[elzbardico]

> autonomy over what enters into your mouth

This is incredibly underrated. Basically I lost weigth by focusing on this first. then exercising became easier.

YMMV, but one thing that helped me control food intake was meditation, for a lot of us, over-eating is a response to anxiety.

[pugets]

That’s also how I lost most of my weight. Sure, you could spend 25-45 minutes on the treadmill… or you could just not eat 5 Oreo cookies, and you would achieve the same result (from a caloric perspective).

My best tip for not eating junk food: Don’t buy it. It’s so much easier to eat chicken and rice when you don’t have a bag of Doritos on standby.

[neuralRiot]

I think the most important role of excercise on the weigh loss journey is the sense of accomplishment and effort. Whenever you’re tempted to eat some junk you’ll remember the body pains, the sweat you dropped and think: is it really worth to eat that?

[hi-v-rocknroll]

I've lost 60 lbs. so far using GLP-1 agonists. It's quite a bit easier to get around, so I'm easing into cardio and weight lifting once again.

> over-eating is a response to anxiety

It's more complicated than one cause. Overweight people have an absurd appetite and/or lack of satiation either by being overweight (self-reinforcing) / metabolic dysfunctions, from genetics, and/or from side-effects of medications.

[nojvek]

> for a lot of us, over-eating is a response to anxiety

100%. We use food as entertainment. To get a dopamine hit from fats and carbs.

For most of human history, food was scarce. We evolved to get huge dopamine hits from food. Our brain sees starving as a danger. It's only post WWII that food became abundant.

Now those signals work against us.

[eps]

> over-eating is a response to anxiety

Not always. Sometimes things are just tasty.

[elzbardico]

I said, "for a lot of us". I never said it was for everybody.