So I’m someone with chronic pain and fatigue. A few years ago I started a fitness journey and went from 260 down to 180. Today I’m at 219 after falling off the wagon. I want to start again. Eating healthy, getting active. It’s hard. I recently hurt my back so I’m trying to get that sorted.
Step 1 is cutting all soda and energy drinks. I’m going to flip that switch starting Monday. With Lemmy as my witness.
I think an underused tip for dieting is just not buying the food you don’t want to eat in the first place. You don’t want to eat chocolate? Don’t buy it! When you go grocery shopping, just absolutely avoid buying chocolate.
You may be thinking “duh, that doesn’t change anything… I still have to make the decision, it doesn’t change anything!”, but it does. If you have chocolate in your home, you have to make the decision to not each chocolate pretty much the entire day, certainly everytime you go to the kitchen. If you don’t buy it, the only time you have to make the decision is when you are grocery shopping. You are reducing many decisions to one!
I use this sort of “life hack” in many instances of my life.
What helped me was switching to the Zero versions of all my soft drinks. The recipes have very much improved.
It’s even easier now as seemingly all soft drink companies and their mother have a Zero version now.
After that it was fasting on one meal a day.