I really don’t want to be “strong” for following my “meal plan.”

Long time lurker, first time making an account and posting.

So, I’m struggling a lot lately. As a short woman (lower than 5 feet), losing weight is already hard. But the diatribes about how you need “willpower” and “discipline” sort of kill me and I’m wondering if anyone else feels the same.

I don’t want to test my willpower and discipline every day of my life. I don’t want to be “strong” and I don’t want people to think I’m “lacking discipline” for not sticking to my diet. Especially when it comes to my actual caloric maintenance - a healthy weight for me is 100 lbs. If I’m actually sedentary (I’m working on not being), my daily caloric needs are 1,325. This is a completely healthy weight - you can look it up! Any more than that, and I’m gaining if I’m not on my best behavior.

So I just hate all this talk from people sometimes about how they just needed to “get disciplined” or “get stronger,” in terms of mindset when they have the luxury of having their totally sedentary desk job and losing weight on 1,500 while the range for my goal weights involves me *gaining on 100 calories above the “what a human needs” calorie requirement.”

And to anyone here going to give me “advice” of “just gain muscle!” It takes years to do that and in the meantime I still have to keep up my regimen (and god knows it’s hard to build muscle optimally without an actual gym). The meantime still isn’t the time I want to hear people tell me I just need to get some willpower like them.

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