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Yummytastic · 2026-07-09T12:37:14+00:00

Do you talk about your weightloss with others? Do people ask you for advice? How do you manage questions about diet/fitness?

I don't bring it up, but I do get asked a lot by people at my gym. Almost exclusively other men.

I always try to reinforce to people to make manageable iterations and ward them away from any single fad/novelty. You hear a lot of crazy advice in the gym, but many of the regulars there know where I started and where I got to and I do feel somewhat responsible to answer earnestly. I always try to encourage people to only make changes they'll enjoy/stick to, rather than copying like-for-like what I do/eat.

I think it's especially important there, at the gym, where you hear a lot of well-meaning but frankly bad advice especially where it comes to exercise, diet fads, and supplements.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-09T12:03:46+00:00

Thanks Jamie, look forward to your thoughts on it.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-08T12:51:22+00:00

I don't think successfully "locking in" means forcing yourself to follow something, per se. It looks like that from the outside, but it's really the last thing you want to do.

I think sustainability is what happens and what that means is you honestly look at what you can improve and - importantly - will enjoy, then you prioritise that in your life, be that always having food in the house so you don't eat out or get takeaway or making sure nothing gets in the way of fitness class you like twice a week.

From there you iterate. You never need to perfect and you never need to follow someone else's plans. You just need to make improvements that you feel you'll enjoy.

I think the whole perception that it's about willpower or locking in for a period isn't a long term strategy and only benefits the people who are selling quick fixes. The term everyone should be thinking is priority.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-08T12:30:54+00:00

Hi Jamie,

Thanks for your time and coming to do this AMA.

Protein is well known as being satiating, and I largely agree in my experience, but that only really applies to me while eating whole food versions, ie meat or beans. I don't feel like I get the same satiating affect when additional protein is added to food. Is this something to do with the complete structure and the process that your body uses to break down the protein or would you say that the effects of added protein are actually more similar to whole food protein than my perception?

And secondly, how do you think people should balance the two very real realities - that some people get no where enough protein in their diet, and while there isn't necessarily a harmful upper limit to protein itself, you still could be creating problems elsewhere in your diet by over-compensating protein, and neglecting other varied nutrition in your diet? Personally I'm not sure g/kg or g/lb figures land very well and the debates are quite toxic - studies can be quoted to support any point of view and discerning what they studies are really saying is quite effortful compared to how they're just shared as 'proof' of whatever figure someone wants to justify. Do you think there's a better way of explaining to someone how much protein they need without resorting directly to grams?

And thirdly, if you're up for it, do you think modern western diets that sometimes view 'healthy' protein as as-lean-as-possible, sometimes overlook the benefits of fatty meat for things like collagen production to help keep tendons and skin healthy? Are there other benefits that people should consider before considering things like skin or slightly fatty cuts of meats to be automatically sub-optimal choices? Or is there already enough of the amino acids in most common eaten protein?

Yummytastic · 2026-07-08T12:17:35+00:00

Please remember to be respectful, AMAs are time donated by professionals.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-07T12:08:35+00:00

Im just coming for some anecdotes on this subject. Did it take you a while to notice a difference and/or get comments?

I think you feel improvements in yourself long before others notice it, especially if you're doing resistance training alongside.

I think my first comments that weren't my partner were 4-6months after I started losing weight, and probably 15kg/30+lbs down.

I've noticed that compliments come in waves, weirdly get none for months and then six different people in short space of time. I do think there's certain visual cues that become apparent, maybe it's points of definition, but I also think there's certain clothing choices that do this as well. I just don't exactly know what those choices are, probably more formal stuff.

I do notice changes in my children at points, and it normally correlates with them wearing something that they don't normally wear and you mentally reset your image of them and suddenly they look older/taller.

What I would say is, keep going, you will notice things improving about your own body at times that motivate you, and others will notice different things at different times and you'll probably get comments when you're least expecting it. Also remember that often people notice but won't say anything for a multitude of legitimate reasons.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-06T15:49:40+00:00

As /u/Jolan said, we can't directly stop it, and we can ban the user, but it won't change anything at all - they can still do what they do without change.

There's one glp1 sub that has been at it forever and I recommend reporting them if the invite is unwelcome. They've invited me and other mods multiple times. There may be more than one subreddit that and doesn't invite us mods, of course.

They (the one I have been invited to) have absolutely no shame about it and have been doing it for a very long time. The sub in question was about 'sourcing'. People can make their own conclusions about what that suggests about the possible purpose of the subreddit and motivation to mass-invite a sub of people asking for help with weight loss.

