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.
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.