So, I've been following this sub pretty closely the past two months and it's absolutely been a huge help and inspiration when losing weight. But, I have to say, some of the conventional tips didn't help me at all so I wanted to make a post laying down some of mine that might help a subset of people.
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Life philosophy. Super underestimated and important in my opinion - it's so hard to lose weight while simultaneously believing people genuinely have no free will. I had to change parts of my philosophy on life to be able to lose weight and there are just as many intelligent and thoughtful philosophers who disagree with you and can change your mind if you give them a chance. I'm a complete dumbass and not hugely educated so this might not apply for a highly intelligent person, but I think is useful for a lot of us.
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Turn your defects into positives. I like eating more than I like food, which means there's not that much of a difference to me between downing an entire package of steamed broccoli and an entire bag of chips. I have a shitty palate and tastebuds but know which benefits me more in the long run so it's hard but not impossible to make healthier choices. Do I eat the chips sometimes? For sure. Do I eat the broccoli more? Great - that's what matters.
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Do NOT become a foodie! You're a bad cook and don't earn that much money - you're going to make some shitty healthy meals. Learn to shut your senses up and at least tolerate them.
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Pretend you're a robot or you're caring for an old car a relative asked you to look after. Thinking of food as fuel helps me keep to a boring but routine bit of healthy meals. I wouldn't put the cheap gas in my favorite uncle's car - why not fill myself up with the same fine things his car gets?
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Find a YouTube community that inspires you. Mine was unhealthy mukbangers/weight loss journey channels, because they showed me what not to do and satisfied the occasional craving. People better than me might find more use in cooking or exercise or pure and wholewome weight loss channels and I welcome that, but negative reinforcement really helped me.
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Experiment and spend money if you can! A huge game changer for me was realizing that a protein filled breakfast satisfied my body the most despite 20+ years of me insisting I didn't like breakfast. IF seemed great in theory but was awful in practice, but I had to make good faith effort to try new things and track their results even when I thought I know the answers and it helped me the most. I also found out my favorite veggies were some of the most expensive. Ah well. Buy them if you must.
I'm only 20 pounds down or so but wanted to share in the hopes it might inspire more bleak and gloomy folks like myself.
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