how to lose weight

[alexx_chose_jr]

how to lose weight if I myself have a high appetite?

[Rosepetal60 Gluten Free]

Lots of vegetables but not ordinary potatoes. And smaller portions of other foods on your plate. Cut down on bread, try and manage without it. It gets easier as time goes by. No eating after 8 pm if you can manage that or 9 pm at latest.

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Hi alexx, my advice: avoid processed foods as much as possible and aim for half your dinner plate to be veg/salad. Also use a food+fitness tracker - Myfitnesspal is very good, so you will be able to see what works for you. Good luck!

[Subtle_badger]

High appetite is driven by your hormones. To lose weight you have to cut back on carbs and increase natural fats.

This is a good summary:

healthunlocked.com/lchf-die...

[Englishgentleman]

There is a diet app called nutracheck it’s only £24 for a whole year . Input your correct information and it will give you a daily calorie allowance to eat to lose ,maintain or gain weight depending on personal goals . It’s an eye opening experience for most to learn about how many calories one truly consumes in one day . There is a barcode scanner part of the app for easy input of foods/fluids .. follow it religiously and you will lose weight ! You can eat whatever you like just remain in your calorie allowance given , although eating healthy foods are more beneficial for wellbeing there not crucial for weight loss itself . Also be honest with yourself and input data correctly and you will see results

[Subtle_badger in reply to Englishgentleman]

I think this is not helpful advice. Weighing and logging food, stopping eating when an app tells you may lead to short term weightloss, but it's not a long term solution. Being hungry all the time is not a happy state, and combining that with minutely recording everything you eat is going to make you completely obsessed with food. It will lead to a likely binge, or if you manage to keep going until you lose the desired weight, then what then? Continue weighing and obsessing and being hungry the rest of your life? That's not sustainable.

And even if you resolve to be hungry forever, your body may still sabotage you. If it decides the lack of food is a famine, then it will lower the BMR, dropping your body temperature and robbing you of energy to lower your incidental movement. Then you end up tired, cold, hungry and yet the weight starts coming back.

[Englishgentleman in reply to Subtle_badger]

You clearly don’t know what your talking about .

First of all what makes you think you’d go hungry all the time being in a calorie deficit?

Weighing and logging food is absolutely beneficial it’s a clear learning process , as you weigh and log your food you really learn what is in each food source you choose to eat calorie wise and macro wise . You get an absolutely clear idea of what a ‘real’ healthy diet looks like as you learn along the way which foods contain what amounts .

Losing weight or gaining is simply calories in vs Calories out it really is that simple . Calorie counting is definitely not a short term solution to fat loss it is the only real way to achieve fatloss ! Simply guessing your way through life with what you eat or getting a gym membership and hoping your doing enough exercise to counteract a bad diet will most likely lead no where ,without really focusing in the situation in hand you’ll spend months/years spinning your wheels ! Trouble is people want a quick easy fix to fatloss and don’t want to put the effort in . But the good news is once you’ve lost the weight and go to a maintenance calorie diet after spending “x” amount of time losing you will have learnt what a proper daily amount of food looks like so you probably won’t need the app to maintain weight .. but if you start Gaining again just diet again .. simples !!

[Subtle_badger in reply to Englishgentleman]

"Gaining again just diet again"

And that's called yoyo dieting, where we all end up much fatter.

Seriously?

Humans were not obese until the late 20th century. If you eat the foods we evolved to eat, you can be slim without counting anything. If you think you can eat whatever junk you want, you will be fat if you let your guard down.

And you will let your guard down.

[Englishgentleman in reply to Subtle_badger]

Yes gaining again is probably likely “IF”you don’t continue calorie counting . If your maintenance calorie allowance is 2000 you’d be hard pushed to eat bang on 2000 every day with randomly eating whatever everyday . So chances are you’ll under-eat or over-eat and on a long term basis one option will most likely become the case meaning you’ll gradually become fluffy over time or gradually have your rib cage appear . In most cases of people’s lives it’ll not be a continuous incline or decline of either but a mixture of both so most people appear to hardly change significantly in either direction but they do so enough to be classed as naturally skinny or abit heavier. Yo yo dieting is caused by quick fix fad diets which aren’t sustainable long term and the backlash of extreme calorie restrictions cause the rebound effect causing the regain and more .what I’m suggesting is a lifestyle that is absolutely guaranteed to work . I’m not sure why your trying to pull apart my good advice though ? I’m guessing your someone who tried all the quick fix techniques and won’t actually put the effort into committing to a long term lifestyle change because it requires effort ..

Also if you believe nobody was obese before the 20th century then you need to bury your nose in a few history books ! But I do think you have a slight point in regards to our food manufacturing processes of today I think food is far to tampered with today and a raw vegan lifestyle or something similar is a good idea , going back to basics.

I can tell you now from tried and tested experience what I’m saying is 100% effective.

[Cooper27 Administrator]

Sometimes it t helps to find external motivation, which is where slimming clubs like Slimming World and WW can be useful. There's also a weightloss support group on Health Unlocked:

healthunlocked.com/weight-l...

I find I need accountability and goals to keep me motivated. Maybe finding a challenge (like practicing for a 5k run or working up to 100 sit ups in one go.

[Subtle_badger in reply to Cooper27]

I would never recommend slimming world. I know lots of people who have joined and lost weight, but no one who has kept it off. It's just yo-yo dieting that you have to pay for.

[Cooper27 Administrator in reply to Subtle_badger]

I went to slimming world myself, and there were ladies there who had managed to sustain their weight loss for years, and still popped in monthly for the accountability. It didn't suit me, but it seemed to suit many.

The main appeal from my perspective is the accountability - some people thrive better with that, others do better in their own.

[Subtle_badger]

Read Fast800. It so inspired me, I took a before photo. very happy I did.

I only followed it closely for a month, but it changed my relationship with food.