Hey man! Might I suggest you lower the studying time to achieve it.
Also, I recommend using the pomadoro technique. It was designed to help work with focus I believe.
One full cycle is as follows:
Work for 25m
Break for 5m
Work for 25m
Break for 5m
Work for 25m
Break for 5m
Work for 25m
Then, you break for 15m.
Repeat as needed. With studying, this helps a lot because your brain can only take in so much info at once.
For my past college course in computer networking and technical support, I found that doing 1 full cycle so 100m total studying was more effective than 3-4 hours studying straight.
Also, “Study Bunny” (not buddy) is a great app where you can set a study timer and earn coins. With these coins you can upgrade your pet bunny and his surroundings.
Fair warning, you can watch a video to double your earnings after each session. There sometimes are girls in bikinis. If you can handle this great. Otherwise, just go with 1x coins… You’re really only in competition with yourself anyways, so what’s the rush. I personally just look away but that doesn’t work for everybody.
Also, for the eating out if that’s what eat at deficit refers to…I struggled with this for a long time and am still in repair.
I ended up just budgeting a $5 meal plus a $1 soda and never going over. I can afford doing this 4-5x a week… It’s easier here cause no buses on Sunday to go downtown.
There is 1 actually healthy place in the food court at our main mall. It’s Mediterranean food, like healthy wraps/gyros.
I recommend not shocking yourself and trying to immidietly switch to eating all meals at home. I can tell you this will likely cause you to binge.
What I did is started eliminating 1 day per week. I got down to only eating downtown on Tues, Thurs & sat.
The only reason I’m budgeting to eat downtown now is I need to eat more calories for my health. It was a recommendation from my therapist who knows a lot about eating disorders.
If limiting going out isn’t an option, you’ll have to bring a meal. Ideally, you can just bring snacks and not have to worry about bringing a freezer pack…i mean if you have a fridge or lockers to keep your food in with a freezer pack or not, then that’s perfect.
The reason I go out is to play Pokemon go, so freezer packs are extra weight I need to avoid as I walk for several hours in the nice weather.
Good snacks are juice boxes, nuts, dried fruit, granola bars (there are lots of healthy ones out there), fresh fruit like apples and bananas, fresh vegetables like baby carrots, meat sticks if you need more protein (unless you have health issues suggesting you need to limit your sodium intake, you don’t really need to worry about sodium…obv dont go over like 5000mg a day though…), Cookies, crackers.
I know some of that stuff is not the healthiest, but all you need to achieve is eating 80% clean and you’ll reap all the benefits of eating clean. You’ll go insane trying to eat 100% clean and likely binge eat crap food.
A good realization my spiritual wife and I had. It’s called crap food because it makes you feel like crap and it’s called good for because it makes you feel good.
Also, you can very easily feel the live energy from eating live food like fruits and veggies.
Lastly, if you’re trying to quit something you need a replacement. When I was trying to quit pop (drinking again to help get calories to not have my body in starvation mode) my nurse recommended “bubbly”. It’s only 2 ingredients are natural flavor and carbonated water.
This isn’t like that gross perrier or sparkling water. If you’ve ever had nestle flavored water bottles, it’s about 80% as sweet which is really nice. I recommend the cherry one, but the strawberry one is still pretty sweet too.
If your stores don’t sell bubbly, look for those 2 ingredients carbonated water and natural flavor then look for ideally cherry.
That’s just an example of replacing a bad thing with good.
I hope I helped shed some insight on your part.
Good luck!