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DIETING! (Updates posted on Sunday morning.)

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Week 1-2
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    • SoralTheSol

    SoralTheSol

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    Greetings my fellow degenerates,

    I have decided to share my journey here on QQ as I do my best to lose weight in the slow and stable way. Counting Calories. I am already 2 weeks into my plan and will be posting the numbers here. To be clear, I am not changing "What" I am eating. I am changing the amount that I eat. As for why I am sharing here, well why not? I feel like I should.

    So, when I started I was at 275 lbs. My goal is to get down to 200. To do this, I need to eat 18060 calories or less each week to lose one pound. I will post my current weight on that same day, though that tends to bounce around more because Water Weight is a thing and it is terrible. My progress should also be relatively slower going forward as my diet has evened out. Date is in DD-MM-YY.

    Week 1: 06-07-25) 17421 Cals, 272 pounds
    Week 2: 13-07-25) 17510 Cals, 270 pounds
    Week 3: 20-07-25) 17871 Cals. 265 pounds.
    Week 4: 27-07-25) 17918 Cals. 262 pounds.
    Week 5: 03-08-25) 18025 Cals. 261 pounds.
    Week 6: 10-08-25) 18065 Cals. 260 pounds.
    Week 7: 17-08-25) 18510 Cals. 259 pounds.
    Week 8: 24-08-2025) 17900 Cals. 258 pounds.
    Week 9: 31-08-2025) 17350 Cals. 257 pounds.
    Week 10: 07-09-2025) 16600 Cals. 255 pounds
    Week 11: 14-09-2025) 14720 Cals. 255 pounds (Vacation week, not a lot of exercise)

    Feel Free to post about your own diet struggle. Lord knows the hardest part of this for me is ignoring my occasional need for munchies.
     
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    • The worst thing for dieting is boredom. That's when you feel the most hungry. If you can find things to occupy your time all through the day, you might just get so busy you forget to eat. I would find that I'd have some free time so I'd start watching a long video on youtube, and then right away I'd feel the urge to grab some snacks to stuff my face with while I watch. Sometimes I'd ignore it, other times I'd go for a piece of fruit or some veggies, to limit the damage. But after a while my stomach keeps crying out for fat and sugar and bread. I can't keep junk food in the house, because I know that if it exists, I will eventually consume all of it, no matter how much there is, so I just don't buy it anymore.

    I started dieting last summer. I was around 220 or 230, I didn't really weigh myself before I started so I don't have a precise figure, but I worked my way down to 200 by the fall (and then I put 5 or 10 pounds back on over the course of the winter as a result of exercising less and drinking more beer, and getting the flu for a month and stuffing my face while I was recovering). For me, the goal wasn't weight, but to reduce my cholesterol (which didn't even change; I had to go on a pill like I'm an old man now). I went on a regime of mostly meat and vegetables, not counting the calories but just trying to keep the portions modest (just eyeballing the amount of stuff on my plate; one fist of meat, two fists of veggies, that sort of thing).

    I combined this with daily exercise, including a half-mile run each day. When I first started running I could only go about 200 metres and then I'd have to drop to a walking pace to catch my breath, then try to pick up a run a minute later, running intermittently until I reached the finish line. But after working at it for about a week I got to where I could run the full distance without stopping. And after that, it was just a matter of trimming down the time I could complete it in, then extending the distance up to a full mile. For me, I think it was the running that had the biggest impact on my weight overall, but of course it wouldn't have worked without the diet also being in place. And it'd probably be a lot more effective if I stopped drinking beer, but that's half my social life, so... whatever.
     
    Joke. Indicator for mealtime is when you start regurgitating acid. (Trivia: pure particle-free acid is coloured like dark beer.)

    Personal method is to simply equate each and every single meal, snack, and drink into working man-hours, calculating estimated weekly profit to monthly expenses quota. Count anything and everything, where even chicken nuggets transmute into "0.5 hours" etc, and you are $X behind quota this week and have $¥ resupply budget for daily operations.

    Joke. Efficient appetite killer.
     
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    Good luck, you'll need it. Restricting calories without changing your diet is probably the hardest way I ever tried to lose weight. Fucking extended fasting was easier than that.
     
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    It is honestly going pretty easy. I just need to be aware. I have dropped a few things because their ability to fill me up vs calories gained is just too inefficient. Ice-cream is surprisingly terrible. The hardest part is craving vs hunger and figuring out which is which.
     
    I ran into three problems.

    You need constant vigilance. A few mouthfuls of soda or juice, a bit more fries, a heavier hand with the fat when cooking, or even just slightly larger pieces of meat. Any one of these can wipe your planned calorie deficit for the day. Is this meal actually 600 calories? Did you weigh everything? Are your volume estimations good?
    After a while my body decided it was in danger of famine. Blazing hunger and cravings just wear at me.
    Worst of all is BMR adjustment. Feeling sluggish, tired, and sleeping more as your body conserves energy and renders your calorie deficit moot.

    You may not have metabolic syndrome like I do though.
     
    humon said:
    The worst thing for dieting is boredom. That's when you feel the most hungry. If you can find things to occupy your time all through the day, you might just get so busy you forget to eat.
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    Decent advice but rather than boredom I feel the worst thing for dieting is resisting cravings- though given OP says he's eating the same stuff, just less, that shouldn't be an issue and even if it is that same advice can help with that as well.
    That or getting some low cal snacks to munch on, celery, rice cakes, whatever, something to fill you up so you can ignore the cravings.
     
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    Have you tried a gym? Sometimes, it's just about eating a bit less and moving a bit more. Your older self will thank you too.

