I’ve seen numerous posts on here where people are talking about feeling hungry and unsatisfied when they’re working to lose weight and counting calories. Or even when they’re not counting but keeping it minimal.
This past week, I decided I really want to reach my goals. I follow someone on Instagram who lost around the same amount that I need to lose. About 150lbs. They look amazing. They’ve had skin removal surgery. I want that. I want to be smaller and healthier and like the way I look in some regard. They showed a video with a difference from a 60lb loss. And I realized, pretty much, I could be that by the end of the summer. Seven months to September and more than enough time to lose that amount of weight. I’d almost be halfway to my goal. So I went down to a calorie level to lose 2lbs per week.
I didn’t stick to it well this week. I went about 2,000 calories over my weekly. Pretty much an extra 200 calories a day. So still in line to lose about a pound and a half. Next week I’m going for the gusto and working to go with the lower calorie limit. But I’m hungry. I’m sitting here now hungry. I’d say I could have done better with calories today, and I think that will be my challenge moving forward: figuring out how to best utilize a limited calorie budget but still get a bang for my (calorie) buck.
And I see people say, “sometimes you just have to be okay with the fact that you will be hungry,” but is this just an addictive thing I have to wait out? Like thirty days from now the urge to want to eat won’t be as bad? It’s not like I want to go grab some cucumber, which I can actually go do. I want the emergency can of chef Boyardee overstuffed ravioli. So that’s probably not even hunger then, right? That is just behavior that needs to be undone. I do feel hungry, though. Or yearning?
Does this get easier? Tips? Tricks? Time?
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