Ayahuasca + Weight Loss

I’m curious to hear from anyone who has ventured into weight loss and also explored ayahuasca. Did it make a difference in your journey? Did it help you mentally reset and become more focused on achieving your weight loss goals? I’ve come across some fascinating interviews where people shared their experiences with ayahuasca, describing how it helped them move past trauma and significant life events that were hindering their progress. However, I never hear stories or experiences with ayahuasca and weight loss. I’m intrigued by these stories and wondering if anyone here has had a similar experience with your weight loss. Whether it worked wonders for you or had no effect at all, I’d love to hear your insights and experiences. Thanks in advance for sharing!

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ChatGpt gave me a diet plan for weight loss as an Indian woman. Seems pretty standard to me, would appreciate a review. Thanks!

My Prompt :

Make me a diet plan for weight loss. I need to stick to a calorie deficit diet : which is genuinely eating the same thing every single day. Hence, make me a meal plan that I can afford as a broke student, and can eat every single day. Please keep in mind that I the only option available to me is rice and not roti. I don't have a refrigerator available. the same time, please make easy recipes that take short time to cook, but are very healthy. Give me an Indian diet. I am an Indian living in North India. I am open to eggs in non veg. I workout regularly my. goal of the diet is to lose weight. Currently I am a woman weighing 90 plus. Please suggest me a diet routine with these points in mind and an estimated calorie intake.

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ChatGPT response:

Daily Diet Plan (1500-1600 Calories)

Morning (7:00-8:00 AM)

Breakfast (300 calories):

Masala Oats: 40g oats cooked with water. Add 1 small chopped onion, 1 small tomato, green chilies, and spices (salt, turmeric, cumin, garam masala). Optional: Add a handful of spinach or any leafy green.

Post-Workout Snack (10:00-11:00 AM)

Snack (150 calories): 2 boiled eggs with a sprinkle of salt and pepper.

Lunch (1:00 PM)

Lunch (450 calories): Rice & Dal: 1 cup cooked rice (180g cooked). 1 cup cooked moong or masoor dal (100g dry weight) with a tempering of cumin, garlic, and onions. Side: Cucumber, carrot, and tomato salad with lemon juice.

Afternoon Snack (4:00 PM)

Snack (150 calories): 1 medium apple or 1 small bowl of roasted chickpeas (30g).

Dinner (7:00-8:00 PM)

Dinner (400 calories): Vegetable Khichdi: 1/2 cup cooked rice (90g cooked) with 1/4 cup moong dal (50g dry weight) and 1-1.5 cups mixed vegetables (carrots, peas, beans, spinach). Add turmeric, cumin, and 1 tsp of ghee for flavor.

Evening Herbal Tea (Optional, 9:00 PM)

Herbal Tea (0-10 calories): A cup of herbal tea (like tulsi or ginger tea) without sugar. Total Daily Calorie Intake: ~1450-1560 Calories

Protein Intake

This plan provides approximately 60-70g of protein per day, supporting muscle maintenance and aiding in recovery from your workouts.

Would appreciate a kind review, thanks!!

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Lost 32lbs in under a month @ 1800 calories (512lbs)

Hey everyone, I started tracking calories (and cut out Bread, Sugar and most Carbs) 3 and a half weeks ago after my first weigh in when I realised I was 544lbs.... ive just used the same scales at the hospital and im 512lbs now.

I'm eating on average 1800 calories a day, sometimes as low as 1500, sometimes up to 2200 but I'm generally sitting between 1700-1900.

Since I've cut out the carbs and I'm mainly eating Fat/Protein I feel satiated and im not really struggling with cravings for the first time in my life.

My only worry now with such dramatic weight loss, is that maybe im not eating enough? I feel better than I have in years, and feel full. Am I OK to carry on at this deficit? TDEE has me at about 4200calories a day.

Is this mainly going to be water weight, and am I OK to continue the way I have been?

