If you don't want medicine then you need to reduce calorie intake. There a bunch of tracking apps out there you can try. Essentially if you burn more calories than you ingest your body will burn fat reserves to make up the difference.
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The tracking aspect also creates a mental barrier for food intake. If snacking is a bit tedious because you need to write it down, there's a larger chance you really think about eating something or not.
This is my experience.
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!
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Stop eating.
I don't know why you were downvoted. It's called "fasting," and it's an entirely legitimate way to lose weight. There's good evidence that, if done thoughtfully, it can have health benefits.
Calories in, calories out. There's no way around physics.
Stopping entirely for long periods reduces metabolism. Intermittent fasting does work for a lot of people though.
Right. The idea is to do it thoughtfully, and informed. Exercising can kill, too, but it's usually overdoing it that causes harm.
Right. It seems the top commenter was uninformed or too lazy to put actual useful information in their comment.
imo nobody who is struggling to lose weight needs to be told about energy balance. Everyone knows what a calorie is, and that there's a daily amount at which they will either lose or gain weight. They probably know they're above that amount, and need to bring it down to lose weight.
Unfortunately either a lot of good advice or a lot of bad advice can follow that. Nutrition and the psychological factors that influence people's diets are more complicated and no answer is complete without getting into that too.
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Intermittent fasting + keto diet + eating less + constant hydration. If you add some exercise to that, you will see very fast early results. It won't get you all the way, but a month straight of that and you will easily see fat reduction.
This 100%.
Followed by drinking ditch water and getting dysentery.
Edit: no sarcasm. I personally do fasting and keto, and highly recommend them.
I also know someone that would drink a liter of water from a well they knew would give them dysentery a week before they went anywhere fancy to lose an easy 5kg. I don't recommend it, but it does also work.
long answer, many ways, from dangerous diets, uperations, medicine, drugs...
short answer, no. try to get a healthier lifestyle that will gradually get you to where you want to be. Do you want to be skinnier or do you want to be more active and do stuff you would love to do.
if it's just a self image issue, I get that, I really do. but you'll get there in time
Exrcise ya lazy bollix.