How quickly are we talking? Then we can talk about concrete answers, and strategies to make it work for you specifically. And whats the goal? Temporary (like for a day or 2) or more permanent?
Interval fasting.
The good news is that exercise isn’t good for losing fat anyway!
It’s all about diet.
Counterpoint: you can’t live any sort of halfway decent life “without exercise”
Different question though.
If someone says, “First things first, I want to sit still all day. Given that, how do I…” then it’s worth calling out their mad constraints.
It’s not a “counterpoint” to the actual answer though, it’s a sidenote.
You don’t know their circumstances. I can’t exercise effectively for various medical reasons so (for now) I only do caloric deficit and intermittent fasting. It’s slower than I’d like of course (and slower than OP wants, presumably) but it’s what I can do now.
Exactly!
For the last year I’ve been a primary wheelchair user, I can walk a bit but that only gets me to the bathroom. Since then my weight has become a bit of a problem but I’m already doing the maximum exercise I’m capable of. I have dropped 10 over the last few months just by diet, which is less than I would like but it’s what I can do.
You cant assume the “mad constraints” is just laziness without knowing the full picture. Either answer the question or scroll on, but its cruel to attack someone over what they can’t do.
You don’t improve quality of life by losing weight ‘quickly’ at all. Steady and sustainable are the only way, and exercise is part of that.
Weight loss starts in the kitchen.
Get really sick. Cancer will often do it. A broken thyroid. There are a number of GI disorders too.
Depression with loss of appetite is how I did it
Too much dopamine in food I can’t quit
Except if you are the overeating type of depressed person.
Liposuction
Calorie Deficit
Ozempic
If you don’t want medicine then you need to reduce calorie intake. There a bunch of tracking apps out there you can try. Essentially if you burn more calories than you ingest your body will burn fat reserves to make up the difference.
The tracking aspect also creates a mental barrier for food intake. If snacking is a bit tedious because you need to write it down, there’s a larger chance you really think about eating something or not.
This is my experience.
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OP said no exercise.
TAPEWORM
Partner had one once.
Can confirm it works, bit takes awhile to really get going.
Story time! Many years ago I read a Maria Callas biography and I have no idea if this fact is true or not, but here it goes:
Maria was self conscious about her body image and she wanted, moren than anything, to look as thin as her idol: Audrey Hepburn. So in order to do that, she went to a famous doctor who would give his patients a pill thay contained tape worm eggs so they would hatch and live inside them making them lose weight and then this same doctor would deworm them but plot twist! María loved being thin so much that she decided to keep her tapeworm so she would not gain back any weight. This book said that when she took long baths, the worm would kind of wiggle out a bit due to the warm water and then coil back up inside her when she existed the tub. This piece of info was very disturbing for me.
I, cannot disguise,
all the stomach pains
and the walking of the cranes
when you, do come out
and you whisper up to me
in your life of tragedy
But I cannot grow
till you eat the last of me
oh when will I be free
and you, a parasite
just find another host
just another fool to roast
cause you
my tapeworm tells me what to do
you
my tapeworm tells me where to go
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEYUsed to legit be sold for exactly that, but when you got to your ‘ideal weight’ you wrote them for the second set of pills-a dewormer.
Lol
Dear God, there’s people who would legitimately rather have a big disgusting worm in their gut than diet and move around a bit?
And then feel it wiggle out at the end?
blushes
Sign me up!
Surgery
Removing a leg can help you lose 10 to 20 kg of weight with very little effort.
Intermittent fasting + keto diet + eating less + constant hydration. If you add some exercise to that, you will see very fast early results. It won’t get you all the way, but a month straight of that and you will easily see fat reduction.
This 100%.
Followed by drinking ditch water and getting dysentery.
Intermittent fasting.
Like any form of weight-loss the real mechanism is a calorie deficit, but intermittent fasting makes that really easy for some people. I lost like 30lbs in six months. Takes a bit to kick in but then goes pretty quickly.
Unfortunately, losing weight is a long journey. People who are very overweight have more fat cells than others (because those cells divide when they get big enough) and those fat cells WANT to hold onto fat. And they’ll release hormones to achieve that goal. So your body will desperately be calling for you to overeat.
This is part of why weight-loss tends to be a spiky line for people. I gained back all of the IF weight I lost, and then some. Still below my highest recorded weight by a good 20lbs, but I’m just now getting back on the IF horse, hoping to make better progress this time.
I managed losing 20kg within a year without major exercise using a combination that fit me. Baseline calories about 2000kcal/day, so restricted to 1300kcal to give me some room for error. Next was switching to Keto, so I could manage hunger a lot better. Next I wrote everything in my food tracker app, often planning my entire day in there. Put the sauces away, found a good low-carb curry ketchup and used that a lot, was also low calories. I made lots of mistakes, often hidden calories, salad sauces, remoulade alternatives that just weren’t, and what hurt the most were sugar alternative products. If you want to lose weight, there is no alternative.
What helped me get through was adding a “cheat day” every sunday, which was not a sugar cheat day, but one with 2000kcal more in keto stuff (only the basics, not any of these replacement thingies) and some protein puddings which was the only exception.
Basically just cut all the carbs and sugar out of your diet, that will put your body into ketosis so it’s burning fat for energy.
Don’t do this for too long and make sure to take vitamins while you’re doing it.
Talk to a doctor first. The keto diet does have very real health risks.
And keep in mind that cutting ALL sugar out of your diet (which, luckily enough, isn’t that easy to do) will starve your brain and make you feel increasingly stupid. It’s only after my last week-long fast that I’ve read that our brains can’t really work on glycogen (ketosis-produced “sugar”).
Sounds about right. I lost about a pound a day doing keto but I felt pretty foggy, lazy, and constantly hungry the whole time.
dude, ozempic
Calorie negative diet. I hear ozempic has worked wonders for many people. Obviously consult a doctor as I don’t know shit about medicine.
