Food Boredom eats Nibbling Cheating Tasting

TaariniNeelam

I’m sure many of you guys have gone through this situation. Cooking, staying in the kitchen, serving food, managing refrigerator, shopping and dealing with the food all day makes me nibble, cheat, taste, etc. Once small cheats start I eat a snack or early meal and another late meal. How is this habit broken or am I the only one? Hopefully I am not doomed for life.

lynn_glenmont

Are there other areas of your life where you decided to change something and you did it? If so, do it that way.

AnnPT77

TaariniNeelam wrote: »

I’m sure many of you guys have gone through this situation. Cooking, staying in the kitchen, serving food, managing refrigerator, shopping and dealing with the food all day makes me nibble, cheat, taste, etc. Once small cheats start I eat a snack or early meal and another late meal. How is this habit broken or am I the only one? Hopefully I am not doomed for life.

You're not the only one, of course.

I'm looking at how you phrased that. I can't speak for you, but being around food may tempt me to indulge, but it doesn't make me. I decide. Sometimes realizing that I'm empowered, therefore responsible . . . well, it kinda stinks.

Generically, the easiest way to break a habit is to replace it with a new habit. Sometimes, when I'm cooking, I start by making myself a nice big plate of raw veggies to nibble while I cook. Sometimes, when I'm in the kitchen waiting for something to finish cooking (or whatever), I do some calf raises or angle push-ups off the edge of the kitchen counter, or squat-holds, or side leg raises, or something like that. Sometimes I maybe drink a tall glass/mug of zero calorie tasty herb tea. Sometimes I use my food-focused mental energy to plan a really nice, calorie-budgeted treat later in the day, and daydream about how good it'll be.

I don't know what you should do. But I'll bet you can make a change, if you commit to do it. Honestly, for me the hardest thing was flipping the switch in my head from "I want to lose weight" to "I'm committed to losing weight". I still don't know exactly how it happened. If I did, I'd bottle it, sell it, and make millions.

You can do it. Gotta wanna, for real, mostly.

xrj22

Can you set a rule for yourself that all eating needs to be while sitting down at the table, with a plate and silverware? Try to separate cooking and eating. Cooking is an activity that does NOT involve eating. Eat at a different time and place (i.e. the dining room table). If you want to get a snack, get it out, put it on a plate, put away the portion that you don't plan to eat, close the fridge, clean up any stems, peels, wrappers, etc. THEN take it to the table and eat. I am still trying to get used to this discipline, but I think it will help in the long run.