dude, ozempic
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.
Why can’t you exercise?
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.
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.
TAPEWORM
Story time! Many years ago I read a Maria Callas biography and I have no idea if this fact is true or not, but here it goes:
Maria was self conscious about her body image and she wanted, moren than anything, to look as thin as her idol: Audrey Hepburn. So in order to do that, she went to a famous doctor who would give his patients a pill thay contained tape worm eggs so they would hatch and live inside them making them lose weight and then this same doctor would deworm them but plot twist! María loved being thin so much that she decided to keep her tapeworm so she would not gain back any weight. This book said that when she took long baths, the worm would kind of wiggle out a bit due to the warm water and then coil back up inside her when she existed the tub. This piece of info was very disturbing for me.
I, cannot disguise,
all the stomach pains
and the walking of the cranes
when you, do come out
and you whisper up to me
in your life of tragedy
But I cannot grow
till you eat the last of me
oh when will I be free
and you, a parasite
just find another host
just another fool to roast
cause you
my tapeworm tells me what to do
you
my tapeworm tells me where to go
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEYUsed to legit be sold for exactly that, but when you got to your ‘ideal weight’ you wrote them for the second set of pills-a dewormer.
Lol
Dear God, there’s people who would legitimately rather have a big disgusting worm in their gut than diet and move around a bit?
And then feel it wiggle out at the end?
blushes
Sign me up!
Partner had one once.
Can confirm it works, bit takes awhile to really get going.
Basically just cut all the carbs and sugar out of your diet, that will put your body into ketosis so it’s burning fat for energy.
Don’t do this for too long and make sure to take vitamins while you’re doing it.
Talk to a doctor first. The keto diet does have very real health risks.
And keep in mind that cutting ALL sugar out of your diet (which, luckily enough, isn’t that easy to do) will starve your brain and make you feel increasingly stupid. It’s only after my last week-long fast that I’ve read that our brains can’t really work on glycogen (ketosis-produced “sugar”).
Sounds about right. I lost about a pound a day doing keto but I felt pretty foggy, lazy, and constantly hungry the whole time.
meth.
(/j)
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.
Stop Eating
Calorie negative diet. I hear ozempic has worked wonders for many people. Obviously consult a doctor as I don’t know shit about medicine.
The good news is that exercise isn’t good for losing fat anyway!
It’s all about diet.
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.
Weight loss starts in the kitchen.
A healthy and balanced diet. Although I’d really recommend being physically active, it’s really important for overall health.
Surgery
Removing a leg can help you lose 10 to 20 kg of weight with very little effort.
the best way to make it stick is to take it slowly. Become more aware of the food choices you make - a food log is helpful here - without necessarily looking to correct them first. Just note the times when you think about food, the times you’re able to eat healthy and smaller portions and the times when it’s harder. Then try and inject some alternatives, make healthier options available for yourself at home, and gradually move your food decisions toward more nutritious food and smaller portions of comfort food.
Even then, thinking in nutrition has moved on from eliminating “bad foods” to eating “good foods” first, and finding a level of moderation with less nutritious food that fits with your goals.
“Stop eating” diets and “fast weight loss” as a primary goal are very good ways to sabotage yourself in the long term. The psychological costs of very restrictive diets are real and lead to losing adherence down the road. Maybe it works for some but the more gradual choice-focused approach worked a lot better for me. Just do what you’re capable of day to day, always trying to push that needle a little further, and you might be surprised at how fast noticeable progress comes!
