For me it’s about planning. If I know what’s for dinner I can handle it even if I’m not in the mood for whatever I’ve got planned for dinner. If I’m hungry and then start looking for food I’m far more likely to fail.

Have a calorie tracking app and track everything. You will start to learn how somethings are more calorie dense than others. Don’t have junk food. You will want to snack. Have veggies like carrots or fresh fruit on hand. Drink water first. So many times I “feel” hungry but I am actually thirsty. Load up on broccoli. If you over eat, then have lots of broccoli. It’s filling and not calorie dense. When possible plan your meals ahead of time. It’s brutally hard to make the better diet choice when your hungry. It’s easier to just follow through with a decision you already made.

As others said, the best key to your diet is decision-making in the store, not in the home.

As for exercise, try to find something you actually like doing. These can sometimes be expensive :/. Cycling, rock climbing, swimming, hiking, whatever you enjoy so it doesn’t feel like a chore.

Vyvanse is an ADHD drug, but also is prescribed and approved as a weight loss drug, too. I lost a bunch of weight on it.

Just make sure you drink lots of water. It also suppresses your thirst response in your brain, so you can get dehydrated easily.

Take your meds regularly. One of the side effects is losing your appetite.

I have definitely used my difficulty starting tasks to help myself lose weight. I find its way easier to just be hungry than to make food. Most of the time.

I still have to make sure I’m not eating snacks without thinking about it. A good option for me has been keeping easy, small, healthy foods, that can get me through hunger pang. My favorite is a pot of Greek yogurt. They’re like 80¢ at Aldi where I live. Fresh fruit works great as well! And for late night treats, I eat frozen fruit. It fills the ice cream niche, without being packed with calories and extra sugar

For me, hyper fixate on calorie counting and weight tracking plus going to the gym while listening to a book I can’t get enough of.

From ~260 to 180 over nearly 3 years.

Find an exercise you like, and make sure to keep doing it until it’s a habit (8 weeks is usually enough for me). It raises your baseline metabolic rate, so even if you slip a bit, you can usually recover. Personally, that’s hiking or exercising while reading an audiobook which makes the time fly.

The other thing is to religiously count calories. Have an app on your phone, enter the calories every time something comes close to your mouth. Eventually, you’ll reach to eat some snack, realize you don’t know the calories, get up to figure it out from the container, and often forget about the snack while you’re up and doing something.

Whenever you want to eat junk food, take of your clothes and stand in front of the mirror.

I’ve found it’s easier to create a set of rules that define my lifestyle than it is to commit to a diet. Like, think of strict keto as a way of living rather than a diet. Eat all you want, but sugar and carbs are no longer food. Don’t focus on losing weight, focus on following the rules. The weight loss will happen in its own.

I only have to have willpower at the grocery store. That’s it. I’m too lazy to go get snacks if they aren’t in the house.

my meds stop me from feeling hubger, its not healthy, so i have to force myself to eat my daily nutritional intake. its mostly the protein content thats hard due to the dense nature of it and how long if takes to digest.

go for walks, listen to music, have healthy snacks only. fruit, vegetables, nuts, dried chickpeas with seasoning for crunch. works for me.

Use the focus sessions to meal prep and work on portion control. That’s all i got. I’m a wreck as far as a routine or schedule goes lol

I don’t notice body signals when I hyperfocus, so if I eat a good breakfast on my days off, and don’t keep s ack food around, I might go all the way to bedtime without another meal. I think that’s called intermittent fasting?

But fr, the main thing that helped me was accountability. I used one of those paid apps that turn tracking and nutrition into a group activity and partially gamify it. I got lucky with a good coach and a good group but it did help. Just knowing that someone was looking over my shoulder to make sure I did the food logging made it easier to remember to do. And the “numbers go bigger” part of my brain turned out to like “numbers go smaller”, so the gamification helped too.

There has been exactly one thing that worked for me (other than the new relationship high when you do things with your new partner all the time, go places, lots of activity and little time for hunger. This is not sustainable though)

I watched 2 bears 1 cave when it started because I like comedy, Bert is funny and honestly a caricature unto himself, and it didn’t have as many annoying sponsor segments. Anyway, they were talking about what they were doing for Sober October and Bert, who seems to have a lot of problems similar to mine, said he was trying One Meal A Day and it felt like the first time in a looong time that his mind was sharpish and he didn’t feel the constant need to snack. So I tried it, lost 25 KG over 4 months (healthy loss, I never felt starved, I just had a high starting weight) and gained half of it back from COVID lockdown. FML. Rest came back over the next 3 years of working mostly from home and not having the spine to stick to it again. But when I was doing it, starting day 2 or 3 I did feel sort of… Free. The constant blood sugar rush-crash cycle was no more.

TL;DR: One Meal a Day. It’s awesome. No you won’t feel hungry all day.