Is it possible to lose weight if I still can eat anything (healthy) but smaller portions?

[Anonymous]

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I'm having some trouble leaving chocolates alone, processed foods and portions

[Nirmroth]

Do you know how weight gain/loss works?
To gain weight, you eat more than what your body burns a day and to lose weight you eat less than what your body needs a day to maintain weight.

If you have a maintance of 1600 calories a day for example you need to to eat 500-700 calories less (for a 1100 cal) a day to have a healthy weight loss of 0,5kg or 1 lbs a week.

Now it doesn't matter what you eat aslong as you're eating less than you need you will lose weight. However different foods have different nutrients. While one Burger and a few fries is already enough to hit the 1100 cal goal you will feel hungry really quick bec its fast burning calories. 100g potatoes are just around 70cal meaning you could basically stuff yourself with 1,5kg (32 lbs) potatoes each day and still loose weight while beeing much fuller.

Same with chocolate, one bar usually has around 500 cal meaning you could only eat two bars a day and thats it.

In short: You can eat what you want aslong as its less than what your body needs. However different food comes with different nutrition value and will be a deciding factor whetever you feel going hungry or not hungry to bed.

[Sonorous]

If someone's caloric maintenance is 1600, it's better for their body if they eat no more than a 500 calorie deficit per day. I think most would benefit from aiming for around a 200-300cal deficit per day.

[slatyb]

There are some things you definitely should not consume if you want to lose weight -- drinks with sugar in particular. Get all the junk out of your home -- chips, candy, cookies. Decide on a daily calorie budget and stick to it. Also try walking more.

[Loner111]

I think completely eliminating unhealthy foods for a month will be better and eventually, small portions as in like once a week, or once every other week.

Eating processed foods are bad no matter how hard u work out, u will remain big because processed foods are hard to exert from the body.

Eating natural is the way go. If it ain't natural, it's not good for u.

[Asker]

Noted

[Loner111]

Chocolate can actually be good in controlled portions as chocolate has been proven to help with muscle growth, recovery when your sore. Particularly dark chocolate. Things like Oreos are a hard no.

At the same time, everyones body is different. The more you sweat while exercising, the more u need to replenish things like sodium, potassium, magnesium and etc.

If you're training hard, sweating a lot and not properly replenishing all the vitamins, minerals in ur body, extreme, painful cramps in ur legs may happen. So, be careful with that.

Know ur body and limits. It's not worth pushing yourself so hard to the point u end up in the hospital all because u did not replenish your body with lost nutrients.

[ICanSmellTheCosmos]

Back 5 years ago, I was about 15 lbs overweight. I started a schedule where I ate breakfast + dinner one day, then only a big lunch on the next, breakfast + dinner, lunch, and so on. By doing only this, I lost 10 pounds over 4 months.

Eliminate sodas and switch 100% to whole grain bread. That should knock off another 5 - 10 lbs over a year.

This is all without exercise or needing to deprive yourself.

[shortster]

Portion control is the most important part of any diet. Your caloric intake is more important than what you eat. I went on a cupcake only diet and lost weight. It wasn't easy, because I wasn't eating a lot of food. Plus, keeping the cupcakes fresh was difficult.

[teamvic]

I meannn I guess? Less calories theoretically can meannn less weight buttwo things

I'm no expert so I may be wrong. And I'm not sure if that's the most efficient way

[Sonorous]

If those smaller portions still contain more calories than what you burn in a day, then no. If they don't, then yes.

[jahaims]

A calorie deficit is how you lose weight. How do grown adults not know that.

[Danny_dan92]

Calories in/calories out

[Asker]

Okay how stuff

[Asker]

Hot*

[Danny_dan92]

Wait what?

[exitseven]

Less calories and more excersize.

[Anonymous]

I'm anon

[HurremSultan]

Yes that's what I do