Kids!!
warcup666
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Why is it that when my kids have tea and leave their chips , I always end up finishing them off!!! 
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Because you lack self control.17
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It's in your head. Start with telling yourself you won't eat the leftover chips when you go to clean them up. If you have to keep telling yourself that over and over while you are cleaning up then do it.
After several times of cleaning up the chips without eating them you will figure out that food doesn't fly into your mouth. You make the decisions to eat or not eat. Its pretty empowering.8 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »It's in your head. Start with telling yourself you won't eat the leftover chips when you go to clean them up. If you have to keep telling yourself that over and over while you are cleaning up then do it.
After several times of cleaning up the chips without eating them you will figure out that food doesn't fly into your mouth. You make the decisions to eat or not eat. Its pretty empowering.
Thank you hun!! I can do this!!!!4 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »It's in your head. Start with telling yourself you won't eat the leftover chips when you go to clean them up. If you have to keep telling yourself that over and over while you are cleaning up then do it.
After several times of cleaning up the chips without eating them you will figure out that food doesn't fly into your mouth. You make the decisions to eat or not eat. Its pretty empowering.
Thank you hun!! I can do this!!!!
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I get it. Lots goes through one's head when food is left on the table. Those old tapes can replay and they are certainly entrenched in there.
Serve them a smaller amount of chips so they don't have leftovers.
Kids and adults alike today eat super-ginormous portions of everything and we all seem to be terrified our kids will starve and blow over in a stiff wind if we don't stuff them. Trust me, they won't starve to death without letting us know about it, LOL. Feed them A SMALL portion of food and then give them A LITTLE more if they ask for more. And so on.
Just look at what constitutes "a little" soda today. Probably 12 oz. In the 70s we used to get a 6-oz. glass bottle of Coke and think it was the most amazing treat ever. I remember my dad - 5'11" of him - getting a burger and small fry at Burger King. As in...the hamburger, you know, that little thing? LOL. And a small fry was SMALL. That with 6 or 8 oz. of soda was a meal. Today everything is double, triple the size and we extend that to home-prepped meals as well...a full large-size plate of pasta as "a serving," several ounces at least of Doritos with a sandwich as "a serving." We have to re-think what "a portion" is...both for ourselves and for our children.
Eight or ten shoestring chips (are these french fries?) might be plenty for your little ones. Or five or six potato chips (crisps). If they're routinely leaving leftovers on the plate then you're serving them too much food.11 -
Try chewing gum or sucking a mint while you clean up and put things away.
After a while you'll be out of the habit and won't need to do it anymore.5 -
Well, another idea is to not have the kids eat chips. Why not have them eat healthier food too?5
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Remind yourself you're not a garbage can - you don't need to eat the leftover chips.8
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Although the above are good ideas it isn't teaching self control. One does need to learn that they control what they put in their mouth.
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Ready2Rock206 wrote: »Remind yourself you're not a garbage can - you don't need to eat the leftover chips.
Another thing to remind yourself of is that the food is still "going to waste" if you put it inside yourself, because all you'll wind up doing (over time, accumulated) is work like kitten to get that weight back off...so what good did it do? It's still "being wasted" because now you're trying to dump it.
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I get it. Lots goes through one's head when food is left on the table. Those old tapes can replay and they are certainly entrenched in there.
Serve them a smaller amount of chips so they don't have leftovers. Kids and adults alike today eat super-ginormous portions of everything and we all seem to be terrified our kids will starve and blow over in a stiff wind if we don't stuff them. Trust me, they won't starve to death without letting us know about it, LOL. Feed them A SMALL portion of food and then give them A LITTLE more if they ask for more. And so on.
Just look at what constitutes "a little" soda today. Probably 12 oz. In the 70s we used to get a 6-oz. glass bottle of Coke and think it was the most amazing treat ever. I remember my dad - 5'11" of him - getting a burger and small fry at Burger King. As in...the hamburger, you know, that little thing? LOL. And a small fry was SMALL. That with 6 or 8 oz. of soda was a meal. Today everything is double, triple the size and we extend that to home-prepped meals as well...a full large-size plate of pasta as "a serving," several ounces at least of Doritos with a sandwich as "a serving." We have to re-think what "a portion" is...both for ourselves and for our children.
Eight or ten shoestring chips (are these french fries?) might be plenty for your little ones. Or five or six potato chips (crisps). If they're routinely leaving leftovers on the plate then you're serving them too much food.
Yeah good thinking , probably right, thank you2 -
kenyonhaff wrote: »Well, another idea is to not have the kids eat chips. Why not have them eat healthier food too?kenyonhaff wrote: »Well, another idea is to not have the kids eat chips. Why not have them eat healthier food too?