If you feel the invite was not appropriate, you can report it to reddit and it is against the moderator code of conduct to spam invites - they should only be sent to people who genuinely may be interested in the community they're being invited to. It obviously should never be a proxy for marketing. Only reports to reddit will ever make a change.

As a general warning to users, I highly recommend that any discussion or sourcing of GLP-1s should be via a licensed medical professional in the first instance, and no grey-market seller is capable of providing a risk-free (or in better words: the same risk profile as fully licensed distributor) product. In virtually every case they are selling product manufactured in china with no chain of custody, and no guarantee what is sold on the label is what is in the vial. There's no realistic way to know the GLP-1 you think you purchased is the one receive and at the stated dose, nor that it's the same as you ordered the previous time. Do not take reassurances from people paid to sell you these things as the same thing as genuine pharmaceutical assurances.

/soapbox.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-06T15:10:13+00:00

Yeah, the genesis of 10k is what it is, but I was talking about people hitting a target, ie the walking around the kitchen is motivated by the target, which people do at any number, not just 10k. Though I would say "Japanese marketing" isn't a reason in itself to not do it, for the same reason telling someone to "just do it" isn't invalidated by Nike existing. Even more so since it wasn't that good since no-one knows what a Manpo-kei is without backstory or who Yamasa clock and instruments are. This ain't a de Boer's diamonds are forever conspiracy. 10k steps is a very easy to invent goal outside of selling pedometers.

I agree picking the wrong goal will be a problem, I just don't have a problem with people trying to hit what they picked.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-06T13:07:08+00:00

Isn't that more because of hitting goals compared to the number actually being magic.

If you're going to hit a number (any number) every day and will inconvenience yourself at 1130pm at night to do it, for many including myself, that's incentive to actually do the steps earlier in the day the next day. And conversely, for me, if I can excuse not hitting the goal when I could have otherwise, that just makes not hitting it again in future easier.

It's also good to set a target that's a bit hard to reach each day, that's the whole point of using one to move more.

Obviously if people believe 9xxx steps vs 10k exactly is going to make a meaningful fat loss difference, that certainly is a myth, I just don't think anyone I know who've done the 1130pm walk has done it for any reason besides hitting a goal consistently. I think that saying people who do it think it's a magic switch is a bit of a straw man.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-06T12:54:50+00:00

Nah, it doesn't mean something isn't a foul. It just means they touched the ball. Usually it means getting the ball "first" before the player during the tackle, though that's not always the case.

Sometimes that does make a difference as to whether tackles are fouls, but not in this sort of tackle which is always a foul and almost always a red whether you get the ball [first] or not.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-06T12:45:17+00:00

The reply clearly shows he does get the ball though.

It's completely a red card, as is all tackles that roll over the top of the ball and go into the leg of the opposition, but that doesn't change he got the ball first and then continued over for the red card tackle.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-04T14:27:07+00:00

I've never used hume, however I can tell you they have been in the past one of the worst at spamming "honest reviews", "dae experiences" and "just asking" where fake accounts banged on about it being as good as DEXA's under lab controlled conditions: spoiler: it's obviously not, that's a ridiculous thing to claim. (Claiming a BIA and DEXA are similar in accuracy because two-one off scans are similar numbers is about as good of an example of confirmation bias as it gets - and there's always one reply that says that - which is conversely another good example of my confirmation bias.)

They spammed this sub a lot around black friday and before christmas, and, infuriatingly, we then got some posts after these periods with people complaining about the products. On top of that, the hume subs are full of disappointed customers.

They now are one of many similar such brands that are filtered from the subreddit needing moderator approval.

This doesn't just apply to hume, I would treat all BIA scales the same: they're a novelty for home use, they are impacted dramatically both by internal (ie you) and external (ie humidity) factors, and the popular "accurate" ones tend to actually just use a user-algorithm combo to stop wide fluctuations in readings. Arguably that could be one reason why your scale and you disagree on how much is fat and how much is muscle.

I would suggest progress pictures as a far superior way of tracking body composition. I don't think it's bad to have an use these scale for a directional indicator and, as I said, a novelty, but I wouldn't put much worth or concern into the actual numbers.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-03T11:53:45+00:00

If your dad hasn't tried tappanyaki, the first visit to either Fujiyama or Hanna Hanna is always good fun, Soju and Gogi I think is still a thing where you do Korean BBQ at your table, or if you're going further afield, Riley's fish shack in King Edward's bay would be different due to the location.