Thanks for any help

Site note- I've been drinking about 2.5lt of water a day too if that effects anything (previously only really drank soda)

Cheers again 😀

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Down over 100 pounds

It's been almost a year since I started my weight loss. I was 320 pounds now at 218. I started off with only eating chicken, broccoli and rice twice a day around 1000 calories. I've decided to change my diet to 1 cup of cheerios in the morning. Half a turkey meatloaf with puff rice as filler with mixed vegetables that gets split for lunch and dinner following 4 hard boiled eggs for snack. Everything comes out to just about 800 calories. Should I keep the diet this way to lose the last 50 pounds to my goal weight of 170 at 511 hight.

When I hit 170 I will be eating more red meat or maybe try to hit 160 for fun

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Lost over 300 pounds, got skin removal surgery, AMA

40F, 5’8” SW: 478 CW: 171 GW: whatever I want it to be

Hey! You may or may not have seen me posting around this sub and other related subreddits about my weight loss, but I’ve yet to do global post about all of it. When I first started lurking on the loseit subreddit, I found a lot of great info, but not the exact type of post I was looking for (mostly about body composition stuff and loose skin, but some other topics as well), so I promised myself if I got to a good bench mark (basically when I decided to start eating at calorie surplus for bulking instead of a deficit) I would do a big post that hopefully would be helpful to someone else in my position. So here we go. This is probably going to be long, so I’m going to just do my best to bullet point the big topics; please feel free to ask me questions about any of them.

The basic info/pictures:

Here’s me in Christmas of 2020: https://imgur.com/PgeFcOt

Here’ s me this morning: https://imgur.com/8b97AUc

I started losing weight seriously in May of 2021. I can’t really give you much insight into why, other than this: I spent all of my life obese. Before losing this weight I cannot remember a time I wasn’t extremely overweight. I did not care about it or value being healthy, thin, or living long. It just wasn’t a priority to me. Then one day I woke up and the realization hit me that the co-workers and acquaintances I had now would likely spend the next decade or so watching me slowly kill myself grotesquely and would probably view me with nothing but pity. I found that intolerable and resolved to either fix it or stop wasting everyone’s time about the direction I was heading in. I kept those two alternatives in mind and just hit the ground running. Three years later I was around 166 and sub 10 percent body fat. Thats the basic gist. More detail follows.

CICO and sematglutide

Because I wanted this time to be a serious attempt, I actually went to a weight loss doctor. By the time I got in around August of 2021, I was at 440. I was put on Wegovy (the weight loss formulation for semaglutide). I don’t want to belabor this stuff too much, but here is the bottom line for me: These drugs are excellent tools for people that are morbidly obese. Most of them (me included) have something wrong with their hunger/appetite regulation systems that keeps them from feeling full on the correct amount of food and makes food cravings/intrusive thoughts about food incessant and hard to control. Semaglutide, when working properly, absolutely can fix these things for the many people who have these pathologies and give them extra support they need to be able to successfully lose weight through diet and exercise. My overall view after being on them for three years is that its a medication that treats a condition like any other.

What it isn’t is a magic bullet that is the be all and end all of weight loss. For one, it didn’t fully work like it should for me. Yes, it made me less physically hungry on less food, but I still did (and still do) obsessively think about food and my next meal and how nice it would be to eat a whole pizza in one sitting. I could and sometimes did still do that when I did not maintain control. What semaglutide did for me is act as a bridge to develop healthier habits to control these problems. That is, when it worked properly. Towards the end it kind of stopped working altogether and caused me pretty severe anhedonia (which resolved itself when I titrated down). Again, its a medication like any other with its plusses and minuses. People shouldn’t be judged for using it any more than taking drugs for any other medical condition, and its not an instant fix. I can elaborate more, though I don’t know the exact subreddit rules on this.

