Why do I keep eating chips.
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Why do you want to eat potato chips? Because they taste fantastic.
There is a reason chips are so dangerous for so many dieters to have in the house. They are a classic trigger food.
In my mind, the main issue here is not the chips, but setting a goal of 150 lbs lost in one year.
These two things are not unrelated. In fact binging and setting an unreasonably aggressive weight loss goal are two sides of the same coin.
If you put yourself on a solid, moderate weight-loss journey, like 1.5 lbs/week, you will find that you have some calories available each day for treats, which could be potato chips. You will discover that you can stay within your calories and still enjoy modest portions of things like chips, such that you will not have a burning desire to eat them beyond your caloric limit. Your odds of dieting successfully and managing your intake of trigger foods are phenomenally higher if you dispense with the "I have to get back to my lowest weight ever within 12 months" mind set and set a reasonable goal.
BTW, you are 5'11" and 315 pounds. I started at 5'11" and 320 pounds. So ... same kind of starting point,. I am now in month 13 of my diet and have lost an average of 1.4 pounds per week during that time. I rarely go off the rails with trigger foods, even though I absolutely friekin' love them. Why? Because I have some every day. Chocolate chip cookies, jalapeno potato chips, you name it, I have it, but only up to 150 calories or whatever cals I have left after I've finished my reasonably healthy food for the day, whichever is less. That's a small but not insignificant bowl of chips, or two cookies, etc. I have this treat EVERY SINGLE DAY. 365 days per year. While losing weight. Think about it.
As long as you are trying to starve yourself (which ultimately will not work), you are going to dream about chips, and then you are going to break down and eat them, unwinding all your hard dieting work. Then you will start all over, possibly from a higher weight. Save yourself all of this trouble. Set a reasonable goal like 1.5 lbs per week, or 2.0 lbs per week if you absolutely must (but you will set it lower later, when you get sick and tired of the calorie deprivation in a couple/few months), use the MFP Goals tool to determine how many calories you're allowed in order to hit that target, and then stick to it. Don't eat more calories, or less calories.
This is so good I'm going to quote it so people have the chance to read it twice.
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Oh gosh.. now I want crisps, any of the types I can't get here:
Mackies haggies and black pepper
McCoy Barbecue
Kettle or Coop Sweet Chilli
I'm glad they aren't available here
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17593902/
High energy density and fat content, and low protein and fiber contents were identifying characteristics of craved foods. The relationships between craving variables and hunger score suggest that the relative influence of hunger susceptibility on cravings may be important before and especially after ER.
Portion size of craved foods and frequency of giving in to food cravings appear to be important areas for focus in lifestyle modification programs for long-term weight loss.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22306437/
Dieting or restrained eating generally increase the likelihood of food craving. Attempted restriction or deprivation of a particular food is associated with an increase in craving for the unavailable food. This relationship suggests a variety of underlying cognitive, conditioning and emotional processes, of which ironic cognitive processes, conditioned cue reactivity and dysphoric mood are prominent. Food cravings may also be self-attributions, accounting for why a highly-palatable but self-restricted food is (over-)consumed. Overall, the popularised account of cravings as elicited by specific nutritional need is having to give way to a more subtle and complex appreciation of human eating behaviour.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17349717/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17349718/
Don't start none. Won't be none.
The method conducted to lose the weight is the one you will have to keep on doing to maintain the weight loss.
Restricting all trigger foods you love and enjoy right out of the chute won't last. At some point down the road, it may be the one or two year mark or even the five year mark, all dieting perfection will fly right out the window. Not only will you be dealing with ghrelin blowback but the mind is powerful...old cravings will win with all or nothing food trigger restriction. It does not last.
Learn to moderate food and portions right out of the chute and you'll actually have a much better chance of getting there and staying there. If you've dieted in the past and rebound weight gain with friends have showed right back up on your doorstep, there's your sign.
Second verse same as the first. We can learn to moderate ourselves with food and portions.2 -
Shortgirlrunning wrote: »Just don’t buy them. I don’t keep any of my major temptation foods in my apartment. It’s just easier that way.
Sometimes I’ll buy a single serving size as a treat so it’s not like I cut it out completely but it’s just better not to have them available 24/7
Thanks I will try to keep them out the house.0 -
samvalen113 wrote: »5 11 315lbs 26 year old , been on a really strict low calorie diet for a month now and keep eating chips just can’t get over them. The goal for me is 165 lbs with in next year like I once was.
1) Are you eating enough or is your calorie deficit too aggressive?
2) You might be better off not keeping trigger foods in the house.
My calorie intake is low I’m eating like 700 to 900 calories and I completely burn everything off I workout twice a day.
Will keep them out my house0 -
samvalen113 wrote: »samvalen113 wrote: »5 11 315lbs 26 year old , been on a really strict low calorie diet for a month now and keep eating chips just can’t get over them. The goal for me is 165 lbs with in next year like I once was.
1) Are you eating enough or is your calorie deficit too aggressive?
2) You might be better off not keeping trigger foods in the house.
My calorie intake is low I’m eating like 700 to 900 calories and I completely burn everything off I workout twice a day.
Will keep them out my house
This is so unwise and irresponsible I don't even know what to say. I urge you to get some diet and nutrition advice from someone you trust if you don't trust the advice you're getting here.
