[okdood64]

Awesome job! Question:

> eat whatever I wanted for dinner but not to the point of feeling stuffed

Couldn't this have been achieved with the below? Just eating less.

> which meant no shortcuts like burgers for lunch or expensive food trucks

[captainkrtek]

I found when I was eating things like burgers at the office, I was also commuting (reducing free time to exercise or cook healthy in the evening), and waking up early for work/commuting made me generally more tired.

So the burger for lunch maybe wasn't the issue in isolation, but then when I got home I'd still be tired and hungry, maybe eat something else unhealthy/processed, and be too tired to exercise, either way still not in a calorie deficit. I think it's a chain reaction between these things, at least in my experience.

[tasuki]

If you're dedicated, commute does not reduce exercise time: commute is exercise time.

In my 20 working years, I never commuted other than self-powered: walking or cycling, depending on the distance. I understand not everyone has the luxury of this option, but the vast majority of people do, and yet decide to worsen the already bad traffic instead of a little exercise...

[port11]

As someone tracking their daily nutrition for 10 years (yikes!), I can confidently say that I've never eaten worse than when I have to be at the office. It's just much more exhausting, I don't know. Ego depletion has been disproven but it seemed to me like being in the city centre, commuting, lots more social interaction, noise, anything, was making me eat crap the whole day. WFH days are usually much more wholesome/healthy.

[captainkrtek]

100%. For me, lunch at the office was a brief escape, and during that downtime I’d much rather something unhealthy and satisfying than a salad

[itchyouch]

It’s likely not a willpower issue as much as the fact that we tend to make choices according to the path of least resistance.

Seems to help to create systems that let us fall to the level of compliance we desire.