Does it get easier?

It gets easier if you start learning how to cook healthier meals, and use less fat. Vegetables, and lean meat needs to be your best friends. Ground Turkey, Ground lean beef, chicken breast etc are great. You need to eat stuff that fills your stomach. You can eat huge portions if you cook them right.
Workout helps a ton but be careful about overestimating your calories burned.

Until you sort out your head as why you comfort eat it will never be easy believe me 29 years yoyoing about 300 lbs plus in chunks on and off
Just take it a day at a time

Hello there, in my opinion, yes it gets easier. Your body will get accustomed to the diet sooner or later. I don't know if you have ever tried fasting before. But once you do it for a few days, your body stops claiming food at certain times because it knows it won't get any.
What you can however do is this, you know your goal and main objective is to keep under calorie goal, but you feel hungry after not eating what your stomach considers enough, so you need to find low calorie filling food. The magic answer is salad. Lots of salad. You can spice it up, maybe even use some sauces to make it more interesting (be careful though, those are highly caloric) but make it your main meal, it sure is mine. The other thing is protein rich food, such as meat. That kinda meal really fills you up with a controlled amount of calories.
But besides all this, keep in mind you're barely starting. Weight loss is a process that I'd like to compare to a wheel. That is really hard to get moving at first, but then it'll start moving because of its own momentum. Take pictures, weigh yourself often, that sort of indicator will push you through tough patches of hunger. I for example keep a calendar with my weights marked on every day to remind myself how far I went every time i feel weak.

PS: I'm currently at a daily calorie intake of 1400, 2 weeks ago I was on 1200cal/day and I workout 5 days a week. If I can do it, you sure as hell can. Good luck

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It'll get a bit easier. You'll get used to what you can eat, what is more satisfying, etc. You'll start to amass a variety of regular staple foods that work for your calories, desired protein content, etc. Also- If cutting certain things out (or eating them very rarely) because they don't fit well in your calories & macros, you'll generally crave them less and forget a bit what they taste like. (I had a donut - Pazcki- OK-more than 1 actually- at a dance on Mardi Gras.. for the first time in months,..OMG I had pretty much completely forgotten what that wondrous starchy-sugary rush felt like. Not that I had purposefully cut them out, I just don't tend to go out and grab fast food anymore).

subcounter wrote: »

It gets easier if you start learning how to cook healthier meals, and use less fat.

Not for me. Fat & protein make me full; carbs make me hungry.

Changing my eating is tough for about 3 days, and then it gets very easy. I also eat pretty much the same thing every weekday, which make sticking to a caloric goal easy.

It gets easier over time. I am on round 2 (after 3 years) and the third month. After the first 2-3 weeks, it got much easier for me. The cravings subsided and making better food choices got much easier. I also found out what eating habits worked for me (timing, what kept me full, etc).

I am netting 1200 per day, but generally taking in about 1500 with exercise calories. 17 lbs down in the first 2 months told me that my body did want to carry that extra weight another day. Feel free to add me; my food diary is open to friends. I still have about 35 lbs to go between now and the end of the year.

It gets easier, but there are still days where it's hard. I have gotten significantly better about my stress eating, but I still want to eat some days out of boredom.

Like others said, exercise helps a lot. For one, that's 30 minutes - an hour that I'm not eating, lol; and two, it gives me more calories to eat on. I usually burn around 2,500 - 3,000 calories a day when I'm tracking it and making an effort to be more active, so that's 2,000 - 2,500 calories I can eat on a 500 calorie deficit.

I'm also vegan now, and I eat a lot more vegetables and fruits than I used to, so I'm able to eat bigger portions than if I was eating meat and cheese, so that helps as well. Once you find what works for you, it gets much easier, even on days when you don't have motivation.

Good luck! There's a lot of support here on days that are hard.

I agree with @kristinhowell Some days is a breeze and it's very easy - other days I'm starving and can't seem to eat enough

At my highest weight I was right where you are now--188.8. I have set points throughout that range (now I'm 145) that are tough as nails to break through, and at some of those I was STARVING. I literally wanted to eat my hand (assuming nothing else was available) on some days. I've learned to run for water first--or wine if I'm home--as both of them will deal with the "it's not really hunger" hunger, or what my mom calls phantom hunger. If I'm hungry after that, fiber (I love fruit). And if I'm hungry after *that*, protein. Usually by that point it's time for a meal anyway.

Phantom hunger will likely be with you forever, but you will not feel STARVING all the time. (To me, that was the hardest thing to fight. Being a little hungry is okay. Hulking out because you haven't eaten *enough* is different.)

If you exercise more, you can eat more--that's true--but you'll also be hungrier. I've known women who have *gained* weight running because they were eating more than they should have been. There's a balance there that's very individual, and it's something you'll have to find for yourself. I've slowly become an active woman (biking and core work these days) who is vegetarian and would sooner walk through fire for a handful of cherries than a piece of cake, but that didn't happen overnight. And I still have "hungry days," for which I keep the vats of sugarless jello on hand.

Everyone has different strategies to get through it. I will say that the first three days is the worst. As you accustom yourself to fewer calories, your stomach will shrink (externally and internally), but the process takes time.

antinomiancelestial wrote: »

For some background, I weigh 189.4 (after losing my first pound thanks to this wonderful site!) at 5 foot 6 inches. My goal is to lose one pound a week, and since I'm sedentary that leaves me with an allotted 1520 calories per day.

To be clear, I was never an emotional overeater or someone who ate lots of fast food or anything. I gained the weight for two major reasons. The first reason was that my medication slowed my metabolism and made me feel hungrier than I otherwise would. I'm thankfully almost completely off that medication now, but the weight still has to come off. The second reason was that my roommate (who is lightly active, muscular, and truly blessed in the metabolism department) and I were cooking all our meals together for a while to pool money and resources. Of course, she can eat /any/ amount and stay thin, so I was eating portions that were right for her rather than for me.

Unfortunately, I guess my body is used to over 2,000 calories per day, and now I'm trying to cut it down to 1520. Even when I eat regularly, I still feel hungry a lot. Does this get easier with time? I really hope so because to lose 40 pounds (as my minimum goal), I'm in this until at least Christmas.

The more you want ti, i think the easier it gets. you have to make up you mind, that no amount of food tastes better than being goal weight. I love that this is not a diet, but a too to teach you correct ways of eating just for you. i have always been very determined in what I do. it does not bother me logging daily. i think i have hit a year with a few starting over points, ie. always have a digital scale. don't trust label, weigh it all! beat wishes in your journey!