Which is harder to do?
I have started a 1200 calorie a day diet for a couple of weeks as my weight was slowly creeping up. In this way it is easier to manage for me rather than letting myself go and then needing a lengthy diet in the long run.
It is difficult when I have tinned fruit and a dark chocolate bar in the cupboard, but I manage to resist.
So the thought crossed my mind as to which is harder?
For me personally, dieting is more difficult than quitting smoking.
Yeah for me too.
Two weeks and you have broken the back of nicotine addiction, but the slow, agonising, aching grind of food goes on and on…
1200 is extremely low. You may want to do at least 1500-1800 over a longer period of time…
I have been living on 1500 calories for years and yet I gained weight slowly.
The only way for me is 1200 calories.
I think you didn’t count them right. 1500 is already extremely low…
@labratmat if you write what you ate yesterday, I might give you a very rough estimate. To see if you’re counting right…
lol yesterday I had 3x huel black edition shakes and that was it except for the semi-skimmed milk in my teas.
I guess you can count calories that way. It’s strange to me that you are gaining fat with 1500kcal of huel tho…
Worth nothing that quitting smoking is gonna plump you up a little bit and that turns a lot of people off of it. Still a very very healthy and financially sound decision to quit though.
It is the copious amount of meds that have lowered my metabolism.
I gave up smoking september 2004, so nearly 20 years. I still remember the craving I had at the time though.
@everhopeful You recently gave up nicotine and diet, I am curious what you would vote for?
I just voted ! !
Quitting smoking didn’t turn out to be that difficult for me. I have struggled with my diet for most of my life.
I’ve been following around 1200 kcals for the last few months and quitting vaping at the same time (I’m 5’3" and 154 lbs). They’re BOTH difficult but for me the quitting vaping is harder. And quitting actual cigarettes 9 months ago was even harder. I had to do it for cardiac issues. In perspective, I’ve been using nicotine for 31 years but I’ve been eating for 49 years! I’m also on metformin and Mounjaro, tho, so that helps the eating…but since starting Zyprexa I find that it’s harder to not think about food.
Are you male or female as that factors in weight considerations?
It is not massively overweight for either though.
Diabetes, is that the reason for the metformin and mounjaro?
I am female…the meds are for diabetes, as it’s the only way Medicare will cover the Mounjaro. For perspective, I weighed 298 lbs three years ago and started out on the metformin and, originally, Saxenda samples my doc gave me (didn’t have the diabetes then). I was also on clozapine then.
That is a great achievement with the weight loss. Well done!
Weird that diabetes hasn’t been reversed though, unless it is type 1.
For me, I weigh myself everyday and finally hit a small peak so I am managing it early with a quick fast diet. I am not obese, so it isn’t really a problem for me, luckily.
My hemoglobin A1c is now in the normal range (5.3) but my glucose tolerance is still poor…so if I binge eat on candy or something my sugars go into the 300-400s. So I have to severely limit those foods. It was easier to not eat much when I smoked, so now I chew a lot of gum…I also will NOT keep junk foods in the house, cuz they call to me if they’re there.
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