In any event, this is not going to work. Eating 700-900 calories per day, you have a 0.00 % chance of achieving your objective of losing 150 pounds and keeping it off. By "0.00" I mean zero percent possibility of success.
Please do this right or learn how to do it right and change course, before it's too late and you've damaged your body permanently.14 -
samvalen113 wrote: »samvalen113 wrote: »5 11 315lbs 26 year old , been on a really strict low calorie diet for a month now and keep eating chips just can’t get over them. The goal for me is 165 lbs with in next year like I once was.
1) Are you eating enough or is your calorie deficit too aggressive?
2) You might be better off not keeping trigger foods in the house.
My calorie intake is low I’m eating like 700 to 900 calories and I completely burn everything off I workout twice a day.
Will keep them out my house
You're going to burn out and binge and probably end up at an even higher weight. This is classically known as yo-yo dieting. Please, please, please reconsider. 1500 calories PLUS exercise calories is the lowest a male should go.12 -
samvalen113 wrote: »samvalen113 wrote: »5 11 315lbs 26 year old , been on a really strict low calorie diet for a month now and keep eating chips just can’t get over them. The goal for me is 165 lbs with in next year like I once was.
1) Are you eating enough or is your calorie deficit too aggressive?
2) You might be better off not keeping trigger foods in the house.
My calorie intake is low I’m eating like 700 to 900 calories and I completely burn everything off I workout twice a day.
Will keep them out my house
This is why you're struggling. You're not just burning the calories you're using through intentional exercise, your body is burning calories all the time just to live. You're digging a deep hole for yourself. It's going to end with you either burning out and failing to meet your goals or somehow sticking with it and causing yourself harm. Please rethink this.9 -
700-900 is dangerously low. It would also be making you incredibly hungry which would be making you overeat chips when you get them. I know people who have succeeded in long term weightloss this way but they also suffer long term health issues due to it as well. Best do it sensibly because weightloss isn’t worth healthloss2
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I saw on Pintrest this cheese crisp idea. On a baking sheet put down some wax paper. Take shredded cheese and put it on the sheet like you do w cookies and bake it until brown. They get crisp. Dip in slasa0
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Diatonic12 wrote: »
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17593902/
High energy density and fat content, and low protein and fiber contents were identifying characteristics of craved foods. The relationships between craving variables and hunger score suggest that the relative influence of hunger susceptibility on cravings may be important before and especially after ER.
Portion size of craved foods and frequency of giving in to food cravings appear to be important areas for focus in lifestyle modification programs for long-term weight loss.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22306437/
Dieting or restrained eating generally increase the likelihood of food craving. Attempted restriction or deprivation of a particular food is associated with an increase in craving for the unavailable food. This relationship suggests a variety of underlying cognitive, conditioning and emotional processes, of which ironic cognitive processes, conditioned cue reactivity and dysphoric mood are prominent. Food cravings may also be self-attributions, accounting for why a highly-palatable but self-restricted food is (over-)consumed. Overall, the popularised account of cravings as elicited by specific nutritional need is having to give way to a more subtle and complex appreciation of human eating behaviour.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17349717/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17349718/
Don't start none. Won't be none.
The method conducted to lose the weight is the one you will have to keep on doing to maintain the weight loss.
Restricting all trigger foods you love and enjoy right out of the chute won't last. At some point down the road, it may be the one or two year mark or even the five year mark, all dieting perfection will fly right out the window. Not only will you be dealing with ghrelin blowback but the mind is powerful...old cravings will win with all or nothing food trigger restriction. It does not last.
Learn to moderate food and portions right out of the chute and you'll actually have a much better chance of getting there and staying there. If you've dieted in the past and rebound weight gain with friends have showed right back up on your doorstep, there's your sign.
Second verse same as the first. We can learn to moderate ourselves with food and portions.
I would argue that repeated behavior can reinforce habits. Much like a mouse in a Skinner Box. When a handle is pulled the rat learns that a pellet comes out. What has also been noted is that when the current stimulus changes and pushing the leaver no longer works, simply changing the stimuli can make new rituals occur. Thus hinting that a cognitive shift away from high reward foods may lessen the pull instead.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666315300544
So, if one were to not reinforce the stimulus, IE the buying of crisp one can not enjoy the reward so not to reinforce it.
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Stop buying them. Problem solved.1
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »Stop buying them. Problem solved.
well..... that is a good breakdown of what I stated...... to the point ain't we?0 -
Eat more. You're basically setting yourself up for binges, and massive muscle loss.3
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some great advice above....I eat chips rarely now....i have substituted popcorn instead. can eat a lot more of that and be just as satisfied
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samvalen113 wrote: »samvalen113 wrote: »5 11 315lbs 26 year old , been on a really strict low calorie diet for a month now and keep eating chips just can’t get over them. The goal for me is 165 lbs with in next year like I once was.
1) Are you eating enough or is your calorie deficit too aggressive?
2) You might be better off not keeping trigger foods in the house.
My calorie intake is low I’m eating like 700 to 900 calories and I completely burn everything off I workout twice a day.
Will keep them out my house
If you had mentioned that ridicuously low intake and working out twice a day to negate the meagre intake at the beginning the answers would probably have been different.
What you are doing is both incredibly unwise and doomed to failure. Make a fresh start.5
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