I started living alone and grocery shopping for myself so I just stopped buying high calories food and sugary snacks. And count calories.

Figure out how many calories you need to maintain your weight and eat less then that.

A calorie calculator can estimate how many calories you burn a day and can estimate plans based on how much weight you want to lose per week.

Exercise so that you don’t lose muscle mass and your body burns the stored calories.

And finally, test things and find what works for you. Staying consistent is key.

For myself, I like a Zig Zag plan for losing weight cause I can still enjoy some junk food on the weekend. I track my calories using MyNetDiary because it syncs with other apps I use.

I’ve lost 15lbs in 4 weeks but I know it’s going to take about 5 more months to meet my goal weight.

Good luck on your journey!

Started walking/jogging 2 miles on the treadmill every other day.

Did 20 squats and hip/pelvic exercises while brushing my teeth for 2 minutes every night.

Kept light weights on my desk so I could work my arms while watching videos.

Got a job where I was on my feet walking 15000-20000 steps a day. In the summer I was sweating buckets and drinking a lot of water.

Oatmeal and fruit for breakfast, bottle of Soylent for lunch, normal dinner with my husband. I would still snack and have dessert and stuff, but I wouldn’t have as much as I used to. For example, instead of a whole slice of cake, I would have just a thin slice.

Eventually started jogging/running outdoors.

Went from 14/L to 8/S. I’m not sure how much time it took exactly because I wasn’t keeping track but I think it was less than a year. Just weighed myself one day and I had lost like 30 pounds.

Edit: I forgot to add that I also would only drink water or an alcoholic beverage with my meals. I figured lemonade and soda and iced tea were all extra calories and sugar that I didn’t need.

Edit again: I forgot I also would take the stairs instead of the elevator. So really overall it’s just little things here and there and they all add up. I can’t give up carbs or any food really because I love to eat, just enjoy a smaller portion. :)

Being poor. Lost 20 kilos.

Sport, I run, cycle or swim every day of the week. 1 hour mon-fri and 3-5 hours sat/sun.

And I went to a sport nutritionist who gave me a diet which makes me eat actually MORE (and much more balanced) than before.

Lost 15kgs in 6 months while gaining lots of muscle tissue that is heavier than fat.

For me to keep it off was the challenge. I Started by working out how much I needed to eat for maintenance, through calculators and counting my calories for a couple of weeks.

Then I just brought a small deficit of a couple hundred cals, and increased exercise; making sure to go for a walk each day, started lifting weights at the gym.

Now im halfway to my weight goal. But it was all about setting the habits and keeping them going, turning down extra cake in the office or having a smaller lunch to balance everything out, now I dont have the same cravings I used to. Its been a slow year but I am happy with it.

I appreciate this doesn’t work for everyone and might not be a long term solution, but I dropped 20kg by fasting on a 20:4 schedule.

Started eating a shit tonne of rice.

Losing weight really isn’t that hard. It’s calories in verses calories out. If that doesn’t work, congratulations you are breaking the laws of thermodynamics and physics is changed forever.

I just took out some higher calorie food and ate a lot more chicken and rice and the weight dropped off kinda scary fast seeing as I was eating 4 meals a day. Ended up adding extra calories with eggs and was more comfortable with sauces.

Another time I took up surfing. Fucking hell surfing is hard, running 10 miles is easier. Increased my food load and ate a crap load more protein and just changed shape in a few months, lost the fat around my tummy and my shoulders grew huge.

Exercise and diet. That allowed me to lose 15 kg.

For exercise: I bought Ring Fit Adventure for the Nintendo Switch at the start of 2020. That’s the only thing that has motivated me to exercise. Now I even do some additional weight lifting and cardio exercises. This has helped me the most to lose weight.

For diet: I have gastrointestinal issues. Since 2022 I started a diet to alleviate those problems. This helped only a little for losing weight.

Lost around 10 kg in lockdown era. Ate less and did some exercises 3 days a week (nothing fancy. Just played a YouTube video and followed along). Most importantly I got used to feeling a bit hungry sometimes.

Intermittent Fasting - eating hours 10am-6pm

and

Early morning exercise - 25min bike ride or walk at 5:30am (everyday or every second day)

No real diet change, but already had healthy options for most meals.

Intermittent fasting. It takes a fair amount of discipline, but if you stick with it past the first week or two it becomes very easy

Can’t afford to eat much, cuz SSI, rent increase. Kept having conversations in head, like “I can buy laundry detergent OR have food to last the month.” I’ve lost 20 lbs past few months , after discovering how tasty white rice can be, with just a tiny bit of sesame oil, salt and pepper.

• Dr. Ian Smith Fat Smash Diet (Except I kept the coffee in the first part)
• It don’t happen overnight (Weigh in about once a week or so…)
• Stop all Fast Food (Seriously, when cheat days come along make your own with better ingredients)
• Pack lunches (& you will also save a ton of $$$)
• Large meal earlier in the day
• Exercise (I walk / hike allot now)
• Make good choices (It really comes down to this, there is tons of crap in the grocery store - don’t take it home)

You can and will do it, but it will take time.

It might sound weird, but I’ve been progressively losing weight by religiously brushing my teeth after eating anything.

I used to have a problem of eating small things like candies and biscuits randomly, as a way to control anxiety. Now I think twice before eating anything, because I don’t want to go and brush my teeth again. After some time doing that, I ended regulating myself and eating at specific times, with no extra eating between them.