My weight floats in a range that's 40-50 pounds lighter today than I was a decade ago. It's because I eat less and move more.
Physically, weight-loss is utterly trivial. Literally everything that people say works, does. Eat less calories, eat less sugar, cut out snacking, cut out liquid calories, cut out processed food, reduce carbs, literally any and all of those work, choose whichever is most appealing to the individual.
The challenge to weight and diet in America is mental and cultural. Obese people remain obese because they have unhealthy relationships with food and eat addictively or emotionally, using food to soothe anxiety, depression, loneliness, disappointment, etc and because cultural norms and advertising have normalized obesity-causing diets.
The science of body metabolism is hard. But the rules for weight loss are simple: move more, eat less. For some people it's just "Move more, eat the same".
"Eat less" means "less calories", volume can be the same - really helps.
Not even that, if you change what you eat, you can have a dramatic effect as well. Try cutting out carbs and sugar as much as possible, results in two weeks.
I would suggest to be careful with cutting out things, this leads to bouncing back, like all dramatic changes.
I noticed that carbs such as bread or pasta really help with food satisfaction, unlike fat-intence or protein foods.
Remove sugar in secondary things: tea, coffee, soda. Understand the calorie count in carbs such as chips. East to the mild calorie deficit. Compensate with moderate excercise. And so on, setup new dietary habits one by one.
> Physically, weight-loss is utterly trivial. Literally everything that people say works, does.
You can't say this on HN, where weight loss is a myth and the only way out is to take a crazy life-altering medicine. Exercise? PFFT. I walked a flight of stairs once, and did not lose a single gram.
Physically, weight-loss is utterly trivial. Literally everything that people say works, does. Eat less calories, eat less sugar, cut out snacking, cut out liquid calories, cut out processed food, reduce carbs, literally any and all of those work, choose whichever is most appealing to the individual.
The challenge to weight and diet in America is mental and cultural. Obese people remain obese because they have unhealthy relationships with food and eat addictively or emotionally, using food to soothe anxiety, depression, loneliness, disappointment, etc and because cultural norms and advertising have normalized obesity-causing diets.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.