This screams: I ran on the treadmill for an hour and I deserve a snack. Said snack is energy bars or something like that.
I know, because that’s how I used to think. Went to a dietist and her words were: Exercise is for toning, eating is for weightloss.
Yeah, you burn calories and you lose weight if you exercise a lot, but let’s be real, most of us aren’t exercising a lot. Going to the gym for an hour isn’t the same as doing athlete sports or manual labor.
That’s why, if we want to lose weight, we have to look at portion control, lean protein, cut down on starch and eating a lot of greens.
You can still eat a lot while losing weight, but most people aren’t going to eat the right things and that’s the issue. I was told that energy bars, crackers and anything bread-related outside of rye bread, was a weightloss killer.
It doesn’t mean you can never ever have bread again, but if your aim is to lose weight, you’re not gonna get very far if you snack on bread and crackers. If you snack on vegetables, however, you’ll be able to eat A LOT.
There are always things you can do to adjust your diet so that you will lose weight, but if you don’t know anything about what different types of food actually does to your body, you may think you’re doing the right thing by eating ten bananas a day, but the scales don’t move because you ate frigging ten bananas a day!
Doesn’t mean you can never eat bananas or squash or fatty fish ever again, but while losing weight, you’re supposed get less calories than what you need to sustain your weight. It helps reading into it and getting a basic idea of what, how and where. I didn’t know shit before I had a professional helping me. I’m still no expert and my weight still goes up and down during different seasons of my life, but I know why and I know how to fix it when I get the motivation. Losing weight is very, very, very easy once you make up your mind to do it and have a basic understanding of what food does to the body.
Losing weight is very, very, very easy once you make up your mind to do it and have a basic understanding of what food does to the body.
No, losing weight is very very SIMPLE.
But a lot of people, like me when I was obese, don’t struggle with knowing what to eat. We struggle with our brain, with satiety, with binging. With failing and comforting ourselves with food and failing more. With controlling food as a means of controlling our lives. With not taking ownership of our problems.
It’s not easy at all. It’s really fucking hard. But at least it’s not complicated.
I’m not a stranger to having those problems, but if you read what I said, you’d also know that I said that once you make up your mind and have the knowledge necessary to make the choices that leads to weightloss, it is very very very easy.
That hard part is breaking out of the cycle and establishing a healthier habit. Once you’re on that track, losing weight is easy.
But if you don’t have the motivation and/or the right mindset, it will not happen, and there can be a myriad of reasons as to why that is. Life circumstances, mental health and such. I myself have dealt with a lot of blows in my life recently that has caused me to gain weight and I’m going to lose the weight when I go on break and finally get some time away from the stress. And after that, it’s gonna be pretty easy to keep going.
But losing weight is easy. I will always stand by that.
Losing weight is very, very, very easy once you make up your mind to do it and have a basic understanding of what food does to the body.
Nice if that is so easy for you. Let me tell you how that feels for me: As soon as my body does not get its usual amount of calories, it replies with relentless hunger. The kind that burns in your stomach and distracts you from everything else. The only thing my brain wants to think about is how to get more food and how tasty it would be. If I don’t give in, I go into energy save mode: I feel exhausted, my body does not want to move or do anything that could cost it valuable calories.
For a lot of people losing weight is not easy. You could also tell a smoker that it is easy to quit smoking, just don’t pick up a cigarette anymore.
This is why things like ozempic are used despite it’s side effect. It gives you time to get in the habit of a healthy diet without the brutal hunger and hopefully your body accepts that diet when you reduce the dosage.
I’d you’re open to advice: calories aren’t what makes you feel full. Mass makes you feel full (a bit over simplified, but not completely wrong), so what you need to do is eat stuff, and I ate SO many carrots and cucumbers when I was trying to feel more full without more calories.
I absolutely hate raw carrots now, but eh, small price to pay.
For a lot of people losing weight is not easy. You could also tell a smoker that it is easy to quit smoking, just don’t pick up a cigarette anymore.
Yeah, except then you die. So actually DO keep smoking, but limit yourself to 3x a quarter of a cigarette per day. Easy, right?
It does help with the immediate hunger, but it comes back strong once your body realises it was “cheated” out of calories. I am not sure I can withstand that for a long time. But maybe a short time would already be an improvement.
