Where’s my motivation? So overweight and need to lose weight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:None of this stuff is going to work, because you are hyped up right now at this very moment, but will that motivation be there next week? Dieting doesn’t work. You really can’t lose weight permanently until you are able to deal with the urge to overeat and the urge to binge. You’ll be eating through cabbage leaves until you say f*** it and dive into the box of cookies, eating the entire thing, because “I’ll start over tomorrow”.

Not OP, but this resembles me. So what advice do you have?

Read ‘Brain over Binge’ and apply it to any overeating. Overeating is a learned habit and until you deal with the urge to overeat, you’ll be white-knuckling dieting and spend years losing and gaining the same weight. There are no “emotional” reasons you binge or psychological hang-ups that force you to overeat, you eat too much because that the thing that shuts up the urge that says “keep eating!” Deal with that urge and you conquer overeating permanently. Everything else is a band-aid.

I think I read that. Our inner piggie? Guess I need to read it again, thanks.

[Anonymous]

I think you have gotten a lot of advice about the kinds of diet changes you could make etc and I’m sure some combo of the advice will work for you. I want to address the motivation factor. 1.5 years ago I was in your shoes, overweight (actually obese), unhappy about it, aware of the issues, but also not doing anything about it. And then I did this set assessment thing (similar: https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/38278/about) at work or something. Normally I would totally blow something like this off, but I in honestly rating the wedges, that my fitness/nutrition were not where I’d like them to be. And also, critically, unlike many of the other areas, they were not dependent on other people. If I wanted to make improvements, I could just decide to improve. And so I did. I lost close to 40 pounds, and now look and feel strong and healthy. You can do it, you just have to decide to do it.

[Anonymous]

Bright Line Eating is really good for jumpstarting things. I lost 10 lbs the first month I did it.

[Anonymous]

Prolon helped me break the cravings. I have lost 12 pounds in 5 weeks.