Water? Like in the toilet?
Does it have any electrolytes like Brawndo?
No it’s got what plants crave
Do I look like a vegetable?
Yes, a couch potato
Like, the thing where fish poop and fuck? Wtf.
Here’s a couple free ones:
Quit drinking alcohol
When I quit drinking I lost about 50 pounds in 6 months with no other diet changes.
Basically stop drinking your calories.
Another one:
Only buy foods you have to prepare, no snacks.
That way you can prevent yourself from idly eating when bored.
It’s also best to question yourself if you’re really hungry or do you just want to eat. Some of us have used food as a mechanism to cope with trauma or our problems and not just because we needed nutrition.
Some people also eat from boredom or habit; sit in front to the TV, get a snack. Turn on the Xbox, get a snack.
It’s me, I’m people. And I’m not even out of shape, just bad habits.
I’m real close to trading in my gaming chair for a recumbent bike. I’ve done it before, but sold it in a move. I don’t even sweat; I just keep moving. Works well.
I’ve had a lot of success in keeping water nearby at all times and the only easily accessible foods being vegetables or fruits. If I really want to eat something while I watch a movie or something I can easily eat an apple instead of chips or candy and if I’m feeling a bit peckish the water will either delay that or sometimes stop it entirely.
It’s honestly really hard and I’m glad you’ve found success in your own methods. I think the recumbent bike is a cool idea and honestly it makes me want to do the same. I would love to have one rigged up to an alternator and a battery, even knowing it would be minuscule I think powering a fan now and then off my energy would be really cool.
Ideally, I’d be able to hook up whatever to it and use it as like…supplemental power, but honestly, I’m about as little work as possible. I’m working on my exercise bike rn, I run, I have a water rower and am planning on buying a nicer one soon cause my Amazon Special one is lacking now after using a nice one. But the recumbent bike in front of a TV is just unbeatable. I can play Xbox and just mindlessly pedal on it, and unlike the exercise bike, I don’t feel it in my taint (sorry for the imagery) for 2 days afterwards. Lol
I also try the water stuff, just doesn’t help. I have a camelback on my chair I fill with water I drink out of lmao
I’m nearly 2m tall so I get it when you talk about the seat being uncomfortable, I feel like they’re one step from a suppository.
Same I think? Idk when metric users round up, but I’m ~1.85m. I just don’t fit comfortably lol.
Sounds like a breeze 🌬️💨
My parents fucked up a lot of things but I’m lucky they gave me pretty good food habits. There was no idle eating from boredom. You don’t have a snack if it’s almost dinner time. Chips are rare. Candy is basically holidays.
The only feeling I feel in life are sleep tired and hunger. Let me at least enjoy it :(
Lol sorry
I don’t mean to shame but to speak from my own experience in eating my feelings instead of eating for nutrients.
Your second recommendation won’t work for everyone. For me, when I don’t have the time or energy to cook I am more likely to order unhealthy food or get take out. It helped me a lot to have easy fast healthy options at home. Frozen veggies can be thrown in the oven and then dusted with a really good spice mix. Sandwich with good whole grain bread and lean meats. Once I learned to expect at least 2 “I give up” nights a week, I was able to finally lose a few pounds.
I struggled with this for awhile my solution was literally to go hungry I might skip one or two meals but eventually the hunger pains will beat away the laziness and make it a higher priority. Once I felt the pain enough I got a positive hit from cooking I didn’t get before.
When I was trying to lost weight I was also broke as hell, so for me ordering unhealthy food or eating take out wasn’t really an option.
Frozen veggies are a great option, and fall under the purview of stuff needing cooked.
