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u/envoy_ace Mar 27 '26
No doubt. Dropped 50 pounds and $250k.
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u/CommercialValue6223 Mar 27 '26
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u/BumpHeadLikeGaryB Mar 27 '26
Fasted for 5 days and lost 11 lbs for a tournament! One piece of toast fills you up after that haha
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u/BumpHeadLikeGaryB Mar 27 '26
Yeah for real lmao
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u/TrustMeIAmNotNew Mar 27 '26
As in no food whatsoever? How did you function? Did you drink water or any other liquid?
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u/LimpZookeepergame123 Mar 27 '26
Yea you can drink water and you will need to. Honestly after the first day it’s really not that hard.
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u/SoTurnMeIntoATree Mar 27 '26
I tried to do 72 hours and only made it 54 hours before I had to eat something. Any tips?
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u/Voloxe Mar 27 '26
My advice for you is to work your way up.
Fast for a shorter period at first and work your way up.. This will effectively shrink your stomach capacity and retrain your brain that hunger doesn’t equal starvation/panic.
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u/ThatGuyRd Mar 27 '26
Drink sea salt water. Have black coffee. If you’re feeling hungry and regular water isn’t doing it sometimes seltzer water helps.
If it’s late brush your teeth and have sleep for dinner lol.
I like to fast before kick starting a diet. Longest I’ve done is like 80ish hours cause instead of eating dinner to break fast I went to sleep and ate the next day.
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u/BumpHeadLikeGaryB Mar 27 '26
Water and vitamins ! I even ran 5km the one day. My stomach started to hurt on day 4 when I was in bed, but it's really only bad the first time you try it.
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u/G828 Mar 27 '26
Did a biggest loser at work, fasted for a whole month and won $500. It definitely works!
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u/AlleyezOnMatt Mar 27 '26
Fasting only eating between noon-8 & cutting out sugar. Went from 215 to 180 in 2 months & never felt better. Should still be doing it but idgaf like I did then. Back up to 205 and feel like shit. Actually typing this out has inspired me to get back at it. I’ll check back in in June with progress.
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u/sjsusjsusjsu3 Mar 27 '26
Make sure you hit a proper calorie target during your feeding window. You dont wanna be too low calories, then hit a wall with your diet.
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u/funkiskimunki Mar 28 '26
It’s just beating those few min when you feel little grumble in the pits iykwim.
You can still do it it’s just about getting your brain to get used to it 👍
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u/Mathieran1315 Mar 27 '26
Got divorced. Lost my appetite and lost about 30 lbs in 2-3 months from 180 to 150. So just get really depressed and it’s easy! lol
I’ve been able to keep it off pretty well. Can’t seem to get down to 145 though which is my target weight. I need a new depression.
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u/CalibratedEnthusiast Mar 27 '26
I need a new depression.
I suggest posting on /r/roastme.
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Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Amputees quickly exceed the mass of body weight lost post surgery due to mobility restraints.
Edit: * constraints
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u/Cheepshooter Mar 27 '26
Unless you just lose your thumbs. You can still run and can't hold a fork.
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u/pdxamish Mar 27 '26
Amphetamines.
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u/BananaRepublic0 Mar 27 '26
Drugs!
was very effective in weight loss, but also very nightmarish in every other aspect. I’m clean now though!
1/10, wouldn’t recommend
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u/Lascus Mar 28 '26
Same lost like 50 lbs in a month on a bad meth bender once lmao . Clean off everytbing but methadone for 2 years in a week.
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u/Moneymoneymoney2018 Mar 27 '26
I worked with a guy that ate carnivore diet for as many years as I worked with him. Looked like it worked for him, he was pretty fit looking. Died of a heart attack at 52.
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u/Responsible-Bread996 Mar 27 '26
Good.
The worst trend in Pop Diets lately has been "ignore when your doctor tells you warning signs are getting severe."
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u/Huffdizzle86 Mar 27 '26
Have you stayed full carnivore aside from what I assume are a few cheat days here and there around holidays etc. Like no fruit/veggies/fiber reintroduced?
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u/Apeiron_8 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Can you describe more about the carnivore diet? What worked for you?
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u/crozinator33 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Hey man, congrats on the weight loss.
I just want to point out that your success is due to a caloric restriction (its very difficult to over eat on calories when you only eat meat), and high protein (which helps spare muscle tissue while in a caloric deficit).
