I’m attempting to limit myself to 1500 calories per day. I can keep to 1600 easily, but 1500 is difficult. It’s not that I’m particularly hungry; I just want a nibble before bed or during work. If I stick to it, will it be easier to deal with the cravings?
When I was 30, my pancreas failed and I had type 1 diabetes. Everything about my diet needed to alter. I can’t even begin to describe what it’s like to transition from being a normal person who eats normal food to having to stick to tight calorie and carbohydrate restrictions, meal time, and so on. I had to basically reinvent myself overnight. The old, normal me was gone, and the new diabetic me had taken its place.
So it’s been seven years now. Do you know what? I don’t remember what it was like the other way around. Adhering to my stringent food regimen is actually very simple. In fact, knowing that my eating regimen is regular and my blood sugar responds to my behaviour provides some comfort to me. In many ways, my practice has probably made me healthier than the majority of people.
It does! The improvements you’ve made to your diet will eventually become habits. That’s when it gets easier. The goal is to get over the ‘hump’ that exists between the time when your dietary adjustment requires effort and the time when it becomes your new normal.
It helps to take things one day at a time. Take one meal at a time. Simply get through the next one. Focus on that. Eventually, you’ll discover it’s no longer an effort.
Yes, weight loss becomes easier over time. When I first started my weight loss quest, I found it almost tough to stick to any diet. I was always hungry, which made it much more difficult for me to meet any of my weight loss goals.
I began the Keto diet, which everyone was raving about, and I was determined to stick to it till I succeeded. So I started following a keto diet plan that a buddy recommended (you can find it in my bio), and my goal was to adhere to it until I lost at least 60 pounds.
I can tell you now that it was not simple. I battled a lot in my first six months, and I on the brink of giving up but I was determined to see this through. I can happily say that I’ve now lost over 100 pounds thanks to my diet!
Feeling hungry is one of the most difficult aspects of losing weight. However, new Danish research suggests that if you can maintain your weight loss for a year, that feeling may diminish.
Researchers studied the hormone levels of 20 obese adults who followed an ultra-low-calorie diet for two months and lost an average of 13% of their body weight. The patients then followed a less rigorous weight-maintenance diet for a year, and their weight remained steady.
Probably not, which is a major reason why dieting is a horrible idea. If you make temporary changes that demand willpower, you’re playing a losing game.
Weight loss, on the other hand, becomes increasingly easy.
Yes and No.
No, if you consider that when you start a diet, you lose weight quickly at first, but then it gradually decreases.
Yes, if you consider that with practice, you become accustomed to the mental components of dieting and learn which methods, foods, cooking techniques, and so on work best for you. If you go on a second or third diet later on, it will be “easier” because you have already done it.
I started “dieting” ten years ago. It was difficult at first to keep track of what I was eating, but after a few years, it has become routine and I no longer think about it.
It does if you adjust your diet rather than dieting. Change your food preferences. Limit your sugar intake to minimal or nil, and avoid all refined carbs. Consume plenty of vegetables and whole grains, nuts and seeds, and moderate portions of meat, fruits, dairy products, and healthy oils. Continue doing this for a longer period of time, perhaps for the rest of your life, and you will not only lose weight, but also live a long and healthy life with no hunger. Good luck.
It will become simpler if you view it as a lifestyle change rather than a ‘diet’ or a hardship. You’ll see that various substitutions can make things ‘easier’. If you enjoy sweets (like me), simply consume more natural sweets and your cravings for candy will disappear. Fruits are delicious, sweet, inexpensive, and require no cooking!
Of course, sticking with it only gets easier.
Because you’re reading this to lose weight, you’re probably having difficulty.
There are many individuals who want as much food as you do, if not more, yet they do not get it.
Yes, I believe you become accustomed to whatever quantity you eat consistently, whether it is a calorie deficit or eating too much. If I tried to eat as much as I used to, I would feel quite uncomfortable and sick.
Food options are plentiful here.
1500 calories of lean protein and non-starchy vegetables will leave you feeling WAY more full than 1500 calories of carbs and processed foods.
Yes, it becomes simpler. At first, I had a strong urge for fattening fast food. Then it eases off over time; after a month, you’ll be over it.
It’s a combination of your stomach shrinking (or at least not stretching as much as previously) and your brain adapting.