How do people stay thin?
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Diet and exercise. Half an hour a day of the latter, and three healthy squares of the former, and your waist line should diminish. Consult the internet for free advice on how to do both.
If that doesn't work, then you will at least add a few years on to your life.
If that doesn't work, then you will at least add a few years on to your life.
I once gained weight. The munchies can do that for you.
But my revolutionairy diet made me slim again!
In just two easy steps, you can have the body of your dreams!
1. Eat less.
2. Move more.
To elaborate:
1. Take smaller portions of whatever you are having, and if there's sauce involved, don't use it or just a little. This will work generally unless you eat fastfood like every other day. Then you have problems even I can't solve.
No wait I can don't eat so muchjunkfood!
1.b: Snack on things like almonds, carrots, fruits, and ciggarets instead of candybars and crisps.
2. Buy a bicycle. Go to work and the shops on your bicycle instead of your car, or if it's within 1-2 miles go on foot.
??? (No wait I mean you will burn a lot more calories then you normally would without radically altering your lifestyle!)
Profit.
But my revolutionairy diet made me slim again!
In just two easy steps, you can have the body of your dreams!
1. Eat less.
2. Move more.
To elaborate:
1. Take smaller portions of whatever you are having, and if there's sauce involved, don't use it or just a little. This will work generally unless you eat fastfood like every other day. Then you have problems even I can't solve.
No wait I can don't eat so muchjunkfood!
1.b: Snack on things like almonds, carrots, fruits, and ciggarets instead of candybars and crisps.
2. Buy a bicycle. Go to work and the shops on your bicycle instead of your car, or if it's within 1-2 miles go on foot.
??? (No wait I mean you will burn a lot more calories then you normally would without radically altering your lifestyle!)
Profit.
I grew up in poverty so it was easier to stay thin then.
Now I try not to eat a lot of crap (I still have pizza once or twice a week and I'll stop in Burger King now and then but I have a lot of whole grains and vegetables in my diet too) but really the trick is working out.
Some people require more exercise than others but if you have a good sweaty 45 min workout every day, you'll get in good shape.
Now I try not to eat a lot of crap (I still have pizza once or twice a week and I'll stop in Burger King now and then but I have a lot of whole grains and vegetables in my diet too) but really the trick is working out.
Some people require more exercise than others but if you have a good sweaty 45 min workout every day, you'll get in good shape.
Theres the fast metabolism, and the sparring i do twice a week, plus jogging a dog each day.
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"No carbs" is bro-science. No nutrition specialist or doctor will recommend a diet based on removing carbs completely.Mastodonic said:
Not gorging on everything, just take a small portion and then leave it alone.
Drink nothing but a lot of water, the rest is wasted calories. Count them, and you're golden.
7200 kCal in 1 kg of bodyfat, so calculate your way to slimness!
Also I suffer from Anorexia Nervosa. But yeah, I eat dinner and then some snacks every night. If I loose half a pound more I'm in trouble, bah.
Drink nothing but a lot of water, the rest is wasted calories. Count them, and you're golden.
7200 kCal in 1 kg of bodyfat, so calculate your way to slimness!
Also I suffer from Anorexia Nervosa. But yeah, I eat dinner and then some snacks every night. If I loose half a pound more I'm in trouble, bah.
Doing more, eating less. That's the usual way.
Though I must say I'm starting to wonder about the metabolism thing as I'm not eating to excess in any way - in fact as the cold weather's come on I'm ended up starving hungry at random times in the day despite having normal mealtimes, I'm considering carrying a bag of celery around with me so I don't have to get crisps out of the workplace vending machine - and though I don't have a particularly active lifestyle, I'm not slobbed out on the couch 24/7 either, and I'm awake a bit more than I should be (sleep = very low energy consumption). Plus if I exercise, that just makes me hungry after.
But I can see myself continually gaining weight for the next 3-4 months and not losing much of it next summer. Cuz with all the starvation (and occasionally caving and having... oh, like a piece of toast, or something else fairly lightweight to just fill that hole), my trousers still don't seem to be under any less strain than before.
Though I must say I'm starting to wonder about the metabolism thing as I'm not eating to excess in any way - in fact as the cold weather's come on I'm ended up starving hungry at random times in the day despite having normal mealtimes, I'm considering carrying a bag of celery around with me so I don't have to get crisps out of the workplace vending machine - and though I don't have a particularly active lifestyle, I'm not slobbed out on the couch 24/7 either, and I'm awake a bit more than I should be (sleep = very low energy consumption). Plus if I exercise, that just makes me hungry after.
But I can see myself continually gaining weight for the next 3-4 months and not losing much of it next summer. Cuz with all the starvation (and occasionally caving and having... oh, like a piece of toast, or something else fairly lightweight to just fill that hole), my trousers still don't seem to be under any less strain than before.
Weight loss is easy. Eat less, do more stuff.
People saying it's just magic metabolism need to look that up some more. Metabolism is just essentially what your body is burning, people that exercise have a higher metabolism. People that are jittery will burn more than someone sitting still. My friend will drink 4 cups of coffee and not move at all in his seat. I will always tap my foot or leg or whatever, spin a pencil in my fingers, whatever. Little things like that add up a little over the course of a day.
Also a lot of the people that are thin and seem to eat a lot probably aren't eating as many meals or snacks. I'll have maybe 1 big meal a day, then a small meal and a snack, but if you just came over for dinner you'd assume I ate a ton, only seeing the 1 big meal. A lot of overweight people have trouble knowing exactly how much they are eating too. They underestimate the amount of snacks and such they are having. Write everything down, even that jolly rancher and half a soda that shouldn't amount to much.