You don’t need to cook every day, just cook a large meal once at weekends and freeze it. I always cook about 8 to 12 servings, so I can skip cooking about every other weekend. I’m lazy, so I mostly make stews, soups, lasagnas or sauces for which i just need to add a fresh portion of rice or pasta I boil the day before. These meals take 2 hours to make (max) and I’m prepared for at least a week. The excess servings of each week add up fast, so I already had some variety after a few weeks. I eat those for lunch when I’m at work and started to make whatever-salads in the evening about a week ago (vinegar-oil dressing, whatever spices/herbs, whatever veggies, whatever proteins). Best decision I made, I’m eating far less crap, less meat and the urge to order food is getting rarer. Hoping I’m gonna lose some of my fat ass in the long run, too :)
This is the way! Make extra food and freeze it. Some things do better than others but it’s worth exploring this option
What do you replace alcohol with? Hiking through nature? Meditation? Cocaine?
Cocaine is great for weight-loss…
Smoking weed is fat free, sugar free, and zero calories! Just watch out for those munchies!
Just watch out for those munchies!
Pro tip (but that works for me, that may not work for you) when you smoke weed, prepare a huge bowl of salad beforehand, an enormous one, when I’m stoned I don’t care about what I’m eating as long as it’s food, a huge bowl of salad is totally fine and if you don’t stuff it with seasonings is pretty low on calories and actually good for your health. You can stuff yourself to stop the hunger plus eat something good and low calorie.
I go for air popped popcorn with flavocol on top. Not the healthiest but not too bad all considered. And a shitload of fiber.
Celery is great too, lots of cronch and helps with cotton mouth
Great tips! We are fans of making veggie trays!
I have photos of what munchies can make you do.
It was delicious tho. No regrets.
When I stopped drinking I found myself with a lot of free time I could dedicate to things, and also a lot of free time that I could dedicate to working on my mental health.
I was drinking about a fifth of alcohol every night (except Saturday, those were more) and none of it was less than 50% alcohol as anything less was a waste of time for me.
How did you stop? I was in the same boat, like 7 days ago. I decided in want to stop buying alcohol for the house. So maybe 5 days ago I finished the last bottle and can at home. Since then I’ve had a beer at lunch at a restaurant and 3 beers yesterday at a friend’s house. I was verrrry tempted to go buy some last night.
It wasn’t easy and over the time I was drinking I had made 4 attempts to quit. This last one was the successful attempt.
I realized I couldn’t drink in moderation, I couldn’t slowly drink less, I had to quit cold turkey. And that was painful. Both physically and mentally.
I basically had to quit because I had come to the conclusion that I was drinking myself to death and if I didn’t stop I was going to succeed.
It was really hard, honestly the hardest thing I’ve done. I started drinking when I was 12 and I quit drinking at 24. I was drinking to run away from myself and my memories.
When I quit drinking I had to get all of the alcohol out of my apartment because as long as it was there I could hear the siren’s song to drink again and smash my life on the rocks.
It was months before I could say that I had succeeded and gotten sober. In the process I lost most of my friend group because they didn’t want to be around a “sober buzzkill” but I’d say that needed to happen.
I felt physically like crap for the first couple months and mentally like crap for basically 5 months.
Since then though my life has gotten so much better it’s amazing.
I’d say the secret to quiting is believing in yourself. It’s hard but it can be done. You will have moments where you feel like you are going to fail but they will pass.
I’ve been sober now for 5 years and I will still occasionally crave alcohol. I still don’t feel comfortable being around people who are drinking. I still can’t walk into a bar without my hands shaking. But I won’t drink, I don’t want to because I know why I used to and I know what will happen if I start again.
Not the guy you asked but maybe try to find the root of your habit. When I’m continuously doing something I want to stop, I find there’s a reason. Like for me, I drink more often than I mean to because I’m bored and feeling like my life has no meaning, but alcohol helps me relax and enjoy the little day to day things. So then that gives me a path forward: find things I’m more passionate about, do more fulfilling things instead of going straight to video games and tv, go back to therapy, etc.
So maybe your drinking is because you’re just bored, maybe you have an underlying issue like depression or anxiety, maybe you’re medicating your stress or avoiding addressing something. Idk it’s up to you.
But remember that you typically do things for a reason, and you’re not alone in struggling with this issue. It’s a lot of us man
Edibles/weed helps take the edge off.
