on a standard ish diet (more emphasis on protein, more restriction on simple carbs) with portion control and gradually losing weight.

I tried dieting like this in 2010 but it "didn't work". In 2012 keto worked great but in hindsight it was likely the forced restriction and eventually calorie counting. Now that I'm good at calorie counting, CICO works great.

I wish I could just eat a pill once a day marked with desired bmi and forget about eating and focus on real stuff instead. I can barely hit 17.7 bmi even with some huel powder in a cup that is a hassle to wash. I want like 20 bmi to not look like a stick but it is hard to remember to eat that much

TBH a single Big Mac meal is 1350 Cal, so if you're an adult 5'9" male and dieting then that's already your daily limit.

It sucks but you've basically gotta choose between taste quality and quantity.

Technically yes. But fewer calories can also come from eating different things that just earn you fewer, and adding a little activity can increase your caloric budget.

It’s a lot like saving money, but backwards.

Literally did this last year and lost like 50 lbs doing nothing and being lazier

Felt like an exploit

I dunno man. My neighbor is a big ass boi and his wife is a smoke show.

Maybe try getting a personality

When I was a teenager I went on an extreme fast, down to one meal a day, for a 6 week period. Problem is, I struggled to eat a normal amount again after the time I set for myself. I had to go to a food therapist after becoming a twig to try and get my calories up again. Even now, years later, I can easily slip back into eating a bag of crisps and then forgetting to eat the rest of the day.

I envy the people who can diet by just eating less. That for me is a path to intolerable hunger

Only limiting carbohydrates has worked for me, and I had to increase my meat intake just to ensure I have enough nutrition, with the little you want to eat on low carb

Dude lost a whole girl in weight.

In this thread: A bunch of Dunning-Kruger effect

Yes. People who just cut out anything "bad" are suckers. But exercise certainly helps, too, and gives you some leeway.

I think it’s that he had 150 lbs to lose. If he’d had 20 lbs to lose, it wouldn’t have mattered as much.

Technically this is true, but in practice strict calorie deficit diets don't work for most people. To be in a calorie deficit state is a state of starvation, and most people's entire biological drives rail against it. What usually happens with these kinds of diets is the person will do well for a time, but the constant starving will drive them to either start unconsciously sneaking in more sources of calories, or they'll outright rebound into eating even more than they did before.

Sustainable weight loss ultimately comes down to living healthy by default.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventist_Health_Studies

https://thankful2plants.com/obesity/21-tweaks-by-dr-greger/

https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-diet/

For me to drop from my high of 205 back to a working weight under 180 it took lots of travel for work where I was away from my munchies for 3 to 4 weeks. The first time I got down to 185 in Brazil and then a trip to India got me down to about 170. I quit drinking soda pop, and started eating more fiber and no sugar for breakfast other than the raisins and dates in my muesli and quit eating bagels for breakfast as much. A T-bone accident on my motorcycle 18 months ago left me with a bad leg/foot so I'm a lot less active and loss a lot of muscle weight. I'm down to 155 now. I was 145 when I got out of the Marines 40 years ago

The alternative is getting a tattoo or buying branded clothes and accessories /s

We evolved from the ones that could survive a famine because they had an easier time holding on to body fat. That is our lineage.

Considering the usage of lbs and the picture of MacDonalds, it's likely OP is American, so he should try eating less ultraprocessed food and sugar next.

Except metabolism will slow to counter lost weight it happens too fast.