My problem is, I lost like 20-25 kg, and then I regain that in a year lol. Can’t keep up with the diet. Any tips?
I started again last month and following [mod note - link removed]
Lost 5 kg so far, let’s see how it goes.
Keto/low carb is working for me. I’m down from 280 to 200, its been 15 months.
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My opinion: you have to stop thinking in terms of “I’m on a diet” and instead realize “I need to eat like this to stay healthy.” Diets are things that start and stop. Diets are things that you can cheat on. Diets are temporary and short term. Losing weight and maintaining the loss is a matter of attitude as much as anything. As with any venture, you can’t keep doing what you were doing and expect different results.
To update my earlier post, I’ve dropped more than 100#. I’ve hit a plateau, mostly because I’ve been less diligent of late, my weight currently fluctuates within a 5# window. I still do my best to make good food choices and get on the treadmill regularly. But I don’t think in terms of “getting off the diet” since I don’t want to balloon up again. And as much as I may want a hot fudge sundae, sometimes I find a handful of grapes can be almost as satisfying. Almost… 
I will repeat my story, which I have told before.
Around 2000, I was over 280 (pounds, not kilos) and my doctor suggested looking at the zone diet which is fundamentally portion control, basically balanced. My wife started serving smaller portions and I lost 30 in a year. Then I gained 10 over the next couple years. In 2005, diabetes was diagnosed (borderline, in fact) and I was started on metformin. Within a year I had lost 20 with no attempt at dieting. If you are tracking, it is now 2006 and I am at 240. I stayed that way for four years and then decided to just stop eating between meals. I lost 20 the first year and another 20 the second. So by 2012 I was down to 200 and have stuck there ever since.
There is a theory (of sorts) behind this. Most addictions can be dealt with by going cold turkey. Obviously not food. But a long time ago, when I was a student, a friend who was a grad student with experiments couldn’t go home for Christmas and his mother sent him a box of home-made cookies. Every evening around 9 O’clock, he would pour a glass of milk and eat a few cookies. He did this for a few weeks until the cookies ran out. The next night he felt a great hunger pang at 9. And the next night too. After a week or so this went away. My takeaway from this is that while you can’t go cold turkey on food, you can go cold turkey on noshing between meals. And so it proved. A few weeks after stopping eating between meals I lost the hunger to do so. This morning I weighed in at 199.8. So I have kept this weight, up and down a couple pounds, for 9 years.
Good luck to you.
About ten years ago I took off 50-60 pounds by simply having a Diet Coke and a PopTart for breakfast, having something basic like a ham sandwich (mustard, no mayo) for lunch, and something reasonable for supper (couple slices of pizza or whatever). No snacking, no eating until I was ready to burst, etc.
I didn’t meticulously count calories or buy low-fat or keto or Atkins or whatever. I just … ate less. I also worked out twice a day, before and after work.
It was so long ago, I didn’t think of it, but when I first became a vegetarian, I lost about 10 lbs over the first maybe 3 months, and went down a size in pants. I wasn’t doing anything in particular to try to lose weight, although I might have been walking a bit more, but I don’t really know.
Also, I went from something like 142 lbs to 132 lbs, so I wasn’t really overweight to start with-- maybe right on the edge of tipping into it, but not there yet. I was young and very muscular, and I’ve got a large frame, so at 132, you could see bones and muscle.
I don’t weigh 132 now, and didn’t even right before I got pregnant (the life event that gave me weight problems for the first time), but I weighed maybe 138.
I suspect the reason was that from the time I first became vegetarian, until the time I’d started to regain weight, a lot of companies started coming out with fake meat products, and other meat-free convenience foods.
When I was first a vegetarian, in 1986, I had to make just about everything I ate from scratch. I could never eat much at restaurants and parties. So, everything I ate was really healthy. That’s not necessarily the case anymore.
It used to be the only fast food place I could eat at was Taco Bell, where I could get a bean burrito. Then a few places started offering salads, so I’d get a salad and fries at McD’s. Yay.
Now, I can’t think of a place where there isn’t at least one thing I can get at any time of day. Burger King? Impossible Whopper; McD’s? egg McMuffin, hold the meat; Arby’s? mozzarella sticks.
The upshot is, that rather than actually dieting, just making all your own food from scratch is probably a decent way to lose weight. Might depend on how much you have to lose, but I’ll bet essentially that same food, made at home or made in a restaurant, will have more calories at the restaurant.
Yep. On January 2, 1997 I went on the Atkins Diet.
I hydrated incessantly to protect my liver and kidneys.
Did bloodwork before I started.
I lost over 50 pounds by October and kept it off until September 21, 2000 when I broke my L-3 in a ladder fall. Bed-bound and depressed, I ate and slowly gained back most of it. Intervening years have added much more.
It worked well for me. After the Induction phase ( 25 grams a day or less of carbs, IIRC ), I held to the proscribed amount to keep me in Ketosis. It ran about…45-50 g a day.
Felt glorious. Did zero damage all around. Cholesterol, liver and kidneys, all fine during those 3 + years.
Did Tae Kwon Do back then as well, and the workouts a few times a week no doubt helped to burn off the fat and keep it off.
I miss that body but not those years…
Yes, I went on a diet that worked for me. Something called the zone diet which is basically a portion control balanced diet. I lost 30 lb in a year, then gained about 10 back over two years. Then I was put on metformin and lost 20 lb over a couple years, making no attempt at dieting. Then I decided that while you can’t go cold turkey on eating, you can on noshing and, over a 3 year period, lost 40 more. And have pretty much stabilized there. I am about 5 lb above my lowest weight and have been there since last Thanksgiving when I splurged. I’d like to lose that 5 lb, but if I don’t, it won’t bother me. If you add it up, I am nearly 80 lb below my max weight and have been there for about 13 years.