Logged since Feb 1 but haven't dropped my calories down.

Eat less? Pre plan your day and eat what you plan...

Cut portions a little. Remove unnecessary things. Choose lower cal options (low fat dairy vs full fat, non starchy vegies vs starchy etc)

The issue is that if you can't decide you want it, nobody can force you but yourself to actually go through with it. You have to learn to cut back a bit.

Let me preface this by saying I am NOT the most experienced here, but maybe try looking for small wins as the above poster mentions. I've been really logging for about a month but when I started I knew that 2 of my needless calorie wastes every day were drinks. I drank coffee with a lot of milk and sugar (and 3 cups every morning). So I figured out how I could cut that down -- vanilla almond creamer (waaay fewer calories and adds a bit of sweetness) plus still a tiny bit of sugar. I'm never going to drink coffee black, but I can still enjoy it like this and save about 150 calories a day. The next thing was soda - I drank 1-2 cokes a day, so I replaced that with flavored sparkling water and more regular water with lemon flavoring. Those 2 things ALONE .... Save me a ton of calories a week. I did the math and realized that they could actually result in about 30 pounds of weight loss over the course of a year if I did NOTHING else. That was an eye opener!

After the first week of cutting this stuff out and starting to exercise, I was sleeping better at night and waking up easier, so I have actually been drinking less coffee than I was and I don't feel the after lunch energy crash that usually makes me reach for a Coke anyway so it's an even bigger win for me that I didn't expect. And it didn't feel like a huge change all at once, but it encouraged me to look harder for more small and big wins in the rest of my diet as well by the end of that first week.

Hope that helped? Good luck on your journey!

You have to want to lose weight more than you want to overeat. Ultimately that's the bottom line. Would I love to drink 3 Dr Peppers, eat lots of Ruffles chips, and have a huge bowl of ice cream every night after eating a gigantic plate of spaghetti and meatballs? Yes.

But I want to "not be obese" more than I want all of that. It's a challenge. It's simple thing to do but it is very hard...it takes commitment. If you don't have a commitment to losing the excess weight, it's not going to happen.

Do it - or don't. It's up to you.

In the words of Yoda - "TRY NOT. Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'"

lumosloss wrote: »

Been logging all month!

Evidence of my overeating staring me in the face. But for whatever reason I am consistently eating around 1500 calories more than I should to lose weight.

Any tips and tricks or support for me on actually dropping the calories down and not just logging them? I obviously know I need to eat less. I'm struggling with actually DOING that.

As mentioned above, prelogging is a good idea. Anytime I think of eating something that I suspect to not be 'affordable' in my daily calories, I log it then think "*kitten* that!" and delete it again. It's a good tool of dissuasion!

88olds wrote: »

1500 per day? How often?

Where do you have your calories set?

Are you currently gaining?

Keep going. You can work through this. Add me if you want. Keep in mind, it’s Feb 15th.

Why is that important?

@aeloine It’s only 15 days. Calorie counting has a significant learning curve.

Have u tried Intermittent Fasting? IF helped me with really being mindful of what Im eating. I fast for 16 hrs and eat for 8 hrs. I drink tons of water and a cup of coffee with 1 sweetener in the morning. Sometimes hunger pangs are really just thirst. Ive lost 11 lbs since starting in January. Of course im still logging my caloric intake and stay at 1200kcal daily. I also workout 5x a week.