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I am all about keeping it sustainable; nobody has willpower longterm. Any fool can come up with a diet of rabbit food and have amazing results for a month before their brain goes postal on them and they start inhaling cheeseburgers nonstop. Trust me, I totally get that. We always attribute vast reserves of motivation and discipline to ourselves that we just don't have, and the results aren't pretty.
But on the other side of the coin, your brain can get stuck in a short-term reward loop, and it howls blue murder when you first try to break out of it.
I'm an stress-eater and a boredom-eater, and if the loop gets out of control, not constantly snacking becomes stressful in and of itself, and yeah that's a complete trainwreck.
But what I've found is that after a surprisingly short time of acclimating yourself to controlled amounts of hunger, you can break that loop. Your brain re-learns the difference between not-full and actually-need-calories, and only sees the latter as a problem.
What started out feeling like a catastrophe that you had to white-knuckle through just turns into a boring fact that takes little to no willpower at all to put up with at all.
It's a really good investment of effort, and makes the whole process a lot easier.
Yup, I would definitely agree more with what you're saying here than what I understood from above.
It definitely takes willpower to lose weight, and you definitely need to learn to identify why you're eating and break those habits you don't want, which also takes willpower.
I would characterize boredom/stress/comfort eating differently than hunger, since there's the distinction between "want to eat" and "feel hungry".
Whatever your reason is for wanting to eat, you need to handle it. If it's boredom, you can use willpower to push through chips being more interesting than the show you're watching, ideally by doing something else.
If you want to eat because you're hungry, there isn't a way to handle that beyond eating. So the smart move is to make choices about what and how you eat so that feeling stays away longer, which goes a long way towards helping to break the habit of feeling like you're "supposed" to eat more often than you need to.
I think you're initial comment came across much stronger than I see it is now, and we're actually very close in terms opinion. :)
Thank you so much for both your posts I’m actually literally going through the exact same thing right now - Also a boredom and stress eater trying to get used to being hungry and honestly I enjoy the process of being hungry and denying myself bullshit food because I know it’s bullshit and a big part of my brain seems to agree and kick in just as you said. It’s a very freeing feeling!!!