How to lose weight without exercising

[PsychedelicEagle]

Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet.

Cut off all processed junk, including all refined foods (white rice, white bread, butter and nut butters, cheese, etc., can all be seen as refined foods). Only consume foods in their closest-to-original form.

Edited 16 hours ago by PsychedelicEagle

[Lyubov]

Ok I posted originally in this thread but I have to update my original advice because what I said is part right.

I’ve been using Claude to track my calories and it’s excellent. Tell Claude you wanna lose weight, take photos of everything you eat and give him good descriptions of it. You have to log everything, literally everything you eat and drink with calories in it. He will help you set your daily intake and macros and estimate your sedimentary burn. I’ve lost several kilos since last April doing this. if you have any questions how to set this up, let me know and I can give you the prompt and help you get on track.

The second part I wanna correct from my first response is you will feel better doing this. Your physique still won’t be great, you will still need to lift weights to build a physique you want, but losing weight and getting lean def helps with energy and it is an improvement that gathers momentum. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

12 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

Ok I posted originally in this thread but I have to update my original advice because what I said is part right.

I’ve been using Claude to track my calories and it’s excellent. Tell Claude you wanna lose weight, take photos of everything you eat and give him good descriptions of it. You have to log everything, literally everything you eat and drink with calories in it. He will help you set your daily intake and macros and estimate your sedimentary burn. I’ve lost several kilos since last April doing this. if you have any questions how to set this up, let me know and I can give you the prompt and help you get on track.

The second part I wanna correct from my first response is you will feel better doing this. Your physique still won’t be great, you will still need to lift weights to build a physique you want, but losing weight and getting lean def helps with energy and it is an improvement that gathers momentum. 

I think using AI like this is so good for finding holes where we aren't hitting macro and micronutrients.

I do similar to get an idea of what I need to balance energy against my heavy cycling training. For myself though, it's with the aim of NOT losing weight. I have trouble with underfueling more than over.

The only issue I have with it is quantifying oil in food. That's a hard one AI can miss. And considering fats are 7cal per g (as opposed to 4g per carb/protein) it can rather insidiously let calories creep in (not bad for me necessarily ☺️). I tend to focus on fats as this are key for my general well-being more than any other macro.

Thanks for sharing !

Edited 6 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Schizophonia]

Strength training

[Lyubov]

4 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I think using AI like this is so good for finding holes where we aren't hitting macro and micronutrients.

I do similar to get an idea of what I need to balance energy against my heavy cycling training. For myself though, it's with the aim of NOT losing weight. I have trouble with underfueling more than over.

The only issue I have with it is quantifying oil in food. That's a hard one AI can miss. And considering fats are 7cal per g (as opposed to 4g per carb/protein) it can rather insidiously let calories creep in (not bad for me necessarily ☺️). I tend to focus on fats as this are key for my general well-being more than any other macro.

Thanks for sharing !

Yeah, there is a margin of error. The thing is it isn't usually a big issue if you figured in all the variables and have some basic food/diet/macro knowledge. Weekly / monthly averages is what matters. Rule of thumb stuff like choosing grilled meats, the foods you choose, sauces you put on your stuff, it's important to know about each thing you eat and how it's prepared. A lot of it comes down to where you are located, what you choose to eat and what restaurants serve. I more or less know my environment pretty well and the food I encounter, which can either help or hurt you. Sometimes the path or least resistance goes in the the wrong direction so just by tracking food with AI shines a lot of awareness on all of it and all the habits and choices. Sometimes changes are connected to 2-3 other lifestyle things that need to be worked out first. 

[Lyubov]

4 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

Strength training

Honestly, no. I did it for years. Strength training and the general community (power lifting, Starting Strength, etc) around it leads back far more often than not to an extended caloric surplus which makes you look just as fat as you are strong and doesn't prioritize things for getting a better physique and lean. Don't get me wrong, strength training can take you places and fitness advice is by no means one size fits all. I've just seen more guys go the strength training path leave fat than actually look better, end up looking either kinda big/strong but also kinda fat and the general strength training community lacks games and swag, spending too much time around them will not make you an alpha viking, you will look like a middle aged fat guy who is strong. But if you goal is to have a great physique, look lean, and pull hot girls I would not go down the strength training path first. Way more likely you'll get fat and look like a burly redneck or at worst just mid but have alright numbers on a squat or bench press in the gym which does not get you into a woman's pants. Looking lean and having a great physique will. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Lyubov