    No need for crazy times or workout eithers. Say, 3 sessions of 1 hour per week will easily burn a few hundreds calories.
     
    Megaolix said:
    Have you tried a gym?
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    I find working out generally boring as watching paint dry with added physical exaustion.
    I think it's better to find a hobby that forces you to move, swimming, biking, tennis, basketball, hell, play Dance Dance Revolution or Wii Sports, as long as it gets you moving it's better than nothing.
     
    Megaolix said:
    Have you tried a gym? Sometimes, it's just about eating a bit less and moving a bit more. Your older self will thank you too.

    No need for crazy times or workout eithers. Say, 3 sessions of 1 hour per week will easily burn a few hundreds calories.
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    Cutting back my junkfood habit and three 20min sessions at home got me to drop 5kg in a week. Weight is still stable at the current 4-week mark, but like always for me I'm slimming down while keeping the same weight as I trade fat for muscle. Now if only the fat would actually go from my belly, I actually look fatter now because it's more prominent as the surrounding areas shed their fat. Arse is looking a lot better though and I can really feel the general improvement with walking and lifting at work with my current focus on core, lower/upper erectors, glutes, and hams/quads.

    I remember having a blast when I was younger with Wii-Sports, Sports-Resort, and Wii-Fit. Was looking to get the Switch Ring-Fit Adventure because the ring is good for light resistance workouts so you can build/maintain muscle to a nice level before hitting a proper gym. Wii-Fit was really good at teaching proper forms for various isometric and stretching exercises, 20 seconds planking with good form is better than five minutes in a shitty form.
     
    Megaolix said:
    Have you tried a gym?
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    I am not dropping money on the gyms in town. They all suck or are the YMC$200A.

    I work maintenance at a bigbox store. I spend near 8 hours a day walking, sweeping, gathering trash. I get my steps in.

    I have swapped to Dr. Pepper Zero for my soda craving and flavored water and plain water. I am keeping firm track of how much I eat. Buying more low-cal snacks like pickles, fruits, snap peas. When I am not full of water my weight drops to 263 pounds. Currently.

    Will soon add the week 3 results on Sunday.
     
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    Soupervan said:
    I find working out generally boring as watching paint dry with added physical exaustion.
    I think it's better to find a hobby that forces you to move, swimming, biking, tennis, basketball, hell, play Dance Dance Revolution or Wii Sports, as long as it gets you moving it's better than nothing.
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    Yeah, that's a mindset trap here. If you wre not inclined to physical hobbies to begin with, you're usually not going to suddenly pick up a hobby and go at it long enough to get the physical benefits in.

    Hell, it's not like I like the threadmill eiher. How I do is I trap my mindset with me hating to waste money: If I pay for a gym membership then do not use it, then I would hate it hard to spend money for nothing.

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    I work maintenance at a bigbox store. I soend near 8 hours a day walking, sweeping, gathering trash. I get my steps in.
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    Alright, that's fair. Only thing I could suggest as an option then is maybe some weights to work out arm strength.
     
    I haven't been to a gym in over 10 years. I bought a set of dumbbells and a basic bench so I could do simple weights at home, and everything else is just running or body-weight exercises. There's some stuff I obviously can't do, like squats and bench press and truly heavy weights (I only have 40lb dumbbells), but it doesn't matter, I'm not trying to get swole, I'm just trying to stay healthy.

    And treadmills suck. If I'm going to do cardio, I want to be going somewhere, not staying in the same place. So I do running for intense exercise, and I ride a bicycle to go long distances. Much prefer the bike, but it doesn't test my endurance quite the way that running does. Too easy to just coast and catch my breath.

    What do I do in the winter? I get fat.
     
    Smartphones are a godsend on the treadmill or exercise bike, and I bought a small, slow one for use when I'm on my computer. It doesn't really work without a standing desk if you want to play a non-controller game.

    There's a step-simulator kind of thing for people who have normal desks. Using either a treadmill or the step-thing can be kind of distracting though.
     
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    Water. If you are cutting carb intake, which you are even if just by reducing overall calories, your body will shed water.
     
    When you are trying to stick to a diet and the suddenly eat an entire bag of salty popcorn and then chug three glasses of water before you regain control over said impulse.

    According to the internets I need to drink more water... which I actually believe.
     
    I almost always have a glass of water with me at my desk that I sip from whenever I feel parched, or I keep a bottle of water in the car when I'm out somewhere. But that's just me, where if I get too dry it causes problems for my nose and throat.

    Like I said at the beginning, you'll probably want to just not keep junk food in the house. The more you starve yourself, the less you'll be able to resist grabbing the easy food and stuffing your face with it. But you can't pig out if it isn't there in the first place. When it's not there, you'll feel bad for a week because you miss it, but after going a week without it you'll forget why you ever wanted it in the first place.
     
    humon said:
    When it's not there, you'll feel bad for a week because you miss it, but after going a week without it you'll forget why you ever wanted it in the first place.
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    God, I wish. I do agree that it is often easier to not buy something than not eat it.
     
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    • So, a couple of mistakes this week due to poor decisions but it did not ruin progress. The Poor decisions in question, involved being hungry after a dentist appointment and the doughnut shop being right next to said dentist. Still... Losing roughly a pound a week at this rate. I am actually happy with my progress.

    Week 7: 17-08-25) 18510 Cals. 259 pounds.
     
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    • Week 9: 31-08-2025) 17350 Cals. 257 pounds.

    It has been hard at times, but I am still making steady progress. Honestly, just making sure to post this shit publicly is helping a lot.
     
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