Reframing It for Junk Food Junkees

Lichent

Hi again, we seem to have a problem communicating on this board.

The topic I would like to intoduce is a technique called reframing it. It is a way to manage what we tell ourselves when considering buying , eating, or just plain old woofing it down those high sugar dense foods be it ice cream , cookies, cakes, candies, chocolate, sweet syrupy drinks.

Group excercises we have done,
1. Taken pictures off the internet of 4 of the favorite junk food products we like and attached another picture underneath it or beside it of something so unattractive , so there is a visual representation for example doggy doo photo attached to favorite chocolate bar. Pin them up in the bedroom , kitchen , hallway. Just so long as you get to see it daily. This developes a visual association with the product that makes it far less desirable.

eg a new friend of ours took his products outside , left them fout there for a couple of days and took pics with the flies and bugs crawling over them.

2. A song and a mantra, a musical song and a lyric about the product that allows you to see it in an unattractive way.
Make up your own rhymes to a song you like.
This ywe use when going shopping and bypassing those nasty sweet things that made all the problems for us. It works.

3. don't get upset when people suggest you can eat the nasty sweet things in modertion.
My buddy and I are junk food junkess, we no can do. My buddy is also and ex smoker and he sees so many similarites between giving up junk food and quitting ciggies.

4. Don't tell yourself you are deprived by not getting a daily or weekly dose of the nasty sweet stuff. It is not deprivation one is suffering from if one is eating 3 squares a day with lots of fresh fruit , vegetables and protein.
One is not starving or deprived that is in a physical sense.
The nasty sweet stuff is not a treat, a sneak , it is a freak.

It is not a childish reward that we get to eat for losing all the weight, it is the nasty stuff that helped make us what we are today, junk food junkees,
We had to let go of childhood memories of the nasty sweet stuff being so special, a reward, the stuff that we as kids gathered up pop bottles for so we could get some more.

Wishing you all the best on your new lifestyle journey.
By the way our fitness trainer suggested these tools of reframing.