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Ask HN: What are your best weight loss strategies?

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I have recently decided to cut down a few kilos and was wondering if a HNer had something data driven that worked for them. I have tried keto and other diets but nothing seems to stick (despite my wife's best efforts!). Am I just doomed to having a 'dad bod'?

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Keto can be very effective if done right. The best resource on the web for it that I know of is https://www.dietdoctor.com. I'd recommend looking at that to see if perhaps you were doing something wrong with keto first. Good luck!

I've lost and kept off about half my bodyweight (after struggling through a rebound period for a time), and there isn't really a trick to it, you just have to eat less. You're going to feel hungry, and that's going to make it hard to fight the voice in your head that wants you to eat, so you're going to need something motivating enough to make the suffering worthwhile.

Alternatively, ephedrine is a pretty good appetite suppressant.

And drink a lot of water to not feel totally empty

Ketosis diet. I lost 25 pounds last year from eating meat and vegetables and not working out.

Seconding keto. As someone working in IT with a job keeping me sedentary for a third of each day, ketosis has been the easiest diet I've ever tried.

I have been working out a little bit (cycling) for better cardiovascular health, but not so much as for it to be the primary way to lose weight.

Minimising carbohydrates has been far less of a challenge than expected - rice, chips, crisps, pasta, bread are all things I adore, yet being able to fill up with vegetables and fatty meat has been plenty satisfying.

For me, it's the first diet that has worked well in a long time, and easily too.

> I have tried keto and other diets but nothing seems to stick

It took me 3 months and I cheated on the diet each Saturday. You won't notice any difference until 5 weeks in.

Don't tell me,tell the OP who's questions none of you keto evangelists bothered to read.

And good sleep, low stress, and proper hydration. Working out is ideal but hard to keep up which is why a lot of people quit the gym shortly after the new year resolution rush.

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