Best way to lose weight?

[DiamondDuty]

Is it better to just starve and only eat like once a day, but stay hungry/very hungry?

[Nordil(Hun)]

Careful. You can ACTUALLY starve to death in this game if you do not eat properly. (I seem to recall 3 days is needed to die of hunger aka starvation.)
Also if your weight hits under 40 your char dies.

[Torpex]

I use the mod which shows the calorie gain/burn. (2200) is the low limit and 3200 is high limit. Like if you hit (2200) game doesn't care anymore how much you are burning. Same mechanics for the positive gain.

Regarding your question. Any activity will do, like tree chopping, doing mechanics etc, but fighting zeds is the best.

Whenever I get to clearing the neighbourhood i hit 2200 deficit pretty fast and have to eat cakes (if you can keep the eggs for cakes, this is the only ingredient i found hard to get). Quite often I have to resort to eating dog food and chips to get back into the positive.

[DiamondDuty]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Careful. You can ACTUALLY starve to death in this game if you do not eat properly. (I seem to recall 3 days is needed to die of hunger aka starvation.)
Also if your weight hits under 40 your char dies.

Despite 700 hours of gameplay, I actually haven't died of hunger yet somehow.
Is it an instant death once a time is reached? Or will it start ticking your health away so you can recover via eating something right away?

I am only asking as I like to choose overweight/obese for free points, since I feel pretty confident in my stealth game. So I am always trying to burn off those calories to get rid of those traits. Is this still the most efficient method? (Was it ever even an efficient method?)

If not, what is the best strat to lose weight quickly?

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by DiamondDuty:

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Careful. You can ACTUALLY starve to death in this game if you do not eat properly. (I seem to recall 3 days is needed to die of hunger aka starvation.)
Also if your weight hits under 40 your char dies.

Despite 700 hours of gameplay, I actually haven't died of hunger yet somehow.
Is it an instant death once a time is reached? Or will it start ticking your health away so you can recover via eating something right away?

I am only asking as I like to choose overweight/obese for free points, since I feel pretty confident in my stealth game. So I am always trying to burn off those calories to get rid of those traits. Is this still the most efficient method? (Was it ever even an efficient method?)

If not, what is the best strat to lose weight quickly?

The 3 or some days starving i cant recall much. It was in a very early stage of the game and my char might have died going under 40.
However if you start to die from starvation food does not help you.
I can reliably tell that one of my chars woke up one day under 40 (or was it 45?) weight. And from then on it started to sink down pretty slowly but steadily. Of course i started to stuff his face with food but did not help. (Now i no i should have eaten as much as i could, then drank a bottle of wine and sleep:D And rinse and repeat after i am back to safe health)

Sadly there is no good way to lose weight quickly. You would need to eat mostly vegetables and have your character do a lot of demanding physical labour. Like fighting or woodcutting. (Running does not really work.)

I actually always select underweight;)

[Pherdnut]

It's completely unnecessary to starve yourself. If you're physically active, like running, chopping wood, fighting zeds, etc and eat low cal stuff the weight will come off fast. Pickles and yogurt are great because they have almost zero calories. So are vegetables/salads and fruit. I have a harder time keeping weight on than off most games. I sometimes have to eat an entire pot of 3 rabbit/3 veggie stew a day.

[All_Mighty]

Cans of food are the way to go in my opinion. Low Calorie and it feeds you enough, but you will lose weight because it's 'not enough calories' but you won't starve.

[wawawiwa]

be vegan and walk a lot, should be good enough