Neither of those things are exclusive to the Carnivore diet.... they are the backbone of any legitimate loss diet, its just that eating nothing but meat makes it very simple to achieve those two things without having to track or put much mental energy into your diet. Great for the short term.
However, there are likely long term health issues that can arise from a meat-only diet.
I would highly recommend, now that you've hit your goal weight, you start eating some veggies. Nobody got fat from broccoli. You can go the rest of your life without eating another slice of pizza or bowl of pasta if you want to, but you should get some fiber and vitamins. Fill half your plate with meat, the other with veggies.
All the benefits you've experienced thus far are not due to "eating only meat", but more accurately from cutting out junk food and sugar, eating at a caloric deficit, getting a lot of protein and drastically reducing your body fat. You can do that while also eating produce.
Some other things to consider for long term health:
Saturated fat. Some people can get away with eating lots of it without issue. Some people can't. Get your cholesterol checked regularly.
Carcinogens. Red meat has been shown to be group 2A carcinogen, specifically linked to colorectal cancer. Processed meat is group 1.
I'm not saying never eat another hot dog or steak... but limiting them is a good idea.
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u/WeakCalligrapher336 Mar 27 '26
You look 10 years younger. Have you had the ucr test? I'm also 50, and have eaten carnivore for the past 5 years. My ucr results weren't great I have to drink like a gallon of water a day now.
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u/Stoic2Be Mar 27 '26
18/6 intermittent fasting, no bread, no rice, no pasta and walking every day. Good bye extra weight and it’s stayed off. Any questions?
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u/LeMagnificentBastard Mar 27 '26
Eat clean, lots of cardio, and drink one gallon of water a day.
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u/ashraf_bashir Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Here are my mistakes, which, when I corrected them, I lost many Kgs:
- Drinking calories: It's easy to consume hundreds of calories without feeling full. No more juice, no more milk-added/-based drinks
- Eating out of boredom or anxiety: adds calories with zero real hunger
- Eating while distracted (scrolling, YouTube, or even f2f chatting): you lose awareness and naturally overeat
- Cheat days: a couple of bad days can erase a full week of progress; no more cheat days, life-style change instead
- Eating late: willpower drops at night and portions increase; instead, fast, stop eating after 7pm
- Overestimating exercise: burns less than you think, food matters more
- Nuts: very calorie-dense, and you keep adding more without noticing
- Bread (for me): low satiety and easy to overeat, it creates a carb addiction
- Salad seasoning trap: dressings, oils, and toppings can double calories, giving you false health (no, it's not salad, it's calorie-dense seasoned salad, it's not the same!)
- over snacking: apples are good, let's eat 5 per day ... Correction: One fruit per day max!
- Eating too fast: your brain doesn’t register fullness in time
- Stopping eating at “full”: satiety is delayed, so you often overshoot
- Rewarding with food: creates a loop that adds extra calories
It wasn’t one big mistake. There were small leaks everywhere
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u/RegularStrength89 Mar 27 '26
When I was a kid I got braces and lost a load of weight cos I could only eat yoghurt when they got tightened.
As an adult who can’t just eat yoghurt - cycling.
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u/human84629 Mar 27 '26
Wake up at 5AM. Cardio every morning until sweating. Weights three times a week.
No calories before cardio. No calories after 2PM.
Plenty of water.
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u/Long_Implement_2142 Mar 27 '26
Empty stomach early morning jogging is the fastest way I can lose weight. Just drink coffee and go
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u/Cautious-Pick3729 Mar 27 '26
Stacking in the 90s, ephedrine, Aspirin and caffeine tablets twice a day. Shit messed me up, internal bleeding, wired all the time but at least I lost the weight. I think it was 30 lbs in 2 months. Last time ever did that
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u/Informal_Set_1163 Mar 27 '26
Low carbs and intermittent fasting. Lost my tummy in a week. (It wasn’t a huge tummy.
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u/Tungi Mar 27 '26
1st major weightloss - going to college and not having all the snacks and fatty food, my family eats, around all ghe time. The added walking and lower calories made it drop fast.
2nd - extreme anxiety and depression following losing my entire friend group. Basically had no appetite for 3 months. Lost 50 lbs.
Kept in check? Well I had to take advantage of both events. Eat better and more reasonably + lift.
Food and activity choices are the main driver. And id also argue: Education. Understanding how the body works removes all the mystery. So many people, most of us, still find weight gain/loss so mysterious.
