New mom from Leicester

eineFremde

Hello
Only 6kg to lose but totally unfit and flabby. How do you people work out with a baby 🤣
Ps. How to stop eating sweets
Have a good day you lovely human beings

springlering62

Hi! Welcome to MFP!

Good for you, starting now! I stupidly waited until my kids were almost thirty. Oh! If I could turn back that clock!

I can’t give advice on working out with a baby.

As to the sweets, I was the Sweets Queen. If gluttony is an original sin, I grievously sinned in chocolate.

I did the cold turkey route, but instead of making it a “punishment”, I tried to focus on what I could eat that I liked.

I pinned a list to the fridge: popcorn, pretzels, fruit, beef jerky, etc.

I had to take the hard core route of taking any sweets, cookies, cakes, ice cream, boxes mixes out of the pantry and giving them to neighbors or the food bank. Out of sight truly was out of mind.

It wasn’t easy, but it also wasn’t as hard as I thought. I didn’t go into sugar shakes or DTs or anything like that. After a few weeks the urge was just gone.

All of a sudden fruit was magical. Oranges were (still are) like the nectar of the gods. Strawberries and blueberries regained their wonderful flavor. Sugar had masked their flavors for me for years.

A year or two in I began allowing my shelf the occasional small peice of candy. I have to be super careful with cakes or pie because I’ll keep going back and eating “just one more bite” til I’ve eaten the whole damn thing.

I keep very little candy in the house. Mostly hard candy (don’t care for it so one or two pieces is plenty) and any chocolate is in the freezer, so it takes a while to thaw. That alone is enough to make me turn to a healthier choice.

But #1 is, don’t buy it. It can’t call your name if it’s a mile or two away on a grocery shelf, but if it’s in the pantry it’ll knock and carry on like a House Elf.