Otherwise, I just did CICO for the first 200 or so pounds of weight loss. I exercised very little, and just ate at a pretty decent deficit (while being medically supervised and tested). I mostly ate protein shakes, vegetables, chicken breasts, and a lot of low calorie easy to make instant meals. Other than just staying the course, it was relatively easy, though again, I did occasionally fall of the wagon and eat that whole pizza (or two or three weeks of whole pizzas). When this happened, I just reminded myself of why I was doing it, and got back on the horse. For me, avoidance and abstinence were big musts. I will just graze on food if its around (I still do) so I just have to keep myself away from it. I am starting to train myself to behave otherwise, but during most of my weight loss I just did not put myself in situations where I would be massively tempted, and if I was in one of those, I just completely abstained from stuff rather than trying to have a little cheat here and there. I know myself and know that it would not work for me, but I also know everyone is different.

Exercise, strength training, and learning BMI is a lie

When I got to about 230/240ish in summer of 2023, I decided it was time to start seriously adding exercise to my plan. I researched everything I could about cardio and strength training (the r/fitness wiki is an amazing resource). Then, I started doing high intensity cardio for 30 min every day, and an hour of weight lifting every other day. I lost no weight for 4 weeks, despite still being at a pretty severe calorie deficit. Then I lost like 20+ pounds over the course of two weeks, and started losing weight like normal afterwards. I upped my calories slightly and continued on. Speaking of which, I also got insanely into nutrition and managing protein intake. I’m literally very boring about these topics.

Eventually, around Christmas, I decided I needed to find out what my actual body composition was to decide how close I was to my goal weight. I wanted to get skin removal surgery because I obviously had a lot of loose skin (more on that in a sec), so I needed to know if I was actually mostly just loose skin or if there was still a decent amount of fat on me. Here’s me at around 188 for my first DEXA scan (NSFWish, as will the rest of pictures be):

https://imgur.com/cUCN3CA

The DEXA scan came back at 17 percent body fat, lol. That’s uhhh pretty low for a woman. However, 188 is actually overweight by BMI for my height (its actually decently close to obese, in fact). Basically, this is when I learned BMI is basically useless for me as I’m some sort of big-boned freak. I can speak more on this as I spent a lot of time obsessing over it, so feel free to ask questions.

Skin Removal Surgery

So basically the ultimate goal was to fix all that loose skin. I went to a plastic surgeon in my area who specialized in it, and learned that I could get at least my arms, thighs, and stomach covered by insurance because of conditions I had. I can again elaborate more on this process, but basically the basic stomach surgery is often covered by insurance, but for the others you generally need some pathology that goes along with it to get it covered. I also wanted to get my breasts done but those are basically never covered, so I may pay for that out of pocket later down the line. (I may get some others, but again, more on that in a sec). Here’s pictures of me right before the surgery that kind of highlight how bad my skin was:

https://imgur.com/Bxg5osR

https://imgur.com/iF8PP6n

This is at 166 and 8 percent body fat. I went this low simply because I wanted as much skin removed as possible, and the more of me that was loose skin and not fat, meant more could be removed. I knew I could always add more latter, but to remove more skin requires more surgery.

Some other important facts about the surgery and loose skin:

• Once your skin reaches a certain point of elasticity from being obese, the elasticity essential “breaks” like a rubber band and will never return to its normal level. This is true even after getting the excess skin removed. What this means if that I gain like 20-30 pounds or more, I will have loose skin again, and simply losing the weight slowly or in ways that would be fine for normal people will still cause me to have loose skin. Sucks, but thats life.
• The surgery for all three areas took around eight hours. Afterwards I was not in any particularly great pain and was able to make myself food and get around pretty easily that night. I was, however, rushed out the door at night because they started late, and was pretty groggy from still being on anesthesia. I did have pain if I hit my stitches the wrong way.
• I did have one major complication. They told me I needed to get compression garments that covered my arms, midsection, and legs, and that there was affordable stuff on Amazon. So I used my best judgment and got some stuff I thought met those requirements. Turns out the leg stuff did not go down far enough. They aren’t sure if the lack of compression there caused this to be fair, because apparently I just also had abnormally swollen legs regardless. But, eventually I had massive seromas in my thighs and had to have the leg surgery redone, which pushed out my recovery another six weeks, into when I was moving into a new house! I couldn’t help with my move and it was a massive shit show. Basically, just make sure you get the compression garments right, and if you feel like they aren’t, slap on some ace bandages to further compress yourself until you can talk to your doctor. It was super annoying!
• They only removed about six pounds of skin from me overall. I think this is because there was so little fat to remove in the problem areas.

