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Cookies & Me
Guys, I got a big problem. Right now I am living with a family, and
it's very hard for me to avoid eating I don't wish to eat. For example; I don't want to eat sugery stuff, and I outside I can control myself. For example; when I am buying a sandwich for a lunch, I would never order cookies, and or juky stuff. However, at home it's very hard. I can't help it. Whenever family member buys cookies I would eat them like a lunatic. I don't think I can tell them to stop buying this stuff, because they have been disgregarding me, and right now I don't make enough money to move on my on. I would like to know what is the best way of controling onself. I have already stoping taking suger in my tea. Also, I am slowly switching to herbel tea, but my biggest problem is a junk food. I really can use some help. I have a weakness, and my family doesn't gives a ****. How do I control myself? |
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On Oct 26, 10:13*am, Jesse Dorland wrote:
Guys, I got a big problem. Right now I am living with a family, and it's very hard for me to avoid eating I don't wish to eat. For example; I don't want to eat sugery stuff, and I outside I can control myself. For example; when I am buying a sandwich for a lunch, I would never order cookies, and or juky stuff. However, at home it's very hard. I can't help it. Whenever family member buys cookies I would eat them like a lunatic. I don't think I can tell them to stop buying this stuff, because they have been disgregarding me, and right now I don't make enough money to move on my on. You can ask them to at least keep it away from you. They can have their cookies, but maybe they don't have to be "community" cookies. If you don't ask, you're to blame, not them. I would like to know what is the best way of controling onself. I have already stoping taking suger in my tea. Also, I am slowly switching to herbel tea, but my biggest problem is a junk food. I really can use some help. I have a weakness, and my family doesn't gives a ****. How do I control myself? Find a substitute, and keep it on-hand all the time. If you want a cookie, have the substitute. As long as you pick something "better" than cookies, this mitigates the damage. You ARE still taking in calories, but the net effect is a reduction. Or, if you find you're craving at the exact same time, work in a MANDATORY snack into your daily diet. I hit a wall early this year, while my fledgling diet was only 10lbs in, and by just adding a low-calorie yogurt with a handful of granola (~100 cal) at 9PM, I satisfied the late-night beast without hurting my waistline. If you just can't stay away from your family's bad habits, you can still help yourself a little: Decide how much you'll eat, put it in a plastic baggie, and when it's gone, keep the baggie in sight. You're less likely to refill the bag than you are to just grab a snack (or two, or ten) on the sly. You don't have to move out to be an independent eater, either. If you can afford it, start shopping for yourself, and eat [partially] exclusively from what you buy for yourself. My family 'tries' to eat healthy, but when I'm around them, I just can't manage a proper diet. So I just started buying my own food and eating that. You don't have to replace all your meals, either. Replace the most damaging portions of your family's diet with a more reasonable alternative. Most importantly, do not blame your family for your problem. They are their own individuals, and they have the right to decide to eat whatever they want. They might choose to make things hard for you, and for that, they're pricks. But you RECOGNIZE the problem, and there are obvious solutions. I know it's a harsh thing to say, but you are the ONLY person responsible for your diet once you're aware of it. All of us are weak, and overcoming our weakness is hard. But if self-control was easy, losing weight (or being a professional athlete/musician/etc.) would not be quite as impressive, would it? Don't get down on yourself. If you sneak a cookie, it's not the end of the world. Don't let that shame drive you to a second, a third, etc. Pull yourself away from the situation, analyze it objectively, and convince yourself that there's a very easy solution. Then DO IT. Best of luck! |
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I live by myself, but I have exactly the same problem regarding junk
food and things like cookies. Give me 6 months to live, and I'm going to eat chips, cookies, pies, ice cream and all the rest days in and days out until I blow up like a balloon. What I did is turning to "high-fiber diet". I had 36 grams of fiber in only 1210 calories today, and not hungry in despite of that. If had that with little fiber, I would be starving by now and looking for cookies! You have nothing to lose by trying. Leave cookies out for two weeks, switch to the high-fiber diet, and see how it goes. After filling you up with fibers, I don't think you'll even want those cookies anymore. Check out Youtube. |
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Jesse Dorland wrote:
Guys, I got a big problem. Right now I am living with a family, and it's very hard for me to avoid eating I don't wish to eat. For example; I don't want to eat sugery stuff, and I outside I can control myself. For example; when I am buying a sandwich for a lunch, I would never order cookies, and or juky stuff. However, at home it's very hard. I can't help it. Whenever family member buys cookies I would eat them like a lunatic ... Think of it in these terms - That's a pattern of addictive behavior. I would like to know what is the best way of controling onself. I have already stoping taking suger in my tea. Also, I am slowly switching to herbel tea, but my biggest problem is a junk food. I really can use some help. I have a weakness, and my family doesn't gives a ****. How do I control myself? The deal with addictive behavior patterns is tapering off rarely works. It's necessary to completely stop, go through whatever withdrawals happen, then competely avoid the trigger foods from then on to keep the cravings from coming better. If you subscribe to the theory that the only diet you can stay on is one with no forbidden foods, think of how you eat cookies. Bluntly, any diet that allows you to eat one cookie a day, exactly how long are you going to be able to stick to that diet? Sure, the theory may work for some, but the fact that I can walk through the Mall and see lots of people fatter than me tells it it's a failed theory for most. If you have binge eating problems with sugary foods then you need to go on a low carb diet that teaches you what you can and can't eat without cravings. That's called Atkins. The real Atkins as described in the book Doctor Atkins New Diet Revolution is a process that starts with a two week cold turke purge - It will turn off your cravings though it's not an easy two weeks. Then it gradually builds to a mild diet plan that lets you continue losing in a phase called Ongoing Weight Loss. Then once down to a nice weight it moves you on to Maintenance. It's a system and a process that if you follow it will turn off your cravings within two weeks and by the time you've moved to Maintenance you'll know what foods do and don't trigger cravings. The long term problem remains that temptation never, ever, lets up. If you take on the view that no food is forbidden then you'll take the first bite of one of those cookies and you know how you react to that. But Atkins does put you in a situation where you don't have cravings for that first bite. It works but it is as unstable as an alcoholic on a 12 step program. One drink and the alcoholic starts over. One cookie and you or I start over. But it does work while on the plan. Try it. |
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