Asklemmy

Is this a serious question?

Look if you don't care about your health, you can crash diet, sure, but you'll lose water weight first, and then will lose muscle alongside the fat, especially if you don't exercise. You will also feel miserable and will make others feel miserable being around you. And you'll most likely pack it back on when you quit the diet.

Lock yourself in a cage with only water. Carefully reintroduce food once you're out as to not get refeeding syndrome.

Get a tapeworm, and suffer the other negative effects of it.

Ozempic.

Gastric surgery.

Stope eating anything processes , drink only water, WALK several miles a day.

Intermittent fasting.

Like any form of weight-loss the real mechanism is a calorie deficit, but intermittent fasting makes that really easy for some people. I lost like 30lbs in six months. Takes a bit to kick in but then goes pretty quickly.

Unfortunately, losing weight is a long journey. People who are very overweight have more fat cells than others (because those cells divide when they get big enough) and those fat cells WANT to hold onto fat. And they’ll release hormones to achieve that goal. So your body will desperately be calling for you to overeat.

This is part of why weight-loss tends to be a spiky line for people. I gained back all of the IF weight I lost, and then some. Still below my highest recorded weight by a good 20lbs, but I’m just now getting back on the IF horse, hoping to make better progress this time.

Only way is caloric restriction. Exercise that builds muscle increases your body's caloric expenditure, exercise that burns calories raises the number of calories you can eat that day, doing neither means you need to have a more restricted caloric intake.

Personally, I try to focus on weight training and maintaining or slightly losing weight. So far, it's had quite a positive impact functionally, and aesthetically in my personal opinion (and my partner's). That being said, I've done pure restriction before, it worked in the short term but I gained most of it back, and I was miserable doing it.

How quickly are we talking? Then we can talk about concrete answers, and strategies to make it work for you specifically. And whats the goal? Temporary (like for a day or 2) or more permanent?

dude, ozempic

I managed losing 20kg within a year without major exercise using a combination that fit me. Baseline calories about 2000kcal/day, so restricted to 1300kcal to give me some room for error. Next was switching to Keto, so I could manage hunger a lot better. Next I wrote everything in my food tracker app, often planning my entire day in there. Put the sauces away, found a good low-carb curry ketchup and used that a lot, was also low calories. I made lots of mistakes, often hidden calories, salad sauces, remoulade alternatives that just weren't, and what hurt the most were sugar alternative products. If you want to lose weight, there is no alternative.

What helped me get through was adding a "cheat day" every sunday, which was not a sugar cheat day, but one with 2000kcal more in keto stuff (only the basics, not any of these replacement thingies) and some protein puddings which was the only exception.

Why can't you exercise?

I've been a bodybuilder for six months and this is my take. The diet is big. Remove excess junk from your food and focus on eating nutrient dense foods. I go hard and measure all my food in grams so I have consistency with my food. Do you have to do this monk level BS? No but I'm pushing myself for health reasons and want to see where it will take me. If you can do four to five meal breaks per day. You just eat a lot less per sitting. It helps keep hunger pains away and I never feel like I'm starving or so full I'll burst.

If you find your caloric needs per day you can slowly enter a deficit. KEY. Deficit is not starving yourself. So don't think you can do 1/2 your daily needs and magic will happen. Something will happen but not what you'll want in the end.

Be safe. Be smart. Good luck.

Having a calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight. Everybody knows that. Exercise actually burns very few calories. There are many other health benefits to exercising but weight loss isn't really one of them.

In my experience, a calorie deficit is much easier if you eat better foods, rather than try to eat smaller portions of unhealthy foods. More fiber keeps you feeling full for longer. Find ways to incorporate lots more vegetables in your diet. I keep apples around for when I want a snack. I make bean tacos instead of chorizo (maybe I'll mix a little chorizo in), etc. Find sauces and ways to spice up veggies. Don't worry if your sauces and dressings are the most healthy. Just getting the vegetables is the most important.

Also cut back on drinking of you do that a lot. Lots more calories in alcohol than people realize.

TAPEWORM

I'm a former model. Cocaine + water/juice fasting is what we did. Absolutely not recommended. Please lose weight the healthy way.

Basically just cut all the carbs and sugar out of your diet, that will put your body into ketosis so it's burning fat for energy.

Don't do this for too long and make sure to take vitamins while you're doing it.

Stop Eating

meth.

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The good news is that exercise isn't good for losing fat anyway!

It's all about diet.

A healthy and balanced diet. Although I'd really recommend being physically active, it's really important for overall health.

Surgery

Get really sick. Cancer will often do it. A broken thyroid. There are a number of GI disorders too.

A machete

the best way to make it stick is to take it slowly. Become more aware of the food choices you make - a food log is helpful here - without necessarily looking to correct them first. Just note the times when you think about food, the times you're able to eat healthy and smaller portions and the times when it's harder. Then try and inject some alternatives, make healthier options available for yourself at home, and gradually move your food decisions toward more nutritious food and smaller portions of comfort food.

Even then, thinking in nutrition has moved on from eliminating "bad foods" to eating "good foods" first, and finding a level of moderation with less nutritious food that fits with your goals.

"Stop eating" diets and "fast weight loss" as a primary goal are very good ways to sabotage yourself in the long term. The psychological costs of very restrictive diets are real and lead to losing adherence down the road. Maybe it works for some but the more gradual choice-focused approach worked a lot better for me. Just do what you're capable of day to day, always trying to push that needle a little further, and you might be surprised at how fast noticeable progress comes!

Calorie negative diet. I hear ozempic has worked wonders for many people. Obviously consult a doctor as I don't know shit about medicine.

Interval fasting.