I need help losing weight. It's affecting everything from my health to my mental state. Does anyone have any advice on how to start out small?
@lacuda Well, I can offer some tips from my own weight loss experience. Cut back on carbs, reduce intake on fatty/greasy foods, and ramp up the juice and water intake, cut out soda entirely, and maybe coffee too if you can handle it. Water flavor packets with vitamins are absolutely gold for this. I cut out red meat entirely from my diet, and only eat carbs maybe twice a day. The goal tho in this, is to remove the excess.
@PaganMother @lacuda
For me, it was sugar/processd carbs (could eat all the plant carbs I wanted)
Like, nothing for months, and then Boom, couldn’t stop.
Though I was on a very strict diet (AIP- but don’t do that) not for weight loss purposes.
@PaganMother @lacuda sugar is sneaky.
It’s frickin everywhere.
Lol one nice (?) side effect is that you’re basically eliminating all processed foods if you eliminate sugar.
@Beanc @lacuda I mean they use bone meal to process sugar to get that white color to it. MIL is vegan so yeah had to cut out a ton of stuff to accommodate for her dietary needs too. We generally eat fairly lean meals here though with TONS of veg, big portions of veg and smaller portions of meat honestly really is good for the body, that's for sure.
@PaganMother @lacuda yeah, I didnt' care about fats quantities (i generally use healthy fats anyway) and had to *seek* carbs because AIP is so restrictive and I didn't want to go low carb.
@Beanc @lacuda Things I learned from my own weight loss journey: Sneaky sweeteners are often renamed sugar, or sugar alternatives that are more chemical than they are actually flavor enhancers, and many do have neurological side effects consumed over the long term. Fruit juices sold in mass produce generally have additives, better to drink fresh made at home with a juicer honestly, tea, good lord herbal teas are great for something sweet with honey in it.
@Beanc @lacuda Oh and one thing about sugar cutting, keep an eye out for alternative naming for sweetners, some of them do have neurological effects on the long term.