The primary reason losing weight is difficult is because it is hard to change your eating habits.
Fair assumption?
I'm just going to share my process.
I was struggling in school and realized I probably wasn't doing as much hw as I thought. So I decided to track how many hours a day I actually studied and wrote it on a calendar on the fridge.
I did this for 6 weeks and learned how much I was really studying, increased the hours and saw results in my grades.
I used that small habit I built, to build a similar habit of writing my daily calorie consumption on the same whiteboard
A month passed and this became a habit. I didn't even have to think about tracking mentally throughout the day and updating the whiteboard.
I was averaging 2714 calories a day.
Then I created a small goal to eat an average of 2600cals a day. I did this successfully for 2 weeks and then dropped it to 2500.
I'm currently on 2500 calories and I feel really good. There's very little active mental processing to achieve this goal because I built up yo it slowly. I've lost like 5 pounds which is awesome too.
I plan to keep it at 2500 for another 2 weeks and then see if I feel ready to drop it.
My final sentiment is there's a good chance whoever is reading this has wanted to lose weight for a long time. I know it's hard to take the slow steady route but it works. All the time we spend trying to do it faster, by now we could have lost the weight we wanted to by just investing in ourselves and building habits slowly and methodically.
This post is just meant to be food for thought, there are a million ways to lose weight.
But I felt compelled to share because I feel amazing that I'm actually decreasing my eating intake with 0 resistance.
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