[foroneonly]

I gained weight during college and trying to determine the most efficient way to lose. Any advice or experiences with different diets/ eating plans?

[Berkut]

Not to sound flippant by being succint; I'm serious, and know from my own experiences, that the best way is to eat less and exercise more.

edit:
I wanted to lose 20 pounds I gained after an injury and downloaded a free app called MyFitnessPal for counting calories. Counting calories works; I've lost 23 lbs and am back on track with my exercise regimen.

[Fecal McAngry]

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	I gained weight during college and trying to determine the most efficient way to lose. Any advice or experiences with different diets/ eating plans?

I would suggest you become familiar with the various variants of the paleo diet, using the phrase "paleo diet" as a useful template rather than a dogmatic pseudo-religious dogma. If you would like for me to suggest books/sites, I'd be happy to. Just ask.

[Subgenius]

Doctors suggest weight watchers. It's kind of gimmicky and tries to upsell, but you don't have to buy anything. It has a good track record. The support system they offer is kind of what hooks folks in. It's worked for 2 members of my family, but there are detractors too, and it does cost 10 bucks a week. Sometimes folks just have a hard time maintaining discipline with the whole "burn more calories than you take in" rule.

[mieu]

This thread should help


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Calories in, calories out. The cleaner the better (macronutrient balance).

[Nadette]

It probably depends on your personality. I gained about 15-20 pounds in college too. At the time, I completely freaked out and developed BDD and some sort of eating disorder, I'm sure. I hated my body and went on a kind of extreme diet and lost weight but immediately gained back even more. I thought about wanting food constantly and felt sorry for myself.

I didn't lose the weight until I decided to just accept myself the way I was and focus more on being healthy than on looking good. I've since lost all the weight without really trying. Here are some things that I think helped:

-moving to the city and giving my car away (I walk a lot to just get around and almost never exercise just for the sake of exercising)

-exercise not to exercise but to be alone or to deal with stress (I love long walks or bike rides with music when I am stressed)

-eat healthy, but DON'T DEPRIVE YOURSELF (I eat lots of fruits/veggies and little meat, but I still buy chocolate croissants for breakfast sometimes and I frequently keep a cake in the kitchen to snack on throughout the week. If I tell myself I can't have something, I tend to obsess about it until I binge.)

-learn to listen to your body (For me, the first step was listening for my body to tell me when I wasn't actually hungry. Eventually I learned that my body really needs to eat more often than three times a day or its blood sugar will get low. It just needs to eat less at a time.)

-try to surround yourself with friends who don't obsess about food/weight (There is really more to life! The less you have to hear about it, the less you'll think about it.)

[gestalt]

I would only recommmend it for people who have already had the self-discipline to reach a relatively high level of fitness or success in another part of their life... but there's something to be said for just starving (OK...fast) yourself until you get to your ideal weight. Warning: You'll lose some strength along the way, and you'll also be more prone to expanding fat cells if you continuously binge after reaching your ideal weight. So add food back slowly without gorging yourself. It is important to keep in mind that food is energy and to be respected, much like drugs. It gives you the potential to achieve better genetic trait expression - most of which are related to sexual hormone release as a result of intense, focused, kick-your-ass exercise.

Foods high in fiber like large servings of steamed vegetables and large salads help a lot. Eating fat and protein are good too. Basically the main thing will be nipping your sugar and processed carbohydrate addiction in the bud. Addictions can be hard to get over. There might be a need to adopt a different belief system related to the pleasure food gives -- for a student the sugar/glucose (and remember that carbs and alcohol get "sugarized" very efficiently) might be a toughie because those body-feelings and satisfaction are associated with having the brain-energy to learn. Positive psychology, a growth mindset, and a strong reward/goal system can help.

[Noelle]

I have found in the past that the harder I tried to diet, the more weight I gained or yo-yo'd on my weight.

After some health problems, I just started focusing on being healthy and feeling better, and the weight melted off and I didn't even know it until I put on my clothes one day and went 'wow, these are baggy.' It's a self-rewarding cycle, you eat the things that make you feel better (healthier food) you keep doing it. The same goes for exercise.

I highly reccommend just starting some minor exercise like walking, then as you get used to that you can build up to jogging, then running. Just remember, go slow and steady, weight takes a long time to come off because it took an equally long time to put on.

[gestalt]

Yeah... it is probably not good to think of losing weight for the sake of losing weight.

Rather you are committing to life-time fitness and any other goals you have physically.

Again, that you're into taking care of yourself and eating right for LIFE should be the primary belief. You want to live a long time, look good, feel good, and take all that negative self-image junk and sweep it into a compartment where it will turn to dust. Treat yourself, your body, and your mind as a fertile garden -- put all good things into it and be ever watchful to get the round-up out and zap those negative feelings.

[AnotherAvatar]

How would you like to lose 30 lbs inside of 60 days? $5000

[Subgenius]

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[Typhon]

I think I posted this somewhere on the forums but I find this diet to work best:

Eat beef. Pick up something heavy and then put it down. Repeat.

But a more detailed version would be this. Cut the crap out of your diet, make sure you get protein and some fats, reduce carbs drastically and make sure that your carbs mostly come from fresh veggies and fruits, and exercise your body to burn off excess calories. Your body is your best insurance plan and it houses your potent INTJ brain, so take care of it.

[ActiveMeasures]

In the last two years I gained close to 50lbs due to back to back medical issues. (Staph and a broken foot/torn muscle).

I was always a big guy, around 240, but I was always active. Boxing, Wrestling, Hockey, stuff like that. In those two years I got wayyy up there in weight. Recently I started training again and eating right.

