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I CAN'T STOP EATING JUNK!
Healthy Stealthy ; wrote:
I CAN'T STOP EATING LARGE AMOUNTS OF JUNK FOOD! I NEED HELP! WHY AM I DOING THIS? HOW CAN I GET HELP? WHO SHOULD I SEE!! My downfall used to be nacho cheese Slim Jims and chip 'n dip. One day, doing the shopping, I just didn't buy any..... Since then, I develop jones' for new "junk food." My biggie is celery (or any raw veggie) or whole wheat hard breadsticks and Hidden Valley Fat-free Bacon Ranch dressing for a dip. I'm nuts for popcorn, the "lite" kind. And hard candies! You can much a lot of hard candies before you get into any dangerous calorie range. Oh, and sesame melba snacks (Olde English is my fave) with fat-free cream cheese. Plus lots of fresh fruit; it takes up space & makes you feel full, so you don't overdo. It's all about satisfying a need for something with flavor that crunches, for me. Hope this helps! BTW, I'm new here. Name's Annie, and I'm in Albuquerque. I'm on the national liver transplant list, and have been told by my dr. that if I lose pounds he'll do live donor transplant surgery. I've lost from 214 in October of last year to 172 as of yesterday a.m. The first 35 from surgical anesthesia that made everything taste like quinine, the rest from watching calories, fats, sodium, and doing a lot of walking. Glad to meetcha! Annie -- "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." Emo Philips |
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Talk to a psychologist who understands addictions.
Lazy On 8/22/04 9:37 AM, "Denis Morissette" wrote: (Healthy Stealthy wrote in message . com... I CAN'T STOP EATING LARGE AMOUNTS OF JUNK FOOD! I NEED HELP! WHY AM I DOING THIS? HOW CAN I GET HELP? WHO SHOULD I SEE!! I think the rage for junk foods is actually rage for either salt -cheetos, chips, bretzles, etc.- or sugar -cookies, carbonate water like Pepsi, candies. Am I right? The best way of not eating junk food is still not to buy it! Could it be simplier than that??? -- |
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Annie -- You're an inspiration! Keep chewing through those leather
straps! I gotta agree wholeheartedly with Mike. I like beer and a lot of other things bad for me, so I'm not buying them, not taking them home, not having them stare me in the face. Some people say that to "cure" the eating problem, one has to be strong enough to have just a little bit of food in the midst of an "all you can eat line." That ain't gonna happen to me any time soon. That is, far better for me to just stay the heck away from the all you can eat environments. In psychology, people talk about "response cost" -- and really this is the "hassle factor" of doing something. Make it more difficult to do (like packaging cigarettes in individual little wrappings) and people will do it less. (If I lived close to a tuna sub sandwich maker, I'd be in real trouble.) I doubt if there are many people with less will-power than I usually have, but for the next several months anyway (and I hope thereafter), I'm going to avoid junk foods. After one has done it for a while, it really isn't so bad. I sure agree with Annie that substitute foods help take the bite out of saying "no" to the things we enjoy. Also, Dr. Dean Edell limites the number of meals he eats a day to two or less. Dr. Mattson (who is starting an incredibly interesting study on the health effects of skipping meals) limits the meals he eats. (I'd be willing to wager that his findings will show that skipping meals is healthier than the traditional three meals a day, and probably a heck of a lot healthier than three meals a day plus snacks.) I've gone days without eating at times and it really didn't bother me all that much. I do think that the media and a lot of other sources of input (I wouldn't call it factual) warn us of skipping even several hours of meals, but this seems to be nonsense to me. (As Dr. Mattson has noted, if humans were that fragile, we would have died out hundreds of thousands of years ago.) (I posted the following previously on this newsgroup and it may be of interest to some: ************************************************** ** See the article at http://www.psychologytoday.com/htdoc...826-000018.asp From the article is this: "Intermittent fasting is a much more palatable lifestyle than the continual self-denial of a highly calorie-restricted diet, says Judith S. Stern, Sc.D., vice president of the American Obesity Association. "You can almost have your cake and eat it too." "Study author Mark Mattson, Ph.D., hypothesizes that intermittent fasting works because each fast is a mild stress. The animals respond by increasing production of substances known as stress-resistance proteins, which may make them more resistant to disease. In addition, the intermittently fasting mice produce more of a chemical called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which promotes learning, memory and the growth and survival of nerve cells. This BDNF appears to make the animals more resistant to a neurotoxin that produces brain damage similar to Alzheimer's disease, Mattson says. "The intermittently fasting animals' cells also become more adept at scavenging glucose from blood. That, says Mattson, is an antidiabetic effect, detectable on glucose tolerance tests." The article, "Fasting Away Disease? By Richard Lovett -- Publication Date: Jul/Aug 2003" seems well worth reading. The first paragraph of that article is: "Your mother may have been wrong: skipping meals may be good for you. It has been known for years that sharply restricting the calorie intake of laboratory animals increases their life span. But a new study by researchers from the National Institute on Aging found that mice that fasted every other day, then were allowed to eat what they wanted on the intervening days, seemed more resistant to diabetes than did control mice or animals on calorie-restricted diets. They were also resistant to a condition similar to Alzheimer's disease." Of course it should be stressed that these research results are preliminary, apparently have not yet been replicated in humans, and skipping meals or engaging in fasts may be harmful for some people. But... ************************************************** ************************* I hope everyone finds a way to do what is healthy for them! Yours, Caleb (Denis Morissette) wrote in message . com... (Healthy Stealthy wrote in message . com... I CAN'T STOP EATING LARGE AMOUNTS OF JUNK FOOD! I NEED HELP! WHY AM I DOING THIS? HOW CAN I GET HELP? WHO SHOULD I SEE!! I think the rage for junk foods is actually rage for either salt -cheetos, chips, bretzles, etc.- or sugar -cookies, carbonate water like Pepsi, candies. Am I right? The best way of not eating junk food is still not to buy it! Could it be simplier than that??? |
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And what is a psychologist going to tell me? How can he help me?
Denis LazyEights wrote in message ... Talk to a psychologist who understands addictions. Lazy On 8/22/04 9:37 AM, "Denis Morissette" wrote: (Healthy Stealthy wrote in message . com... I CAN'T STOP EATING LARGE AMOUNTS OF JUNK FOOD! I NEED HELP! WHY AM I DOING THIS? HOW CAN I GET HELP? WHO SHOULD I SEE!! I think the rage for junk foods is actually rage for either salt -cheetos, chips, bretzles, etc.- or sugar -cookies, carbonate water like Pepsi, candies. Am I right? The best way of not eating junk food is still not to buy it! Could it be simplier than that??? -- |
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He will help you to understand why you crave as you do. Many psychologists
are expert at changing their patients' behavior. Your health insurance may cover this. Lazy 223/210/175 On 8/22/04 7:54 PM, "Denis Morissette" wrote: And what is a psychologist going to tell me? How can he help me? Denis LazyEights wrote in message ... Talk to a psychologist who understands addictions. Lazy On 8/22/04 9:37 AM, "Denis Morissette" wrote: (Healthy Stealthy wrote in message . com... I CAN'T STOP EATING LARGE AMOUNTS OF JUNK FOOD! I NEED HELP! WHY AM I DOING THIS? HOW CAN I GET HELP? WHO SHOULD I SEE!! I think the rage for junk foods is actually rage for either salt -cheetos, chips, bretzles, etc.- or sugar -cookies, carbonate water like Pepsi, candies. Am I right? The best way of not eating junk food is still not to buy it! Could it be simplier than that??? -- -- |
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