So thanks I will try to have carrots lying around at all times and try to eat them first between meals. Maybe it helps.
Also have you asked a smoker how it feels to slightly reduce the number of cigarettes per day?
Your body gets used to the amount of calories you eat. So if you don’t eat to that amount, it freaks out and thinks you’re dying (/dramatic effect). After gradually reducing your daily caloric intake and hitting your new maintenance target, over time your body will get used to the new norm.
Yes, that is often the case, but reducing it is the hard part. You need to keep it at a lower level for a while before your body adjusts.
Note that for some people it never adapts completely. Those people will always feel hungry or crave a snack and are never satisfied with the level of calories they actually need.
I did not, I know two people who do and they were impressed how easy it was to stick to their recommended diet. However, they are still on it, the interesting part is if you can get off without reverting your behaviour. Also they did not have any side effects so far, so lucky them.
I am currently holding my weight and don’t plan on using it.
If it’s made the right way, with lots of seeds in it, like we do here in Scandinavia, it’s really good for gut health and it helps making you feel full quickly. The best brand of rye bread for losing weight is Herkules rugbrød
As it is low in fat, but still dense and the slices are rather thick.
White bread is terrible for the gut and my old dietist described it as sticky caramel in the intestines that makes digestion more difficult.
When I got started on my diet plan with her back in the day, she encouraged me to eat raw broccoli and kale and stuff like that because they are like those big rotating brushes in a car wash, but inside your intestines. They will clean up all the mess in there and help your digestion. Which was so true. Not gonna go into details, but let’s just say that toilet visits were pretty intense for a few days. It’s insane how much shit (literally) that is just chilling inside the body if your diet is poor.
The difference also feels insane. Hard to describe, but you just feel like you can fly once you get started on eating things that are good for your gut and avoid things that are really bad for you. I was surprised at which things were bad for you and how they affected you. Because most people know that white bread isn’t good for you, but they don’t actually know what it does to your body. Not really. And once you know, it’s really eye opening.
Edit to add: here are some examples of good and bad ryebread:
Bad:
Good:
If it doesn’t have seeds in it, it’s worthless. Doesn’t mean you can’t have white bread and seedless ryebread, but if your aim is to lose weight and improve your digestion, you won’t get far with those types of bread.
This screams: I ran on the treadmill for an hour and I deserve a snack. Said snack is energy bars or something like that.
I know, because that’s how I used to think. Went to a dietist and her words were: Exercise is for toning, eating is for weightloss.
Yeah, you burn calories and you lose weight if you exercise a lot, but let’s be real, most of us aren’t exercising a lot. Going to the gym for an hour isn’t the same as doing athlete sports or manual labor.
That’s why, if we want to lose weight, we have to look at portion control, lean protein, cut down on starch and eating a lot of greens.
You can still eat a lot while losing weight, but most people aren’t going to eat the right things and that’s the issue. I was told that energy bars, crackers and anything bread-related outside of rye bread, was a weightloss killer.
It doesn’t mean you can never ever have bread again, but if your aim is to lose weight, you’re not gonna get very far if you snack on bread and crackers. If you snack on vegetables, however, you’ll be able to eat A LOT.
There are always things you can do to adjust your diet so that you will lose weight, but if you don’t know anything about what different types of food actually does to your body, you may think you’re doing the right thing by eating ten bananas a day, but the scales don’t move because you ate frigging ten bananas a day!
Doesn’t mean you can never eat bananas or squash or fatty fish ever again, but while losing weight, you’re supposed get less calories than what you need to sustain your weight. It helps reading into it and getting a basic idea of what, how and where. I didn’t know shit before I had a professional helping me. I’m still no expert and my weight still goes up and down during different seasons of my life, but I know why and I know how to fix it when I get the motivation. Losing weight is very, very, very easy once you make up your mind to do it and have a basic understanding of what food does to the body.
No, losing weight is very very SIMPLE.
But a lot of people, like me when I was obese, don’t struggle with knowing what to eat. We struggle with our brain, with satiety, with binging. With failing and comforting ourselves with food and failing more. With controlling food as a means of controlling our lives. With not taking ownership of our problems.
It’s not easy at all. It’s really fucking hard. But at least it’s not complicated.
