I made a...very popular post the other day here about the weight loss benefits for men's sexuality. I'm sure women's sexuality benefits just as much. I wanted to write what I learned from my weight loss. This was 2 years in the making and a series of trial and error. Mind, what works for me may not work for you.
I fast between 8 pm and 12 pm every day. In the morning I drink black coffee. Between 8 and 12 I do not eat anything. This includes sugar or milk in my coffee as those break the fast. Let's call it skipping breakfast.
I have limited my consumption of meat products to once a day. I rarely buy meat to be cooked at home now. I still eat meat, but it's not something I regularly buy at a grocery store and if I do eat meat it's often at a restaurant. As someone that mostly cooks (this is what you should be doing if you want to lose weight) this limits my options. So every day I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. I eat a whole avocado daily, often add an entire tomato and throw some kosher salt on it. I make lots of vegetable stir fry and curries. I save a lot - A LOT - of money on food this way.
I highly suggest buying smaller eating plates as well. My main plate is a small salad saucer. I fit all of my food on that one plate. Often, when I'm eating curry, I load a bowl with rice and dump the curry on it.
I never eat food while browsing my phone or watching tv or something now. Food is food time. Relish it. Every time I eat food I'm systematically breaking down what I made, how I can improve it, areas where I fucked up. This has made me a better cook but more importantly it makes food time into food time so I can be in the moment. Food is to be savored but not abused. Furthermore, by concentrating on what you're eating you'll eat more slowly and know when you get full more readily.
Fuck dessert. Or rather, from now on, try to treat fruit as dessert. For one, fruit is delicious as shit. I'm spoiled as I'm in NYC and can walk to a fruit stand or store 1 minute away and have a nice easy dessert. Get high and eat a good mango. Eat some kiwi. That stuff helps with mood, anxiety, and depression.
Finally, incorporate exercise into your daily life. I'm not talking about going to the gym and doing cardio. I'm talking about finding ways to get active without trying. I am very, very spoiled but, essentially, I fucking hate cars. I hate driving. So I moved to New York. I haven't driven in months. My feet are my transportation. I can pick up 10k, 15k, 20k steps in a day easily without trying and I do not have a gym membership. I'm just going about life. Find a way to achieve this and incorporate more walking into your lifestyle. This doesn't mean don't go to the gym. It's a way to be more active in your lifestyle period without considering it "working out". Because if you consider it "working out" then you might not even do it or might not have motivation to do it. This is a nice fall back plan. Essentially, it allows you to be active even when you're not being "active". You dig? So when you have a lazy week you're still doing something. if you like going to the store and it's maybe a mile away, rather than driving there, start walking instead.
Drink lots of water. Lots. I don't drink 8 glasses a day and apparently, according to research that might be too much. But I got one of those big Ello water bottles and drink water or tea. I fill it up twice a day and I'm plenty hydrated.
Through discipline and combining all, or some, of these things you will completely change your relationship with food. At the same time I eat anything I want to. I also do not track calories at all at this point (although I highly suggest researching early on so you have an overall idea of how CICO works and the average calories of what foods you eat). I eat a burger once a week at my bodega on my block corner. The other day I ate ramen. I eat a slice of pizza weekly (hello New York). I eat rice almost daily. My roommates are Asian and we go through a fuck ton of rice and they're both skinny. Fuck rules about this and that. Find what works for you. Eat what you want, but learn to limit and learn moderation. Smaller plates, fasting, and dedicating time to what's on your plate will help achieve this.
All of this has helped me lose over 100 lb.
My method was the combination of many methods mostly inspired by people outside of the USA. America is so borked in terms of our relationship with food that we've come up with fad diets that have no long term sustainability. Americans teach junk science crap about how bread is bad and rice is bad and how this is unhealthy and that's going to kill you. Look outside America for tips, particularly France and Japan. Americans diet advice is to be taken with a grain of salt (ha!). Why listen to the fattest people to begin with? Clearly we're doing something wrong.
- Why Japanese Are So Thin
- Why Japanese Are So Thin 2
- If Bread is so Bad, Why Are The French People So Thin?
- HOW FRENCH WOMEN DON'T GET FAT
- Eating With SMALLER PLATES - Trick to Lose Weight?
- The Benefits of Walking
God speed and diet for your dong, guys.
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