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Why YSK: many countries have issues with weight, such as mine with 74% of US adults being overweight or obese. The global weight loss industry is over $200 billion yearly, with many influencers, pills, and surgeries promising quick results with little effort. These often come with side effects, or don't work long term.

Studies suggest filling yourself with foods low in caloric density and high in fiber, like fruits and vegetables, can help reach and maintain a healthy weight. It's good to have these foods available in our living spaces to make the choice easy. Your taste buds will likely adapt to love them if you're not there yet.

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[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 108 points 3 months ago (40 children)

Better: just learn to live with not feeling satiated all the time.

Not that you shouldn't make vegies a significant part of your diet, just that a big part of the lifestyle change is learning to be hungry between meals as a normal and non-distressing thing.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 85 points 3 months ago (20 children)

That's a more complicated topic. Not everyone's endocrine system is wired the same way, and you can't always just willpower your way through it.

Insistence that willpower is sufficient for weight regulation is a big cause of people going on diet after diet that just doesn't work. They're fighting against the system that has a disproportionate influence on what you want in the first place, and if you push it too far you find yourself not giving a shit about your diet, and then being filled with a slew of complex feelings coming from your "lack of self control".

It's better to direct that energy towards getting your diet compositionally right than trying to be okay just being hungry.

You can't get your body to stop insisting it needs food, but you can get it to insist less often. You can teach it that it doesn't need "SUGAR", it needs water and maybe an apple or banana. You can give it a little solid protein between meals to keep it from asking for a continuous stream of carbs.
You can learn to identify the difference between eating because you're bored or want a little dopamine, and eating because you're hungry. The first one is your brain and you can willpower through it to eventually unlearn the habit.

You can choose to make good choices at the store instead of failing to make them in the kitchen.

Willpower is critical, but it's important to know what you can or cannot actually solve with it and work within that framework.
You're in control of your body, but that doesn't mean that you need to pick the harder path.

And, for some people, their endocrine system is a lot more forgiving. Those usually aren't the people who have a lot of trouble loosing or keeping off weight because they try to just "eat less" and it works.

[–] Zoboomafoo 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do most of my dieting at the store, I dislike spending money, so it's really easy to avoid the crap there.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

For me it's all about the list. I'm opposed to spending money in general, but I also enjoy, and am pretty good at, cooking.
If I don't have a good list, my weakness is to start designing meals based on random ingredients I see at the store, and then I buy the stuff, go home and cook the food, and enjoy too much of it. Beyond eating too much of it, it's just tricky to design a good dish that's tasty and also not silly unhealthy while standing in the grocery store.

Took a bit to learn to make a note of the idea in my phone, and then design it at home. Then it can go on the list.

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