ADHD

Vyvanse is an ADHD drug, but also is prescribed and approved as a weight loss drug, too. I lost a bunch of weight on it.

Just make sure you drink lots of water. It also suppresses your thirst response in your brain, so you can get dehydrated easily.

Amphetamines?

I get tremendous joy from riding my bike. I bought a used one but a good one and it feels like flying. I go out 2-3 a day if I'm not working. It doesn't feel like exercise.

I've found it's easier to create a set of rules that define my lifestyle than it is to commit to a diet. Like, think of strict keto as a way of living rather than a diet. Eat all you want, but sugar and carbs are no longer food. Don't focus on losing weight, focus on following the rules. The weight loss will happen in its own.

Usually what I do is just stop eating/barely eat at all. Keep this up for weeks and weeks and you will lose weight fast. And its easy. Its less work to do this than to workout or change your diet (in a different way). You can also distract yourself so you don’t focus on the hunger that you feel. Give it a shot and lmk

For me it's about planning. If I know what's for dinner I can handle it even if I'm not in the mood for whatever I've got planned for dinner. If I'm hungry and then start looking for food I'm far more likely to fail.

Use the focus sessions to meal prep and work on portion control. That's all i got. I'm a wreck as far as a routine or schedule goes lol

I'm about to try Nutrisystem. Here's hoping.

I only have to have willpower at the grocery store. That's it. I'm too lazy to go get snacks if they aren't in the house.

What worked for me: Don't have too much calorie dense and convenient food around. Track what I eat. Assume I ate 20% more calories withiut noticing. Get exercise doing interesting things like long walks in nature because it keeps me from snacking because I'm bored.

Worked for a few years, then of course I thought it wasn't necessary anymore and started adding weight back. Starting up again, and really the biggest weak point for me is still the impulsive snacking when I don't keep myself occupied.

Beat saber VR is great cardio. Ring fit has a nice variety of workouts too.

For me, hyper fixate on calorie counting and weight tracking plus going to the gym while listening to a book I can't get enough of.

From ~260 to 180 over nearly 3 years.

Have a calorie tracking app and track everything. You will start to learn how somethings are more calorie dense than others. Don't have junk food. You will want to snack. Have veggies like carrots or fresh fruit on hand. Drink water first. So many times I "feel" hungry but I am actually thirsty. Load up on broccoli. If you over eat, then have lots of broccoli. It's filling and not calorie dense. When possible plan your meals ahead of time. It's brutally hard to make the better diet choice when your hungry. It's easier to just follow through with a decision you already made.

When I was in the best shape of my life, I was taking a karate class. We met every Tuesday and Thursday, and the only penalty for missing a class, was the razzing you'd get from the rest of the class. Nothing mean, just stuff like "someone must have been feeling lazy on Tuesday!"

That low pressure accountability made me go every time. If it was any more or less strict, I'd probably would have just ended up never going.

So, how do you recreate that? Find a friend or two with similar goals and set a plan. It'll be harder to "just skip this one" if you know someone's expecting you.

I have definitely used my difficulty starting tasks to help myself lose weight. I find its way easier to just be hungry than to make food. Most of the time.

I still have to make sure I'm not eating snacks without thinking about it. A good option for me has been keeping easy, small, healthy foods, that can get me through hunger pang. My favorite is a pot of Greek yogurt. They're like 80¢ at Aldi where I live. Fresh fruit works great as well! And for late night treats, I eat frozen fruit. It fills the ice cream niche, without being packed with calories and extra sugar

It's easy if you can hyperfocus on something all day and neglect eating.

One day, try going the whole day on just water. Pick your day carefully so you are free to do nothing if you choose.

Whenever you get hungry, pause, drink a glass of water, and check in with yourself. Odds are you aren't that physically hungry, but your mind is going ape shit trying to get you to eat.

You don't have to go crazy here, if you start not feeling well, then eat.

Try that again a few times at your leisure, but aim to actually go a full day at some point.

The point of that exercise isn't to lose weight per se, it's to gain a better understanding of how much of your eating habits are mental/psychological and also to show yourself that you have the ability to go a full day without food, so when a random Tuesday rolls around and you're slightly peckish, you can grab a banana and get past it rather than going bananas at a Chinese buffet and downloading five thousand empty calories into your gut.

That is an imperfect approach, but it helps you get to know yourself and provide context for how "hungry" you are when it's two hours past breakfast and two hours until lunch.

Obviously don't do this if you have any kind of medical condition that requires you to eat. I am not a doctor.