- Eat potatoes and gourds. Here in holland we have 30% reduced calorie potatoes, an (uncooked) kilo of food can be less than 600 kcal
- Learn to steam vegetables. Buy an electric steamer if need be. If you properly steam vegetables, you will grow to crave them. Just a little salt and pepper on some perfectly steamed broccoli can be surprisingly mouth watering.
- Consider a carnivore diet (often includes fruits as well). It might be the most satiating diet and easiest to stick to. Regardless of it's long term health benefits or detriments, if you can stick to the diet and lose a bunch of weight it's likely a net positive.
Less weird:
- Eat a very high protein diet. I'm assuming if you're overweight you're not terribly active - you probably don't need a whole lot of carbs. Proteins are the hardest macronutrient for your body to store as fat. You don't need 0 carb but consider 2+ grams of protein per kg of bodyweight
- If you have the money, splurge on good quality fruits. I have had better mangos than I have cakes, better chocolate dipped strawberries than chocolate chip cookies, better grapes than potato chips.
For what it's worth, I mixed up my units :) I meant to say consider 2+ grams of protein per pound of bodyweight. This is definitely the upper threshold of protein I'd recommend people consider but you asked for weird tips!
(2g per kg is roughly the minimum protein you should be consuming)
- Eat potatoes and gourds. Here in holland we have 30% reduced calorie potatoes, an (uncooked) kilo of food can be less than 600 kcal
- Learn to steam vegetables. Buy an electric steamer if need be. If you properly steam vegetables, you will grow to crave them. Just a little salt and pepper on some perfectly steamed broccoli can be surprisingly mouth watering.
- Consider a carnivore diet (often includes fruits as well). It might be the most satiating diet and easiest to stick to. Regardless of it's long term health benefits or detriments, if you can stick to the diet and lose a bunch of weight it's likely a net positive.
Less weird:
- Eat a very high protein diet. I'm assuming if you're overweight you're not terribly active - you probably don't need a whole lot of carbs. Proteins are the hardest macronutrient for your body to store as fat. You don't need 0 carb but consider 2+ grams of protein per kg of bodyweight
- If you have the money, splurge on good quality fruits. I have had better mangos than I have cakes, better chocolate dipped strawberries than chocolate chip cookies, better grapes than potato chips.