will-power...where does it come from????

jackielou867

I eat 6 times a day, so much veg and low carb protein, that by evening I practically have to force the last meal in. Then there's water, plenty of it, or herbal tea, I always have a cup of something nearby. If I do feel peckish while prepping I go for a carrot.
Look at the packet, log before you eat, think about the healthy food you could have instead. Look at the ingredients, do you really want the sugar, the added colour, flavour, preservative, the E this and that and the words you can't pronounce, let alone spell. That's not a treat, its a poison. Pretty soon you won't want any of this rubbish, and maybe your kids don't either!

eclaireya

Make sure you buy the exact amount of snacks for your kids that they eat in a week and do not buy new ones. Then if you are eating one of their snacks, you're not just snacking you're actually taking that snack away from your kids who then don't get anything. And I'm sure you wouldn't do that, would you?

Taking a sugary, fatty "treat" from the mouths of innocents, as childhood obesity levels in developed countries skyrocket?

Oh, the humanity!

This. If they whine about having to eat fruit instead of candy, take away their electronic devices until they're saying please and thank you. Parents need to stop being their kids' "friends". :devil:

Not sure how an honest question turned into an evaluation of my parenting?

For the record, we do not keep potato chips, chocolates (with the exception of right now as Halloween just passed- the kids are allowed to pick out one treat per day from their Halloween candy- forgive me health Gods), and other junk food in our house. That being said, we do have granola bars, 100 calorie snack packs, and pretzels for them to take with their lunches (and yes they both take fresh fruit as well and regularly ask for that as snacks). I'm not going to deprive my children of a treat because of my own issues with food. I also want them to have those treats around so they can learn about moderation and have a healthy relationship with food. When it comes to parenting, I respect the decisions of others regarding food so long as you're not cramming fast food in your child's face every day. But don't make assumptions regarding having snacks in the house meaning I'm setting up my very healthy, very active children for obesity.

Inshape13

Make sure you buy the exact amount of snacks for your kids that they eat in a week and do not buy new ones. Then if you are eating one of their snacks, you're not just snacking you're actually taking that snack away from your kids who then don't get anything. And I'm sure you wouldn't do that, would you?

I do this with my kids treats as well because when I say "this is not mine to eat", I can more easily turn away from it. I had a huge problem with late night snacking for the longest and I found that it was mostly out of habit that I was doing it because I was not hungry at all...just used to doing the same thing every single night. I bought some light butter popcorn or green tea and have either one of those and can usually get through it, but the first week or two stunk to get used to limited snacking. Best of luck to you and you can do this!

Rawfoodsho

Personally I am an all or nothing kind of person. People say dont deprive yourself because it will make you binge, but personally I have been eating like crap for 20 years and am in need of some deprivation. I haven't drank a soda in 5 months, I went from drinking a 12 pack a day or 2-2 liters a day to stopping cold turkey and that was 15 years of drinking soda daily. For me, I cant treat myself, I cant go "well I went a week with out a pepsi here is my weekly treat" once I drink one I want five. Some of us have problems with food, like I was addicted to pepsi like a crack head, for 15 years alll I drank was soda and all I ate was fastfood. SO NOW, while losing weight, why would I go back to all that food I was in love with that I gorged on? Like to the person who can eat one oreo "claps hands" GOOD for you, for the rest of us it might be better to just not eat it. Also your taste buds change, if I tried to drink a pepsi today it would taste like syrup sludge. When my overweight cousins ask me how I lost weight and I tell them that I stopped drinking soda and eating fast food, they look at me like a grew a second head. SURE you can eat fastfood and have a deficit, but personally, I dont want to eat all that food that I ate while getting fat. Not to mention its a waste of portion size, two things from taco bell are 900 calories. Since I cant just eat one cookie or drink one soda, I dont bother with them at all.

Grazing doesn't work for me, it just makes me hungry. Treating myself to sweets doesn't work for me, I just want more.

Ninkyou

It comes from my belly button.



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Really, I just set my mind to it and committed to it fully. There's no "alternative". There's no "quitting". I eat the way I plan to for the rest of my life, just in smaller portions and with a better understanding/knowledge of nutrition. As for exercise, I lowered my expectations of g"getting out there and running"... cause I physically cannot. So I do what I can. I walk alot To be honest, I don't even feel like I'm "trying to lose weight". I'm just me.... getting smaller. LOL! The Non-scale victories though definitely help with my confidence in what I'm doing and I feel successful because of the changes I've made.