I’m not a stranger to having those problems, but if you read what I said, you’d also know that I said that once you make up your mind and have the knowledge necessary to make the choices that leads to weightloss, it is very very very easy.
That hard part is breaking out of the cycle and establishing a healthier habit. Once you’re on that track, losing weight is easy.
But if you don’t have the motivation and/or the right mindset, it will not happen, and there can be a myriad of reasons as to why that is. Life circumstances, mental health and such. I myself have dealt with a lot of blows in my life recently that has caused me to gain weight and I’m going to lose the weight when I go on break and finally get some time away from the stress. And after that, it’s gonna be pretty easy to keep going.
But losing weight is easy. I will always stand by that.
Nice if that is so easy for you. Let me tell you how that feels for me: As soon as my body does not get its usual amount of calories, it replies with relentless hunger. The kind that burns in your stomach and distracts you from everything else. The only thing my brain wants to think about is how to get more food and how tasty it would be. If I don’t give in, I go into energy save mode: I feel exhausted, my body does not want to move or do anything that could cost it valuable calories.
For a lot of people losing weight is not easy. You could also tell a smoker that it is easy to quit smoking, just don’t pick up a cigarette anymore.
This is why things like ozempic are used despite it’s side effect. It gives you time to get in the habit of a healthy diet without the brutal hunger and hopefully your body accepts that diet when you reduce the dosage.
I’d you’re open to advice: calories aren’t what makes you feel full. Mass makes you feel full (a bit over simplified, but not completely wrong), so what you need to do is eat stuff, and I ate SO many carrots and cucumbers when I was trying to feel more full without more calories.
I absolutely hate raw carrots now, but eh, small price to pay.
Yeah, except then you die. So actually DO keep smoking, but limit yourself to 3x a quarter of a cigarette per day. Easy, right?
It does help with the immediate hunger, but it comes back strong once your body realises it was “cheated” out of calories. I am not sure I can withstand that for a long time. But maybe a short time would already be an improvement.
So thanks I will try to have carrots lying around at all times and try to eat them first between meals. Maybe it helps.
Also have you asked a smoker how it feels to slightly reduce the number of cigarettes per day?
Your body gets used to the amount of calories you eat. So if you don’t eat to that amount, it freaks out and thinks you’re dying (/dramatic effect). After gradually reducing your daily caloric intake and hitting your new maintenance target, over time your body will get used to the new norm.
Yes, that is often the case, but reducing it is the hard part. You need to keep it at a lower level for a while before your body adjusts.
Note that for some people it never adapts completely. Those people will always feel hungry or crave a snack and are never satisfied with the level of calories they actually need.
Just out of curiosity have you used ozempic and if so did you notice a decrease in severity of the hunger related symptoms on your mentality?
I did not, I know two people who do and they were impressed how easy it was to stick to their recommended diet. However, they are still on it, the interesting part is if you can get off without reverting your behaviour. Also they did not have any side effects so far, so lucky them.
I am currently holding my weight and don’t plan on using it.
What makes rye special?
If it’s made the right way, with lots of seeds in it, like we do here in Scandinavia, it’s really good for gut health and it helps making you feel full quickly. The best brand of rye bread for losing weight is Herkules rugbrød
As it is low in fat, but still dense and the slices are rather thick.
White bread is terrible for the gut and my old dietist described it as sticky caramel in the intestines that makes digestion more difficult.
When I got started on my diet plan with her back in the day, she encouraged me to eat raw broccoli and kale and stuff like that because they are like those big rotating brushes in a car wash, but inside your intestines. They will clean up all the mess in there and help your digestion. Which was so true. Not gonna go into details, but let’s just say that toilet visits were pretty intense for a few days. It’s insane how much shit (literally) that is just chilling inside the body if your diet is poor.
The difference also feels insane. Hard to describe, but you just feel like you can fly once you get started on eating things that are good for your gut and avoid things that are really bad for you. I was surprised at which things were bad for you and how they affected you. Because most people know that white bread isn’t good for you, but they don’t actually know what it does to your body. Not really. And once you know, it’s really eye opening.
Edit to add: here are some examples of good and bad ryebread:
Bad:
Good:
If it doesn’t have seeds in it, it’s worthless. Doesn’t mean you can’t have white bread and seedless ryebread, but if your aim is to lose weight and improve your digestion, you won’t get far with those types of bread.