Jim KatsoulisJim AI — Your Personal Guide to Living at Your Goal Weight

stop over restricting to lose weight

16 Jan 2026 · 0 min

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A short YouTube clip (by Jim Katsoulis) advising viewers to stop severely restricting calories to lose weight because extreme hunger undermines willpower. The speaker recommends eating strategically by prioritizing food volume and low calorie-density so one can consume larger portions, feel satisfied, and still lose weight.

Stop starving yourself to try and lose weight, because when you're really, really hungry, every cell of your being, every part of your brain is fixated and focused on eating food. So to try and resist that and fight against that is a miserable process that typically doesn't work. So the real solution is learning how to eat more strategically, to focus on the volume and the calorie density of the food so that you're eating large quantities of food that have less calories in them, so that you feel satisfied while you're losing weight.