Weight Loss Thread

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Ossoi

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I'll bring up some of these concerns to him in our next appt, see what he says.
I'm confused, are you bringing up the fact he has you on the same calorie intake as a North Korean political prisoner or not?

And I was specifically referring to you advising people to eat 1400 calories a day. If you want to swallow the shitty advice from your doctor that's fine, but don't expect people that have been doing this longer than you to look the other way when you start dishing out shitty advice after a few posts in this thread.

And I didn't even get started on your "careful you don't put eat too many slices of tomato!" nonsense - there is zero chance of tomato making anyone fat.
 

TomServo

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You're making it sound like some grand quest, when its really

1) google, read for 2 min
2) make list of things you need to buy
3) go to [insert store here] and buy all on list.

And cooking some awesome simple meal is:

1) rub chicken breast with 1 tbsp olive oil.
2) put pan on medium to medium-high heat for 5 minutes.
3) put chicken in pan cook 4 min each side, check temperature with thermometer, cook longer if needed until 165 degrees.
4) put a shit ton of spinach in big bowl. optional: add tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, red onion. see youtube video on how to use knife to make a big carrot into smaller pieces of carrot.Note: youtube tip for carrot size reduction can typically be applied to other vegetables.
5) add 2 tbsp light vinigriatte dressing to big bowl of green and healthy things.
6) Eat chicken breast and salad. Add salt, pepper, and barbecue sauce as needed.
7) realize you had no carbs with dinner but still feel full and now you get to eat a serving of ice cream.

Or... gobble your drumsticks in a corner of the living room with hunger-tears in your eyes as you wash them down with hardly-satisfying diet rootbeer while youtube is taunting you with recipes that FILL YOU WITH TERROR AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHY. Oh my god is that thing GREEN? Why would anyone eat that!?

JK, I know you didn't check youtube.
Judges people harshly, gives cooking advice that could pass as a post in the microwave muh dinner thread.

BBQ in a salad? Fucking Philistine
 

Eidal

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BBQ sauce was a suggestion for the chicken and none of this was meant to be a demonstration of cooking prowess. It was a tongue-in-cheek "cooking is easy" list.

edit: season the chicken after cooking it otherwise you risk burning your pepper. Marinading is Cooking 201 and would likely make Brahma shut down and go to wendys.
 

TomServo

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mufuckka didn't even season the chicken what kind of peasant shit is this
All joking aside, the next time you make a steak just youtube a video on making a pan sauce. Dat fond, a little aromatics some stock and reduce to a syrup, (add butter if you want). bam
 

mkopec

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Fucking simple shiskabobs...

Marinate some chicken breast cut up into cubes in lemon juice oregano, garlic and salt pepper for 4+ hours, but at least 2 hours. Add some siraccha in there if you like hot.

Cut up some red onion and peppers into wedges and skewer that and chicken onto some metal skewers or cheap wood ones if youre a pesant. Bonus points for some cauli flour, cherry tomato, zucchini.

Throw on med grill and brush with some olive oil when turning. About 10-15 min.

You can make some garlic aioli the cheap way, just garlic press a few cloves of fresh garlic into some mayo, then mix.

You can make a huge batch of this during weekend and eat throughout the week.
 

Noodleface

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I usually just do what Eidal said but usually I just do chicken, lettuce, cucumbers, cheese, and whatever dressing. I've been eating so much healthier I don't really measure out the dressing too much but I do eat the "Light" versions.
 

Itlan

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1. Who the fuck seasons their food AFTER cooking it? Salt and pepper to taste I guess.
2. Ossoi is correct here, honestly. You're worried about flaps yet you're trying to lose weight at an alarming fucking rate, making the situation worse.
3. Oil & vinegar > any dressing.
4. I like making lists.
 

Noodleface

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1. Who the fuck seasons their food AFTER cooking it? Salt and pepper to taste I guess.
2. Ossoi is correct here, honestly. You're worried about flaps yet you're trying to lose weight at an alarming fucking rate, making the situation worse.
3. Oil & vinegar > any dressing.
4. I like making lists.
I get the burning pepper thing, but it's never really been a problem
 

AladainAF

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2. Ossoi is correct here, honestly. You're worried about flaps yet you're trying to lose weight at an alarming fucking rate, making the situation worse.
Who said I was worried about flaps? BTW I reiterated to my doctor my weight loss over the days, and even asked him if that was cause for concern - his response, "Under normal circumstances, such as being into this diet for several months, absolutely that is a big cause of concern. However, you're a big guy and you're not even two weeks in yet so it wouldn't surprise me if you had 20-30lb of just water weight. I'd expect your weight loss to slow down considerably in the next few days. If it doesn't or you lose faster, let's take a closer look."
 

chaos

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That's because they don't learn how to eat. They simply starve themselves, actually lose the weight, then go back to old habits. Again, my diet is physician administered, and its more than just "get into keto and lose weight gg". I'm learning a lot about how certain foods interact with bodies, etc. I go to a weekly saturday session for 2 hours to learn about this shit. It's not for an education, but so that you can be more prone to make better choices in the future. Losing weight, and keeping it off is a major lifestyle choice you need to commit to the rest of your life, not for a few months.

Quite frankly, the way I've been the last 2 weeks I've never felt better, I can assure you there is no way in hell I'm going back to that shit again. Fuck that.
Nah bro, it is because they look at diet as a temporary thing. "I need to hit X goal and then I've won." They don't understand that it is a life change. They don't make realistic goals or sustainable changes to their diet. And they fail. Again, pulling that right out of my ass from what I have seen. Hell, what I have done. I lost a bunch of weight before and gained a lot of it back, I know exactly why that happened.
 

Gilgamel

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Nah bro, it is because they look at diet as a temporary thing. "I need to hit X goal and then I've won." They don't understand that it is a life change. They don't make realistic goals or sustainable changes to their diet. And they fail. Again, pulling that right out of my ass from what I have seen. Hell, what I have done. I lost a bunch of weight before and gained a lot of it back, I know exactly why that happened.
This is a faulty way of viewing the paradigm. Yes, if someone needs to lose 15 lbs and they have a bunch of shitty habits they need to fix those habits. I personally do not have those shitty habits. I have not drank a calorie in months, other than the very occasional social drink. I do not drink soda. I can go 30+ hours without eating and barely feel it, doing IF for 20 hour periods is literally nothing. The problem is I don't need to lose 15 lbs. I needed to lose 200+. Now, can I do it the "right way" and it work? Yes. But it would take me two years. I am 34. I do not have time for that shit. I am going to do my damnedest to lose the weight in a year, get the excess skin chopped the fuck off, and live the rest of my life as awesomely as humanly possible. I work too hard and I'm too good at the rest of life to be held back by this shit anymore. If going extreme saves me 6 months I consider it well worth it. Time is ultimately the only commodity we have.
 

chaos

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I don't want to be discouraging or anything because I'm really happy for you that you're taking initiative and doing something. But real talk, you didn't get where you are overnight, you got there from poor lifestyle choices. No judgement, I have done the same thing. But I think you're fooling yourself if you think a few months of discipline outweighs years, decades even, of poor choices. It's better to be aware of the failure rate and why that happens. The data says that your way has a higher failrue rate, and that doesn't mean you will fail, and I 100% understand the "fuck this shit, no more" attitude. I have it myself in a way.

Don't look at it as saving you time. If you were to lose this weight, get surgery, and then gain it back within 5 years, did you save any time? How demoralizing would that be? These are things worth pondering. Ultimately yeah, you get the one life, and imo we should be looking at this more as "how do I live the rest of my life to where this never happens again" rather than "how do I get from X to Y the quickest."