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I have this horrible mentality where I *have* to eat up to my daily calories everyday. Everyday is like a jigsaw puzzle where I try to fit in as many foods as I can, but still stay at my daily restriction amount. It's really exhausting and it takes a serious mental toll on me, where I'm constantly weighing out foods and always trying to squeeze the most out of daily food amount. I think it's a really unhealthy, debilitating, and draining way to diet, but I'm genuinely not sure how to change my mindset.
For example, by the end of the night, if I have even just 100 calories left in my diet, I will work my damnedest to force those 100 in there- and it's not like I'll just eat an 80 calorie yogurt and call it good. I'll hem and haw over what combination of snacks can I eat to get the most out of that 100 and what combination can I do to get right up to that 100 calories amount (like if I eat 90 calories worth of weighed-out apple slices, then I'll eat a pickle to get the last 10). It disgusts me that I'm like this, especially since I have SO much weight to lose that it's not as if I'm going to die or something if I don't get in every calorie possible. It's like I have this inner apocalypse-starved person that's scavenging to get every scrap of food.
I don't know how to turn it off and it scares me that this will be my life for forever (I've already lost ~70lbs, but I have ~80 more to go to get to my UGW and then I have to maintain after that too for life of course). Did/does anyone else experience this? I want to change my mindset so that I'm happy when I eat as little as possible (reasonably of course) instead of always feel starved (even though I'm most definitely not) and always trying to push myself right up to the maximum calories that I can have. Any advice? I thought it might go away once I got "used" to dieting but nope, it's probably even worse now months into the process than it was when I started. :(
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