What to do?

What happens if you don’t lose 1.5 pounds by Monday?

Personally, I'd eat something filling but moderate in calories, and try to figure out why I was so hungry on my calorie allowance, so I could avoid that situation in the future. To me, weight loss is a learning process and practice for maintaining a healthy weight long-term, so the process of gradually figuring out how to hit a calorie goal and feel satisfied is imporant.

But I wouldn't lose 1.5 pounds by Monday. That's pretty extreme. I assume you have your reasons, but I'm not much of a fan of deadline-driven weight loss for myself.

perezlau wrote: »

What do you do when you're over your calorie mark and it's 8pm and youre still mad hungry?

I'm 300 calories over, I'm hungry, and have to loose 1.5lbs by Monday.

What do you do on days like this?

Drop the artificial dead lines because they're counter productive to long term success

Here's what you're doing with your deadline:

You're increasing your chances of going off the rails and rebound over eating (not a win)

You're increasing your chances of going to bed early (as someone mentioned) which locks in the majority of your deficit (win) but slightly decreases your TDEE (not a win for most of us)

Your increasing your chances of being just a tad bit more tired and lethargic tomorrow thus again decreasing you TDEE.

Drop the deadlines. Keep to reasonable deficits. Win.