/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Eat healthy, limit junk food, exercise regularly

Works for 99% of people

have fun

>>8557445
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Eat less, move more. It will take longer but there are No drawbacks to getting fit the proper way, assuming you don't get hurt from bad form

Not for cosplay reasons, but I've used diet pills before because my family has a twisted mind when it domes to skinny vs. fat. Family comments about how I've gained weight (~110 pounds), so I took diet pills to look better. I eat healthy, exercise regularly, have hardly any junk food, but the fact that I don't have toothpick legs like my other cousins makes me the fatty. I've stopped taking diet pills and weigh 103, but apparently I'm still considered "fat".

To keep things more /cgl/ related, my friends use dieting pills regularly to look good in cosplay. None of them eat particularly healthy or exercise at all, but they all manage to look good (the perks of is being young). Around con time they maybe only eat once or twice a day and only snack during actual con days.

Diet pills are extremely ineffective compared to eating well and working out, and the results don't last.

>>8557445
Effective diet pills can be dangerous.
Just look at the T3 scandal.
People were dying like flies.

>>8557465
This
My mom cut out soda, coffee, alcohol, and breads, and she lost weight fairly quickly; and that's without exercise.

>>8557445
suck it in

and see a nutritional expert, everyone's body is different because not just any food regimen is gonna work

>>8557445
Then stop eating get off your ass and workout regularly. Diet pills can be dangerous and are not as effective. Just change your eating habits and stop running after fad diets that won't do any good.

>>8557445
You'd be better off with working out and eating a balanced diet (lots of protein and fiber, less carbs and fat). The weight will just come back once you stop with the pills or the diet

>>8557565
>and breads,

Is bread that bad? Because I honestly have no idea what to replace my bread intake with.

I often do a water retention routine to get a better muscle definition but it's difficult in the summer during con season.

I've also used DNP before to lose bodyfat and keep muscle but I wouldn't recommend doing it without thorough investigation. It can and will kill you if you fuck up your dose. /fit/ practically always has a DNP thread up if you want to know more about it.
P.S. it's super illegal and don't fuck up

>>8557445
This is not a pro Ana community Anon, just leave the cake alone and start exercising, there are no miraculous techniques to look slim, you need to change your eating habits and hang in there, if you're not prepared to work hard on it, maybe being slim is not for you and you need to find a better costume to put on, simply as that.

>>8557893
If you eat white bread you can replace it with whole grain. And the positive effect of cutting out bread will be that you have to start eating a lot of veggies and meat or fish instead. I replaced bread in the morning with yogurt and fruit or avocado or egg.

>>8557900

Don't be retarded, all grains are of limits if you're trying to lose weight. Two slices of bread are more glycemic than a snickers bar.

>>8557997
Two slices of bread are also a whole meal.
You know what's retarded? Religiously following one diet and denying any other diets could possibly work for people.

>>8558012
Or, you know, it's as simple as calories in vs calories out.

>>8557997
then what the fuck am I supposed to bring for lunch

>>8558073
Thanks for backing me up on the carbs, mate.

>>8558078
I usually like a small salad, occasionally with a small piece of grilled chicken and an apple, or some other fruit. I try to make lunch my lightest meal, focusing more on small snacks through the course of the day.

>>8558099
how do you make sure the salad stays good through the day? Asking because I go to uni all day so I can't exactly have it in the fridge all day.

I eat healthy and work out around twice a week but I still have stomach fat. How do I go bout achieving a flat stomach? I do crunches and sit ups every day but it's not making much of a difference.

>>8558112
What part of it goes bad? Mason Jar salads I a thing you might want to google.

>>8558119
>people still believe that a flat stomach can be alleviated with situps.
If you want a flat stomach or visible abs you have to basically base your entire existance around working towards it.

twice a week workouts ain't good enough.
If you're "eating healthy" you aren't eating healthy enough.

You need to track your caloric intake and exercises with autistic levels of dedication. You need to never cheat. You'll probably feel like shit a lot of the time, but it can be worth it.

Its harder for females as well, since they naturally have higher BF% then men do. But you can't use that as an excuse.

Y'all should check out the /fit/ sticky. I hate /fit/, but their sticky is helpful.

>>8558119
By burning more than you eat. Your 15 minute crunches burn like 80 calories, which is fuck all.

>>8558126
>You need to track your caloric intake and exercises with autistic levels of dedication. You need to never cheat. You'll probably feel like shit a lot of the time

I kekd heartily. What the fug are you USAians eating? I guess it hurts quitting everyday burgers cold turkey.