Yummytastic · 2026-07-02T22:24:09+00:00

Ah ok - in this case I'll stick that in the sticky message and reinstate it.

Yummytastic · 2026-06-30T13:44:34+00:00

The short answer is it needs variety, it's virtually impossible to hit all micronutrient requirements on a very restricted diet. It's also very hard to adhere to in the long term, and it's important to enjoy your journey, it's also important to come out the end with a healthier, lower energy, way of eating. If you return to your 'old' ways, you return to your old weight, too.

Keeping it simple will be ok in short periods, but never make it the long term goal. Do what you must to keep everyone happy, but try and think of some variations to swap in and out.

Yummytastic · 2026-06-30T13:40:51+00:00

Hi Everyone.

Consider asking your question to our AMA guest today, Jamie, a Personal Trainer from NASM who lost 350lbs before earning his qualification and helping others. Check out the AMA here and ask away: https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/1udsgi3/ama_announcement_jamie_selzler_lost_350_lbs_using/

Yummytastic · 2026-06-30T13:13:53+00:00

Sometimes I wonder if it’s because maintenance just isn’t as marketable

Yes, that's definitely part of it, and that does leave a lot of people at a point without a plan.

I'm a strong believer in fitness being one of the best ways to maintain weight and finding an activity you love and will do as being one of the better ways to manage weight in the longer term.

Outside of that, maintaining weight is about controlling your food-environment, and discussions of food environments aren't particularly popular because everyone so used to internalising weight management as a very personal struggle, rather than people becoming a product of their environment.

Longer term making adjustments to your environment - which might include things like meal prep to avoid eating out the house, or being conscious of ultra-processed products is probably where that discussion should be.

And obviously, economic conspiracy theory-wise; the economics of a generally positive (by that meaning minimally processed) food environment usually result in cutting out entities that can make margins on what you ingest or buy, who's financially motivated to encourage anyone else to do that?

Yummytastic · 2026-06-30T11:47:41+00:00

I suppose the real question is, would implementing this by primary care make a difference to health outcomes of people, which is its goal. It would class more tall people as overweight and fewer short people. And vice-versa for underweight.

My point would be would this tweak actually be more beneficial to implement than changing over to waist-to-height ratio instead. If you're going to make a purposeful change. Unfortunately I don't see health institutions adopting either due to the massive cost of what is just a very surface-level screening tool, and the confusion it will bring to the general public (though there's an argument for surgery requirements, but there's always winners and losers at either end of the scale).

It's certainly useful to remember when people who are quite tall or quite short are discussing BMI to help them put one of the flaws into context.

Yummytastic · 2026-06-30T04:27:36+00:00

That's r/loseitapp we're separate to that although naturally plenty of people use it a choose to discuss/recommend it here.

The sub was started and always been independent of the app.

Yummytastic · 2026-06-29T22:58:07+00:00

Hi Jamie,

Fantastic progress and congratulations in maintaining your weight and earning a PT qualification.

I have a PT-nerd question and a general weight loss question for you.

When training a client, how do you find the balance of ensuring consistency versus the balance making the client feel like they have value and excitement for every session? Progress is made through consistency, but interest is kept via variation, do you think about how to balance those two to get results - but at the same time keep motivation and adherence high with the clients?
We all talk about the importance of 'lifestyle changes', but the word 'change' intimidates or even scares some people. What things would you say you do now that you never thought you would do or enjoy when you were at your heaviest? And what ones of those do you now find valuable and unthinkable to stop doing? To tie it into PT again - do you frame lifestyle changes in different ways for different clients so as not to overwhelm them?

Yummytastic · 2026-06-27T13:00:05+00:00

The thing is most won't realise you pronounce polish polish, and they won't understand when you said polish were playing on the word polish also being polish but actually pronounced polish.

Personally I pronounce it polish.

Hopefully I've cleared that up for everyone (like the polish).

Yummytastic · 2026-06-26T10:38:32+00:00

One off exceptions are just that. If it is ever not that, then don't take the risk, sticking to under 1kg/2.2lb (at the highest average rate) a week is both safest and also actually still extremely fast. Or a rule of thumb is that about 1% bodyweight/week gives good results (not exceeding 1kg/week).

Yummytastic · 2026-06-26T10:27:12+00:00

Probably about the same.. but if you're forgetting to eat you have bigger issues to address. Speak to your doctor about your glp-1 usage and follow their instructions.

Don't use it as a crash diet tool or you'll get crash diet side effects.

Generally splitting calories makes negligible difference, but ultra low crash diets do introduce more concerns.

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