Personally, I'm getting to be overweight again, and I keep putting off the diet, but it's about time I get back to it. I'm personally a fan of counting and tracking calories, what does everyone else like to do?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @dot 4h
Completely dry fast if possible. If you're not used to it, try intermittent fasting by eating only one meal before noon. You can practice this intermittent fasting once a week. The meal should be light, such as grains, vegetables, or fruits. After the fast, if you want to return to normal meals, eat slowly and in small portions.
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62 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 8h
Carnivore all the way, baby! Or even keto or low carb, if you can't do carnivore.
I didn't lose weight on it myself (didn't need to) but I got a lot healthier.
Close family lost 20 pounds fairly easily on keto, and has kept it off for 5 months so far, continuing with keto.
If you're interested in Carnivore, here's what I'd do:
- Read the book The Big Fat Surprise - very well researched book on why standard diet advice is garbage (see my post on it here #956777). It's like de-programming yourself, from the cult of the current nutritional guidelines. Most of what you hear (saturated fat is bad, plants and veggies and fiber is good, meat is bad) is false.
- Listen to some of the Carnivore podcasts/youtube channels. Dr Ken Berry, Dr Anthony Chaffee, Dr Shawn Baker. There so many interviews out there about people healing from autoimmune issues, especially skin and gut. And, of course, lots of weight loss.
- If you're going to start carnivore, look at some the videos entitled something like "top problems when starting carnivore". Oftentimes it's smooth sailing, but there are known issues that can crop up, that can be easily avoided.
Here's some of my carnivore posts:
2025-03: I was unknowingly almost vegetarian, before going carnivore
2025-02: Is sugar the new smoking?
2025-02: I would continue with Carnivore even if I got only this ONE benefit
2025-02: Weird, oddball health improvements I've experienced on the Carnivore diet
2024-10: There's currently a propaganda campaign against low-carb diets
2024-07: Carnivore quotes in classical literature
2024-04: Carnivore diet - looks like it fixed this nighttime disorder for me
2024-04: Carnivore diet - believe it or not, it healed this oddball disorder for me
2024-04: Can a keto/carnivore diet heal issues like depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar?
2024-04: Eating Carnivore on a short trip - tips and tricks
2024-01: Latest steps in my carnivore path
2024-01: Carnivore achievements unlocked
2024-01: Taking a temporary break from mostly-carnivore diet during holidays
2023-12: Sugar and Alzheimers
2023-12: Kinda-carnivore diet is leading to WAY more energy
2024-12: Question for carnivores/carnivore-curious folks
2023-12: I'm transitioning ... to a more MEAT centric diet
2023-11: This book is blowing my mind - The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 8h
Intermittent fasting seems to be working well for me so far (10am - 6pm) I still eat whatever is going, I don't go overboard with sugar or chocolate. I also drink black coffee in the morning which keeps the hunger away very well.
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116 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 15h
Fasting is the only thing that I've been able to get results with. Then, effective maintenance is low carb without dairy - but even that I can't stick with very long, so I need occasional fasts as I go (every other day, or a 5-7 day fast every quarter).
The problem for me is a I need things to be intense to find them engaging. Interventions need to be radical to get my dopamine going. Calorie counting is too boring for my weird brain.
I've unintentionally been doing OMAD this week and feel pretty great on a relative basis.
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74 sats \ 5 replies \ @Aardvark OP 15h
I make it intense by putting myself on 1k deficit. Ripping through 2lbs a week keeps me engaged. When it comes to maintenance, forget it, I get bored fast.
It's crazy how different everyone is though. That's why I don't necessarily give diet advice.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 14h
can you keep this up though?
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark OP 13h
When I was extremely overweight, I dropped i think 107 lbs in 11 months.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 11h
daaaaang
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 10h
how's your mood? WHat's your energy like?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 10h
When I start getting really lean my energy is awful, but usually it's fine up until the end.
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112 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 16h
Intermittent fasting. I hate tracking what I’m eating but I don’t mind restricting when I eat.
I also tend to eat healthier, when I’m doing this. The cravings for healthy food are relatively greater when I’m not eating all day.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 15h
I might try that again. I hate feeling hungry, but I think my main issue is that even if I did OMAD I could probably smash 3000 calories.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 8h
You and I share the affliction of seeing uneaten food as a challenge.
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 8h
Don't stop until it hurts baby!
