late-night soda loop vs. the triple-digit goal in my head

2026-10-11 1321 views 2 posts

i'm a late-hours gamer, so my worst eating window was always 11pm-3am. first swap was soda to zero soda, then zero soda to lime seltzer with those little flavor packets.

that alone cut a dumb amount of liquid calories. now i'm trying to figure out if a 100 lb drop is actually realistic for me, not just a number i typed into an app one night.

i'm down 61 lbs over 14 months, mostly from pre-logging before i queue and keeping frozen chicken and veg bags in rotation. the diet changes came in waves: liquid first, then portions, then late-night snacks.

i still have nights where i eat crackers over the keyboard like a raccoon. for people who went after triple digits, did you change everything at once or stack one habit at a time?

and did your late-night cravings ever actually chill out?

One thing that helped me was tracking the late window separately from the rest of the day. I log anything after 10 p.m. in a note, then Sunday I look at the weekly average of those items, not one bad night.

It showed me that my seltzer habit held until I skipped dinner, then I would graze. Do you know your weekly average weight change over the last three or four weeks?

That number, plus how your clothes