Best diet for someone who lacks willpower?

[Anonymous]

I am typically really controlling about what food I bring into the house. No chips or crackers or cheetos. No commercially prepared cookies. No soda. If I want cookies, I make them. If I want a coke, I go to McDonalds and buy a small. Seems ridiculous, but if it isn't here, I can't eat it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really want to lose weight, but I literally have no willpower whatsoever. Just wondering if anyone can recommend something that I might be able to stick with.

What I've found is that if you lack will power, then use the power of the dark side: laziness.

I do intermittent fasting, eating only one meal a day. I skip breakfast, and lunch, it's super easy because getting those meals takes effort and time. At dinner time, it's very difficult to eat 2000 calories in one sitting.

Other things that require little to no effort: switch to diet drinks, or crystal lite if you don't like soda. Splenda for sugar substitute. Order lean meats like steaks and chicken or seafood when you eat out.

With the above strategy, I don't mentally force myself to eat less calories, it just naturally works out that way.

[Anonymous]

I eat low fat and low sugar and never ever eat after 8pm.

My only splurge is my one day cheat day, I eat liberally whatever I want, wine, cheese, cake, cookies. It is so much easier for me to go back to being good knowing i get a reward every week. It works for me, I am 132 lbs fit as I have ever been and not gained a pound in 6 years!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Portion control. Same foods you are eating now but reduced by 1/4 - 1/3.

This. I have been on a diet for four weeks now where I measure absolutely everything and eat only a serving of everything. I use smaller plates and bowls, and it's amazing how much this works. I have lost 8 lbs of the 15 I had to lose, and I feel great.

[Anonymous]

For me, it helped to learn that it's nothing to do with "willpower." Willpower in a lot of cases might extend to just mean you have an emotional scar that you are covering up with food. I know I do this. If I'm having a rough day, I will raid my kitchen for whatever chocolate is in there. That's how I ate SO much halloween candy and started feeling like I was doing something wrong to my body. I was simply eating emotionally. Also, tell yourself "It's not that I want that dessert but can't have it....it's that I can have that dessert but don't want it."

Watch the docu "That Sugar Film." It was motivating for me.

[Anonymous]

The best diet is "Don't buy that crap in the first place", and "Grocery shopping once a week, not whenever I'm hungry".
Because if it's in the house, I will eat it!

The only exercise that works is something really close to my house with a really nice instructor I don't want to let down. That way I can't whine about having to go there, and the instructor will take notice if I slack off. If it's more expensive, so be it. That's the price I have to pay for my lack of willpower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Always be working to lessen your taste for sugar and salt. "Lacking willpower" is just craving that which you are use to eating ie, if you eat yogurt, start decreasing the sweetness by mixing in plain yogurt. Hate to say it, but eat as bland as you can.

Omg so true. It's so each for me now that I don't have those cravings to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Hire a dietician, someone who will hold you accountable, just temporarily until your habits change.

[Anonymous]

I successfully lost weight with Overeaters Anonymous. One of the things that they require is that you write down the night before everything you plan to eat the next day, and then you don't deviate from it. This leaves out all of the 'making choices while you are hungry' stuff. I am not disciplined enough to do this now, but ideally, I would have three tupperwares in my fridge every evening with the next day's breakfast, lunch and dinner parceled out -- with no room for deviations.

[Anonymous]

Ideal Protein diet has worked wonders with me. Google it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Ideal Protein diet has worked wonders with me. Google it.

Isn't this really expensive?

[Anonymous]

Not really. About 600/ mo for supplements ($100/mo) and food (4 ideal protein foods per day X $4 for someone with a target et of about 200). But you can substitute cheaper real foods for the IP foods. You also need to buy veggies and protein to eat in addition to IP foods.

There is a one-time initial $200 fee. That gets you unlimited weekly meetings with your counselor, daily videos with tips and advice and recipes, and weekly access to the high-tech scale that reports fat loss, water weight etc. Honestly I don't think I spend any more on food than before I went on the diet.

[Anonymous]

Target "weight"

It really does work for some people. Has worked wonders for me.

[Anonymous]

I also have no willpower and simply do not ever have the things I do not want to eat in the house. At all. No desserts/ice cream/bread/alcohol because I will devour it in short order.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am typically really controlling about what food I bring into the house. No chips or crackers or cheetos. No commercially prepared cookies. No soda. If I want cookies, I make them. If I want a coke, I go to McDonalds and buy a small. Seems ridiculous, but if it isn't here, I can't eat it.

You don't go out of the house every day?