I’ve been a bodybuilder for six months and this is my take. The diet is big. Remove excess junk from your food and focus on eating nutrient dense foods. I go hard and measure all my food in grams so I have consistency with my food. Do you have to do this monk level BS? No but I’m pushing myself for health reasons and want to see where it will take me. If you can do four to five meal breaks per day. You just eat a lot less per sitting. It helps keep hunger pains away and I never feel like I’m starving or so full I’ll burst.
If you find your caloric needs per day you can slowly enter a deficit. KEY. Deficit is not starving yourself. So don’t think you can do 1/2 your daily needs and magic will happen. Something will happen but not what you’ll want in the end.
Be safe. Be smart. Good luck.
Just a friendly fyi in case it wasn’t a speech to text thing, but it’s hunger pangs.
Lock yourself in a cage with only water. Carefully reintroduce food once you’re out as to not get refeeding syndrome.
Get a tapeworm, and suffer the other negative effects of it.
Ozempic.
Gastric surgery.
Intermittent fasting.
Like any form of weight-loss the real mechanism is a calorie deficit, but intermittent fasting makes that really easy for some people. I lost like 30lbs in six months. Takes a bit to kick in but then goes pretty quickly.
Unfortunately, losing weight is a long journey. People who are very overweight have more fat cells than others (because those cells divide when they get big enough) and those fat cells WANT to hold onto fat. And they’ll release hormones to achieve that goal. So your body will desperately be calling for you to overeat.
This is part of why weight-loss tends to be a spiky line for people. I gained back all of the IF weight I lost, and then some. Still below my highest recorded weight by a good 20lbs, but I’m just now getting back on the IF horse, hoping to make better progress this time.
Having a calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight. Everybody knows that. Exercise actually burns very few calories. There are many other health benefits to exercising but weight loss isn’t really one of them.
In my experience, a calorie deficit is much easier if you eat better foods, rather than try to eat smaller portions of unhealthy foods. More fiber keeps you feeling full for longer. Find ways to incorporate lots more vegetables in your diet. I keep apples around for when I want a snack. I make bean tacos instead of chorizo (maybe I’ll mix a little chorizo in), etc. Find sauces and ways to spice up veggies. Don’t worry if your sauces and dressings are the most healthy. Just getting the vegetables is the most important.
Also cut back on drinking of you do that a lot. Lots more calories in alcohol than people realize.
It depends on your exercise. I do HIIT, and regularly burn about 800 Calories an hour. On leg day I can sometimes hit 1k.
That’s like 3 beers worth. I’m not saying you can’t burn significant calories by exercising but the effort needed is way more than simply not drinking 3 beers. Also most exercise isn’t going to burn 800+ calories. The only way an average person is hitting those kind of numbers is if they have an intense manual labor job.
Only way is caloric restriction. Exercise that builds muscle increases your body’s caloric expenditure, exercise that burns calories raises the number of calories you can eat that day, doing neither means you need to have a more restricted caloric intake.
Personally, I try to focus on weight training and maintaining or slightly losing weight. So far, it’s had quite a positive impact functionally, and aesthetically in my personal opinion (and my partner’s). That being said, I’ve done pure restriction before, it worked in the short term but I gained most of it back, and I was miserable doing it.
meth.
(/j)
Stope eating anything processes , drink only water, WALK several miles a day.
OP said no exercise.
I managed losing 20kg within a year without major exercise using a combination that fit me. Baseline calories about 2000kcal/day, so restricted to 1300kcal to give me some room for error. Next was switching to Keto, so I could manage hunger a lot better. Next I wrote everything in my food tracker app, often planning my entire day in there. Put the sauces away, found a good low-carb curry ketchup and used that a lot, was also low calories. I made lots of mistakes, often hidden calories, salad sauces, remoulade alternatives that just weren’t, and what hurt the most were sugar alternative products. If you want to lose weight, there is no alternative.
What helped me get through was adding a “cheat day” every sunday, which was not a sugar cheat day, but one with 2000kcal more in keto stuff (only the basics, not any of these replacement thingies) and some protein puddings which was the only exception.
dude, ozempic
Is this a serious question?
Look if you don’t care about your health, you can crash diet, sure, but you’ll lose water weight first, and then will lose muscle alongside the fat, especially if you don’t exercise. You will also feel miserable and will make others feel miserable being around you. And you’ll most likely pack it back on when you quit the diet.
How quickly are we talking? Then we can talk about concrete answers, and strategies to make it work for you specifically. And whats the goal? Temporary (like for a day or 2) or more permanent?
Calorie negative diet. I hear ozempic has worked wonders for many people. Obviously consult a doctor as I don’t know shit about medicine.
Why can’t you exercise?
Cuz its time consuming
So you don’t have time to do it, or are you just lazy?
If the latter, get a big dog. You will need to walk it at least twice daily, and that’s probably the minimal amount of exercise you should do.
I’m a former model. Cocaine + water/juice fasting is what we did. Absolutely not recommended. Please lose weight the healthy way.
A bit expensive as a diet
I can’t feel my mouth
Would you say that is very common in modeling circles?
Yes, cocaine is the pièce de résistance in the modeling world. It suppresses appetite (essential when extreme thinness is expected), acts as a stimulant (helpful when you’re deprived of food and sleep), and serves as a social lubricant in elite circles (crucial for networking). All birds, one stone.
Sooo where’s the downside
/s
I do coke
So I canwork longerbe thinner
So I can earn more
So I can do more cokeHey I know that song
Yeah that makes sense. Did you enjoy working as a model?
I had an old friend that moved to NYC to model and did well, but we very quickly lost contact with each other. I wonder how’s she’s doing now.
The good news is that exercise isn’t good for losing fat anyway!
It’s all about diet.
Weight loss starts in the kitchen.
Counterpoint: you can’t live any sort of halfway decent life “without exercise”
Different question though.
If someone says, “First things first, I want to sit still all day. Given that, how do I…” then it’s worth calling out their mad constraints.
It’s not a “counterpoint” to the actual answer though, it’s a sidenote.
You don’t know their circumstances. I can’t exercise effectively for various medical reasons so (for now) I only do caloric deficit and intermittent fasting. It’s slower than I’d like of course (and slower than OP wants, presumably) but it’s what I can do now.
Exactly!
For the last year I’ve been a primary wheelchair user, I can walk a bit but that only gets me to the bathroom. Since then my weight has become a bit of a problem but I’m already doing the maximum exercise I’m capable of. I have dropped 10 over the last few months just by diet, which is less than I would like but it’s what I can do.
You cant assume the “mad constraints” is just laziness without knowing the full picture. Either answer the question or scroll on, but its cruel to attack someone over what they can’t do.
You don’t improve quality of life by losing weight ‘quickly’ at all. Steady and sustainable are the only way, and exercise is part of that.
