How to stop

dantell13

How to do it? I so love food. The taste, the smell. Lobster with dripping butter sauce. A Ribeye steak with grilled onions. Southern fried Chicken with mashed potatoes. Good ole homemade Pancakes with butter and syrup. Maybe its some inner emotional problem from when I was a child. Maybe its the sip of a 1982 Chateau Petrus with a Grilled Veal Chop and a Morrel Mushroom sauce. I need to stop but cant. All I want to do is eat. I think I need a shrink.

agarlits

I think I need a good home cooked meal now! :indifferent:

idreamof55

What works for me is to visulize how great I will feel and look when I am at a healthy weight! My Motto? NOTHING TASTE AS GOOD AS THIN FEELS! I also know that this is a new lifestyle and When i get where I want to be I can have The lobster and other things in moderation. Once you get going and change your eating haboits melted butter does not sound so good.

mfriedensohn

you can eat all that, just do it in moderation, like once a week. and get in a realllly good work out that day.

SHBoss1673

Sometimes, we just have to ask ourself what is more important. The taste of food that we know is bad for us, or our health.

Look, I'm not saying we all need to drop every ounce of food that we love all the time. But ya gotta give your body a chance, Sure, once in a while you can have something that's not really good, we all do it, I've done it, that's part of what makes life good. But you gotta add some common sense in there too. Eating this stuff 2 or 3 times a week is BAD for you. You know that, and as an adult sometimes we have to practice self control. That's it, you just gotta view food as fuel for the body, not a way to have a good time.

pcbta

I think it would be good for you too, to find lower calorie ways to MAKE these foods at home...it may take some research and work, but you can do it!!

Cindy

lessertess

You don't have to stop. You just have to learn portion control and to balance your caloric intake with exercise. There's nothing wrong with loving food. There are a lot of healthy and fit people our there who love all the tastes, textures and the social aspects of a good meal.

Now if you want to have lobster, steak, pancakes and fried chicken all in one day, that may be a problem.....but what's wrong with having a couple eggs and whole wheat toast for breakfast, a salad with some protien for lunch and a piece of fried chicken and a serving of mashed potatoes for dinner? If you're going to have lobster with butter sauce for dinner tomorrow, take a good long jog that same day. If you want steak; have steak. Just remember that 3-4 oz is a serving and you probably don't need to eat 16 oz in one sitting. You have to eat and you might as well really enjoy what you eat. Just remember, everything in moderation; even moderation :laugh:

This is not an all or nothing proposition. You're simply adopting a healthy lifestyle, not joining a monestary

FireMonkey

Add one healthy food at a time. If you eat healthy most of the time, it's okay to have your favourite high-cal foods once in a while in moderation.

LeanLioness

The lobster with butter, steak with butter...............nice big salads with full-fat dressings........

Those reasons listed above are why I LOVE ATKINS AND LOW CARBING............

I can have those things and still lose weight and not be hungry or dissatisfied.

keppick

I understand the desire! All of those things sound wonderful, but moderation is the key. I make my indulgences count! What I mean is my big weakness is CHOCOLATE, the darker the better and it's best with some sugar (not those bitter dark chocolate bars). So, when I see white cake sitting out in the teacher's lounge I can say, "It's not chocolate so I'm going to pass." If I'm going to be successful then I need to make those splurges count and I'm not going to "waste" extra calories on something as lame-assed as white cake. When there's chocolate cake there, I take ONE SMALL piece and eat it as slowly as possible!

If you really are doing extreme emotional eating consider counseling. I'll admit I kept hitting plateaus in my weight loss when I hit emotional blocks and my counselor helped a lot. If you watch The Biggest Loser you will see Bob and Jillian doing this to some extent (Bob seems to emphasize it more than Jillian, but both do it). I had issues about men paying attention to me. I needed help to get over that so that I was willing to lose the weight. For me it got scary to get thin and good looking.