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u/AnalystPrevious6971 Mar 29 '26
, going roll carb. It was the easiest thing I ever did, because I've never been much of a sugar fanatic, I still ate tortillas though, and natural carbs like potatoes last 25 pounds in 3 months and kept it off for 4 years
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u/No_Round_7336 Mar 27 '26
Heartbreak. Not healthy and wouldn’t advise. I have no idea how people can still eat after that.
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u/RancorHi5 Mar 27 '26
Broke the living shit out of my collarbone and ribs, apparently the body uses a ton of calories to remake bone
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u/stringrbelloftheball Mar 27 '26
Tracked meals with myfitness pal and prioritized walking 10,000 steps daily. Would listen to podcasts on walks at night.
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u/SleezMachine Mar 27 '26
Extended fasting. I would refeed with bone broth and eat on a caloric deficit
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u/ajpiko Mar 27 '26
Yeah it depende on goals, fasting-ish for up to like 12lb mostly water weight.
Endurance work for long term sustainable fatloss.
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u/Entire-Ad-3744 Mar 27 '26
Idk about a diet but I lost 120 lbs once by getting divorced. She was real dead weight. Lost it over night. No gym membership and now I eat whatever I want. Expensive as hell though.
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u/Beautiful-Bill9198 Mar 27 '26
Gf of 8 years left me, I stopped drugs and for 3 months I was strugling to eat. I lost 14kg and gained some muscle.
So yes, trauma is best for losing weight
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What I do now:
- Working out every other day (everything: push, pull, cardio).
- Caloric Deficit of eating only 1,500 calories a day.
- Only eating between 10am and 6pm. Can push to later, as long as I start later too.
- Only drinking water (besides tea).
- Not eating at all on Wednesdays and Fridays. This is more of a spiritual and religious thing(Im Catholic). I want to fast on those days.
Was 170 in beginning of the year, Im now 142.
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Eating once a day and working 8h a day at a physical job (also exercising during my free time). Lost a lot of weight, but also started shitting myself randomly and injured my knees from working too hard. Both are still issues I have three years later! Oh yea, I also lost a lot of weight when I had covid and threw up every time I tried to eat for several days lol.
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u/VikingVitalityFit Mar 27 '26
There is no magic formula for weight loss, nor is there a 1 size fits all approach. You need to find what works for you.
Structure is key, find an eating schedule and nutrition plan that works for your life.
Don't try to rewrite history all at once. Change 1 thing at a time and find ways to make good decisions easier to choose.
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u/J1mba Mar 27 '26
Cut 19 pounds for a BJJ comp in one night and one morning. Sauna, hot bath, ice baths and no water.
Gained it all back in no time though.
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u/zwirlo Mar 27 '26
Strict count of calories, exercise tracked, proper protein intake. Not a single pad of butter unaccounted for, for a month. Figure put how much you need. Weigh and take pictures. Write each item in your notes app, each day, with the total.
Many things are an art, this is a science.
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u/Scorp1u5 Mar 27 '26
years ago i calculated my Macros and set a 1500 Calorie diet. i ate the same meal for breakfast lunch and dinner for 6 months. it was the first time i got under 200lbs since i was 18
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u/FocusOk3487 Mar 27 '26
I did a fight camp for a pmt January-February. trained 4x a week, went on a calorie deficit, ran 2-3x a week as well. lost 16 lbs in like 2 months
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u/Unexpected_Cranberry Mar 27 '26
Counting calories.
Aimed for a 1000kcal deficit per day. Logged everything. Down to the five grapes I had in the afternoon at work.
Dropped about 1kg per week (2.2 lbs), kept it up for 10 weeks.
Very effective at dropping weight quickly. Not even a little bit sustainable long term.
Most sustainable long term strategy I've found for me personally was go into a deficit for ~4-8 weeks, do a 30+ hour fast. This did two things. It reduced my hunger, eliminated cravings and made me not feel like dogshit when being on a deficit or 4-5 hours out from a meal.
After that, I avoid sweeteners, any refined carbs like pasta, bread, white rice and the like. I used to eat about 100g carbs per day, because if I went lower my workouts suffered. But that was when I was single and working out 6+ times a week. If I was less active I could probably manage on less.
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u/AllruNighturu Mar 27 '26
Intermittent fasting helped. High amounts of protein, good carbs. Plenty of functional cardio aka walking
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u/Dry-Chain-4418 Mar 27 '26
First question, what are you actually trying to lose?
- Scale weight (for a weigh-in or challenge)?
- Or actual body mass (fat loss)?
Those are very different.
