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.
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glibg10b@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
This but unironically. It’s a way more efficient way to lose weight than exercise. And it doesn’t come with the Ozempic side effects
Obi@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
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
mech@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
That sounds like a bad time all around lol
Emi@ani.social 18 hours ago
Might be effective weight loss if you are lactose intolerant. XD
AA5B@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
True, it doesn’t have the side effect of continuous hunger, feeling deprived, constant cravings, until you explode with binge eating. That would never happen
ulterno@programming.dev 15 hours ago
I’ve actually tried fasting for fun and it doesn’t really cause binge eating, as long as you do it right.
But then again, my regular diet does not contain stuff from industrial fast food chains.
kittykillinit@lemy.lol 12 hours ago
I completely agree.
What’s sad is people will torture themselves if they’re overweight by working out, and then reward themselves with food afterwards.
The worst advice we gave people is telling them they shouldn’t skip meals if they’re trying to lose weight. Americans/Westerners really don’t care about finding solutions; only looking like they do.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
Yeah moving doesn’t seem to lose weight (unless you’re very overweight). It’s very good for you, but muscle isn’t lighter than fat. At some point I went from not running to running half marathons and I went from like 86 to 82 kg average, but that only really happened after I also changed my diet. Currently I stopped running temporarily because of some health reasons and I haven’t really gained much weight either, I just feel weaker.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
It’s a lot easier to remove 200 calories from your diet than burning 200 calories more.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The big two things exercise does for weight loss is it expends calories to build new muscles, and then those muscles increase your base calorie burn because they’re body mass. Weight loss without exercise can consume muscle as well as fat as the body treats excess muscles as a calorie store. At the end of the day, for most people in most circumstances, losing weight as a goal really means losing fat. If someone’s 110 kg and trying to lose weight, many wouldn’t mind being 110 kg with a somewhat thin waist and just being ripped (ok, a lot of women would hate looking like that, but actually doing that is an incredible feat)
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
It can definitely have side effects. Psychological (eating disorders, persistent) 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.