I was the person who had it all figured out — during the day
One year ago, I was a senior developer working 12-hour days. Oats for breakfast. Salad for lunch. Grilled chicken for dinner. My colleagues thought I was disciplined. My fitness tracker was proud of me. I was doing everything right.
I'd find myself standing in front of the fridge, eating cold leftover biryani straight from the container. Or opening Swiggy — butter chicken, garlic naan, a Coke — while literally telling myself "last time, I promise."
I tried everything. MyFitnessPal, Keto, a ₹7,000 diet chart from a nutritionist, removing all junk from home. I lost 2 kgs in three weeks from one plan. Then had one bad day at work, one argument with a colleague — and gained it all back in a weekend.
I was disgusted with myself. Not because of the weight. Because I genuinely believed something was fundamentally broken inside me.
Then I stumbled onto a research paper that changed everything. Decision fatigue — the scientifically proven fact that willpower isn't a personality trait, it's a resource. And after 300 decisions, it's gone. I wasn't weak. I was running on empty, trying to fight a craving with nothing left in the tank.
Within 6 weeks, my midnight Swiggy orders dropped from 5 a week to zero. Within 3 months, I had lost 8 kgs — not by dieting, but by simply stopping the 11 PM damage. I wasn't fighting cravings anymore. I was outsmarting them.
I spent a year studying behavioral psychology, habit loops, and intervention design — and built CraveGuard. Not as a diet app. As a craving defense system. An AI coach that's awake at 11 PM when your nutritionist isn't.