How I Lost Weight

2026-01-21

I know the internet is full of bullshit weight loss guides but I'm just going to give it to you straight with what worked for me, I lost like 15kg which is not crazy but I was never crazy overweight to begin with, just borderline.

Literally just eat your veggies. That's it that's the whole thing. As long as you pile your plate high with veg, it's almost impossible to eat too many calories because vegetables are not very calorie dense.

"But n0, vegetables are icky and gross"

Cover them in butter, salt, pepper, and MSG. They are now tasty. Actually, most of my meals are vegetables + 1/4 cup rice + protein (the protein is often also a vegetable), and then I season that rice kind of like I would fried rice or a stir fry: salt, soy sauce, garlic powder, sesame oil, msg, maybe a pinch of sugar, and something spicy such as sriracha, lao gan ma, generic chilli oil, gochujang, whatever. Normally I combine multiple spicy things because I love spicy food but you do you. Anyway doing it like that seasons the whole dish together so naturally the vegetables get seasoned too. But butter + salt will make pretty much any vegetable taste good enough in most contexts.

"Isn't butter bad for you?"

Not as bad for you as not eating your vegetables. The people who are getting too many calories from dietary fat aren't doing so because they're eating a lot of vegetables. Butter makes things taste good and you will only stick to a diet that tastes good. You're not supposed to be punishing yourself you're just supposed to eat your damn vegetables by whatever means necessary.

"but n0, cooking vegetables is annoying"

Just buy frozen mixed vegetables and throw them in the rice cooker with your rice. Yes they will be somewhat overcooked but you will compensate for the portion of destroyed nutrients by simply eating a higher quantity. What's that, you don't have a rice cooker? Come on now, it's 2026, what are you doing. They're like $20.

"What about exercise?"

I don't know, what about it? I don't do it, I am a lazy hikkineet on computer all day. I'm sure it's good for you, it has nothing to do with losing weight though. You lose weight in the kitchen, not the gym. In fact, working out makes it harder to lose weight because you will be more hungry.

"After starting your diet I am now farting all the time because I have suddenly increased my fibre intake significantly"

Good. A high fibre diet reduces your risk of all cause mortality (that means dying) by 23%. A little flatulence is a small price to pay. But you can take beano which is a pill containing enzymes if it's really bad.

This is not a crash diet. You will lose weight gradually. This is a feature not a bug. If you want more diet tips there are no more diet tips. I guess switch to sugar free soda if you're the kind of person who drinks soda.

Digestion begins before you've even taken a bite of food, your body is already beginning to prepare to process a meal just from sight and smell signals alone. Satiety is a function of more than just bulk, fibre and protein tend to be more satiating per gram than simple carbs are. Tasty, "wholesome" foods are more satiating than bland foods. There is a strong psychological component to satiety, for example seeing that you've finished a plate which was previously piled high will trigger feelings of satiation. All of these effects can be combined to meet our goal, that is achieving that sense of satiation within a lower quantity of calories. To do this, we are eating lots of vegetables which are high in fibre and aiming to introduce legumes which are high in both fibre and protein. Because of the high fibre and water content, you can eat a large bulk of vegetables without consuming that many bioavailable calories. This will trigger psychological effects as well as the physical sensation of a full stomach. High fibre meals have a smoother and lower glucose curve, reducing risk of developing insulin resistance (diabetes) and also lessening the "sugar crash", meaning you feel fuller for longer. There's the science if you needed it. But the nice thing is this is all very intuitive. No one will push this diet because no one stands to make any money off of "buy your supermarket's generic frozen vegetable bag and eat it all" as a grift. Well I guess the supermarket is making some money but you get my point. Superfoods are bullshit, fad diets are bullshit, glp-1 agonists are expensive, just eat your damn veggies.