I've been losing weight over the last year and building more muscle at the same time. I mainly just wanted to get back in shape and have my old build back, so it wasn't a dramatic weight loss journey for me (I was at 155 pound a year ago and now I'm 137 pounds).
As tedious as it may sound, track your calories and keep your self in calorie deficit based on your activity level. For example, I'm very physically active (flexibility training every day, weight lifting 3 times per week, walking a couple of miles every day, running a couple of miles once per week; that kind of thing) and I used a calculator to estimate what my required calories would be. Most calculators seemed to think I'd need between 2,500 and 3,000 calories per day to maintain my weight. I try to aim for eating only 1,500 calories each day, although ever since I hit my target weight, I've bumped this up to about 2,200 each day on average and started doing something called "zigzagging", which is when you have something like 2,500 calories one day and then 1500 calories the next. One more word of advice is that it's always best to overestimate how many calories you've had and underestimate your activity level if you want to lose weight. Overall, it feels difficult at first, but gets a lot easier over time.
Some people will tell you to steer clear of specific foods. I did this at first, but look, I like cookies, so I'll have them occasionally and just track the calories as I do with everything else.
I hate the gym as well. Keep building up your home equipment and look into calisthenics as well if you haven't already.
This makes a lot of sense... really appreciate this breakdown Z < 3
I’ve been consistent with workouts but not consistent with calorie tracking tbh, so I’d need to tighten that part up.
Your overall approach sounds interesting and easier to stick to long-term.
I don’t want to cut out everything just because of weight loss and you explained perfectly how that can be avoided with zigzagging : D and tracking calories since I also enjoy small treats sometimes.
How much calories are you eating? Maybe you're starving yourself with that one meal a day thing and it has the reverse effect of your body accumulating fat to protect itself from starvation? I mean one to two meals a day is fine, no need to eat 3, but you still need to get enough calories from these meals (not too much so you're not gaining weight but also not too little so your body isn't panicking and retaining weight). Good luck buddy.
If I’m being honest, I don’t think I’m starving myself or doing any hardcore starvation but it’s true that I might not be eating enough on some days.
I still feel okay throughout the day and eventually just go to bed.
I’m going to start tracking the calories properly now to see what the numbers actually look like. Thank you SC < 3
I lost about 7 kg in the last few months, bothing too special except lowering the amount of carbs I eat (to lower my usage of insulin) and eat less crap. I eat around 1000-1200 calories per day mostly because I forget meals.
I don't do any exercise beyond making coffee.
Ahh that’s actually impressive... especially without any real exercise.
How can I learn to make coffee like you? : D
How much is your current weight?
If you are doing 1 meal a day only and you are not losing weight, that would be weird (unless you are eating more calories than you would on a 3 meals per day which is hard).
How long have you been going on this 1 meal per day diet?
Do you move during the day or most of your day you are sedentary?
I don’t do one meal every day consistently. Sometimes I snack too especially when I’m up late at night, so I end up eating midnight snacks. But if I sleep early then I usually just do one meal a day. I’ve been doing that for a couple of months now.
Most of my day is spent on the PC, so I’m definitely more sedentary than active, apart from the cardio and other workouts I do at home every morning.
I used to take evening walks but I haven’t done that in a while to be honest : )
I got a fright when you said no sugar diet
We can't be losing Payal to the dead pancreas no sugar rabbit hole
Diabetes is terrifying to me, I'm just waiting on it
Family's riddled with diabetes and have pals that did not have a good time with it
from not looking after it
Things like creatine you think would put weight on you but if you're putting on weight from eating good food while being active
There's a fat difference between healthy weight and unhealthy weight
Unhealthy weight from what I've seen actually hurts to lose... I could lose all my brand new, 5 year build up of 10kg of healthy weight from eating like a horse in a week
I still feel healthy and fit though... I play football every weekend, so I’m not totally out of shape.
I just want to get rid of the extra weight now because once the Christmas period comes, I already know I’m getting smashed again : D
Obviously the sane solution is to consume raw meat like me.
Jk.
Look into keto though.
You gain fat by consuming carbs + fat together and that triggers the randle cycle.
That's why low fat or low carb diets work in the short term but only one is optimal long term
(Mostly due to the lack of nutrition in high carbs.)
Fun fact: dietary requirements for carbohydrates are exactly 0 since you can make all the glucose you need through gluconeogenesis.
Raw meat diet is where I draw the line, pal : D
I might actuually look deeper into keto and see if it’s something I can adapt without going crazy. Thank you mate
