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[–] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 141 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Water? Like in the toilet?

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does it have any electrolytes like Brawndo?

[–] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No it's got what plants crave

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[–] pazukaza@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like, the thing where fish poop and fuck? Wtf.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 107 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Here's a couple free ones:

Quit drinking alcohol

When I quit drinking I lost about 50 pounds in 6 months with no other diet changes.

Basically stop drinking your calories.

Another one:

Only buy foods you have to prepare, no snacks.

That way you can prevent yourself from idly eating when bored.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What do you replace alcohol with? Hiking through nature? Meditation? Cocaine?

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Smoking weed is fat free, sugar free, and zero calories! Just watch out for those munchies!

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I have photos of what munchies can make you do.

It was delicious tho. No regrets.

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just watch out for those munchies!

Pro tip (but that works for me, that may not work for you) when you smoke weed, prepare a huge bowl of salad beforehand, an enormous one, when I'm stoned I don't care about what I'm eating as long as it's food, a huge bowl of salad is totally fine and if you don't stuff it with seasonings is pretty low on calories and actually good for your health. You can stuff yourself to stop the hunger plus eat something good and low calorie.

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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I stopped drinking I found myself with a lot of free time I could dedicate to things, and also a lot of free time that I could dedicate to working on my mental health.

I was drinking about a fifth of alcohol every night (except Saturday, those were more) and none of it was less than 50% alcohol as anything less was a waste of time for me.

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How did you stop? I was in the same boat, like 7 days ago. I decided in want to stop buying alcohol for the house. So maybe 5 days ago I finished the last bottle and can at home. Since then I've had a beer at lunch at a restaurant and 3 beers yesterday at a friend's house. I was verrrry tempted to go buy some last night.

[–] DudePluto@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not the guy you asked but maybe try to find the root of your habit. When I'm continuously doing something I want to stop, I find there's a reason. Like for me, I drink more often than I mean to because I'm bored and feeling like my life has no meaning, but alcohol helps me relax and enjoy the little day to day things. So then that gives me a path forward: find things I'm more passionate about, do more fulfilling things instead of going straight to video games and tv, go back to therapy, etc.

So maybe your drinking is because you're just bored, maybe you have an underlying issue like depression or anxiety, maybe you're medicating your stress or avoiding addressing something. Idk it's up to you.

But remember that you typically do things for a reason, and you're not alone in struggling with this issue. It's a lot of us man

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[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Cocaine is great for weight-loss..

[–] malcriada_lala@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Your second recommendation won't work for everyone. For me, when I don't have the time or energy to cook I am more likely to order unhealthy food or get take out. It helped me a lot to have easy fast healthy options at home. Frozen veggies can be thrown in the oven and then dusted with a really good spice mix. Sandwich with good whole grain bread and lean meats. Once I learned to expect at least 2 "I give up" nights a week, I was able to finally lose a few pounds.

[–] ChatGPT@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I struggled with this for awhile my solution was literally to go hungry I might skip one or two meals but eventually the hunger pains will beat away the laziness and make it a higher priority. Once I felt the pain enough I got a positive hit from cooking I didn’t get before.

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[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Assuming you are in good health other than wanting to lose weight the best thing you can do is buy a food scale and portion out your food and eat 1500 calories a day and no more. Eat what you want when you want just no more than 1500 and you will lose weight like crazy. That's how I did it and I lost a full person's worth of weight, like a full 50% of my body weight.

[–] Cstrrider@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is basically the only thing that's been successful for me. I track my calorie intake with an app and shoot for net 1500 (with exercise).

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[–] Moohamin12@lemm.ee 72 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Is there a hydrohomies community here?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 45 points 1 year ago (25 children)

As American, can confidently say that yes, people drink soda as water. You can usually find people who drink directly out of the 2 liters but be mouth agape when you tell them you drink water from the tap

You know tap water ain't healthy, right?

People are so accustomed to sugar overload they literally can't taste anymore. I drink la croix if I want something a bit bubbly, but so many Americans make fun of la croix drinkers. "It's like smelling a lemon from 10 feet away haw haw haw".

No, drinks like that actually have a lot of flavor, but your taste buds are so constantly overwhelmed with sugar that your literal ability to taste has degradated

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

your literal ability to taste has degradated

Actually, hot sauce and peppers did that for me. Everything tastes like cardboard unless it comes with a few thousand Scoville of heat.

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[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

To be fair, there are places across the world and particularly in the US where the water doesn't taste or smell good, but even then bottled water will do so much better. Though I'm in the UK, I'm considering buying myself a filter because the water tastes a little weird here. Not dangerous - just... too weird for my taste buds.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of the US has fair water when it comes to taste.

Y'all Brits tho. I've had you're water. I'm usually not someone who says "water has taste", but yours does lol.

London especially, was like drinking straight out of the Thames.

Yeah I'd get a filter if I lived there lol. Ours tastes like crisp refreshing nothing, like better than bottled

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[–] ophy@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Absolutely get a filter! My local tap water tastes a little weird to me, too, but a filter is great for that, and is so much better than getting bottled. It also wastes less plastic!

[–] malcriada_lala@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A lot of people in the US don't trust the water, which is strange because you would think that would make people act when a city actually does lose their local water safety but...

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[–] lps2@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehh, I pretty much only drink water and never soda and I agree with La Croix being irritably mildly flavored trash.

[–] blur457@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

All La Croix taste like what I imagine cardboard tastes like. I think they make it smell like the listed flavor and hope people's brains interpret it as taste.

[–] Moohamin12@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

2 liters..

Will take me a week to get through that.

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[–] CaptFeather@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

La Croix is vile. I drink unsweetened ice tea instead lol. I have between 1 and 3 gallons of it in my fridge at all times

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A lot of tap water isn't healthy.

My towns tap water is on a boil notice a few times a month at least.

Soda being unhealthy =/= tap water being healthy

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[–] whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

they literally can't taste anymore

Figuratively.

People are so accustomed to sugar overload they literally can't taste anymore. I drink la croix if I want something a bit bubbly, but so many Americans make fun of la croix drinkers. "It's like smelling a lemon from 10 feet away haw haw haw".

Considering la croix is not sweet, you will have literally the same experience as someone with taste buds that are 100% burned out from sugar. The lemon flavor is recognized by the sense of smell, and to some degree the sour sensing tastebuds.

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All my homes stay hydrated. Fuck sodas

[–] aika@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We need the HydroHomies community on here

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[–] rcmaehl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Drywall? More like Wetwall when I'm done with it.

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[–] sodium@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is there a lemmy hydrohomies community? i miss my homies

[–] isilv3rbull3t@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also searching for it .started being a Lurker on R. now looking up here.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

There's !hydrohomies@lemmy.ml which seems to be the most active one.

[–] Kleysley@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You want me to drink actual Dihydrogen Monoxide? No way!

[–] elbowdrop@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got it all over my epidermis!!!

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You see, "epidermis" means your hair. So technically it's true; that's what makes it so funny.

Pardon me a moment.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Water?

Like from the toilet?

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[–] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I miss all my hydrohomies.

[–] Harpuajim@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not just water but lots of it. Try to drink at least a gallon a day.

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