I probably shouldn't be talking about this topic but I've lost almost 10 pounds in 2 weeks and I look so much better.

Currently trying to lose 2 stone in 10 weeks for a con. Currently weight 150-ish at 5'4 and my measurements are 37-27-40.
I want to get my waist down to under 26" and tone up my arms.

porridge for breakfast, half hour walk to gym, gym for an hour, walk home, salad or something <200 calories for lunch, then do my weight sets which are just lots of reps of light weights. Then dinner which today is a salmon puree on a bagel with salad.

Snacks of berries and other small bits of veg.

Also taking herbal caffine pills which are supposed to help you lose weight and keep up energy levels. probs won't work but I'm hoping that my brain falls for it and keeps up my energy levels.

Also drinking tea with lactose free semi skimmed milk whenever I'm hungry.

I'm not very tall so to look decent in costume I have to be slim. Else I come off too blocky everywhere but my waist.

>>8558139
This, I mean I enjoy healthy living and making sure I look fit but there's more to life then dedicating it to making sure you never eat a single piece of chocolate again.

At the start of this year, my bf and I started going to the gym 3-4 days a week, for at least an hour each time. We lifted free weights combined with different cardio exercises. We both started eating healthier, though I still ate better than him (only drink was water, lean protein, raw fruits/veggies, etc.). He started losing fat and gaining definition easily, yet I seemed to keep my belly fat and made only visible gains in my chest and arm muscles. My clothes don't fit any better. I always feel extremely bloated and my stomach is almost always distended/hard to the touch unlike fat, which is squishy.

I have a digestive disorder and a very slow colon. TMI but before the lifestyle change I was going to the bathroom maybe once a week (once every 7-8 days). After starting it, once every 3-5 days. I'm starting to suspect this has something to do with my weight loss problem. I'm holding on to food for such a long time, I'm wondering if it's affecting my metabolism.

When I went to the gastro doc, his only rec was to "exercise, drink water, and eat more fruits/veggies for fiber!" I'm so fucking confused.

>>8558173
>I have a digestive disorder and a very slow colon. TMI but before the lifestyle change I was going to the bathroom maybe once a week (once every 7-8 days). After starting it, once every 3-5 days. I'm starting to suspect this has something to do with my weight loss problem. I'm holding on to food for such a long time, I'm wondering if it's affecting my metabolism.

For the love of god go to a different doctor because whatever is going on with your body isn't normal

>>8557565
Can someone explain me, why coffee is bad? To my knowledge it inceases the metabolism, that's why I am curious.

>>8558173
wat? you go to the bathroom once in a week? How many times a day do you eat? Is half your body-weight fecal matter?

>>8558126
no wonder fatties keep yoyoing back to their original weight
it's weight loss nigger, not Auschwitz
you can have chocolate
you can have ice cream
you can have a coke every now and then
just don't guzzle it down from a garden hose and try to eat healthy

fucking yanks

>>8558171
This. I eat about 1200-1400 calories a day, do about 30 minutes of gentle exercise a day in my home gym, and go for a quick jog every day. I also do zumba 1-2 times a week. That is more exercise than a lot of the people I know. I've got a bit of chub, but a) according to my doctor I'm perfectly healthy and b) honestly, I like my life as it is. I like having a slice of cake every now and again, and spending more time on other hobbies than exercise.

If you're happy and it doesn't affect your health, do you really care? Does it really matter?

>>8558188
Exactly, I mean I know people who are all "Omg I'm so healthy I never eat anything processed ever and haven't touched any fast food in 5 years!!"
And I"m not talking about people who simply don't like that kind of food, I'm talking about those that act like they don't mind but for some reason keep bringing up how HEALTHY they eat and how everything else is poison.
Like relax and have a slice of cake jfc I don't care you haven't had fries since you were 16.

>>8558177
different anon but I've got the same problem.
My doctor put me on bentyl and an antacid (which I think is doing the opposite of helping..)
He's out of ideas and useless like the last doctor.

>>8558180
>>8558177
I sometimes go a week without pooping. I've been to several doctors, some people just don't poop that often.

>>8558199
There's a difference between not pooping often and almost always not pooping for a week.

>>8558200
eh, fair enough

>>8558180
I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner with small snacks in between. I have a normal appetite which blows my mind. I didn't have these digestive problems in high school and I was a good 20 lbs lighter, so I can almost guarantee at least some of that has to be.

>>8558200
When I started working out, I would poop 2-3 times a day. Even when I wasn't healthy, I would poop once a day. The only time I was only going once a week was when I was bulimic and I would fast for weeks at a time. I definitely think anon has a bad digestive problem, because only going once a week is gonna leave you feeling bloated and sluggish.

