Getting back on track

Peresphonex
Peresphonex Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition

Hi everyone! Looking for tips and tricks here as the easy 2 months i been struggling to get back on track I been going at around 2100 daily but need to get back down to 1500 daily to lose weight but I been finding myself so bored and been eating like crazy!

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  • Aesop101
    Aesop101 Posts: 767 Member

    My only tip is to cut carbs, sugar, and seed oils. You'll lose weight.

  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,990 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10951591/getting-back-on-track

    Just a thought - maybe 1500 is too steep a calorie deficit to start with? If you’re eating when bored, can you find a hobby which occupies you / your hands? Go for a walk, do some knitting or embroidery, do a quiz - distract yourself from food.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,543 Community Helper

    Two things:

    1. If the real problem isn't nutrition or hunger, the best solution isn't food. Claireychn074's suggestion of a hobby is a good one. Bonus points if it requires clean hands (needlework, sketching, musical instrument, etc.) or creates dirty ones (gardening, carpentry, painting, etc.).
    2. Make an easier plan. Cutting fewer calories is one example. Eating foods you like and find filling is good, if you otherwise tend to focus on so-called "diet foods" you don't enjoy as much. Add enjoyable movement to your day - formal exercise or daily life movement - rather than adopting some kind of miserable, punitively intense exercise program. Easy, slow and successful is better than fast but failing.

    If you hold steady in weight at 2100 with your current habits, you'll lose weight at anything meaningfully less than 2100, or with regular meaningful amounts of added movement. Yes, it will take longer to show up on the scale. So what? Last time I needed to creep my weight down a bit in maintenance after it'd crept up over the first 4 years, I took around a year to lose about 10 pounds. The pounds were gone, and it was virtually painless.

    That's true even if you have a lot to lose: Not doing anything means not losing anything. Losing slowly means you'll be at least a little lighter in a few months. Which is better?

    Best wishes!

  • BermsRecovery
    BermsRecovery Posts: 20 Member

    To be quite frank, if you’re just coming back and you’re already in a 600 calorie deficit that is quite insane. I would start slowly easing into the deficit and prioritize veggies and protein. I’m assuming you want to burn your fat, so doing some resistance training could be beneficial for you. Resistance training is basically telling your body to hold onto muscle instead of breaking it down and using it for energy. Once again this comment is pretty vague and we need much more context in order to really give you some critical advice. Coming back and immediately cutting down to a steep calorie count is extremely difficult. Good luck.

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