Here's a couple free ones:
Quit drinking alcohol
When I quit drinking I lost about 50 pounds in 6 months with no other diet changes.
Basically stop drinking your calories.
Another one:
Only buy foods you have to prepare, no snacks.
That way you can prevent yourself from idly eating when bored.
It's also best to question yourself if you're really hungry or do you just want to eat. Some of us have used food as a mechanism to cope with trauma or our problems and not just because we needed nutrition.
Some people also eat from boredom or habit; sit in front to the TV, get a snack. Turn on the Xbox, get a snack.
It's me, I'm people. And I'm not even out of shape, just bad habits.
I'm real close to trading in my gaming chair for a recumbent bike. I've done it before, but sold it in a move. I don't even sweat; I just keep moving. Works well.
What do you replace alcohol with? Hiking through nature? Meditation? Cocaine?
When I stopped drinking I found myself with a lot of free time I could dedicate to things, and also a lot of free time that I could dedicate to working on my mental health.
I was drinking about a fifth of alcohol every night (except Saturday, those were more) and none of it was less than 50% alcohol as anything less was a waste of time for me.
Cocaine is great for weight-loss..
Your second recommendation won't work for everyone. For me, when I don't have the time or energy to cook I am more likely to order unhealthy food or get take out. It helped me a lot to have easy fast healthy options at home. Frozen veggies can be thrown in the oven and then dusted with a really good spice mix. Sandwich with good whole grain bread and lean meats. Once I learned to expect at least 2 "I give up" nights a week, I was able to finally lose a few pounds.
I struggled with this for awhile my solution was literally to go hungry I might skip one or two meals but eventually the hunger pains will beat away the laziness and make it a higher priority. Once I felt the pain enough I got a positive hit from cooking I didn’t get before.
You don't need to cook every day, just cook a large meal once at weekends and freeze it. I always cook about 8 to 12 servings, so I can skip cooking about every other weekend. I'm lazy, so I mostly make stews, soups, lasagnas or sauces for which i just need to add a fresh portion of rice or pasta I boil the day before. These meals take 2 hours to make (max) and I'm prepared for at least a week. The excess servings of each week add up fast, so I already had some variety after a few weeks. I eat those for lunch when I'm at work and started to make whatever-salads in the evening about a week ago (vinegar-oil dressing, whatever spices/herbs, whatever veggies, whatever proteins). Best decision I made, I'm eating far less crap, less meat and the urge to order food is getting rarer. Hoping I'm gonna lose some of my fat ass in the long run, too :)
When I was trying to lost weight I was also broke as hell, so for me ordering unhealthy food or eating take out wasn't really an option.
Frozen veggies are a great option, and fall under the purview of stuff needing cooked.
Assuming you are in good health other than wanting to lose weight the best thing you can do is buy a food scale and portion out your food and eat 1500 calories a day and no more. Eat what you want when you want just no more than 1500 and you will lose weight like crazy. That's how I did it and I lost a full person's worth of weight, like a full 50% of my body weight.
Look. I really hate to be harsh here, but this is terrible advice.
Yes you'll lose weight because eating only 1500 calories a day is definitional malnutrition. Any "diet" which claims that is healthy is very literally encouraging people to develop eating disorders. You absurdly absolutely can't do it by "eating anything you want."
Unless you are doing this under strict super vision from a dietician and your doctor, for a specific medical reason, it is extremely dangerous and more likely to cause other problems with your overall health in the long run. You will almost certainly not get the nutrie ta your body needs to function correctly if you are not carefully monitoring what you are eating with professional help. You're also significantly more likely to end up with an eating disorder. These diets are extremely harmful, I hate seeing them literally everywhere.
You may have seen results in losing weight in such a "diet" because you were very literally starving your body of the calories it needs to function. That just isn't a healthy way to lose weight.
If your doctor is telling you that you are in good health and the only reason you want to lose weight is cosmetic, don't do it. Unless it is directly impacting your health and your doctor is recommending it and supervising it, forcing yourself to eat significantly less than what you need to function is not safe.
Only buy foods you have to prepare, no snacks
That doesn't count for fruits and stuff like carrots
Is there a hydrohomies community here?
There is one over on Lemmy.ml.
Managed to find [email protected]
I've been looking for the OG community for water lovers before we had to migrate hydrohomies
Time to bring back WaterNiggas
We are hydrohomies now. People of culture 🧐
The og.
I was hoping that would happen
As American, can confidently say that yes, people drink soda as water. You can usually find people who drink directly out of the 2 liters but be mouth agape when you tell them you drink water from the tap
You know tap water ain't healthy, right?
