Out of Pod Experience

using the word **** would have been enough ...

I cut my weight from 185 pounds to 152 pounds, in about 6 weeks.

My method? Just reduce carbs, have a salad for lunch, reduce dinner and try to eat it early. Walk 2-3 miles a day.

Best of all, did it without the high cost ripoff of gym membership.

Discipline is key.

Honestly, the biggest key to losing weight is training yourself to eat less.
If you're eating a what I'd call a standard diet, you usually take in a lot more than you need.
To start with, never take more than a plate full of food, don't go back for seconds, and then pare it down from there.
Then start eating salad once in a while, going for less processed foods, and so on.
You'll find that your body gets used to taking less in, and your tastebuds change, though it takes a few months.


And immediately getting rid of any kind of sugary beverage is the first thing you need to do. Drink water, tea, or coffee (preferably without anything added, but you can work up to that). Tea especially doesn't really add many calories to your diet, and helps in a whole host of ways. It also reduces your appetite. It's also great. I should probably note that coffee can help with weight loss due to its effects on your metabolism -- unless you eat more when you're nervous (and too much of it can cause nervousness, amount depending on person).

And once you do all this - or before, if you're feeling adventurous - add in some basic exercise to your routine, then work up gradually -- and make it intermittent high-heart-rate if you want to lose weight. Don't run the exact same route at the same time every day. If you vary it, your body doesn't raise your metabolism to intake more calories... which we don't want. Once you're slim, working out a better exercise routine to stay fit is good, yes, but if you want to lose quickly, you need to trick your body a bit. (Or so I've heard and have no reason to doubt).

I think that's the basic basics. Just don't do anything you'll regret. Like, um, get addicted to something or take drugs.

And there's another tip: Stay away from condiments and sauces. Dressings for salads, ketchup, etc... these add a lot of unneeded calories to your diet. If you put them on salad, it makes the healthy eating so much less healthy.

Generally, don't rely on restaurants for food. Buy your own, pack a sandwich or a salad, or whatever else you find works.
And yeah, it's hard. But it's ultimately worth it. In this day and age, one of the few things you can really take control of is your health. And if you manage to do all the above, you'll find it's pretty transformational for your character as well. Sticking with it builds mental muscles too.

Oh, and the major things to realize are that it's not going to happen instantly, every day is just another day, and everyone slips up. Just don't let one slip up to make a day "lost" so you slip up for the rest of the day. You can definitely eat junk every so often (depending on the person), or even make a unhealthy choice here or there - like eating everything your hypothetically Italian mother-in-law tries to force down your throat - but don't throw yourself down the slippery slope. Staying positive is key.

Hopefully my rambling was of some assistance.
It might seem like a lot, but the major thing is to ease into it and adapt. That obviously takes some patience.

Yeah, exactly. You pick tricks up if you keep at it.
More to the point, if I didn't make it clear in my above great wall of text (which is far more than just likely), I'll agree with the above: It's not a diet, and diets don't work. It's changing your lifestyle and even your psychology and physiology to ones that work better for you. If you want to keep weight off forever, you'll need to be healthy forever, basically.

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