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ashteinpeacock
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Any advice on how to stick to your diet at home? I do more then fine at work, but when I get home I start wanting to eat everything and it takes everything in me not to eat junk.
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Don't buy junk. For me, if it's not at home and available, I'm much less likely to eat it. If it's around, even at work, I have a hard time saying no.0
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I agree with the previous post. The easiest way to not eat junk is to keep junk food out of the house. If the entire house is not trying to lose weight, then you have to go with a couple of other strategies.
1. Keep the junk food out of sight. Oddly enough, if you see it, you will eat it. Hiding the junk food will help you resist.
2. Giving away food. This helps in two ways. If the junk food is not available, you will not eat it. If you fatten up everyone around you, you will look skinnier.
3. Pay the piper. If you eat the junk food, then do the exercise that burns the calories. That helps in two ways. You will get the exercise which will improve your over-all fitness. If you don't feel like paying hte price, you will find resisting easier.0 -
Unfortanately my husband is skinny as a rail and has the highest metabolism ever... So junk will always be in my house because of him.. which he needs it... he might could use some pounds... Too bad I can't jsut give him mine. lol.. thanks for the help0
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I think that is the really hard part. When my wife and I are both trying to lose weight at the same time, we seem to do better. I think you can probably get your husband to help. Have your husband hide the junk food. That way he knows where to find it and you will not know. Another thought, don't finish what is on your plate. Hand the plate over to your husband. That way he might put on a pound or two and you will lose a pound or two.0
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LOL, well, I have a teenager!!! My husband is the good one ... he cut out wheat and grain a few years back (seriously, he only eats them during holidays) and never really ate much junk anyway ... but not having junk around with a teenager?!?
This might not work for you, because our living context is very different (I'm not in the U.S.), but while we often have junk food IN the house, we never have a STOCK of junk food -- we just get what's wanted that day, when it's wanted. Like, "oh you want some chips? OK, go pick them up at the corner store." It's all very walkable, so He Who Wants Junk Food equals He Who Must Go Out and Get The Junk Food. And it's small bags, not mongo-super-mega bags, so it's here and gone.
And, yeah, out of sight out of mouth. After years of struggling against the teenager keeping it in his room (which means wrappers under the bed and in his clothes pile, eeyuck), I've been saying, "Keep that in your room!" I think he's going into shock. With your husband it could be, "if you want junk food, get whatever you like and then keep it in ..." I dunno. By the tool box? In the Man Cave? In some secret hiding place like Walt in Breaking Bad?
And definitely check the number of calories in the junk food. It is so scary. All that exercise for a few chips or cookies? So not worth it. But it's harder to say that if it's staring you in the face :-)0 -
Unfortanately my husband is skinny as a rail and has the highest metabolism ever... So junk will always be in my house because of him..
I have a partner like that. He just finished off a half gallon of ice cream...he had half last night and the other half tonight. Makes you want to scream!
I have my snacks but they are controlled. I read the labels and I keep myself to a serving and fit it into my day. Yes, its a little tough when my b/f can eat a quart of ice cream in a sitting and I can only have a half cup but at least I can have the bad stuff in moderation. That's what you have to do.0 -
The easy solution has already been stated: just don't have it around. Of course, a teenager in the house pretty much nullifies that. I do like the suggestion of having the person who is eating the junk food be the one to take it and hide it somewhere. It might be in the house but it's still out of sight, out of mind as far as you're concerned.
For me, I live alone and Sunday nights are usually my toughest nights. I work 3rd shift, so most of my friends/family have called it a weekend and are in bed and I am sitting in my apartment at 11:00 pm with not much going on. Those are the times when I really have to resist grazing or snacking, especially since I do keep treats on hand that I like to reward myself with occasionally (Fiber One 90 calorie brownies are like crack to me) and sometimes it takes every ounce of willpower I have to resist. At those times, I lace up my shoes and go for a walk. Being out of the house and active keeps me from thinking about that sweet, delicious brownie.0 -
The plate idea is good! I like that!0
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Those are the times when I really have to resist grazing or snacking, especially since I do keep treats on hand that I like to reward myself with occasionally (Fiber One 90 calorie brownies are like crack to me) and sometimes it takes every ounce of willpower I have to resist. At those times, I lace up my shoes and go for a walk. Being out of the house and active keeps me from thinking about that sweet, delicious brownie.
Story of my life!!!! I'm sure it's so much harder for you working that shift. And here I am complaining lol. I also will get tempted from what is supposed to me my "OK snacks" (100 calorie chocolate chip chewy granola bars.... i love them).. For the most part I do ok during the week... But the weekend is another story..0 -
I do great when i am at home. My problem is going out to eat! Yikes!0
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Schedule the week in advance and prep meals on Sunday as much as I can. Otherwise I come home crankier than an old
and I'm not reaching for the brocoli.0 -
keep snacking food around, but make sure it's healthy. grapes are great... you can munch (like you would a bag of chips). or some popcorn kernals and a popper. fresh pop them, and you avoid all the butter and salt, and it's a low cal snack. if you feel the need for the hand to mouth motion, just keep it fresh
i lived alone and stopped buying (for the most part) the junk food. now i have a roommate, and she keeps all kinds of junk in the house. but i don't touch it, and i'm not tempted to anymore.
good luck!0