>>8558218
Yeah most sources say regular healthy people go either multiple times a day, once day, or once every 2-3 days. Anything longer than 3 is unhealthy.

>>8557445
Eating a lot of carbs makes you retain extra water. Cut out carbs for a couple weeks and you'll lose a few inches off your waist

>>8558219
When I'm feeling anxious my appetite goes out the window and it can happen that I have like one meal per day. That usually lasts for 2-3 days and those weeks I usually don't go even once or have massive anxiety-induced shitfests.

Luckily I'm not too underweight and it's gonna get better when I start going to uni because cafeteria food is cheap and healthy here, but it sucks.

>>8557445
Try doing keto. Even if you fail at maintaining it, just cutting carbs out should force you to start eating a fuck ton of veg. Just don't be one of those people that has fucking brisket every meal.

>>8557895
Elaborate on the water retention routine? Do you just cut back on salt and drink more water?

>>8558243
Yeah, what you wanna do is make sure that you drink about 1-2 liters of water, not soda but water, a day for 2-3 weeks or so before the con. Your body holds water as a backup of sorts in your cells. If you drink enough water it won't store as much.
Next is cutting back on things high in sodium, soup, fastfood, processed food all that jazz. Eat veggies high in water like lettuce to get even more fluids in your system.
As a last step you wanna visit the sauna after you work out in order to sweat the internally held water out. Granted, this will be replenished over time but it's a good thing to do 1-3 days before the con.
Also stop drinking alcohol for like two weeks as it's very dehydrating.

Granted, if your body fat % is higher than 12 or so this won't do much good for a guy as you just have to eat less in that case. It's more meant for people who can see their top abs easily when flexing and standing up but need that extra definition.

Hope that helps, there are many more sources and guides online on water retention.

>>8557445
Going on a temporary or fad diet is stupid. As soon as you go back to old habits, your body will just follow. Just cut shit out of your diet that you don't need and you will lose weight. Checking the composition of food is quite important, because you'd be surprised what shit is in certain foods, just don't start being completely religious about it to the extent you develop a disorder. Processed food should just be avoided like the plague, eat fresh if possible.

Exercise really helps too, but if you're not serious about changing your eating habits, you will see very slow change. It's true when they say "abs are made in the kitchen". You won't see anything if it's covered in a layer of fat.

If you are following this and you think it's not working, go see a doctor or dietician. I was struggling to lose weight for months and was tired as heck, and it turned out that I had a thyroid problem. Not that you should automatically use anything like that as an excuse. I have bad days where I still feel shit, but I still get out and try some kind of exercise.

>mfw I just had surgery and I cannot exercise for another 6 weeks, and I had FINALLY started to get past my plateau.

gonna do a serious answer . if you want a temporary weight loss solution I suggest the military diet http://themilitarydiet.com/military-diet-plan/

if you want a more permanent solution then I recommend dowloading a calorie counter app and try to not eat more than 1200-1400 calories a day. you won't lose ten pounds in three days, but you'll be more likely to keep the weight off

>>8557900
Ahh bread, the greatest argument starter

Eat well and excercise. I used to pretty much stop eating a few weeks before cons to drop a bit of weight but I'm far happier just watching what I eat all the time and not starving myself. I know it sounds boring and a pain but it's the best way to go about it.
I'm still a bit bad around cons if I'm showing my body though, the last time I cosplayed a male character with a visible stomach I modified a body builders comp lead up diet for me in order to make sure I had the most abs possible on the day.

Diet pills work, but you are going to feel like shit - if you have any chronic disease like migraine, you might as well bang your head against the wall because there's a 9o% chance that it will trigger it.

Diet pills don't really do shit.
Just eat lest and don't waste your money.

Apparently if you exercise on an empty stomach (you can drink water) it helps your body burn calories better and helps even out hunger pangs, though obviously you have to eat properly at some point during the day. It seems to have worked with me, I haven't been doing it long enough to notice a definite change in waist size but I feel full quicker and I'm not nearly as hungry as I was before.

>>8558179
I think it's partly because people drink coffee with a shitton of sugar and milk and assorted additives like flavoured syrups.
Also, coffee has a lot of caffeine (shocking information, I know). If you want to increase metabolism through caffeine, tea is a good substitute. You don't want to crash halfway through your workout after all.

>>8557564
Wut?

>>8557900
You forgot by meat, not red meat.
And grains are best kept in the morning for energy for the rest of the day.

Always have fruit anyways, makes taking a shit easier