duncs500 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 12:27 pm
Explosive Newt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 5:45 pm
Calorie counting is the only thing that has ever worked for me. Suprise suprise, if you eat fewer calories than you burn then you lose weight!
This. I got the MyfitnessPal app when I wanted to lose weight, set myself a target, and it was straightforward to get a good chunk off. I find that if you're monitoring it you tend to ask yourself whether you really need that snack or just want it because you're bored or something.
That said after 6-8 weeks the weekly lbs lost start to tail off and it gets less rewarding. For me that was about 0.5kgs from where I wanted to be so I decided it was close enough. Undone it all since of course, so time to have another go soon, but that's just life from now on.
I find calorie counting very useful, it allows me to change my body shape whenever I want. It took a long time to learn what my maintenance calorie intake is, becuase it changes with different levels of exercise. But once I got a good handle on that, it's then easy to play with weight gain or weight loss. Limiting calories is how I lost nearly 30kg, it wasn't complicated, it simply worked. I kept it off too, because I didn't want to go back to how I was.
@V8Granite Having played around with a LOT of different ways of eating over the years, I agree with you. When I focus on lots of fruit and veg, with quite a lot of calories coming from carbs, I'm permanently hungry. When I was vegetarian/accidental vegan, I was always hungry. When people asked me how to stay so thin, the answer was to eat less than you need, to always be a little hungry. In retrospect that sounds quite unhealthy
. Since trying a lower-carb diet, I feel satiated at the end of day, even when I've eaten less than my calorie target.
The only problem is that a low carb, high fat diet is that it can rely on high carbon foods. Choosing sustainable oily fish is probably the best way to mitigate the impact.