• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 years ago

    Here’s a couple free ones:

    Quit drinking alcohol

    When I quit drinking I lost about 50 pounds in 6 months with no other diet changes.

    Basically stop drinking your calories.

    Another one:

    Only buy foods you have to prepare, no snacks.

    That way you can prevent yourself from idly eating when bored.

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      3 years ago

      What do you replace alcohol with? Hiking through nature? Meditation? Cocaine?

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        3 years ago

        Smoking weed is fat free, sugar free, and zero calories! Just watch out for those munchies!

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          Just watch out for those munchies!

          Pro tip (but that works for me, that may not work for you) when you smoke weed, prepare a huge bowl of salad beforehand, an enormous one, when I’m stoned I don’t care about what I’m eating as long as it’s food, a huge bowl of salad is totally fine and if you don’t stuff it with seasonings is pretty low on calories and actually good for your health. You can stuff yourself to stop the hunger plus eat something good and low calorie.

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      3 years ago

      Your second recommendation won’t work for everyone. For me, when I don’t have the time or energy to cook I am more likely to order unhealthy food or get take out. It helped me a lot to have easy fast healthy options at home. Frozen veggies can be thrown in the oven and then dusted with a really good spice mix. Sandwich with good whole grain bread and lean meats. Once I learned to expect at least 2 “I give up” nights a week, I was able to finally lose a few pounds.

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        You don’t need to cook every day, just cook a large meal once at weekends and freeze it. I always cook about 8 to 12 servings, so I can skip cooking about every other weekend. I’m lazy, so I mostly make stews, soups, lasagnas or sauces for which i just need to add a fresh portion of rice or pasta I boil the day before. These meals take 2 hours to make (max) and I’m prepared for at least a week. The excess servings of each week add up fast, so I already had some variety after a few weeks. I eat those for lunch when I’m at work and started to make whatever-salads in the evening about a week ago (vinegar-oil dressing, whatever spices/herbs, whatever veggies, whatever proteins). Best decision I made, I’m eating far less crap, less meat and the urge to order food is getting rarer. Hoping I’m gonna lose some of my fat ass in the long run, too :)

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          3 years ago

          This is the way! Make extra food and freeze it. Some things do better than others but it’s worth exploring this option

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      3 years ago

      It’s also best to question yourself if you’re really hungry or do you just want to eat. Some of us have used food as a mechanism to cope with trauma or our problems and not just because we needed nutrition.

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        3 years ago

        Some people also eat from boredom or habit; sit in front to the TV, get a snack. Turn on the Xbox, get a snack.

        It’s me, I’m people. And I’m not even out of shape, just bad habits.

        I’m real close to trading in my gaming chair for a recumbent bike. I’ve done it before, but sold it in a move. I don’t even sweat; I just keep moving. Works well.

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          My parents fucked up a lot of things but I’m lucky they gave me pretty good food habits. There was no idle eating from boredom. You don’t have a snack if it’s almost dinner time. Chips are rare. Candy is basically holidays.

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    3 years ago

    As American, can confidently say that yes, people drink soda as water. You can usually find people who drink directly out of the 2 liters but be mouth agape when you tell them you drink water from the tap

    You know tap water ain’t healthy, right?

    People are so accustomed to sugar overload they literally can’t taste anymore. I drink la croix if I want something a bit bubbly, but so many Americans make fun of la croix drinkers. “It’s like smelling a lemon from 10 feet away haw haw haw”.

    No, drinks like that actually have a lot of flavor, but your taste buds are so constantly overwhelmed with sugar that your literal ability to taste has degradated

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      3 years ago

      La Croix is vile. I drink unsweetened ice tea instead lol. I have between 1 and 3 gallons of it in my fridge at all times

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      Ehh, I pretty much only drink water and never soda and I agree with La Croix being irritably mildly flavored trash.

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        3 years ago

        All La Croix taste like what I imagine cardboard tastes like. I think they make it smell like the listed flavor and hope people’s brains interpret it as taste.

    • The only drink that I have regularly except water is coffee. My taste buds are a bit bust too on account of being Indian. I can’t taste the subtleties of coffee as some people seem to be able to. Pomegranate, cherry, peach, whatever, can’t taste any of them in coffee. The only flavours I can actually taste in coffee are sweet, chocolatey, and well, coffee.

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        Interesting, that happened to me after covid, my taste buds changed for a few weeks. You are definitely picking up on the more floral and aromatic flavors rather than the obvious sweet ones. In some ways your palette is off, but in other ways you’re probably really fine tuned

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      To be fair, there are places across the world and particularly in the US where the water doesn’t taste or smell good, but even then bottled water will do so much better. Though I’m in the UK, I’m considering buying myself a filter because the water tastes a little weird here. Not dangerous - just… too weird for my taste buds.

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        A lot of the US has fair water when it comes to taste.

        Y’all Brits tho. I’ve had you’re water. I’m usually not someone who says “water has taste”, but yours does lol.

        London especially, was like drinking straight out of the Thames.

        Yeah I’d get a filter if I lived there lol. Ours tastes like crisp refreshing nothing, like better than bottled

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      A lot of tap water isn’t healthy.

      My towns tap water is on a boil notice a few times a month at least.

      Soda being unhealthy =/= tap water being healthy

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        To fix that problem you can install a Reverse Osmosis water filter system under your sink to get a “tap” of purified water and not have to buy water from the store. I got one with a pH re-mineralization stage to add back some beneficial minerals that RO purification removes. The filtered water tastes absolutely perfect.

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          About how much did your whole set up cost you and were you able to install it yourself or is this something a plumber would need to do?

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            It was about $175 if I recall correctly. Installed it myself, wasn’t very difficult. Had to drill 3 holes under the sink for hoses to go in their places.

            I think the drill was the only tool I needed. Replacement filter sets are around $80 per year, so the cost over time / per day is very small. I drink water from it several times per day.

            EDIT: Oh yeah I needed some wrenches too for the T-junction connection. You have to turn off your water to the sink, then wrench free the pipe and install the T-junction in between, to tap the output for your filter system.

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      3 years ago

      your literal ability to taste has degradated

      Actually, hot sauce and peppers did that for me. Everything tastes like cardboard unless it comes with a few thousand Scoville of heat.

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      as someone who exclusively drinks water / sparkling water, La Croix barely has an aftertaste of a hint of flavor lol I prefer most other sparkling waters to it

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        The large ones yes. The smaller ones are still in U.S. Customary, we have 8oz, 12oz, 20oz and sometimes 24oz containers for when you want smaller amounts.

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        At one point I drank four or more of those daily, as in 8+ liters of Coca Cola. Glad that’s behind me, but I’m still not entirely free of the sugary monster.

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          You used to drink 8 liters of regular coke?

          8 liters of water per day already beggars belief. That’s going to the bathroom at least 16 times a day. You’d also need to take electrolyte supplements to avoid your nervous system shutting down.

          But 8 liters of coke per day? That’s 880 grams of pure sugar. And 3200 calories, which is 150% of daily intake for average person.

          If you consumed 880g of pure sugar daily, i think your liver would have failed after just a few weeks.