To preface: I want to be incorrect. Please convince me that it's not a wasted effort!
I searched this subreddit for answers but am not having much luck. I am serious about CICO, tracking, and becoming a healthy weight. I need to lose about 20/30 pounds. I've been restricting to about 1500 calories/day and find I am hungry all the time. Moreover, study after study shows that keeping weight off is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Only 5% of people who lose weight keep the weight off. The idea of "it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle" still reinforces the idea of controlling/restricting what you eat, which is show to be unsustainable. There are biological factors working in our body to prevent weight loss and keep us at a set weight and storing fat. The body can’t tell the difference between a diet and a famine and it works to protect us by slowing our metabolism. You can't just willpower your way through it every single day of your life for the rest of your life, most of us aren't programmed to have that much self-discipline. I've looked into intuitive eating, but I have issues with binge eating, so if I were to eat intuitively, I would eat 25 choc chip cookies in one sitting.
I guess the thing holding me back is that I manage to lose some weight and then gain it back, plus more. Why should I make an effort to lose when I can maintain and not gain more weight than when I started?
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