How do you stop using food to celebrate?

jzebracki
jzebracki Posts: 112 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone! I grew up where everything was celebrated with food. I brought home a good report card, I got a Twinkie. I won first prize at the science fair I was taken out to dinner and dessert was not an option, but mandatory. After years and years of that, which totally continued into adulthood, I still feel like I "need" food to celebrate things- like I deserve it. I know in my head that it is wrong, and that the "good thing that happened" should be "reward enough," but yet, it is so hard to break from that mentality. So, does anyone have any suggestions of how to break away from those patterns and mental thoughts? Any good ways to disassociate food and rewards? Thanks, and good luck to everyone in your journey!

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  • DanaDark
    DanaDark Posts: 2,187 Member
    Find foods that are tasty and low calorie.

    Or you can choose to buy yourself something nice instead such as clothes, a movie, a game, etc.

    If you have a partner, sex ain't a bad reward lol.
  • NewMnky1
    NewMnky1 Posts: 264
    Treat yourself to something you wouldn't normaly buy. I am a purse lover, so when I lost 50lbs I treated myself to a LV purse, much better than any food could taste!
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    & if you don't, battery operated toys are your best friend. Splurge on that one you've had your eye on!
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    start drinking
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    & if you don't, battery operated toys are your best friend. Splurge on that one you've had your eye on!

    At least try to get to know it first
  • bearkisses
    bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member
    it is all about learned behaviour, we are conditioned. next time something great happens, do a dance, sing a song, paint a picture, write about it, call a friend for a chat session. birthdays: treat yourself to an awesome fitness experience like rock climbing. food doesn't need to be incorporated.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    & if you don't, battery operated toys are your best friend. Splurge on that one you've had your eye on!

    Spoken by someone who has obviously never tried a.... Oh nvm. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that word.
  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
    & if you don't, battery operated toys are your best friend. Splurge on that one you've had your eye on!

    I see what you did there!

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