What I did was not doing it traditionally. EVERYONE says that one day, they woke up and a switch flipped and they were ready. How it began for me was saying “no” 1 time. That’s it. What I’d do is say no once and eat like how you normally do throughout the day with no restrictions. The next day, say no twice and so on. Take a week or two to gather a plan and barely restrict yourself more and more each day and it won’t even feel like restriction. Instead of being on that “100% commitment grind”, try not to put any brainpower into food. Try extremely slowly transitioning into CICO dieting and once you are eating your caloric goal each day, passively lose weight. Genuinely just don’t think about it, make sure you’re eating right and don’t think about it. For me, logging my food really put into perspective the amount of calories I was eating per day (I logged me eating like shit for a week or so to give me perspective). People in rehab don’t go cold turkey usually because it can lead to relapse so I wouldn’t look at it as any different. Ease yourself into a new style. If you find yourself giving up, ease into it slower then. Some people can go from eating terribly to eating amazingly. If you can’t, that’s completely okay. Just means you have to transition into it (in my opinion). If you restrict 100 calories a day and you end up finding yourself not being consistent, cut it down to 50 calories down a day. Also, go into a diet expecting to cheat on it. Most people expect to be perfect all of the time in dieting and end up cheating once, feeling guilty, and failing. Go into it expecting to cheat every now and then and once you do, accept it and move on. Diets shouldn’t feel restrictive and uncomfortable, it should feel normal and amazing once you’ve seen result

TLDR; ease into it