They do but enjoy a non healthy meal once a week0 -
Queenmunchy wrote: »Try chewing gum or sucking a mint while you clean up and put things away.
After a while you'll be out of the habit and won't need to do it anymore.
Yeah fab idea!! Defo guna try this one!!! X0 -
Get your kids to help you by getting them to dump any leftovers.3
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If they regularly can't finish their food you are giving them too much to begin with. Serve less.
Put the food away for later, throw it away or leave enough calories to account for eating these things.2 -
kenyonhaff wrote: »Well, another idea is to not have the kids eat chips. Why not have them eat healthier food too?
I tried that. My son fortunately loves healthy food, thinks veggies are awesome, has never been picky. You will also only be able to pry cheddar cheese pringles from his cold dead hands. He doesn't like chocolate and refuses to drink pop, so I'll let him keep his chips.2 -
The thought of eating leftover food from my kids, who snot and spit on everything, plus have questionable hand washing methods, is enough to turn me off to ever wanting to clean up their plates. I kid you not-this morning I walked into the bathroom and caught my 8 year old son brushing the cat with his toothbrush. Is that someone you want to even eat in the same room with, let alone off of the same plate? Just think- snot, spit and cat hair- next time you go for those chips
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All great advice here! Another thing that helped me break the habit was forcing myself to stop, weigh, & log the leftovers from my son's plate before I ate them.
I needed to see that number as a stark reminder that these are not "free" calories...there is a consequence to choosing to clean your kid's plate.
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Ready2Rock206 wrote: »Remind yourself you're not a garbage can - you don't need to eat the leftover chips.
Another thing to remind yourself of is that the food is still "going to waste" if you put it inside yourself, because all you'll wind up doing (over time, accumulated) is work like kitten to get that weight back off...so what good did it do? It's still "being wasted" because now you're trying to dump it.
Just butting into the thread to say WHOA, you blew my mind, maaaaan. I'd never thought of it like that!2 -
What works for me.. kids are germ magnets.. do I really want to eat their leftover food and possibly get sick? Yuck no thanks. Haha
Edit: @crzycatlady1 beat me to it!
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On days that I feel that I might get tempted I bin the leftovers ASAP. I hate wasting food but sometimes self discipline is just not there. But other times, if I do eat leftovers I'll log it in my diary and move on.0
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Your mindset... You will give your kids food that you deem unhealthy, but enjoyable, and it's off limits for you? No wonder you feel this urge. This is why people struggle.kenyonhaff wrote: »Well, another idea is to not have the kids eat chips. Why not have them eat healthier food too?
They do but enjoy a non healthy meal once a weekkenyonhaff wrote: »Well, another idea is to not have the kids eat chips. Why not have them eat healthier food too?4 -
crzycatlady1 wrote: »The thought of eating leftover food from my kids, who snot and spit on everything, plus have questionable hand washing methods, is enough to turn me off to ever wanting to clean up their plates. I kid you not-this morning I walked into the bathroom and caught my 8 year old son brushing the cat with his toothbrush. Is that someone you want to even eat in the same room with, let alone off of the same plate? Just think- snot, spit and cat hair- next time you go for those chips
Lol bless him that's hilarious, my kids are totally different well the 8 year old is he's a clean freak but my 6 year old is totally different picks his nose and eats it lol2 -
Ready2Rock206 wrote: »Remind yourself you're not a garbage can - you don't need to eat the leftover chips.
Another thing to remind yourself of is that the food is still "going to waste" if you put it inside yourself, because all you'll wind up doing (over time, accumulated) is work like kitten to get that weight back off...so what good did it do? It's still "being wasted" because now you're trying to dump it.
Just butting into the thread to say WHOA, you blew my mind, maaaaan. I'd never thought of it like that! 0 -
6 and 8 years old, you say? It could be the perfect time to teach them to clear the table and deal with leftovers while you do something else. Much less temptation to finish their food that way.8
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Ready2Rock206 wrote: »Remind yourself you're not a garbage can - you don't need to eat the leftover chips.
Oh that's gooood!!! 0 -
Ready2Rock206 wrote: »Remind yourself you're not a garbage can - you don't need to eat the leftover chips.
Another thing to remind yourself of is that the food is still "going to waste" if you put it inside yourself, because all you'll wind up doing (over time, accumulated) is work like kitten to get that weight back off...so what good did it do? It's still "being wasted" because now you're trying to dump it.
Wow. That's goooood too. Thanks!
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Make yourself more confident while serve the coffee to your kids.0
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