What's your weird weight loss tip?
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anechka1981 wrote: »My tip. If you decided to cut out sugar, don't even try to substitute it with sugar free items, like zero sugar lemonade with sucralose sweetener, or a diet coke. All these items will make you crave things several times more then usual. The same goes for all low calories savoury snacks with strong, fake (usually E additives) bbq or vinegar taste etc.
I don't know who "you" is, but it's not me. All of those things have been extremely helpful for me.16 -
laurenebargar wrote: »
Don't worry, there are a few posts you can happily use that button on *coughgreenteacayennepeppervlcdfiberpillscough*7 -
I was just working out my diary for the day and I'm realizing that, without a run today, I don't have enough calories left for a decent salty snack after dinner (I must have two. One sweet, one salty). I'm totally bringing dill pickle chips to work for a snack. You fellow pickle lovers have inspired me!4
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They key is vegetables. TONS of vegetables. Eat as much as you want. The older I get, the more I put on my plate. Meat and starches take up about a quarter to half of my plate combined. They should not be the stars of your meal. I eat tons of salads, fresh vegetables, homemade soups, etc... I sprinkle nuts or cheese on top if I feel like it. If I feel like a cookie or brownie, I have ONE. I eat what I want on the weekends, within reason. Two slices of pizza, not four. If I go out to eat I save half for lunch the next day. I do not eat breakfast because I am not hungry until lunch, but I do have coffee with a bit of half and half in the mornings. I do not drink sodas. I drink unsweetened tea or water with meals. On the weekends I may have a glass of wine. I am in my mid 40's, and I have never had a weight issue. I'm currently 134 lbs., and 5'7". I have two children, and I gained about 40 lbs. each pregnancy that I lost within a few months. I walk a mile everyday, and I lift light weights twice a week for about 20 minutes. I have a sedentary, full-time job. That's it!8
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Do what my friend does, if you want to eat something loaded with high calories, like a burger, find someone to share with. The more people you share with the better. Share your calories because sharing is caring.
As for me I exercise ( walking) so that I can eat more. But If I happen to eat way more than my daily allowed calories and it's already dark outside, rather than be upset i jog or march in place and sometimes put on my MP3 player and dance until my Garmin watch shows I've burned 2000 calories. So far it's been working.
Once in a while when I feel like my gut is being stubborn, I take 1 laxative for the month and the problem is resolved.0 -
They key is vegetables. TONS of vegetables. Eat as much as you want. The older I get, the more I put on my plate. Meat and starches take up about a quarter to half of my plate combined. They should not be the stars of your meal. I eat tons of salads, fresh vegetables, homemade soups, etc... I sprinkle nuts or cheese on top if I feel like it. If I feel like a cookie or brownie, I have ONE. I eat what I want on the weekends, within reason. Two slices of pizza, not four. If I go out to eat I save half for lunch the next day. I do not eat breakfast because I am not hungry until lunch, but I do have coffee with a bit of half and half in the mornings. I do not drink sodas. I drink unsweetened tea or water with meals. On the weekends I may have a glass of wine. I am in my mid 40's, and I have never had a weight issue. I'm currently 134 lbs., and 5'7". I have two children, and I gained about 40 lbs. each pregnancy that I lost within a few months. I walk a mile everyday, and I lift light weights twice a week for about 20 minutes. I have a sedentary, full-time job. That's it!
Skipping breakfast works for me too!3 -
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... how is this "cheating?"
I consider it cheating because I don't allow myself to eat burgers, fries, other fried/high calorie foods on a daily basis. So if I do decide to indulge, I try to balance it out.
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MrsPinterest34 wrote: »Do what my friend does, if you want to eat something loaded with high calories, like a burger, find someone to share with. The more people you share with the better. Share your calories because sharing is caring.
As for me I exercise ( walking) so that I can eat more. But If I happen to eat way more than my daily allowed calories and it's already dark outside, rather than be upset i jog or march in place and sometimes put on my MP3 player and dance until my Garmin watch shows I've burned 2000 calories. So far it's been working.
Once in a while when I feel like my gut is being stubborn, I take 1 laxative for the month and the problem is resolved.
Sharing is a good thing.0 -
Eat more chocolate, because you aren't really dieting if eating chocolate. It's merely counting chocolate calories.12
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Eat a punnet of low cal fruit for breakfast as it leaves more calories for a more satisfying lunch/dinner/dessert, and eat sugar free polo mints in the evening instead of going for the fridge. Everything tastes gross if you have a minty mouth!3
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Persistence is my one weird tip. I'm inconsistent with both diet and exercise, my weight fluctuates all over the place, but in the long run, I'm leaner and healthier.0
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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... how is this "cheating?"
I consider it cheating because I don't allow myself to eat burgers, fries, other fried/high calorie foods on a daily basis. So if I do decide to indulge, I try to balance it out.
