Constantly eating over my calories and struggling to maintain a deficit. What do you guys do?! Help!

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  • lkn42
    lkn42 Posts: 37 Member
    zichroni wrote: »
    Hello people of MFP. I could use input on what I can do to maintain my calories or see if I'm doing something wrong.

    About me: 28F, SW:181, CW:173, GW:150. My daily limit is 1400 cals/day but I'm averaging 1700 - and often eat closer to 2000. I do light jogging twice a week and on other days I walk an hour a day and do 30m pilates or barre workouts. At this point, I'm just eating back the calories I burn and then some.

    What am I doing wrong?! How do you all maintain deficit without feeling like you're starving yourselves?

    ETA: I'm 5'3"

    You and I are very similar in that I'm 5'3" as well and my SW:189, CW:175, GW:150 and my daily limit is 1480. I'm not getting as much exercise as you, I'm only walking minimum of 8000 steps per day for now. Like you, I enjoy eating all of my unwise calories choices are made between 8:00pm - midnight. I do not by any means claim to be a pro at this but I'm finding a small amount of success in keeping fruit in the house for times when my willpower is feel weak. And I've been eating whatever I want....but just a few bites of things that are not so good choices and then have some salad or fruit with it to fill myself up.
  • ehju0901
    ehju0901 Posts: 394 Member
    I had to slow down my eating and also decide, am I truly hungry or am I just overthinking about it? A lot of times I would review my calorie intake for the day and typically have some water...flavored water also makes it feel more like a treat.
  • wunderkindking
    wunderkindking Posts: 1,615 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Sometimes it's just making sure you save your calories for habitual eating. I habitual eat at night between 9pm and 11pm. So I make sure I save calories for that time. I'm NOT a big morning eater at all so I don't worry about eating in the am and normally don't feel hungry at all.

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    This is exactly what I do. I don't like food in the morning. I do like an evening snack. I just shift my calories later and it avoids the whole fighting the habit thing. Sometimes that evening snack is even something like eggs on toast, making it my breakfast anyway I just get to eat it when I want to be eating!

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