Rigidly follow your calorie intake and exercise more and you'll lose weight. To maintain that weight, just ease up on it a little but continue watching what you eat/do. And you've got time, don't do it all at once if it will scare you away, especially with exercise. And make sure you're staying hydrated with water, not Dr Pepper. Replacing drinks with water is one of the simplest ways to start losing weight.
People saying it's just magic metabolism need to look that up some more. Metabolism is just essentially what your body is burning, people that exercise have a higher metabolism. People that are jittery will burn more than someone sitting still. My friend will drink 4 cups of coffee and not move at all in his seat. I will always tap my foot or leg or whatever, spin a pencil in my fingers, whatever. Little things like that add up a little over the course of a day.
Also a lot of the people that are thin and seem to eat a lot probably aren't eating as many meals or snacks. I'll have maybe 1 big meal a day, then a small meal and a snack, but if you just came over for dinner you'd assume I ate a ton, only seeing the 1 big meal. A lot of overweight people have trouble knowing exactly how much they are eating too. They underestimate the amount of snacks and such they are having. Write everything down, even that jolly rancher and half a soda that shouldn't amount to much.
Rigidly follow your calorie intake and exercise more and you'll lose weight. To maintain that weight, just ease up on it a little but continue watching what you eat/do. And you've got time, don't do it all at once if it will scare you away, especially with exercise. And make sure you're staying hydrated with water, not Dr Pepper. Replacing drinks with water is one of the simplest ways to start losing weight.
Fortunately, weight loss is no mystery: reduce your calorie intake below your daily calorie burn (estimated to be between 1800 and 2300 for most adult males, not counting exercise), or increase your burn above your intake. With the help of any calorie/exercise tracker (tons of apps fot this for iOS and Android, as well as many websites), it is easy to keep track of both gain and loss of calories, and thus ensure that you stay below the required intake.
7000-7700 calories respond to 1 kilo of weight (whether from proteins, carbs, fat, etc). This means that if you create a ~7000 calorie deficit, you will have lost 1 kilo. For example, staying 500 calories below your daily calorie burn will lose you approximately 0,5 kilo each week, since 7 days X 500 calories = 3500 calories = half a kilo of fat (which, incidentally, is the normal upper limit for weight loss as recommended by most doctors, though a 7000 weekly deficit (corresponding to a 1000 daily loss) has been known to be acceptable as well).
Yep, really that simple. Then why is weight loss guides one of the most common and popular forms of guides in the history of man, next to Windows support guides? Because while the theory is very simple, and the practice is just as simple in theory
, what people find hard are following the two principles that are key to weight loss: 1) Eat less and more importantly eat right. 2) Exercise.
So, the vast majority of weight loss guides that have any basis in science, deal less with the nutritional principles behind weight loss (or they explain them as quickly as I have, above), and more with motivational factors, ways to stay on target and uphold self-discipline, and ways to gain exercise and reduce calorie intake that might not be directly obvious, but are still based on the simple principles above.
It's always interesting to see all these replies touting a fast metabolism as an answer, when nutritional science is very clear on that calorie deficit versus surplus is the rule for weight loss and gain for damn near every single living human.
7000-7700 calories respond to 1 kilo of weight (whether from proteins, carbs, fat, etc). This means that if you create a ~7000 calorie deficit, you will have lost 1 kilo. For example, staying 500 calories below your daily calorie burn will lose you approximately 0,5 kilo each week, since 7 days X 500 calories = 3500 calories = half a kilo of fat (which, incidentally, is the normal upper limit for weight loss as recommended by most doctors, though a 7000 weekly deficit (corresponding to a 1000 daily loss) has been known to be acceptable as well).
Yep, really that simple. Then why is weight loss guides one of the most common and popular forms of guides in the history of man, next to Windows support guides? Because while the theory is very simple, and the practice is just as simple in theory
, what people find hard are following the two principles that are key to weight loss: 1) Eat less and more importantly eat right. 2) Exercise.So, the vast majority of weight loss guides that have any basis in science, deal less with the nutritional principles behind weight loss (or they explain them as quickly as I have, above), and more with motivational factors, ways to stay on target and uphold self-discipline, and ways to gain exercise and reduce calorie intake that might not be directly obvious, but are still based on the simple principles above.
It's always interesting to see all these replies touting a fast metabolism as an answer, when nutritional science is very clear on that calorie deficit versus surplus is the rule for weight loss and gain for damn near every single living human.
Magic, It's the only possible way.
Nah, It's metabolisms freind, My brother can eat an entire cow and not put on anything. For me however - If i even think about a Jaffa cake i put on 2 stone...
Nah, It's metabolisms freind, My brother can eat an entire cow and not put on anything. For me however - If i even think about a Jaffa cake i put on 2 stone...
This, I eat like a pig and hardly work out (except a 1-hour basketball session with my friends every week), yet i'm still thin as fuck.Princess Molestia said:
High metabolism, very small budget that would be 10 meals per week, sign onto a religion that has fasting as one of their practices to make an excuse about the weekends, ride bike on weekdays.
That's the extent of my dietary habits. Though, when I think about it, I do eat a lot when I get a meal. Got to prepare for the weekend hibernation.
Actually, my youtube channel has a few videos to show people how skinny I am.
That's the extent of my dietary habits. Though, when I think about it, I do eat a lot when I get a meal. Got to prepare for the weekend hibernation.
Actually, my youtube channel has a few videos to show people how skinny I am.