I am eating under 1800 calories a day and training hard 3x a week at least.

Track your calories and carbs. Depending on your height/weight/age you can extrapolate how many calories you can eat and lose weight. I recommend CalorieCounter.com

On days I train, I run a 1500+ calorie deficit. On non training days, I am about even. Even on days I don't train, I go on an hour walk/jog around the neighborhood.

[ModernLit]

well, this isn't the most fun way to lose weight, but i pretty much instantly lost 5 pounds when i cut bread/gluten from my diet. :/
i am sad that pasta is no more. quinoa pasta just isn't the same...
then again, i didn't really have a choice. i was having reactions to gluten. but i used to loooove bread and would eat tons of it. i used to drink half-and-half straight, too. i can't drink milk now either. wonder if it's all relative
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[Tinpusher]

This is relatively easy to do, it just takes a bit of will power and patience.

Oh and, make sure the
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or else you will just explode and go straight out and buy buckets of junk food within a fortnight.

Breakfast, yoghurt and branflakes with a little cinnamon.

Lunch, boiled egg, tuna & low fat mayo. OR slices of cold meat with salad, low fat dressing. Tomatoes and chopped chicken is always good. Apple or orange.

Dinner, a lean meat and veg combo. (alter the meats, chicken, fish, beef, pork. Alter the veg brocoli, spinnach, cauliflower, sprouts, carrots, peas). A nice tomato based sauce (blend some up with pesto etc) makes a big difference. Variety here is very important! Same basic model, just have different things every day or else you'll find yourself sobbing into your large Whopper meal soon enough.

Drinks, Water, fruit teas, mint teas.

Snacks, Nuts. Almonds, walnuts, peanuts (no salt or coatings)

NO Bread, junk food or sugary drinks.

Do this for a couple of months whilst doing
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and the pounds will fall off you.

Helps to have a goal, and it helps if that goal is primal...Think sex, and how the quality of it will improve when you can attract more physical specimens and/or last longer with your partner. If you're a bloke...It makes your dick bigger as well.

[rhee]

I do a primal / grainless weston a price diet. I lost 50lbs in 4 months just simply ditching the grains. I am also able to sustain my health and weightloss because Im not obsessing over calories.

[DrCiao]

I've always been pretty active, but my rule is basically to stop eating before you get full. Also short training programs seem to work for me. I run about 4 miles everyday.

As for diet, I've always been a meat and potatoes guy, but due to my vegetarian girlfriend's influence, I've been trying some meatless hippie food. It's not bad, and I still crave bloody steaks but I noticed that my energy level increased on days that she cooks her intricate veggie meals.

[HackerX]

The best diet for losing weight is one that you're able to maintain indefinitely. Regardless of anything else, as long as it's effective in the calories in calories out, you've got to be able to maintain it otherwise you're wasting your time.

[ummon]

First law of Thermodynamics applied to the body: Change in energy stored (usually as fat) = Energy in (calories consumed) - energy out (calories expended)

Eat small quantities of unprocessed foods which are high in nutrients and low in easy calories, and exercise and/or do deep thinking to use up whatever limited calories you eat.

Don't go too drastic though, as your body might prefer to shut down important systems to limit energy expenditure rather than use up stored energy.

[MrFlaneur]

Less in, more out.

Cut out bread and "entertainment" food.

I dropped 4st at one point - then my hair began to fall out.

Be disciplined, be sensible.

[Fluffy]

Best sure fire way to lose weight is to stop eating processed food and eat whole natural food. When you get that out.the.way, you then need to find at least 30 mins to an hour and do some strenuous activity. After a few months, the average person will show signs of thining up. Depending on how much weight you need to lose depends on the amount of time needed to spend to work it off. At most, it should take a year.

Pro tips:
Get a partner for motivation
Count calories as well as carbs as well as protein
Don't give up. The second you let the mind win, all your hard work will go away before you even know it. (look at Arnold aka the governator)
And if you are a female, don't worry your silly head about gaining wonder woman hulk muscle. Unless you plan to train for years or take roids, you will never gain muscle as quick as a man.....unless you have good genetics. Most you will gain is lean muscle that most men like.

[ActiveMeasures]

Just a small update. I started training again yesterday. I had to take almost a month off due to work and family related issues. I kept eating well though, and some recent relationship issues have had me eating even less. Either way, since Mid Februrary, I am down 20lbs.

Another 50 to go before I am at my old "fight" weight. In the past week or two is when I really noticed the difference. My shorts/pants are looser and I had to add a notch to my belt.

[Uber10]

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	First law of Thermodynamics applied to the body: Change in energy stored (usually as fat) = Energy in (calories consumed) - energy out (calories expended)

Yes and no. Hormones have their hands on the calorie valve. To put it simply, if insuline is high the fat cells are in absorption mode, not release. And carbs are THE main insuline elevator.

You are going to tell me that this person and that person lost weight simply diminishing calories by eating less. What hapen when you eat less? You diminish everything, so obviously you also eat less carbs, wich help lower the insuline level.

There is more to it, but in summary: to lose weight lose the carbs

[Zodd]

Eat nothing. Drink nothing. Keep running as fast as you can.

[flower]

the first step is to love and accept yourself, this I say from experience. When you hate your body and yourself you only focus on that and not on being healthy, which can get you in a depression and a downward spiral. Just take care of yourself exercising because you care for yourself not because you have to loose weight.

When I use to look up this same question online I would hate all the reasonable sugestions, I usually wanted a miracle sugestion that would get me to my desired weight in a week, but deep down we know it takes work and time.