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yeah I know it's lame, but it's a lifestyle.. u have to eat as fresh as possible cook yourself and move a lot, sleep hygiene and don't stress too much,, sounds simple cause it is.. but obviously not easy for modern homo sapiens
I can speak to my experience as someone who has always tended to carry extra bodyfat. Loosing fat by cutting calories and eating the same foods takes willpower, and that willpower is easier to maintain when you are also getting a regular dopamine hit from loosing weight. You are winning the game! Once you reach your goal, you are then looking at a lifetime of hunger and willpower but no more dopamine hits. Very hard to keep that up year after year.
I finally solved the puzzle by changing how and what I eat. I know it is trendy, but a combination of fasting, cutting out all sugars and reducing grains has allowed me to eat as much as I want(when I do eat), just not every single type of food I could eat. It doesn't take much willpower because I'm never hungry(at least not in the traditional sense). Oh, and my asthma went away and I literally feel better than I ever have in 52 years.
I've been at my ideal weight for about two years, and still going strong, by far the longest I've ever been in "maintenance mode".
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A bass fisherman, I like this guy, and he is correct on most of it, however, humans certainly were much leaner and hungrier 1,000, 10, 000, and 100,000 years ago.
As someone who has lost 70lbs and kept it off for two years here is the secret… you have to learn to love the feeling of temporary hunger. It sucks in the beginning but you learn to know that that feeling is what you need to stay lean. Before each of my 3 daily feedings I get progressively hungrier and hungrier until I eat.
It's extremely difficult during winter months.
Just the constant cold and dreariness.
I can limit weight gain during winter, but I can't seem to stop it.
Thankfully, the weight comes off again in April and May.
So true..I was obese..I lost 80lbs started May 2020. I walk/cycle & do resistance training 6x wk. Have maintained my wgt by being conscious. Not a day goes by that I don't think about what I put in my mouth. I will never go back.
I’d like a video on HOW to maintain weight loss.
the Bible can give you a lot more information on the subject. Evolution will only give you questions.
There is too much crap food available. The walruses can't keep their fat fingers off of it
Society has created a lazy lifestyle filled with highly palatable foods. They won't even go shopping on their own anymore. They have someone else do it for them, park and have someone bring it out and put it in their trunk and go home. I've always told people park farther away to be more active. Can't even do that now. Now they want the next be all end all FAD or fat burner that does it for them. I see it all the time. You gotta love what you eat and get off the couch and move. As someone that used to be 285lbs I'm 184 now and kept it off for 2 and half years, I see food as fuel and I love my food. I lift weights and do my cardio. I keep my trigger foods out of the house. Find the exercise you love and the diet that works for you.
Give yourself one cheat day a week.
Well he said a whole lot of nothing… I'm shocked that Peter and his team chose this segment to publish when it literally taught us diddly squat. As a paying member of The Drive, this is disappointing.
Weight loss tip today: Soups can be both filling and comforting. Try making a garden or bean soup with low-salt broth and store in portion-sized cups for later.
Stop saying weight loss isn't particularly difficult, that's an absurd claim, especially from someone who has never been obese. It's just not as hard as keeping it off.
Am I the only one who has the opposite problem? I have a harder time losing than maintaining? I can stay the same weight for years but struggle to lose it.
I'm struggling with this right now. I think it's a combination of our current overindulgent luxury lifestyle culture but also mentally if you've used food like a drug it's extremely difficult to continue using that vice but in a controlled manner. Human behavior is THE HARDEST thing for us to change.
I’ve lost 50 pounds. All I have to do is eat 2100 calories one day per week. The rest of the week is free. Works for me.
I did water fasts and gained the 40lbs back twice. Tried OMAD and would gain back if I ate normally. The only thing that really worked to keep the weight off is just eating in a calorie deficit.
I’ve ranged between 170 at my best and 245 at my worst. I dropped from 230 to 169 in 2017, but then gained it all back during covid and hiked up to 245.
Now I’m back to 189 and need to focus on what maintenance looks like. Especially when when life changes happen.
As a fitness/strength coach I have found that the best adaptation to staying lean is to live a fasted lifestyle…period. I especially recommend to all my clients to workout whether resistance training or cardio in a fasted state for a myriad of benefits. Intermittent fasting is a powerful tool to maintain your weight loss. You just need to find your sweet spot (16/8 – 17/7 – 18/6) 💪
Well, you could've just said 'we have no idea how to maintain weight loss' at the beginning and saved me the 6 minutes. And then you provide a disclaimer for the advice you haven't given! 🤣🤣🤣