Not great for weight loss though IMO
And replacing one potentially-abused substance with another
It’s a hell of a lot better for you than alcohol though. It would be a net benefit to anyone who drinks regularly to replace it thusly.
Jeez that’s a shitload of liquor, glad you were able to kick that habit. I feel bad like I drink too much when my lady and I drink a whole liter bottle on a weekend together. I like to drink sometimes but other times it just feels worthless and I wonder why I’m doing it. Fortunately I can get medical flowers legally and they help me feel a lot better than liquor does.
Assuming you are in good health other than wanting to lose weight the best thing you can do is buy a food scale and portion out your food and eat 1500 calories a day and no more. Eat what you want when you want just no more than 1500 and you will lose weight like crazy. That’s how I did it and I lost a full person’s worth of weight, like a full 50% of my body weight.
This is basically the only thing that’s been successful for me. I track my calorie intake with an app and shoot for net 1500 (with exercise).
Eating back exercise calories is not recommended.
I’ve never heard a compelling reason for this.
Look. I really hate to be harsh here, but this is terrible advice.
Yes you’ll lose weight because eating only 1500 calories a day is definitional malnutrition. Any “diet” which claims that is healthy is very literally encouraging people to develop eating disorders. You absurdly absolutely can’t do it by “eating anything you want.”
Unless you are doing this under strict super vision from a dietician and your doctor, for a specific medical reason, it is extremely dangerous and more likely to cause other problems with your overall health in the long run. You will almost certainly not get the nutrie ta your body needs to function correctly if you are not carefully monitoring what you are eating with professional help. You’re also significantly more likely to end up with an eating disorder. These diets are extremely harmful, I hate seeing them literally everywhere.
You may have seen results in losing weight in such a “diet” because you were very literally starving your body of the calories it needs to function. That just isn’t a healthy way to lose weight.
If your doctor is telling you that you are in good health and the only reason you want to lose weight is cosmetic, don’t do it. Unless it is directly impacting your health and your doctor is recommending it and supervising it, forcing yourself to eat significantly less than what you need to function is not safe.
I did what my doctor told me to do. So idk wtf you are talking about but ok I guess you know more than my doctor does. I’ll make sure to let them know I’m canceling my next appointment and I’ll be going to you from now on. So im gonna need your office hours and a good address and phone number I can reach you at. Please hit me up with all those details asap.
Er, having calorie deficit is, by definition, the only way to lose weight. I agree that 1500 specifically as a flat target regardless of starting weight, gender, and height, though, could be outright dangerously low, not to mention unrealistic. Fortunately, calorie counting apps are good at setting target intakes given the above parameters.
Only buy foods you have to prepare, no snacks
That doesn’t count for fruits and stuff like carrots
Is there a hydrohomies community here?
There is one over on Lemmy.ml.
Managed to find !hydrohomies@feddit.de
Time to bring back WaterNiggas
We are hydrohomies now. People of culture 🧐
The og.
I was hoping that would happen
As American, can confidently say that yes, people drink soda as water. You can usually find people who drink directly out of the 2 liters but be mouth agape when you tell them you drink water from the tap
You know tap water ain’t healthy, right?
People are so accustomed to sugar overload they literally can’t taste anymore. I drink la croix if I want something a bit bubbly, but so many Americans make fun of la croix drinkers. “It’s like smelling a lemon from 10 feet away haw haw haw”.
No, drinks like that actually have a lot of flavor, but your taste buds are so constantly overwhelmed with sugar that your literal ability to taste has degradated
To be fair, there are places across the world and particularly in the US where the water doesn’t taste or smell good, but even then bottled water will do so much better. Though I’m in the UK, I’m considering buying myself a filter because the water tastes a little weird here. Not dangerous - just… too weird for my taste buds.
A lot of the US has fair water when it comes to taste.
Y’all Brits tho. I’ve had you’re water. I’m usually not someone who says “water has taste”, but yours does lol.
London especially, was like drinking straight out of the Thames.
