>>4803644I'd limit it daily and write in an app how much you drank today and how much you shouldn't. And then slowly lower the limit. My experience with many /fit/ related things is that you shouldn't push things, once you start moving towards the goal, start acquiring mindset, the changes will start appearing naturally. It's not about weeks but months and years. For me in case of diet it was like this:
First, read theory and started freaking out
Next, almost immediately dropped soda
Then started limiting sugars to 100g daily (I was eating lots of chocolate bars and shit)
Limited more to 80,50,35g daily
Started preferring steaming chicken+rice/buckwheat to eating outside. The secret is to not be a lazy fuck and cook and go for groceries regularly, in case of steaming, you put meat and forget about it for an hour, even easier for side dishes. So when you're going outside for anything, quickly stuff yourself with chicken and cottage cheese/bread/apples you bought and then go outside. Otherwise you'll end up at McDonald's. This is probably my strongest advice, always eat at home, sometimes before you get hungry.
Then I learned to do simple salads, already stopped drinking anything apart from water + occasional tea.
There is a couple of months period after every change. So please don't be hard on yourself, just slowly and steadily go towards your goal, be smart about what you can do to prevent failures and be patient. You got this.
Counting:
First, as I said, I was counting grams of sugar in sweets, then I started counting calories, then actual macros. It's also a habit that was developed along the year and helped me a lot, especially when I realized that after cutting off sweets I was quite low on calories even though I didn't notice that.
