So, you lost around 2kg of weight every month? That is very impressive considering the weight and size you're started out from! Most people aim for less than that and don't even lose the 0.5kg of water weight. Great job, keep it up man!
In fact, 2kg per month is pretty reasonable. I know it's possible to achieve this goal without starving yourself and by eating tasty and satiating food. I already did it in the past and it worked.
You "just" need to eat better food. It's that easy.
Well, here I'm not telling lessons, because I fail to "just" eat better food. In fact eating it is the easy part. Getting good food in your plate everyday is what is hard because it means making a lot of changes in your habits because, well, food is not going to cook itself and you always have "better" things to do.
Better food, yes. But also LESS food. I know it’s controversial to say so, but getting fat is a result of _eating too much!_. Yes, calorie dense food sure speeds up the process, but at the end of the day it’s a deficit between calories in, and calories burnt.
Source: experimented a fair amount with dieting/fasting in my 30s. When you talk about this with people, it’s startling how many believe that skipping some meals is dicing with death. Hardly surprising people struggle to lose weight, when they refuse to try changing the key variables
Please don't aim at that. Aim at anything negative for first month or two AT LEAST if not longer, then increase it. I had biggest bounceback after that kind of rate of drop.
Fix habit enough that you don't gain weight first, and get used to that being new normal, then start dropping, else it is very easy to bounce back.
Then, once you figured out how to live and eat "post weight drop", start actual drop, and if you bounce it won't be as hard
pjerem|3 years ago
You "just" need to eat better food. It's that easy.
Well, here I'm not telling lessons, because I fail to "just" eat better food. In fact eating it is the easy part. Getting good food in your plate everyday is what is hard because it means making a lot of changes in your habits because, well, food is not going to cook itself and you always have "better" things to do.
itsthejb|3 years ago
Source: experimented a fair amount with dieting/fasting in my 30s. When you talk about this with people, it’s startling how many believe that skipping some meals is dicing with death. Hardly surprising people struggle to lose weight, when they refuse to try changing the key variables
ilyt|3 years ago
Fix habit enough that you don't gain weight first, and get used to that being new normal, then start dropping, else it is very easy to bounce back.
Then, once you figured out how to live and eat "post weight drop", start actual drop, and if you bounce it won't be as hard
k__|3 years ago
So, yeah, you can lose more than that, but it's probably not sustainable by someone who loves to eat.