Yeah I’d get a filter if I lived there lol. Ours tastes like crisp refreshing nothing, like better than bottled
Yeah, I was quoting Tom Scott there. His video on Dasani’s failed UK launch is a good watch. It really depends on location lol.
And that’s pretty funny considering according to the same video, the UK has some of the safest drinking water. Though safest doesn’t imply the best tasting.
A lot of people in the US don’t trust the water, which is strange because you would think that would make people act when a city actually does lose their local water safety but…
Absolutely get a filter! My local tap water tastes a little weird to me, too, but a filter is great for that, and is so much better than getting bottled. It also wastes less plastic!
Interesting. The only tap water than I’ve had in America with taste came from homes that had their own wells, like my mother’s. Her water used to have a slight egg/sulfur smell before she got a whole home filter. Interestingly, though - on days that it didn’t smell, everyone thought it tasted really good.
your literal ability to taste has degradated
Actually, hot sauce and peppers did that for me. Everything tastes like cardboard unless it comes with a few thousand Scoville of heat.
Ehh, I pretty much only drink water and never soda and I agree with La Croix being irritably mildly flavored trash.
All La Croix taste like what I imagine cardboard tastes like. I think they make it smell like the listed flavor and hope people’s brains interpret it as taste.
2 liters…
Will take me a week to get through that.
Halfway through I’d be tired of it and leave it alone for an indiscriminate amount of time. I have trouble finishing 1L bottles, what would I do about 2?
At one point I drank four or more of those daily, as in 8+ liters of Coca Cola. Glad that’s behind me, but I’m still not entirely free of the sugary monster.
It does become an addiction for sure. I thought it was a good thing to have work provide free soda, but I was up to around the same amount. Cut it out cold turkey
You used to drink 8 liters of regular coke?
8 liters of water per day already beggars belief. That’s going to the bathroom at least 16 times a day. You’d also need to take electrolyte supplements to avoid your nervous system shutting down.
But 8 liters of coke per day? That’s 880 grams of pure sugar. And 3200 calories, which is 150% of daily intake for average person.
If you consumed 880g of pure sugar daily, i think your liver would have failed after just a few weeks.
I’ve seen guys who finish two or three off in an hour at work.
Lived in the U.S my entire life and can’t fathom this. To consume 6 liters of carbonated beverage in an hour sounds impossible unless it were your soul focus as in a competition. Sounds painful
Wait? American and your soda bottles use litres?
Haha, I never thought of it that way but yes. 2L sodas are the most common, but I’ve also seen 1L and 3L bottles. I’ve seen 500mL and 750mL liquor as well. I can’t think of anything else that uses metric units. Milk comes in gallons, pints, or quarts for instance.
They really wanna save costs on the manufacturing of the containers, I guess. That’s also the reason why they started using those taller thinner aluminium cans; the circular pieces at the top and bottom are thicker and therefore use more metal, reducing the area makes the whole can cheaper to make.
Using the same 2L bottles worldwide is also cheaper than making a special bottle just for the US.
What? I’ve never seen a metal 2L bottle. I’ve only seen plastic. I don’t believe compatibility “worldwide” is the reason at all. 2L plastic bottles haven’t changed in the USA for at least 30 years.
I’m pretty sure you misunderstood, the middle part of their comment is just talking about normal sized soda cans. As far as I’m aware 2L metal soda cans aren’t a thing.
There are nearly 1L metal cans though! Crowlers are typically 32oz so just shy of a liter
I see the agenda is progressing. Soon we will have rid the world of the imperical system. We started with soda, we are coming for your guns next. You wanna buy a 9mm?
yeah who would have guessed. I literally can’t think of anything else that does though
Some Ammo (9mm)
Every chemistry physics class taught since the 80s
Electricity (light bulbs, batteries etc)
Wine/Liqour ( 750ml, 1.75L mlst standard but smaller sizes are as well) anyone someone asks for a fifth or a half gallon they haven’t read the bottle.
The large ones yes. The smaller ones are still in U.S. Customary, we have 8oz, 12oz, 20oz and sometimes 24oz containers for when you want smaller amounts.
