No discipline when it comes to food.

I have similar issues with food choices. I can only give you my opinion of course, but this is what works for me.....Nike!

Seriously....Nike, as in, "Just Do It"

All of the time I've put into thinking and over-thinking this question has never led me to a better answer than that. Yes, it's hard. Because you are absolutely right about pizza being better than salad, etc. But put your Big Boy Hat on for a second and imagine you are making food choices for someone else, maybe your child, maybe it's not a person, maybe you are feeding your dog. What would you feed this other animal? Pizza? Every day? All Day? No, you wouldn't, not if you cared about that animal/person. Sure you would give them what they wanted some of the time, but on most days, for most meals you would feed them a sufficient quantity of healthy food.

That's all I got. Sometimes I get trapped in "Crave-Brain" and all I can think about it junk food, but if I just internally say "Shut Up" and eat the chicken and veggies, I feed my body and the cravings shut up and go away. You have to believe that that part of your brain that wants to eat like a 5 year old all the time is not reliable and has to be overcome frequently. How do you find the strength to do this is something only you can answer. For me, I just break it down to simple terms. I need to feed myself with healthy food just like an internal combustion engine needs fuel to operate. I remove emotion, cravings, urges, and I just focus on "food as fuel" and I eat and get it done with. I've been through this enough to know that my "Crave-Brain" that seems to be so impossible to overcome, will completely disappear in the aftermath of a solid, healthy meal. Give it a shot just once and see how that works.

Plan out everything you are gonna eat over the week. Leave no room for binge snacking or non nutritious food.

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Most pizzas are not even that good.

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Which Sonic would you like to meet me at, Baw? No, frick that, meet me at Little Caesar's!

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It's kind of weird how food addictions work. Once you haven't had bad food x in a while, you stop craving food x.

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But, seriously, all of this right here. When cravings get bad, it sucks, but if I can make it 24 hours resisting that shite, the voice inside my head becomes a tiny whisper, another day or two and it's completely gone. So really, you just got to find whatever it takes inside you to resist, and just trust that you can outlast that craving, it's just like actual resistance training. Just a different "muscle" to strengthen.

I had a guy tell me one time never eat two cheat meals in a row. It's a start.

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pizza tastes better than salad, it’s that simple.

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I'm not saying you should indulge in pizza often, but you don't need to eat salads to eat healthy. In fact, a lot of salads are really lacking in any important macronutrients.

My win was finding foods that are "close" to what I want to eat but healthier
Also high protein diet really helps with cravings and satiety

You're never going to get the real thing but if you can compromise, it will do wonders

Want ice cream? Greek yogurt with flavored protein powder
Milkshake? Drink Fairlife chocolate milk - 130 calories for 8oz w 13g protein
Want Popeyes? Well-seasoned chicken thighs

Is it the same thing? Hell no

You have to find the substitutions that get you through the week and then can still eat the real thing 1-2x per week so you don't go off the deep end.
You also can't let one bad meal or day turn into a cheat week.

I lost 30+ lbs the last year without tracking on weekends and still eating out, but I was disciplined 4-5 days per week. It's slower but sustainable and I've never had a better relationship with food.

Yeah I’ve done successful weight loss only eating 70ish gram of protein before

So much easier on 0.8-1g of protein per lb of body weight as #1 priority
It makes a big difference in body comp too

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Biscuits and gravy tastes better

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Keep eating them

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fried catfish tastes better

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Keep eating it

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pizza tastes better

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Keep eating it.

Keep eating the foods you love. Just do it in moderation and in combination of healthy stuff.

For example.. if you’re a pizza junkie..
Don’t go to Mr. Gattis five times a week. Go once a week or once every two weeks… know going in you can have all the pizza you want… when you go, eat a huge salad, follow that with some pasta… then go start digging into pizza.

20 pieces of pizza just became 7-8.

I watched a video about how Chris Pratt got into shape and he said something that really resonated with me. He said that he used to live for food and food was the only good part of his day and the rest of life was bad. Then he changed his diet and now while eating isn’t fun the rest of life which is way more of the day is more fun.

I hate it too. I’m on a cut right now and have been eating nothing but chicken and broccoli and ground turkey over rice. 2 weeks in and I’m already burned out. I normally last about 2 months and finally say frick it I’m gonna eat what I want life is to short to miss out on good food. Then I’ll get unhappy with my gut and repeat the process all over again lol

I’m spoiled about food. I cannot stand being hungry, I get in the worst mood if im the least bit hungry. I can’t go to bed hungry and I can’t go into work hungry. That sounds like a fat frick thing to say but I’m only 190. I just whole heartedly believe in 3 good meals a day. I don’t see how anybody does that fasting shite, I’d be miserable

One thing I do like about it though is having meals prepped and ready and not having to worry about picking something up on the way home or on the way to work. Saves a lot of time