3 Effective Ways to Make Your Calorie Deficit Enjoyable for Fat Loss

Decision-making is an underrated weapon

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Lifting is the easy part. Just scream, “Yeah buddy, lightweight baby,” and go home feeling you’ve conquered the world.

Diet is where most people struggle, myself included. It is because of the decision-making that goes into designing a diet plan that improves your lifestyle instead of completely flipping it overnight.

Consider how often you train and eat; the decision-making clearly shows that we make food-related decisions much more frequently than training-related decisions. It’s because if you lift 5 times a week, you still eat more than 14 times per week.

Factoring in the calorie deficit method for sustainable fat loss, it becomes difficult to progress when you don’t know how to enjoy the process.

Here are three ways from habit psychology I have been following for the last 8 months to bounce back to my fitness routine when my 4 years of lifting progress suffered from an unexpected lemon from life. I hope they help you too.

Healthy anticipation of reward

Find the heaviest meal of your day. Control the portion size and add a delicious dessert at the end.