That’s the way it works, you’re no joke homie

Reminder to readers thay there is a stark difference between "cutting back" and starving yourself.

Smaller portions and less calorie-dense options make a huge difference over time.

It is, the trick is it’s easier said than done for people.

It’s tricky to require your brain and overhaul your habits.

I say this as someone who also has lost 25 lbs. there’s a reason people refer to it as a journey.

I say this less to diminish your point and more for support of others who are going through this thinking “man this is impossible but everyone makes it sound easy”. It’s not. It’s a marathon not a sprint.

It's simple math, burn more than what goes in. No tricks, no fad diets, no regimen, eat less, do more.

no reason to ai pennyworth over ronald. mr McDonald has a vastly greater kill count.

edit: pennywise

I lost 35kg within 8 months by going hardcore on controlling my diet. I did have to eat more once I started exercising, which I needed to because all the muscle was melting away right along the fat. It definitely works, but I did "fall off the wagon" once I stopped counting the calories. Now I'm trying to find that long term balance of sport and diet I can maintain in the long run.

It can definitely have side effects. Psychological (eating disorders, debilitating feeling of hunger) and physical (unbalanced diet, or fatigue because the body gets in the "oh fuck must conserve energy" mode).

There is no one size fits all solution. A random 50 year old IT worker with a sedentary lifestyle and a Big Mac diet does not need the same help as a physically active 25 year old with severe hormonal imbalances. Using Ozempic is bad in the former case, but so is shaming the latter person for relying on it.

Intermittent fasting/OMAD and light exercise (walking, a bit of cycling) is in my opinion a way easier to drop massive amounts of weight in a short time. Light exercise keeps your body healthy while operating at a caloric defecit

As most things about the human body, it actually is more complicated. Caloric restriction also causes biological responses in our bodies, influencing hormones such as ghrelin and leptin which physiologically alter hunger and satiety. Some people can even be resistant to leptin for example, meaning that they struggle with a lack of satiety. Our bodies have also been shown to reduce their energy requirements by about 200 calories per day when intake is restricted.

So even if we disregard the problems the claim it's just a matter of willpower, there are other, biological things to consider.

All this to say, it is undoubtedly good to have more fiber, around 1.2-1.6g protein per kg of bodyweight, 120minutes of excercise a week and strength training, or just whatever we can implement into our routines.

Oh, and one more thing, fatness isn't a ubiquitous measure of healthiness or virtue, and thinness isn't either. We have to challenge our assumptions and biases, a lot of which come from our cultures and media.

Just don't have an eating disorder / addiction is what these posts suggest you know. 4Head shit. The entire problem is they struggle with saying no. Like a heroin addict. "Just eat less" is worthless advice.

"Eat less, and here's how to learn this disipline while dealing with the myriad of possible root causes of your disordered function" would be a start. Nutritionists exist for this purpose.

It's a mental weakness many people clearly have given it's an epidemic. Exploited by their dealers: Capitalists involved in food industry.

Edit: evidently i've stumbled into /r/fatpeoplehate

this "common knowledge" "weight loss" stuff typically neglects how dieting will affect ur caloric rate. if u just starve urself, ur muscles will grow smaller and u will need fewer calories to maintain ur normal functioning body, meaning u need to eat even less again to not put on fat. but if u train ur muscles directly, they will beg for more calories so they can grow, and the calories needed to maintain them will also increase.

for anyone interested, i suggest reading a physical education by casey johnston.

It's funny how you never visualise the person on an internet forum as fat, but some of the people typing here are fat.

My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old...

Thanks for this, I had an idea about food addiction but that explanation puts it in perspective.

Companies also try to make foods as addictive as possible and as flashy as possible. It's like avoiding the constant casino ads as a gambling addict, but you had to keep stepping into a casino every week forever and only doing low bets.

Celery is probably the best we got and it kinda sucks and I think maybe I'd rather die.

Plenty of keep our lives exciting by addictionmaxing. Food, booze, cigarettes, drugs, sex, gambling, shopping, animal hoarding…