How to loose weight without counting calories or weighing yourself?

[Vanessa1289]

I've been on my fitness/weightloss journey for a little over 2 years and I struggle with consistency and eating right. I would like to know if anyone has any tips for that since I'm tired of not seeing the results that I want. For reference I am over 200 pounds and 5"4 I just want to feel more confident in myself.

[zeitgeist057]

Educate yourself. I would suggest a book (there's an audiobook version) called "The Body" by Bill Bryson

but there are others ways to educate yourself as well such as YouTube or other books.

I mention this book as I'm listening to it and just last night I got to a part where he talks about our body and our desire to eat. Basically we don't have an "off" switch on our hunger. We eat and eat, even if we don't need more food, because our bodies were adapted long ago to times of famine or scarcity, the assumption is if there is food, it might not be there for long, and it might be a while before we get another chance to have food.

But this isn't true in the modern era. We have food all around us, we eat constantly, we have very poor nutrition.

I'm glad to hear you are wanting to take a step towards a healthy body, it's a great decision and if you can stick to it, it will benefit you in so many ways for the rest of your life. You will be more confident, you will get more positive attention from others, you will have fewer health problems, and just those three things alone are going to improve your life by 1000%.

So for example, with this little tidbit of information about hunger from the book, we can apply it to our diet. Realize that you don't actually need to eat much, and that people live for days and even weeks without food. It's water that is really important. I actually eat very little compared to most people, and I am quite healthy and happy. I don't eat all the "meals" of the day. I also eat more fiber and more protein, and reduce sugar and grains from my diet. Some days I hardly eat at all, maybe a few pieces of fruit or vegetables, and mostly just drink water.

I have no idea what you are eating every day or where you need to start. For all I know you eat at fast food restaurants and drink soda, which is more or less a worst case scenario. If you want to truly embrace healthy eating, a place like McDonalds or Taco Bell is a place you should eat at almost never, if ever at all. I have gone literal years without eating at places like that. I get it, the food can be tasty, but if you just eliminate it, after a while you don't mind, don't think of it, and enjoy real food more. But again, I don't know where you are at with your journey and what your daily intake is like.

[askandgiveAnswers]

Learn MACROS . Through an app called “””Transform “””””this is a good place that you will find security on this topic. Who Owns this is “”””Chris Powell”””” he has been on tv helping so many thousands of people. He designed an app with professionals to go through a day by day process. Helping the individual stay on a daily path in an encouraging group effort. Many people are going through this life detail.


They do have great protein shakes as well called Transform Protein shakes and boost scoop that 1 adds to water or travel protein shake product tubes for the on the go. Very healthy, very beneficial.

[SueShe]

I manage to keep my weight to a standard level by eating only 2 meals a day and observing the so-called intermittent fasting, that is, there must be a 16 hours time gap between the 2 meals.

For breakfast I eat the following:

A bowl with 4 tablespoons of fine oats, 2.5% milk and lean Greek yogurt, 1 handful of cashews or pecans or almonds, a small handful of Goji berries, 1/2 pear or apple or any small fruit (no banana). That should keep away from snacks for at least 8 hours.

In the evening, take vegetables, salads and a piece of chicken breast (if you are non vegetarian). Refrain from snacking and if you feel hungry during the day, eat a raw carrot and an apple. You can change the basic concept of dinner but always bearing in mind that vegetables must always be included in your dinner. Best are green vegetables.

With that combination, you have all the important nutrients, minerals, proteins and a minimum of carbohydrates. I drink at least 50 oz. of water (and nothing but water). You can include 2.5% milk but beware that between dinner and breakfast, you should not eat anything for 16 hours and not drink anything but milk or tea without sugar.

You should be able to lose weight pretty quickly but you have to be tough with yourself and adhere to the 16 hours rule.

[Anonymous]

Maybe you can try out Intermittent Fasting (IF)? Basically you only allow yourself to eat between a specific time window (let’s say from 12 PM - 6 PM), that way you’ll end up cutting down calories by restricting your time window for meals rather than restricting and counting your calories. There’s apparently a bunch of science behind IF but I can’t be bothered to write everything down 😆

[Anonymous]

As someone who's lost over 50 lbs. Twice ( I got fat, lost it, fell back into old habits and lost it again 😂). Let me tell you little things make a big difference over time. And this biggest determinant I've found in how successful I was was how much quality sleep I got. Make sure you don't have an underlying condition such as hypothyroidism or sleep apnea. I couldn't lose a pound to save my life. When I found out I had sleep apnea and started treatment for it I had no problem losing weight.

[Adam1978]

I never counted calories in my life and I never going to need too. If I need to loose weight, I simply cut unecissary consumption first then simply have discipline regarding portion size and stick to eat 2-3 times a day. Using the scale is only needed if you want to see progress before you can actually notice it on your body. Just keep in mind that you do go up and down in weight during the day depending how much you got in the system at the moment.

[dustybiker]

Ask your doctor for starters. Join sports. Starting them at a young age and surrounding yourself with athletic people gets your into that mindset. It feels great to be fit.

[Guy13]

Not possible…need food intake for program design

[Vanessa1289]

What do you mean by that?

[Guy13]

Losing weight requires Data if you are serious. Search it online

[boobliker]

eat less by leaving a bit of food on your plate each meal and moving more

[Iron_Man]

Stay away from junk food do a lot of cardio every day