Our brain wants to save energy. It wants things to be easy. After all, we are all “cognitive misers” trying to reduce mental effort any chance we can get. So when deficits feel hard, our mind rebels. The problem is, “hard” is relative, and any changes to your patterns will initially feel different (and hard) because a change takes energy. Therefore you need to make it as easy as possible to be as lazy as possible within your deficit. Calm your brain down by giving it simple