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42 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 14h
making sure you still have fun while losing weight
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 14h
That's a big one.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 13h
You reminded me that I wanted to create a photo album of all the food I eat but I always immediately fail the next time I eat something. After I ate it, I remember that I wanted to take a picture of it first to start my album ....
Maybe I will start today but I must have had this idea for over a year lol
I think it would be fun to flip through the photo album to see all the stuff I ate. And because I don't want to embarrass my future self, the idea is that I will not eat so much shit.
Basically like a private Instagram about food for my future self!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 13h
Lol, yea, it won't make nearly as pretty of a picture the next time you see it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 11h
Nice one!
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102 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 16h
Not eating copious amounts of ice crem at midnight seems to have worked well for me. I have dropped 5 pounds since I cut out the sweets. That wasn't really the goal, more so wanted to break a bad habit, but it was a nice benefit.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ken 15h
That midnight ice cream gets us all sometimes
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 16h
A lot of people can do something small like that and see a pretty significant benefit. It's extremely easy to cut a few 100 calories
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120 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 15h
Get rid of carbs. Add as much as I can meat, fat, butter. Avoid plants and seeds.
p.s. this is not health advise
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52 sats \ 1 reply \ @Public_N_M_E 15h
Just getting the whole F after it.
Lift heavy and work in a 200-500 calorie deficit and you'll be great, it's sustainable and doesn't flip flop your body around.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 15h
I love lifting heavy!
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 13h
Before you start a diet, try to identify the unhealthy lifestyle, not necessarily diet-related, habits you have. For example, do you have enough sleep? What are your stress levels? Are you able to unwind on command?
Once you have clarity about it you'll know exactly what to do.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Blank 13h
I lost a shitload of weight in a short amount of time doing my own version snake diet. (Omad, with 48-72 hour fasts once a week) That was a lot of fun, and seeing results right away kept me motivated.
Nowadays, I'm just eating better with more physical activity. I prefer this way because I don't need to adjust my attitude, and can still enjoy the occasional treat.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 11h
dunno... Have mo experience w it. Move body a lot, sunlight early in the morning etc
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @User21000000 11h
The only way is being in a calorie deficit
By what you eat and what you do. But mostly the what you eat.
It’s not that hard to bring it back into your life mate only need to drop out 7700 cals to lose a kg approx which you can reduce your cals over a week it’s doable
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @CarlTuckerson 12h
“Weight loss? Oh, no, no, no. I don’t lose weight—I liberate stored generational trauma through intuitive movement, fermented rituals, and consent-based sweating.”
My Preferred Method includes:
🌱 Morning yoga on stolen land—with a land acknowledgment between sun salutations.
🧘♂️ Breathwork guided by a non-binary healer who only speaks in affirmations.
🌈 A raw, anti-imperialist, community-sourced kale cleanse (with reparations built into the pricing).
💃 Dance therapy set to eco-feminist drum circles where calories are burned in protest of colonial portion control.
🕯️ Shadow work. Lots of shadow work. Sometimes in a sauna.
Also, I only eat when Mercury is in a decolonized orbit. Anything else is capitalist hunger.
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 15h
Eat less move more
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 13h
Digging for hours
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave 14h
fasting
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 14h
DAVE! what up?!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @JesseJames 14h
stop eating cookies...lol
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 13h
Intermittent fasting, or just fasting.
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bear 11h
Understand sugar.
Then understand starch is sugar
Then understands carbs are starch are sugar.
Stop eating sugar.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @GregAsks 3h
Eating window.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 5h
Don't sleep more than 8 hours.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @krispy_donkey 5h
I swear by my HIIT workouts which I do at home once or twice a week. All one needs is enough space for a yoga mat and two dumbbells which dont need to be very heavy. They are available on YouTube.
Otherwise the only other thing I can recommend is sticking to real food, this part is more lifestyle change than ‘going on a diet’. With that said I find the HIIT workouts to do most of the heavy lifting here and you can eat pretty much anything you want. Lastly beer is very good for you, certainly a lot better than Coke, as I learned on a recently 30 day no alcohol stint.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @88b0c423eb 8h freebie
My challenge is to gain weight not the contrary. I always feel like having a negative account, being fat is having a lot of money in the account.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dingding541 10h
Bitcoin dropping 90% should do the trick 🤣🤣
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten 10h
You saying I'm fat?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nzowashua 11h
Making diet effectively, but also having a gym time to reduce calories
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @harrigan 12h
Keto.
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