People are so accustomed to sugar overload they literally can't taste anymore. I drink la croix if I want something a bit bubbly, but so many Americans make fun of la croix drinkers. "It's like smelling a lemon from 10 feet away haw haw haw".
No, drinks like that actually have a lot of flavor, but your taste buds are so constantly overwhelmed with sugar that your literal ability to taste has degradated
To be fair, there are places across the world and particularly in the US where the water doesn't taste or smell good, but even then bottled water will do so much better. Though I'm in the UK, I'm considering buying myself a filter because the water tastes a little weird here. Not dangerous - just... too weird for my taste buds.
A lot of the US has fair water when it comes to taste.
Y'all Brits tho. I've had you're water. I'm usually not someone who says "water has taste", but yours does lol.
London especially, was like drinking straight out of the Thames.
Yeah I'd get a filter if I lived there lol. Ours tastes like crisp refreshing nothing, like better than bottled
Absolutely get a filter! My local tap water tastes a little weird to me, too, but a filter is great for that, and is so much better than getting bottled. It also wastes less plastic!
A lot of people in the US don't trust the water, which is strange because you would think that would make people act when a city actually does lose their local water safety but...
Interesting. The only tap water than I've had in America with taste came from homes that had their own wells, like my mother's. Her water used to have a slight egg/sulfur smell before she got a whole home filter. Interestingly, though - on days that it didn't smell, everyone thought it tasted really good.
Ehh, I pretty much only drink water and never soda and I agree with La Croix being irritably mildly flavored trash.
All La Croix taste like what I imagine cardboard tastes like. I think they make it smell like the listed flavor and hope people's brains interpret it as taste.
2 liters..
Will take me a week to get through that.
Halfway through I'd be tired of it and leave it alone for an indiscriminate amount of time. I have trouble finishing 1L bottles, what would I do about 2?
La Croix is vile. I drink unsweetened ice tea instead lol. I have between 1 and 3 gallons of it in my fridge at all times
Wait? American and your soda bottles use litres?
The large ones yes. The smaller ones are still in U.S. Customary, we have 8oz, 12oz, 20oz and sometimes 24oz containers for when you want smaller amounts.
A lot of tap water isn't healthy.
My towns tap water is on a boil notice a few times a month at least.
Soda being unhealthy =/= tap water being healthy
To fix that problem you can install a Reverse Osmosis water filter system under your sink to get a "tap" of purified water and not have to buy water from the store. I got one with a pH re-mineralization stage to add back some beneficial minerals that RO purification removes. The filtered water tastes absolutely perfect.
they literally can't taste anymore
Figuratively.
People are so accustomed to sugar overload they literally can't taste anymore. I drink la croix if I want something a bit bubbly, but so many Americans make fun of la croix drinkers. "It's like smelling a lemon from 10 feet away haw haw haw".
Considering la croix is not sweet, you will have literally the same experience as someone with taste buds that are 100% burned out from sugar. The lemon flavor is recognized by the sense of smell, and to some degree the sour sensing tastebuds.
as someone who exclusively drinks water / sparkling water, La Croix barely has an aftertaste of a hint of flavor lol I prefer most other sparkling waters to it
Polar seltzer is the king of all seltzer. La Croix is like the seltzer water equivalent of drinking RC Cola. Yeah I'm gatekeeping fuzzy water. Let's fight! We're both clearly well hydrated enough door combat.
The only drink that I have regularly except water is coffee. My taste buds are a bit bust too on account of being Indian. I can't taste the subtleties of coffee as some people seem to be able to. Pomegranate, cherry, peach, whatever, can't taste any of them in coffee. The only flavours I can actually taste in coffee are sweet, chocolatey, and well, coffee.
Interesting, that happened to me after covid, my taste buds changed for a few weeks. You are definitely picking up on the more floral and aromatic flavors rather than the obvious sweet ones. In some ways your palette is off, but in other ways you're probably really fine tuned
I am American and I love bubbly waters of all kinds. Sodas taste nice for the first few sips but the flavor loses its appeal quickly and I find them all way too sweet. But seltzers? I can drink them all day.
All my homes stay hydrated. Fuck sodas
We need the HydroHomies community on here
Just created [email protected]
is there a lemmy hydrohomies community? i miss my homies
I'm also searching for it .started being a Lurker on R. now looking up here.
There's [email protected] which seems to be the most active one.
Water?
Like from the toilet?
Not from the toilet, that gives you rads.
Not just water but lots of it. Try to drink at least a gallon a day.
That's some rookie numbers!
I miss all my hydrohomies.
I like russian water
