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How has anyone EVER been able to lose weight?!

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It's so hard, the margins for staying in a deficit are so tiny and it takes such a ridiculously long time! I really can't grasp how everyone on earth with access to food isn't morbidly obese, and it's even more inconceivable to me how anyone who's overweight was able to lose the weight?

I've been stuck between 180 lbs and 220 lbs for the last 5 years, endlessly looking for the answer. It takes all my willpower to go a single day making sure I eat right, I've never been able to go more than a week.

The only way I've been able to lose weight is through very restrictive diets, but after a couple months I relapse and gain it all back. I've tried to make slow and steady approaches but just end up the same. It's so exhausting to count calories and constantly power through cravings.

Is there a cheat code? I've tried therapy, didn't help. Quit drinking alcohol, just made my cravings for food worse. I've tried prayer and meditation, hasn't worked either.

How did you do it?!

This fat c*nt has tried everything to lose weight but it's just impossible.

Therapy: didn't lose weight.

Prayer? Still fat.

Meditation? Post-meditation recovery snacks spike blood sugar and increase food cravings.

What is the answer? How can anyone ever lose weight? Is there some sort of magic cheat code this lump isn't aware of?

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The trick is just to not have so much food at all times. Or at least not so much perishable food. There's a theory I read once that people consume food relative to how much is lying around. Like if you have arbitrary numbers and all but example being you have 20 lbs a food and lets say you can last a few weeks. Now lets say you have a 100. In both scenarios in one they eat like 10 to save food but in the other they eat 20 because there's 80 left over why not. Just stop fridgemaxxing your food supply. Also just stop buying sweets all together. Make dessert a tasty fruit.

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I have noticed that r-slurs buy food that's only loosely connected to what they eat. Like they'll buy a lot, not eat a significant portion and then just throw it away, over and over again.

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Communism would solve this.

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Once I moved out and started really working out I realized just how much shit people buy at the supermarket that they don't need, mostly out of habit. I'm convinced if everybody became a gymrat with the specific goal of bulking up we would still reduce food waste by like 50%.

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