La Croix is vile. I drink unsweetened ice tea instead lol. I have between 1 and 3 gallons of it in my fridge at all times
as someone who exclusively drinks water / sparkling water, La Croix barely has an aftertaste of a hint of flavor lol I prefer most other sparkling waters to it
Polar seltzer is the king of all seltzer. La Croix is like the seltzer water equivalent of drinking RC Cola. Yeah I’m gatekeeping fuzzy water. Let’s fight! We’re both clearly well hydrated enough door combat.
The only drink that I have regularly except water is coffee. My taste buds are a bit bust too on account of being Indian. I can’t taste the subtleties of coffee as some people seem to be able to. Pomegranate, cherry, peach, whatever, can’t taste any of them in coffee. The only flavours I can actually taste in coffee are sweet, chocolatey, and well, coffee.
Interesting, that happened to me after covid, my taste buds changed for a few weeks. You are definitely picking up on the more floral and aromatic flavors rather than the obvious sweet ones. In some ways your palette is off, but in other ways you’re probably really fine tuned
they literally can’t taste anymore
Figuratively.
People are so accustomed to sugar overload they literally can’t taste anymore. I drink la croix if I want something a bit bubbly, but so many Americans make fun of la croix drinkers. “It’s like smelling a lemon from 10 feet away haw haw haw”.
Considering la croix is not sweet, you will have literally the same experience as someone with taste buds that are 100% burned out from sugar. The lemon flavor is recognized by the sense of smell, and to some degree the sour sensing tastebuds.
Are you from the South? Just curious because I’m from NJ and have never seen someone drink directly from a 2L.
From the Midwest, the south’s little brother, where the state fair has mandated motorized scooter parking at each booth
Stop pretending to be Americans, y’all are not even using freedom units /s
I am American and I love bubbly waters of all kinds. Sodas taste nice for the first few sips but the flavor loses its appeal quickly and I find them all way too sweet. But seltzers? I can drink them all day.
A lot of tap water isn’t healthy.
My towns tap water is on a boil notice a few times a month at least.
Soda being unhealthy =/= tap water being healthy
To fix that problem you can install a Reverse Osmosis water filter system under your sink to get a “tap” of purified water and not have to buy water from the store. I got one with a pH re-mineralization stage to add back some beneficial minerals that RO purification removes. The filtered water tastes absolutely perfect.
About how much did your whole set up cost you and were you able to install it yourself or is this something a plumber would need to do?
It was about $175 if I recall correctly. Installed it myself, wasn’t very difficult. Had to drill 3 holes under the sink for hoses to go in their places.
I think the drill was the only tool I needed. Replacement filter sets are around $80 per year, so the cost over time / per day is very small. I drink water from it several times per day.
EDIT: Oh yeah I needed some wrenches too for the T-junction connection. You have to turn off your water to the sink, then wrench free the pipe and install the T-junction in between, to tap the output for your filter system.
All my homes stay hydrated. Fuck sodas
We need the HydroHomies community on here
Pretty sure I saw one somewhere around here
Just created !hydrohomies@lemmy.world
Drywall? More like Wetwall when I’m done with it.
Um… what?
You said you hydrate your homes. As do I.
I didn’t… huh?
You had a typo. They made a joke.
Not trying to be annoying, just curious. However, can you tell me where is the typo?
All my homes stay hydrated. Fuck sodas
It says “all my homes” not “homies”.
is there a lemmy hydrohomies community? i miss my homies
I’m also searching for it .started being a Lurker on R. now looking up here.
There’s !hydrohomies@lemmy.ml which seems to be the most active one.
You want me to drink actual Dihydrogen Monoxide? No way!
You got it all over my epidermis!!!
You see, “epidermis” means your hair. So technically it’s true; that’s what makes it so funny.
Pardon me a moment.
Water?
Like from the toilet?
Not from the toilet, that gives you rads.
Not just water but lots of it. Try to drink at least a gallon a day.
That’s some rookie numbers!
I miss all my hydrohomies.
I like russian water
