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Calorie restrictions: Good Lesson or Set up for Failure

You already know the deal….keep on eating like crazy you ain’t gone lose a damn thang. I use MyFitnessPal and sometimes SparkPeople to track my food and beverage consumption. If you enter your information correctly, the website or app will give you a calorie allowance according to your age, weight, and height. Now here comes the hard part……staying within that allowance. It’s Monday morning…you gungho… you’ve even come up with your plan…Bam.. I’m gonna eat this, this, and this… Midday you hungry as hell….but you pumping yourself up….”I CAN DO THIS!!!... I’m eating right…hell I’m gone be fine as wine in summertime. I’m just teaching myself some discipline” You did it…you made it thru Day 1 within your allowance. Day 2 a little better…Day 3…damn they serving lunch in the office….. and man I been so deprived…surely this piece of fried chicken won’t hurt. Surely. But that piece leads to something else..sides? dessert?.. and afterwards you like hell today is blown…let me just gone enjoy and try tomorrow… or worse yet… you let that meal convince you the entire week is blown and you’ll start again next Monday. Vicious cycle…. On one hand I can keep trying to find things to stay within those set allowances but on the other hand I’m thinking is this low ass restriction just making me throw my hands up. Plenty of days I throw my hands up in defeat….. but thankfully plenty more days I stay within what’s planned. It’ll be nice when it’s second nature and I’ve learned what to eat and still be satisfied….but for the record… that day ain’t today. -signed hungry but determined. (lol)

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