I think one of the few things that have always pushed me away from trying to go on a diet and lose weight has always been the seemingly complex nature of it all that I see online, and most importantly, just bad food choices and overall laziness on my part.
Last week, I was traveling with a friend who's dieting and working out all the time and looks his best, and I asked him a very simple question: walk me through what you eat on the daily. And he proceeded to outline a stupid simple eating plan, with readily available food types and resources, doesn't take a lot of time, and he mentioned that at the end of the day, no matter what you do, eat small calories stuff, and stay below your deficit kcal intake.
I decided to copy his diet plan and experiment with the foods that he gave me. I tried my best to leave behind some concepts that I learnt in the past and worked in the past but don't work anymore (such as intermittent fasting). My hunger always spikes 5 times a day, and it's been really challenging for me to stay below deficit when I'm hungry all the time.
I don't know why, but I've always thought that scrambled eggs and whole wheat bread would never satiate my hunger in breakfast, and yogurt would never do it for me when I'm craving a snack, but to my surprise, this has been working very well, and these have been the two elements that I introduced to my diet which helped me tremendously managing my cravings and all-over-the-place eating habits. I replaced energy drinks and a daily morning croissant with scrambled eggs and whole wheat bread, and I replaced the chocolate bars, bags of chips and junk food with yogurt and small snacks I found at the supermarket.
And after experimenting with the food types that he gave me, I started looking harder in supermarkets to find healthier alternatives to for example a bag of chips, a chocolate bar, and the rest, and I always kept in my mind that no matter what happens, add up the kcal so that they stay under the deficit, and to my surprise, there were so many fitness-related small kcal items in the supermarket that helped me achieve exactly that.
I realized ultimately that at the end of the day, it really just boils down to how I manage my choices and most importantly emotions when I feel the desire to eat, and it really feels like that at this point, with the readily available tools that I have, if I succumb back to junk food, it's just emotional eating and me shooting myself in the foot.
I don't know, a small stream of consciousness I thought I'd share.
27M, 93kg, 176cm, wanting to go down to 75kg.
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