re: Mental struggle while going for weight loss (Update pt2 page 3)

Here's my advice, bud. Cook. And when you cook, cook a lot. and freeze it in separate, one meal portions. This keeps you from having to think about what to eat. My go tos are as follows:

Chicken and sausage smothered over cauliflower rice
Deer and sausage smothered over cauliflower rice
Beef and sausage smothered over cauliflower rice
Spaghetti made with zoodles and the lowest carb sauce you can find.
Chilli, made from scratch with the lowest carb wieners you can find.
Chicken fajitas with 4 carb tortillas.
Buffalo wings made in the air fryer.
Hamburger steak
Steak

Also, you can add cheese or smoked sausage to almost anything and it'll make it taste better.

The list goes on...

As a coonass, I love to cook, and all you have to do is make your food taste good, and you won't want to cheat.

I drink on the weekends. Mostly whisky and water. If I'm going to a social event that I will be at for hours, I drink those bitch arse Corona Spritzers. They have ZERO carbs. When I catch the buzz, I typically want to eat something I shouldn't. So I'll eat before I start drinking, or knowing I have a plate of "rice" and gravy at the crib waiting for me, keeps me from straying more times than not.

For snacks, I eat mixed nuts, sunflower seeds, or if I absolutely have to have something sweet, I'll eat one of those little Atkins sweets that are like 2 or 3 carbs.