Thread: What keeps you sticking to your diet?

Originally Posted by Saiyan300Warior

Why don't you give in? Why not have that juicy fatty tasty cheeseburger? What stops you from eating it?

Why are you on a diet where that cheeseburger is off limits?

Why would you stop yourself from eating juicy fatty tasty cheeseburgers?? Sounds like a lame diet to me.

Honestly though, work foods like that into your diet and it'll be a million times easier to adhere to it. I've tried five or six strict diets, mostly just to see what they're like, and none of them have been remotely sustainable for me. Just focus on your calories/macros and make sure you're still getting your micros, and you'll be good to go

The fact that if I want a fatty cheeseburger, I eat one and will still lose weight because I keep it within my calories...

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Well, honestly, nowadays a greasy burger or a pizza dripping with oil sounds awful to me...

I think of how my guts would just suffer and it totally puts me off.

However, I can easily find something just as delicious (or more) that won't turn my stomach.

I still eat pizza, sandwiches (or 'burgers'), ice cream, cereal, cookies, etc....

But they comprise such a tiny amount of my total intake that it's just a drop in the bucket.

To actually get FULL from pizza or a burger/fries, i'd have to eat an amount that would make my body feel awful.

In the past, I found it VERY easy to eat terribly processed, salty, greasy food because I wasn't active. Exercise is a great control mechanism to keep you on track... you simply won't FEEL as good if you only eat highly palatable processed junk.



But I mean, I love every meal I eat, just in different ways... whether it's my protein oatmeal, greek yogurt topped with cereal, burritos, wraps, salmon and potatoes...

If you can fit a big burger and fries in your weekly calorie allotment then its fine. When I'm super focused though I stay pretty faithful to not eating those things. When I'm down in the low 1700 area it's hard to fit that stuff in without having to go a lot lower on some of the other days.

Originally Posted by Tommy W.

When I'm down in the low 1700 area it's hard to fit that stuff in without having to go a lot lower on some of the other days.

This^^
I'm 3 months out from the first show of the year; with another one 3 weeks after that. On 1800 now and that's (1) 5 Guys burger and small fry

What keeps me going? I want my abs more than that burger

Originally Posted by Saiyan300Warior

Why don't you give in? Why not have that juicy fatty tasty cheeseburger? What stops you from eating it?

I eat "Cheeseburgers" a couple of times a week.

I just cut back on a few hundred other calories worth of food on those days.

It's no big deal.

Originally Posted by VySingh

The first time you make significant progress you'll look in the mirror and appreciate how much dedication, discipline and effort it had taken you to get there. Depending on how much you like the results you'll instantly make lifestyle changes that will prevent you from going back to the beginning. The key is to not give up before you see results

this is a hopeful scenario however so many people go back to their old diet once they see that they’ve leaned out to a certain point