I’m sure there is more stuff I should add. Please ask questions, this is the main thing I personally wanted information on when I was looking around the subreddit.

Final results:

Here’s some pictures of me now, where you can see some of the scars:

https://imgur.com/CV7uYzV

They are getting better every day, with obviously the leg ones being the roughest. (Also the reason there is no sweet puppy in this is that HE FUCKING GOT RAPID ONSET LYMPHOMA DURING MY SURGERY RECOVERY AND DIED. AND MY OTHER DOG DIED TWO WEEKS AGO - there was more terrible stuff that happened during that period.. This was the worst, but it was just a terrible period for me). I got a DEXA scan this morning and it came in at 7 percent body fat at 171 pounds. Now I’m going to start eating 2000 cals a day and see if thats enough for me to put in serious muscle mass. (I have been back to doing my full spectrum workout for about a month now). Eventually before the end of the year, I may see about fixing the rest of my legs (they could only go down so low and the areas around my knees and calves are still pretty rough - they also told me this would have been the case regardless of the complications) and some of the loose skin on my back and ass. I need to see if it will be covered by insurance. But generally I’m pretty happy with the results (if not the process). Yes, its not perfect, but its certainly better than I was.

My life is not perfect (especially not these last two months, jesus). I am not perfectly happy. Certain things are actually worse mental health wise than they were before. But in general, I am in soooo much of a better place than I was before I started this. I just want you all to know that you can do it to, and you can do it at any time. I am more than happy to answer any questions anyone might have, and I will continue to monitor this thread for that. But I think I am done generally lurking on weight loss sub reddits, at least maybe for while. Its time to move on. Thank you all so much for this resource, and I wish you the best of luck!

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6 Summer Slim-Down Foods That Help You Lose Weight

Whether you’re at a backyard barbecues, a ballgame, on the beach or basking in the sun, a big part of summer fun is the food: Favorites you’ve had since school days that signal the season of sunshine is here, and you’re enjoying it. If you’re on a weight loss program, some of those perfect-for-summer foods can actually help you on your journey. So exactly which are the summer slim-down foods that help you lose weight?

These six options are more than just delicious summer favorites—thanks to the right combinations of nutrients, they’re also foods that help you lose weight :

1. Cool cucumber, local tomatoes and slices of watermelon

What do these foods have in common? Water. Thanks to their high water content, all three of these summer favorites don’t just cool you down, but they’re low in calorie density—which, according to Science Daily. means you can eat a lot of volume without eating a lot of calories. When scientists had obese women in a study add more water-rich foods to their diet plans, they lose 30 percent more weight during the first six months of dieting than those who didn’t focus on adding water-rich foods.

If you’re a watermelon lover, keep track of your portions: Because it’s high on the glycemic index, one cup of the luscious fruit counts as one SmartCarb on Nutrisystem program. Tomatoes and cucumbers, though, are unlimited foods, and count towards your four daily servings of non-starchy vegetables. Pile them on your plate next to your backyard burger or in a fresh, chilly summer salad to help you lose weight.

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2. Cool, creamy smoothies and frozen Greek yogurt treats

Greek yogurt has 17 grams of belly-filling, hunger-fighting protein in every 100 calories, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). And it’s also got calcium, which can help more of your weight loss come from fat.

Combine this thicker, creamier yogurt with berries for a cool parfait, or mix them in and freeze in popsicle molds for a fat-fighting fro-yo dessert. Smoothie lover? Double up on the weight loss power of Greek yogurt: Mix in leafy greens with your favorite fruit, Greek yogurt and ice for bonus nutrients and fiber to make your smoothie more filling. The sweetness of the fruit will help mask the flavor of the spinach or other leafy greens, getting you closer to your four daily servings of non-starchy vegetables.

