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trying to lose weight, but i can't cut back on calories. wtf do i do?
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Date: October 5th, 2025 11:39 AM Author: nighttime black woman I'm 37 and about 20 pounds overweight. I need around ~3300 calories per day to maintain my weight. If I try to cut back by 300-500 calories per day, I just wake up in the middle of the night starving and make up or exceed that calorie deficit by eating something. Wtf? In my 20s i could lose weight easily. Feels impossible at this age. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326551) |
Date: October 5th, 2025 11:41 AM Author: Yapping giraffe rehab when yo get that desire to eat something... don't
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Date: October 5th, 2025 11:49 AM Author: nighttime black woman I think stress is fucking with my appetite. When I cut back on calories, I literally wake up feeling severely starved, and the desire to eat is so intense it's unstoppable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326570) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 11:57 AM Author: Yapping giraffe rehab clean easy garbage food out of your kitchen. if you wake up a bit hungry at 4am are you really going to spend an hour preparing a meal?
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Date: October 5th, 2025 12:06 PM Author: nighttime black woman I usually don’t keep junk in the kitchen. Yesterday I tried cutting back by around 400-500 calories during the day. I woke up at 2 AM with intense hunger, and I made four pieces of whole wheat toast and ate it with butter as I struggled to stay awake. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326594) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 12:25 PM Author: narrow-minded coffee pot point your waking up hungry af bcs too much sugar in your diet. just do no sugar. |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 1:04 PM Author: nighttime black woman I don't think there's that much sugar in my diet, definitely no added sugars. Most of the sugar in my diet comes from fruit (primarily bananas, blueberries, and occasionally raspberries).
I eat a ton of fiber throughout the day. Probably over 200% of the recommended daily amount per day, no exaggeration. Also, protein comes primarily from non-fat Greek yogurt and chicken. My diet is pretty boring, with no gaping issues as far as I can tell: no added sugars, only natural sugars from fruit, good sources of protein throughout the day, lots of fiber, healthy fats (primarily olive oil), whole wheat bread, beans, etc.
At this point I honestly think the problem is more psychological than anything else. |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 5:14 PM Author: Yapping giraffe rehab added sugar meme is flame. body doesn't treat it any differently than natural sugar.
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Date: October 5th, 2025 6:22 PM Author: Startling Candlestick Maker Nibblets Drop the bread. Get whole milk yogurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49327272) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 5:19 PM Author: Jet-lagged boyish son of senegal azn "It's unstoppable," huh. Right. Your willpower just can't be at fault... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49327155) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 12:11 PM Author: aromatic abode incel intermittent fasting. dont eat anything until after 3 or 4 pm or something depending on you're sleep schedule. you dont want to be eating a yuge meal right before bed either.
on top of that you might want to change the foods you eat. experiment with more fiber if you want but the other way is getting fat adapted which worked much better for me |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 12:26 PM Author: narrow-minded coffee pot point intermittent fasting is tcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326642) |
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Date: October 6th, 2025 2:32 PM Author: slap-happy circlehead cr
though jumping from his currently schedule of eating whenever he wants to a rigorous fast will be difficult.
do it in an incremental fashion: make your eating window 7am-7pm. then 9am-7pm, then 11am-7pm and so on. |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 12:53 PM Author: Charismatic Hyperventilating Kitty Theater Sounds like you've tried everything brother, just keep being fat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326697) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 5:27 PM Author: Cordovan tripping associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49327173) |
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Date: October 6th, 2025 2:28 PM Author: sooty titillating lettuce kitchen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49329463) |
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Date: October 7th, 2025 3:28 AM Author: lemon jewess keepsake machete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49331101) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 1:05 PM Author: Drab Thriller Gay Wizard Brethren you need to actually eat healthy food like chicken breast and spinach not yo-yo between starvation and mcdonads. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326738) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 1:35 PM Author: thirsty yarmulke "I need around ~3300 calories per day to maintain my weight."
are you 6`7`` |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 1:42 PM Author: nighttime black woman I'm 6' 2" and exercise for about two hours every single day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326803) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 1:44 PM Author: thirsty yarmulke Just try keto but don't tell Hegemon and other know-it-alls. Conceal it from the board. They'll tell you the weight you're losing Never Happened. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326806) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 1:45 PM Author: Orange Multi-colored Cuckold Sounds like you'll lose weight if you stop working out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326808) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 1:46 PM Author: odious poppy patrolman You should just take ozempic or another GLP drug
Being at a legit caloric deficit over a long period of time feels horrible and makes your life miserable
Nobody else is gonna tell you this because people like to act self righteously about fitness and weight loss like it's a "just b urself" thing when in reality living at a caloric deficit is fucking terrible |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 1:53 PM Author: thirsty yarmulke "Feeling horrible" isn't even bad depending on what you're talking about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326822) |
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Date: October 6th, 2025 2:29 PM Author: odious poppy patrolman it's pretty bad bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49329466) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 3:24 PM Author: light supple parlor Stop exercising and just starve yourself for a couple months.
No breakfast No carb No drink Small lunch and dinner of meat and vegetables Embrace hunger pangs and the feeling of hunger |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 3:39 PM Author: Heady sienna multi-billionaire You really only have three options: 1) Decrease input (typically means eat less) 2) Increase output (typically means exercise more) 3) Drugs (typically includes metabolic manipulation)
Since (1) isn't an option, pick from the remaining two.
But this is XO, so I'm assuming everyone will advice yo-yo dieting or keto (which people think means eating only 100g carbs/day), you'll do whatever's easiest, and you'll end up worse off than before. |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 5:52 PM Author: thirsty yarmulke " (which people think means eating only 100g carbs/day)"
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Date: October 5th, 2025 6:06 PM Author: Heady sienna multi-billionaire Like most things related to fat loss, the theory & practice of putting one's body into ketosis comes from the bodybuilding underground. As a mainstream trend, it somehow transformed into a simple "low carb" diet.
Getting into (& maintaining) a state of ketosis is exceedingly difficult and not attainable by normal people with normal jobs. Even putting a creamer into one's morning coffee ruins the whole thing. |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 6:07 PM Author: thirsty yarmulke I've never heard anyone say this. And it's not that hard ime. All you have to do is say "no" if someone tries to get you to go to any restaurant whatsoever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49327227) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 6:13 PM Author: Heady sienna multi-billionaire Thank you for supporting my point so succinctly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49327249) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 6:17 PM Author: thirsty yarmulke I've done it and therefore it's not hard. I even pissed on the urinalysis sticks. Literally no carbs except whatever you get from avocados. You are misinformed and either Hegemon or a disco fries. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49327257) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 3:40 PM Author: Carmine Filthy Theatre lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49326994) |
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Date: October 5th, 2025 3:50 PM Author: sepia duck-like native if you white knuckled through the nighttime hunger for a week it would go away (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49327009) |
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Date: October 6th, 2025 2:24 PM Author: Kink-friendly disgusting stage foreskin ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49329434) |
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Date: October 6th, 2025 2:28 PM Author: Beady-eyed cream newt has to be ozempic. it completely quiets hunger pangs and leaves you feeling satiated / impossible to eat more on a highly restricted caloric intake. 600 cals / day feels like 3500. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5783298&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49329459) |