What's your weird weight loss tip?
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middlehaitch wrote: »I love deserts, really really love deserts.
But.....
I can go to the fresh bakery counter at my local store desperate for a cake, spend 2-3 minutes looking at all the lovely creamy, chocolatey, gooey, cakes, imagining the taste of each and every one of them, then walk away with nothing.
I actually feel quite satisfied just looking at them and imagining the taste, I don't feel the need to eat one anymore.
Yes, I have sampled all the delights of that display case.
If I don't do that, I will hanker after a cake for the rest of the night- I have gone back looked, imagined, and walked away.
Cheers, h.
(Yes, my SO thinks I am strange)
Mine is similar, I watch cooking shows. There is something satisfying about watching them make these amazing meals, and listen to the judges describe them.
And yes my hubby thinks that is strange too!7 -
Hahaaa... you all remind me of a friend who calls herself a "dessert voyeur."12
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Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Leave food out on the counter long enough it will have negative calories! True story!
That's because it will mold, grow legs, and walk away. Built in exercise calories.
Or not.
My weird tip? Stop looking for quick fixes, fad diets, labeling foods as good or bad, and allowing guilt and shame to be tied into food consumption and dietary choices. Honestly, when I gave those things up, life became much less complex/painful17 -
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I don't know how weird this is but it's probably unusual at the least. When I'm feeling hungry sometimes I take a nap to avoid snacking. Can't consume calories in my sleep and it buys me a few hours. It works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯43
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I have 3 important ones that work for me:
1) Have a cheat meal, NOT a cheat day.
2) I promise myself a grand cheat meal if I see a new low number on the scale. It also teaches me discipline and patience.
3) I always make sure that even though it's a cheat meal, it must fit into my calorie goal for the day. I'd either eat little the entire day to make room for my cheat meal, or hit extra cardio at the gym to accommodate.
All of these work mainly because they keep me from feeling deprived of food and going on a binge! I get to eat burgers n other good stuff while still remaining under my calorie goal!
So your weird tip is "stick to your calorie goal"?
... That's all I have too.3 -
Drink green tea with honey xD10
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Use the food diary. Plan your eats and eat your plan. Crazy, huh?6
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I watch Food Shows such as "The Best thing I Ever Ate", "Food Paradise", and "Carnival Eats". I watch these at night when I'm craving food and sweets- weird thing is that it somehow satisfies my cravings! I know it's the opposite for most people, right? These shows make you hungrier? But me.. it completely satisfies just watching these people stuff their faces with emense calories.9
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emmyschneid wrote: »I don't know how weird this is but it's probably unusual at the least. When I'm feeling hungry sometimes I take a nap to avoid snacking. Can't consume calories in my sleep and it buys me a few hours. It works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This works great if you're broke, too.18 -
The weirdest tip I have, has to be a cavalcade of all those concepts that I myself think about as "that's crazy talk". The common theme is that it goes against everything we "know" about weight management, healthy eating and healthy body and mind. I guess it sums up to: Logic and reason and common sense applies to this area too.
- Don't do anything you can't see yourself doing happily forever.
- No food is healthy or unhealthy - good nutrition means getting in enough of everything every day, and not too much of anything over time. There is no perfect diet.
- No food, pill, potion, or anything else like that "burns" fat. Exercise, and just being alive, burns fat.
- There are no "fattening" foods.
- Weighing yourself daily, or weighing your food and tracking calorie intake, doesn't mean that you have an eating disorder.
- I can't control my weight, but as long as I control my food intake, I have a stable, normal, healthy weight.
- Weight management is simple, but not always easy.
- The process of weight loss has to be seen separately from the methods. The process (CICO) is universal, the methods are individual.
- I can say no to food.
- Healthy food can be delicious. I mean really delicious, not "mouthwatering lean" (which is an oxymoron).
- Cooking doesn't have to be difficult. I'm a great cook.
- To have a normal weight, I have to eat, move and think like a normal weight person.
- Follow the money. Be critical to every "tip". Don't believe everything you read.
- We can do anythong for a short while. What matters is what we can do forever.
- Don't attach morality to food. If you are overweight, you have eaten too much. That's not a moral judgement, it's stating the obvious.
- Our minds are both clever and stupid. Our brains play a lot of tricks on us, but we can find ways to "fool" ourselves in ways that enables us to improve and maintain good health.
- Work WITH your body and mind, not against them.
- Exercise burns a negligible amount of calories, but staying active regulates appetite and mood, which in turn makes sticking to appropriate calories easier.
- Motivation as it's used today, is a buzzword, you are in reality looking for someone to lose the weight for you. The reason why you want to lose weight, is your motivation.
- Weight management has nothing (or just very little) to do with willpower. Work on mindset, habits and structure instead.
- If you want to lose weight, you have to eat less. It's not that hard if you accept this and decide that you want to eat less.
- You can eat whatever you want and as much as you want, as long as that is what gets you to and keeps you at a normal weight and in good health.
- How much to eat to lose weight, IS defined, it's somewhere between maintenance calories and "too hungry, I quit". That's enough to lose weight, but you have to do that, and it's hard enough. Don't make a necessary and hard thing harder by doing unnecessary things. Don't go on a diet. Your diet is just what you eat. Decide for yourself, freely, what to eat.
- Peruse the forums, read books, watch TEDtalks, think, experiment, be open and critical. Learn, love, live.
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »Pickles. Dill pickles.
My mouth is already watering!1 -
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Fresh British plums. I had 3 each the past two evenings and was lighter ever coming morning. I tell you, it works! Guaranteed!
That I'm on a mild deficit and went for a run the previous evenings has absolutely nothing to do with it. I promise.
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Scent.
When I feel I want treats or comfort food, I light a scented candle or put on some perfume. Apparently it's the scent I crave, not the calories.
At the moment I have some body cream that smells deliciously chocolatey. No, that doesn't make me want chocolate. It just makes me happy
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Don't eat breakfast until lunchtime.
Have seconds if you want them, just make yourself wait 5 minutes to double check.
Use a few extra calories to make healthy low cal stuff a yummier treat.. ie massive plate of mixed veg but roasted in olive oil and topped with a sprinkling of cheese
Exercise in the morning, it puts me in the right mindset all day.
2 days super low cal easily builds up enough extra to enjoy a night out13 -
In one recent thread someone said she loses a pound every time she farts. So that's a contender.26
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Use a smaller shopping trolley so by time you get to the sweet/ biscuit/ cake isle it's almost full and you don't throw packets in just to fill it up x3
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If I'm hungry and very few calories left for the day or no food at hand (think last hour at work) I have a cup of tea, that will usually do the trick until the next meal. It also rules out thirst as you can confuse this with hunger.10
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