Check out our favorite smoothie recipes here! >

3. Summer berries

Berries are sweeter (and cheaper!) in the summer, and they’re a top choice on our list of foods that help you lose weight. Those fresh little red, blue and black gems are low on the glycemic index, so they won’t spike your blood sugar. That’s thanks to their fiber content: One cup of raspberries, for instance has nine grams of this filling nutrient, meaning the serving can help you feel fuller for longer. That fiber can also help you lose weight around your middle: According to one study published in Science Daily, for every 10 grams of fiber you eat per day, you could have as much as four percent less fat around your belly.

Blueberries may be especially helpful at targeting belly fat. In one 2009 study on rats, the rodents who were given blueberries as part of their weight loss diet lost more belly fat than those losing weight on a berry-free nutrition plan.

4. Tall glasses of iced green tea

Green tea never seems to stop having new benefits: According to nature.com, it’s been shown in studies to help reduce cancer risk, diabetes risk, and even help participants lose weight. In one specific study from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, obese participants who drank four cups of green tea per day lost significantly more weight over eight weeks than those who drank four cups of water.

Try having a cold glass as a pre-lunch or -dinner drink for bonus weight loss benefits. A study conducted (published in Obesity) asked one group of adults aged 55-75 to have a 16-ounce beverage before each meal while on a diet, they lost 44 percent more weight over 12 weeks than another group that was on the same diet, but didn’t drink. It’s that simple: A pre-meal drink can make you feel more full, so you’ll eat less and lose more.

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5. Hit the trail for a hike with some healthy fat

If summer means a hike with family or friends, give your trail mix a boost: Make sure it includes almonds. The monounsaturated fat in these nuts has been shown to help dieters lose belly fat, according to Science Daily. Since fat can help you feel full faster than carbohydrates, it can also make your trail mix help you lose weight while you trek.

But even if you don’t have a caloric deficit on your hiking day, including almonds can help you shed fat around your middle. In a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), of 48 people with elevated “bad” LDL cholesterol, those who ate a daily snack of almonds lost fat in their bellies and legs, even when they didn’t lose weight.

6. Fresh, whole fruit

When you’re looking for foods that help you lose weight, whole foods are always a great choice. When it comes to fruit, the reason is the fiber: Snapping into a medium-sized apple delivers 125 calories, but comes with 4.9 grams of the filling nutrient.

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Loose Skin after 65 Pounds. Will it Possibly Retract?

(F, 33) Long story short, about 7 years ago I was at my heaviest weight in the upper 190lbs. Lost down to 163 in about a year and and had held there since. Last year though, I wanted to finally get out of the overweight BMI and lost down to 135 between June to December of last year. After a two month break due to how fast I lost, I resumed my weight loss to loose an additional 5 down to 130lbs between March-June of this year.

I’ll admit, I’m kinda depressed by the loose skin on my thighs, mostly on the inside and I’m sure the stretch marks did my skin no favors on recoverability. It’d call it mild as not very visible just standing straight up unless you take a hand and rub it along the skin, flex my legs a certain way, or pinch inside and start pulling. There may also be a slight appearance of a crease near the inner thigh fat pocket along the sartorius area now and again. I also look like an over baked muffin on hip joints when I sit down and have my knees up and bent. I don’t have the money for surgery even if I thought I was necessary, and being single, it’s really taken a toll on my confidence. I’ve been since I’ve always been overweight since I was a teenager, and now that I’m finally not, I’m not sure I’m happy with myself.

Considering it’s been 6+ months now since the bulk of my weight loss, is it just more or less here to stay? I’ve always carried weight in this area and still do still (have the thigh jiggle to prove it). I’ve started derma rolling last month, adding creams, and exercising to tone the area… but Im afraid the former is going to make it look worse when I do due to loosing more fat to stay at my 130 goal as I build.

Has anyone around my (F,33) age seen mild loose skin retract longer than 6 months out?

https://imgur.com/30zQlrA (Ignore the seam indention from my leggings)

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