Over come a cookie dough addiction?

kaydanyelle · February 2014

I absolutely love and crave cookie dough, now my school sells it, every time I go to cafeteria to get food, I see it and want to buy it. just because I know it their, I am always tempted to buy it. anyone else had to overcome a certain food addiction? if so, how? =(

kaydanyelle · February 2014

someone please help!

ChrisS30V · February 2014

No overcoming of an addiction here, I just learned to fit whatever I wanted into my eating plan. I eat cake, ice cream, etc. whenever the urge strikes me and see it as just another way to hit my calories/macros for the day.

bcattoes · February 2014

You are not addicted to cookie dough. You want cookie dough. When you want to stay on track more than you want to eat the cookie dough, you'll either make room for a little cookie dough in your plan, or you'll skip the cookie dough.

It's up to you to decide what you want most.

msf74 · February 2014

Human beings value things that they perceive scare or forbidden. It gives the item artificial value and thoughts of that time tends to preoccupy the person's thoughts.

One way of dealing with this is:

a) to do away with the idea of "bad" or "forbidden" food
b) give yourself complete permission to eat the item in whatever quantities you like
c) but work that item into your calorie goal
d) accept that you have made a free choice and identify the consequence if you do over eat it (so, if you feel bloated, unwell or whatever)

I used to have a real problem with eating cake in moderation. It had a hypnotic control over me and I eventually got completely fed up with that situation What I did (although I'm not suggesting you do this) was over two days have it for every meal. I got bored of it and identified that it didn't make me feel as good as I thought it would. Now I am a lot more capable of eating it as and when and it has little power over me.

evileen99 · February 2014

No overcoming of an addiction here, I just learned to fit whatever I wanted into my eating plan. I eat cake, ice cream, etc. whenever the urge strikes me and see it as just another way to hit my calories/macros for the day.

+1

I had cookie dough yesterday and managed to maintain a small deficit. I had ice cream and chocolate today. No food is off limits.

jennifer_a00 · February 2014

Plan ahead and leave room for it in your day. I would definitely not give up my favorite treats! Maybe cut back some, but not cut out.

WillLift4Tats · February 2014

Human beings value things that they perceive scare or forbidden. It gives the item artificial value and thoughts of that time tends to preoccupy the person's thoughts.

One way of dealing with this is:

a) to do away with the idea of "bad" or "forbidden" food
b) give yourself complete permission to eat the item in whatever quantities you like
c) but work that item into your calorie goal
d) accept that you have made a free choice and identify the consequence if you do over eat it (so, if you feel bloated, unwell or whatever)

I used to have a real problem with eating cake in moderation. It had a hypnotic control over me and I eventually got completely fed up with that situation What I did (although I'm not suggesting you do this) was over two days have it for every meal. I got bored of it and identified that it didn't make me feel as good as I thought it would. Now I am a lot more capable of eating it as and when and it has little power over me.

That is a truly interesting way of dealing with that. I have never heard of anyone else doing this.

However I agree with most everyone. Moderation is a skill you will want to learn. I had a doughnut this morning for a snack. I will still hit my protein goal and be within my calorie goal for today. It's about planning and choices. You can almost think of your calorie goal as a calorie bank. How do you want to spend it?

ObtainingBalance · February 2014

Human beings value things that they perceive scare or forbidden. It gives the item artificial value and thoughts of that time tends to preoccupy the person's thoughts.

One way of dealing with this is:

a) to do away with the idea of "bad" or "forbidden" food
b) give yourself complete permission to eat the item in whatever quantities you like
c) but work that item into your calorie goal
d) accept that you have made a free choice and identify the consequence if you do over eat it (so, if you feel bloated, unwell or whatever)

I used to have a real problem with eating cake in moderation. It had a hypnotic control over me and I eventually got completely fed up with that situation What I did (although I'm not suggesting you do this) was over two days have it for every meal. I got bored of it and identified that it didn't make me feel as good as I thought it would. Now I am a lot more capable of eating it as and when and it has little power over me.

alexis831 · February 2014

I eat what I am addicted too. I just work it into my diet when I can. Just had a small kit-kat (70) and small m&m's packet (70) . Burger King’s bacon cheeseburger (300 calories) for dinner with satisfries fries (190) and a hostess cupcake (160) for desert followed by a protein shake to make up for all the carbs, lol. Don't run.. embrace. But work it into your diet. I am usually always around 1200 when I am done. Today I should be at about 1290 and I should have about a 700 deficit today which is huge!

msf74 · February 2014

That is a truly interesting way of dealing with that. I have never heard of anyone else doing this.

However I agree with most everyone. Moderation is a skill you will want to learn. I had a doughnut this morning for a snack. I will still hit my protein goal and be within my calorie goal for today. It's about planning and choices. You can almost think of your calorie goal as a calorie bank. How do you want to spend it?

I admit I nicked that idea from Geneen Roth. I believe her issue was chocolate chip cookie dough (and she did that experiment for well over two weeks I think!)

But yes, learning moderation as a skill is a very good idea as you say.