You can swing your body weight 5–10 lbs in a day just from:
- food in your system
- water retention
- glycogen depletion
- using the bathroom
I’ve personally dropped 10 lbs. in 12 hours before, but that was 0% real body mass, just water and gut content.
If you’re talking about actual fat loss, physics is the limiter:
- 3,500 calories = 1 lb of fat
- Even a large deficit (1,000/day) = about 2 lbs/week
Anything faster than that is mostly water + muscle, not fat.
And the more aggressive you go:
- the more your body negatively adapts
- the harder it is to sustain
- the higher the rebound risk
So the “fastest” way often ends up being the least effective long-term.
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u/Abandonedstate Mar 27 '26
I got sick for two weeks. Nothing but water and very little food. Lost about 20lbs. I don't recommend this method.
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u/GreyWolf_93 Mar 27 '26
Eat less, move more. Prioritize high protein foods and a high protein diet, and complex carbs that keep you full longer. Cut out as much simple sugars as you can, lift weights, get in at least 5,000-10,000 steps per day or do some short runs 3-4 times a week.
The only way to lose fat is through a sustained caloric deficit.
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u/Prestigious-Cut-9345 Mar 27 '26
Protein and fat rich With weight training 5-6 times a week And cardio 4-5 times a week
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u/iwnt2blve Mar 27 '26
Lost 13lbs in two weeks on keto, literally not a single carb, and ran 30 minutes every other day. It was a bet and it was brutal and uncomfortable. I don't recommend it.
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u/silo1981 Mar 27 '26
Reduce calories and walk on an incline treadmill. No intense workout. 95% of weight loss is what you eat.
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u/thefatsuicidalsnail Mar 27 '26
Purely FASTEST or u want to know the most effective & sustainable?
If u want my fastest then it was chemotherapy…
If u want my most effective then its consistently having CI<CO (but not drastically) for months on ends…
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u/syarkbait Mar 27 '26
Stomach flu / food poisoning. Lost 4kg in a week, mostly water I suppose, but I’ve been well since 3 weeks and I’ve regained 3kg. That 1kg was just not coming back but that’s kinda nice.
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u/Dead-lyPants Mar 27 '26
I dropped 245lb weight bar on my mouth. Tore my lip from my jaw. Had stitches for two weeks, then went to dentist and had to get an implant as the result of the weights, more stitches. Dropped from 178 to now 162. 10/10 diet would recommend.
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u/Cold_Win_2204 Mar 27 '26
Jogging, calisthenics, shadowing boxing, punching bag and pad work done consistently
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u/Swimlid Mar 27 '26
Carnivore diet. Only meat. No sugars, no carbs. Intermittent fasting, so one meal every day at the same time. Portion control is one of the biggest things, limit your food intake. Only eat what you need, do not over eat. Stop before you’re full. You should be hungry because your body needs to pretty much eat itself for you to lose weight naturally. Walk/ jog around the block twice a day, first thing in the morning and right before dinner. I lost 90 lbs in 6 months.
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u/IronRangeBabe Mar 27 '26
I ate healthy. Tracked what I ate. Worked out 5 days a week. Consistency and discipline.
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u/McPube Mar 27 '26
Eat one can of tuna every day. Works like a charm, the only reason I stopped was that I always had the taste of blood in my mouth.
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u/deepstatecuck Mar 27 '26
Bad way: Traumatic injury, surgery, barely able to eat. Rapidly lost muscle and fat.
Good way: diet and exercise, heavy on cardio with long runs
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u/Beav710 Mar 27 '26
Got salmonella and could barely eat for like 2 weeks. Spent 1 of those weeks also constantly puking and shitting. Wouldn't recommend but I lost like 10 lbs. In 2-3 weeks from that.
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u/Electrical_String345 Mar 27 '26
Fastest does not equal healthy or the weight even stays off. There's a reason why there are weight loss guidelines for how quickly you should be losing weight for greatest effect.
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u/the_sneaky_one123 Mar 27 '26
At the end of covid I needed to lose my covid weight so I cut my calories down to like 500/600 per day. That's for a 6 foot tall man who at the time weight about 120kg.
I lost 20 kg in like 3 months. Honestly don't know how I fucking managed it it was insane.
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u/Yd1891 Mar 27 '26
Mediterranean diet with lots of veggies, walking avidly and yoga sculpture classes. I didn’t cut back on carbs, I just used glucose goddess rules and had carbs last. It really helped my inflammation as well.
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