I'm doing CICO and today is my first day of counting calories and trying to stay below a limit. I burn about 2420 cal in a day and today I have eaten 1140. I know I'll lose faster if I eat fewer calories, and I can lose about 11lbs this month if I stick to this amount/day (probably more since I haven't factored in exercise). I'm having a really hard time not just eating as few calories as possible, and I feel like my efforts are going to waste if this happens any slower than I want. Prior to the past few days, I have been extremely sedentary and eaten without abandon, so logically I know that any change in my lifestyle will make a significant difference to my health and to my weight. But in my head, my body image is pretty bad and I just want to reach my goal weight as soon as possible, and definitely before it's safe to get back in public again. I just keep looking at old pictures of myself and wishing I still looked like I did back then. I also just really need my clothes to fit me again soon. How do you get over these challenging thoughts? I am so tired.
One more thing to add: I have previously lost a significant amount of weight from dieting, but never when the motivation had to come from myself. Once was as a child on low-carb and another time was inadvertently when I was plant based as a teenager and also occasionally exercised. It's so hard for me to motivate myself to only prepare low calorie food when it's so easy to just go through the drive thru, and anything I cook takes a lot of fat to taste good lol.
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