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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes! Find your macros online and calculate your TDEE and find your calorie deficit. Only way to that no matter what not one calorie more. Track your calories and weigh your food!! Work out daily. Triple your fiber intake to minimum 30-50 g. Don’t ever vary until you lose the weight!!! You can do it! 
I needed to go on tirzepatide to lose the weight. I’m still on the starter dose and have had almost no side effects. I have also had to do everything I outlined above and stopped drinking, never overeat and track my food. It’s grueling but I am doing it for my health!!! I couldn’t stand being fat anymore. 
Good luck OP!!![/quote]

What discourages me is on Ozempic the losing weight part was effortless, zero thoughts about food which was freeing, but what sucked was the debilitating (for me) side effects. For me to do all you listed will be HUGE efforts physically and mentally, and I have a busy, stressful life so focusing on diet is very hard for me. I am so upset with myself for letting myself go that way.[/quote]

Op: choose your hard. You have three hards to choose from.

1. Easy weight loss but miserable side effects on Ozempic. I agree this is not the hard I would choose.

2. Live overweight, with terrible health and all the ramifications that come from it for years to come, and the misery and depression of being overweight and upset about it along with the poor health outcomes.

3. Expend mental energy on a diet plan that is sustainable and committing to more movement. Yes it’s mental energy but the second one is also a lot of mental energy in the opposite direction.

You will have to choose one but bear in mind, all three paths are hard. You’re simply choosing your hard when it comes to this kind of stuff. [/quote]

This is a fantastic perspective.  I’ve never framed it like this.  Thank you.

I will add that only of those hards gets easier over time and that’s number 3.  I’ve been doing number 3 for 20+ years.   And only one of those hards will make you feel better which will translate to and improve other areas of your life. [/quote]

I know this theoretically, the hard part for me is doing it every single day. This long weekend I ate really well. Restaurants are not an issue for me: I rarely go and prefer healthy options anyway. I cook healthy meals for my family (dh and dcs are athletes in great shape), but then I sneak eat food when stressed or I massively overeat when stressed. So it was great all weekend, and yesterday was a shit show at work. I worked until 11pm fixing a crisis and ate a ton of nuts. All the good eating I did earlier was undone by massive calories. It's like when stressed I become an eating monster with no brain.[/quote]

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