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And people should just "choose to be happy" too, right?
Learn how biology works. Willpower helps you execute a a desire even when it's uncomfortable. Your hormonal systems control what you desire in the first place. If you're just trying to ignore your body, it will eventually inform you that you no longer care about weight loss.
Willpower based diets and weigh loss strategies are mostly driven by people who sell them who take advantage of the "intuitive" nature of what boils down to "don't eat even if you're hungry".
If you do lose some weight, which you likely will at first, it's because the diet works. If you don't or you fall out of adherence, it's because you're not good enough.
That's why essentially all research on the topic says you should use your willpower to change what you eat and your activity level, and let those drive the weight loss.
It's easier and more effective to use your willpower to make positive choices than it is to enforce restrictions on yourself.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10015774/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/health-and-human-nature/202109/finding-the-self-control-lose-weight
Next time you need to get more done, just try sleeping less and you'll have a whole six or seven more hours a day to work.
You definitely won't spend your time being distracted by how tired your are, or spending more time thinking about sleep than if you had spent less effort and willpower on making a schedule that made better time management choices.