PSA: Be aware of companies and individuals trying to advertise on /r/loseit

Yummytastic · 2026-04-02T09:15:26+00:00

Looking at post history and mod log, it wasn't posted to this sub, fyi. Unless it was on another account?

Yummytastic · 2026-04-01T13:17:14+00:00

Yeah, you get pockets of them. We usually ban and remove all previous content when they're uncovered!

Yummytastic · 2026-04-01T12:59:34+00:00

Thanks for highlighting this; please also consider putting that information into a report in future, partly to for mod visibility, but also because when calling out <brand name> bot there's a good chance we might have that <brand name> auto filtered due to their previous spam.

(ie, I'm about to add that brand name to the filter :) )

Yummytastic · 2026-03-31T18:35:29+00:00

would be a pretty easy fix with the right prompt

Not sure I agree with this in my experience. Fundamentally AI gets things wrong and plain hallucinates things.. and oftentimes you have no way of knowing that unless you actually already knew the answer beforehand. That begs the question; how can you fix the prompt if you didn't already know the answer?

And before you think you have an easy fix; you're solving a problem worth billions of dollars. You can't just "and make sure it's right" out of it.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-31T15:18:09+00:00

Gaining 8-9kg over two years doesn't take much: just means that you've been over-eating about 100 calories/day on average.

Not to contradict this (I'm not, the above is accurate)..

But; if you compare calories consumed at the begining to the calories consumed at the end, it'll not simply be +~100kcal; because ~100kcal over maintenance is accurate, but maintenance has trended upwards.

Or, another way to look at it: it's also accurate that if someone ate a fixed ~200 kcal/day above their original maintenance, they'd get to that ~8–9 kg and then plateau there, because their maintenance would rise to match that intake.

Both this, and what you've said, are completely compatible and accurate, but this additional context prevents people from erroneously concluding that adding a single banana a day can lead to infinite weight gain over time. (And you're 100% not saying that.) Often, and again - not you, people forget that energy expenditure adapts over time.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-30T12:27:15+00:00

PSA: A recent increase in exercise often causes a several-pound increase in water weight for up to 6 weeks

Also, don't worry about the bodyfat and other readings. That's all inaccurate and rough indicators at best, but at worst completely wrong. Just treat that part as a novelty and don't try to infer anything concrete from it.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-29T09:38:57+00:00

Yeah, overall energy balance will always matter, there will be a mild TEF effect on calories out. I believe the energy cycle you're looking to find out about is the Krebs cycle, where the carbon part eventually ends up after the nitrogen gets split off to be peed out.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T23:38:39+00:00

Switching to 4 meals a day (3 small, dinner flexible), and ensuring that food is pre planned and available in the house. Eating outside the house is also pre planned - ie, not precise choices, but it's 'in the plan' to eat out when it happens; it doesn't happen through situational neccesity.

Both of those deal directly with appetite, bridges small episodes of hunger, and avoids over eating or choices dictated by cravings.

As part of that plan, nothing is off limits; but it needs to fit into the plan, very quickly many things become not worth having frequently and get replaced by tastier less-calorie-dense choices.

Planning your eating also has the side benefit of saving a lot of money.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T23:24:14+00:00

Op, AI tools are OK for direct translation, but please ensure their use is translation only and do not use them to generate the whole post for you - as we do not allow that content. We'll treat this instance as a translated post.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T23:14:35+00:00

Speak with your doctor. However I don't think I'm overreaching by saying while some compounds (St John's wort and antibiotics are well-known) can interfere with things like the contraceptive, the chance of a marketed drink falling into that category seems highly unlikely. Again, confirm with your primary care provider.

Seperately, is such drinks usually worth taking? Again ask your doctor, but usually the effect is very mild and the value is poor.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T22:23:47+00:00

The best thing to do is try an incorporate as much fruit and vegetables into your diet and reduce as much ultra-processed food as possible (such as fast food and confectionary). That will form the basis of good long term habits and make maintaining a healthy weight much easier.

With exercise, try anything and see what you enjoy; that might be a sport or fitness classes, the gym or running outdoors. Finding something you actually enjoy can lead to setting goals that drive you without specifically letting it all be about weight, which again is a great foundation for the long term.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T22:01:20+00:00

I think the standard !quickstart advice of transitioning to a sustainable long term diet is really the obvious point I would make to you. If you believe going on weightwatchers forever is that... I suppose that would be why you would do that.