Ah, OK. Thanks. I was just curious what your definition of cheating was.
As for the OP, I don't have any weird tips. But what I do is pre-log my higher calorie indulgences for the day (my weekend wine, for example), so I don't go over my calorie target. That way I can see if I need to move a little more that day to fit in my 'treats'.4 -
Weird tip or trick? I'll be envisioning live maggots on food I don't budget for from here on out.
I went out, got a muffin, and as I was breaking it up to eat it out popped a friggin' live maggot. Appetite lost. Craving over.
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kommodevaran wrote: »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.
Man-O-man, those are all so good. Quoted just to see it in electrons again! If it were possible to sticky a post inside a thread, I'd nominate this one.8 -
The only tip I think I'd offer is don't think you have to do it the way your friend/cousin/mom/brother/whoever did it.9
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newheavensearth wrote: »I went out, got a muffin, and as I was breaking it up to eat it out popped a friggin' live maggot. Appetite lost. Craving over.
And now I have a solid reason to break my muffins up before eating them, which up till now I just thought was a weird tic. Apparently it's self preservation. Imagine if you had just bitten right into it?!?
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quiksylver296 wrote: »
I totally made up that statistic.
84% of statistics are made up on the spot.14 -
Stop eating carbs. Simple as that. For an added kick throw in a couple of days of fasting each week.41
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jarcher7777 wrote: »Stop eating carbs. Simple as that. For an added kick throw in a couple of days of fasting each week.
Recommending that someone eliminate fruits and vegetables is, indeed, a weird tip.23 -
I drink sparkling water (not the sweet kind) as a snack- if I'm hungry after that, that means I actually do need food, but usually it does the trick on its own.3
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jarcher7777 wrote: »Stop eating carbs. Simple as that. For an added kick throw in a couple of days of fasting each week.
This seems very weird and dangerous. Do you know what a carb is?13 -
CattOfTheGarage wrote: »newheavensearth wrote: »I went out, got a muffin, and as I was breaking it up to eat it out popped a friggin' live maggot. Appetite lost. Craving over.
And now I have a solid reason to break my muffins up before eating them, which up till now I just thought was a weird tic. Apparently it's self preservation. Imagine if you had just bitten right into it?!?
Protein!
(Honestly, vegetarianism saves me from trying so many many things I'd otherwise feel obligated to try. Locust flour, anyone? Chicken feet? )
Sorry, OP. Obligatory weird tip: Life is too short to eat foods that don't taste good, in pursuit of weight loss or for any other reason. There are plenty of foods in the world that are both tasty and nutritious.2 -
CattOfTheGarage wrote: »newheavensearth wrote: »I went out, got a muffin, and as I was breaking it up to eat it out popped a friggin' live maggot. Appetite lost. Craving over.
And now I have a solid reason to break my muffins up before eating them, which up till now I just thought was a weird tic. Apparently it's self preservation. Imagine if you had just bitten right into it?!?
What's worse than finding a maggot in your muffin? Finding half a maggot.
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(Honestly, vegetarianism saves me from trying so many many things I'd otherwise feel obligated to try. Locust flour, anyone? Chicken feet? )
I tried chicken feet. I think I would have liked them if they were crispy fried, but they were Chinese style, soft and vinegary. I did not dig them.1 -
CattOfTheGarage wrote: »(Honestly, vegetarianism saves me from trying so many many things I'd otherwise feel obligated to try. Locust flour, anyone? Chicken feet? )
I tried chicken feet. I think I would have liked them if they were crispy fried, but they were Chinese style, soft and vinegary. I did not dig them.
I've heard that bee larvae is delicious. Are delicious?1 -
CattOfTheGarage wrote: »(Honestly, vegetarianism saves me from trying so many many things I'd otherwise feel obligated to try. Locust flour, anyone? Chicken feet? )
I tried chicken feet. I think I would have liked them if they were crispy fried, but they were Chinese style, soft and vinegary. I did not dig them.
I had the same experience with chicken feet. I would totally try locust or cricket flour, though! I have very little aversion to 'weird' foods. I have much aversion to 'weird' diet tips!
Someone did try to tell me recently(ish) that 'people who lose a lot of weight don't eat yogurt'. Uhm, thanks (as I eat my daily delicious 140 calorie Tillamook Farmstyle Greek yogurt)?
Edit to specify it was the Vanilla yogurt - fruit on the bottom yogurts are rubbish!
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I don't know if this will work for all people, but for at least some of us, there's bound to be a form of exercise that if engaged in at the right intensity and duration, will suppress the appetite.
Find that activity and embrace this feature.
I have to white knuckle it on my rest days from running. I'm seriously thinking of taking a more active recovery day (I already walk a lot on those days) and finding some other kind of intense cardio to do in hopes that it will suppress my appetite.5
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