fuck how do you do that and not feel like shit all the time
You're going to hate me for my answer, but I really find it quite "easy".
My diet is "disciplined", but that doesn't mean that I'm not eating a fair amount, or that I find myself with hunger pangs very much throughout the week. Here is my daily diet these days
Breakfast: One whole egg + the equivalent of 3 or 4 egg whites + a banana (sometimes I put off the banana until after morning workout)
Coffee around 9, really suppresses the hunger before lunch for me.
Lunch: Chicken breast or pork tenderloin sandwich, a fair-sized container of greek yogurt, protein bar
Dinner: bigass portion of green veggies (broccoli, asparagus, spinach, or green beans), bigass portion of meat, glass of 3% milk, and then shortly after two pieces toast with extra creamy peanut butter.
I also drink a LOT of water throughout the day.
On weekends, I do a brunch where I go all-out on eggs, egg whites, bacon, and peanut butter and toast, usually skip lunch, and a big dinner, similar to the above dinner during the week, but maybe a little more.
Here is why I think I can have that steady decline, while eating a decent amount, and be "not feeling like shit all the time":
1) My activity level. I just
can't do BJJ 2-3 times a week, hockey once a week, and then whatever else for strength training in between, and
not see the scale keep going down, almost regardless of what I eat. Before joining my new club last December, I had really only had BJJ in my routine 1 day a week. Bumping that up to 2-3 times a week at my new club, especially in the summer, when rolling in the gi in our southern Ontario humidity, and I just shed pounds over the course of an hour and a half. This is the part that I acknowledge others probably can't quite incorporate themselves, necessarily.
2) Not eating out. For me, it almost doesn't matter what I'm eating or ordering, making my own food at home >>>>> eating at restaurants/takeout/delivery when it comes to weight, period. The longer and more often I can go without eating out, whether for lunch or dinner, the easier my weight drops. I make my own lunches all but maybe two workdays a month.
3) Forcing good habits. I don't crave snacking/the binge on bad foods much at all these days, as much as I also
looooove shitty snack foods too. A few years ago, my weekly routine after a long week at work on a Friday evening included a lot of drinking, and ordering a large meatlovers pizza that I would down completely, to the point that I was on a first-name basis with my favourite pizza place. And then Saturday would also involve a lot of going overboard on food. So it didn't matter how disciplined I was Mon-Fri, because the binge on Friday-Saturday would bump the weight right back up to where it was on Monday again. But cut out that "binge" habit, as tough as it is to start, really does become a habit after a while, and becomes a snowball effect on your weight, when you don't have that 1-2 days a week that spikes your weight again.