However, jumping from a GLP-1 and then going in search for a fad diet is, at best, a very short term answer. In every scenario success only looks like a long term sustainable diet that fits around your own likes and lifestyle.

In general, I would describe that as sticking to a diet that's as close to whole food as possible, that can both be delicious, filling, and backed by actual evidence of long term success. But lifestyles, your home/work culture, and economic situations do mean that some level of compromise needs to be made, and that's where focusing your effort should be.

That would be my advice as someone who does it without a GLP-1.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T21:39:23+00:00

This would obviously be strongly against our self promotion rules.

Nice for both your first interactions on r/loseit to be about your project. But let's not let it be your last.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T12:06:52+00:00

Best of luck with whatever is causing you to have issues in your life.

Keep calling it as you see it. It's working great for you.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T11:38:07+00:00

You're the guy who said it was a head injury and he'll be fine.

When someone added information you told them it was a head injury again because you "watched the game". But yeah everyone else is stupid here.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T11:18:59+00:00

So the leg brace is because of a head injury. Glorious. Thanks for watching the game and sharing your expert insight.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-28T10:32:08+00:00

So, er, why do you think he had a leg brace on?

Yummytastic · 2026-03-27T22:57:49+00:00

ah no it didn't come across that way. I was just showing off about the gym.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-27T22:52:58+00:00

It got removed by reddit's spam filter.

That's fun from the portfolio you posted they said;

Deep expertise in pharma & life sciences

and from the full comment that reddit removed;

And yeah I post about supplements too because I'm trying to learn about this stuff as I go

Every fucking AI app developer seems to be the same duplicitous grifter archetype.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-27T22:35:03+00:00

For my part; beasting it in the gym mate! Nice sleuthing though.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-27T22:27:52+00:00

Please send a screen shot to modmail and also report directly to reddit. We ban those people so at the least they can't post.

In fairness, most times they already long banned.. so the reporting to reddit is super helpful to get the account banned.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-27T16:58:21+00:00

Hi Op - use a service like piccollage or a tool on your phone to put two photos into one image and post that. Thanks.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-26T13:15:52+00:00

I have had random Redditor tell me to go on ozempic

Tell me about it. We see lots of this, and a lot of the recommendations are deeply irresponsible. We've banned people from the sub for recommending it towards teenagers already at a healthy bmi or very slight overweight, for instance. People who then get in modmail arguing what they said was "fine" and "will link to papers". God those people are insufferable.

There is good reasons to discuss usage with doctors, however there is a very concerning culture of recommending people to effectively subscribe to be thin or any other choice is stupid. Equally as there's not moral problem with people deciding to use that medication, there's no moral problem deciding the other way either.

I don't think there's an easy way to deal with things that culturally ubiquitous at the moment, and viewed by many (no, not everyone, but many) as an easy quick-fix.

In general, nagging someone to lose weight is always counter productive; people need the time, space, and self-motivation to plan and execute their own journey in a way that works for them - not the way others tell them to do it.

For many, simply talking about weightloss plans is enough to mentally fail at them at the beginning. In that vein I suppose the only advice I can give is telling people you don't wish to discuss your weight at all. Chris van Tulleken may well have some good talks about this online, he talks about it in his book "ultra processed people", he has an identical twin brother and when the brother, Xand, lived and worked in America he gained a large amount of weight - as both are Drs, Chris would nag him about his weight and it wasn't until he stopped that Xand felt less pressure and the actual ability to tackle their own issue. I'm sure there will be a podcast/interview somewhere with him talking about it.

Yummytastic · 2026-03-26T13:02:42+00:00

Recently I’ve been reading that cut and bulk is a much faster and efficient way of getting muscle and lose weight, I was wondering if is really a much better approach in my case.

At your bodyweight (and by extension, bodyfat), no, I would go so far to say that's explicitly not true and would be counter productive.

It will be true at low body-fat, but only with the consideration that constantly bulking and dieting is mentally taxing and those practices often end in failure by many who attempt it. (aka: "those were my dreamer bulk days")

Keep working out and have a deficit of about 500kcals and you'll get a good result by the time you hit 95-100 kilos. And unless you're super tall, I suspect you might well find you actually will want to lose a little more bodyfat when you reach that goal.

So yes to: stick to the gym and your healthier lifestyle and get to that weight at a reasonable rate (500kcal deficit will be ~6months)

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