Craving

fiza01
fiza01 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm started my diet two months ago. Now I had lost 2kg from 74kg. I'm 21 years old and 160 cm height. I strictly follow the callories intake that i need and do exercise once a week (i know it is not enough). Lately i have a lot of thinking or in other words, craving about foods like pizza, mcdonalds, chocolate and much more. I know I can have a cheat day once a week, but I eat them two or three times a week.

Give me some thought or advice how can I handle them. Thank you and forgive my grammar mistakes.

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    just eat less of them so they fit in your calorie goal.
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  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,185 Member
    Pizza, and chocolate two or three times a week is my minimum. Some ice cream and cookies must be included. McDonalds, or anybody's fast fried food, doesn't attract me. But I've got a goal of 1730 to work with.
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    edited November 2017
    Fitting them into your calories is the best option, but it's not always doable or reasonable. I find that pre-logging can help figure out how to make some of those foods fit because I can add something like pizza or chicken wings then add/remove other foods until I come up with a plan for the day that works.

    At times when working them into my day isn't an option, I use caffeine and hard candy as crutches, then I try to keep myself busy so I'm not sitting around thinking about ____ food.

    There's definitely some trial and error to figure out the tricks that do and don't help you... so be patient, and don't beat your self up too much of the days you slip up.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,836 Member
    As folks said, fit them into your calories. I'm 66, so a similar age. I really haven't changed what I eat much I just measure it all and aim for a 500 calorie-day deficit. I've lost 33 pounds with just 110 to go. Tonight we are having pizza. Homemade. It's a fairly calorie-dense supper so I'll be having fewer snacks to make up for it today. I still get to split a whole pizza with hubby. I'm eating less bread and butter, having pasta a little less often, etc. but that's so I can allot my calories to things I enjoy more. Before I started to lose weight, every once in awhile, hubby and I split a container of chocolate Haagen Das -- now I just schedule it for days with relatively low calorie suppers so it fits.

    I don't "cheat" because there's no one else keeping score. I do on occasion eat with reckless abandon or snack back any deficit (and then some) but I consider these instances to be part of the learning experience. I learned this week that I really have difficulty staying within bounds if I eat a snack after 9 pm. So, eating after 9 pm is something for me to avoid because my brakes are off at that hour.

    It's all a case of figuring out what works for you and being willing to change things as they start not to work. I was lowering my calorie allotment as I lost weight which worked fine until I got below 1550 calories/day. I found 1550 I can do but below that I feel unnecessarily constrained. 1550 will do as maintenance when I reach goal if I also convert from sedentary to lightly active between now and then. So now, rather than lower calories, I am trying to increase activity marginally. So far, that's working.

    One nice thing about being "of a certain age" is that we have the time and maturity to work on these things for ourselves. We also don't have raging hormones driving cyclic weight changes to take into account! Yay!
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