Finally found a daily food routine that helps manage the food noise!! 1,514 calories, 133.4g protein, 39.2g fiber.

I've set my weight loss goal to .5lbs per week in my app. I found that mentally I do better having a more modest goal and coming in under my calories when I feel up to it than I did when I had a more aggressive 1lb per week goal and "failed" to meet my lower daily calorie limit semi regularly.

Right now I'm focusing on experimenting and figuring out what foods, in what quantities/frequency, and at what time of day provide me the most satiety while meeting my macros goals. I am a world class boredom eater, so that has been my biggest obstacle mentally. I'm prioritizing whole foods and trying to shift away from what was previously a diet full of UPF/diet foods and sugar substitutes which were causing me bloating/digestive issues and not giving me the mental/physical satiety that I feel like I need for long term habit building.

I'm still tweaking my daily meal template, but this is a pretty good representation of what I've been doing day to day for the last couple of weeks. I regularly come in under my daily calorie goal of ~1,750 and am generally hitting ~1,500-1,550.

I get ~10k steps and do 30 min on the stair climber daily, so I might need to increase calories as I increase my exercise/fitness goals. Currently my day is: 2-4 cups black coffee (nothing after noon), breakfast around 9:30am, lunch around 12:30, afternoon walk, snack when I get back to my desk, stair climber after work and then dinner around 7:00 or 8:00 if it is a busy evening, and a sweet treat before bed around 9:30pm.