I can't believe I'm doing this...

You have taken the first step to learning about healthy eating just by logging on here I too have issues with alcohol you will find when you are logging it that you will want to cut back!!! This is a great place for support. When I first logged in I thought this is useless if I have to be completely honest with myself and no one to check up me I am not going to do well. I quickly learned that just logging what I was eating and drinking daily was teaching me to eat right. My policy is if I am ashamed to log it then I shouldn't have ate it!!

Welcome to MFP!! Your first step to a healthier happier you!!! Feel free to add me!! I am not going to yell at you but I will help keep you accountable just like I hope you will for me!!

Candy and cookies are unhealthy for the kids too.....

Get the junk food out of the house replace it with healthy snacks. That way you can get your kids on a great start to a healthy lifestyle too!

Love it!

I agree with everyone telling you to throw out the junk food. If you force yourself to eat raw veggies as a snack, your body and taste buds will adjust and realize how good these things make you feel, and you will crave them. It happened to me, and many of my friends. Be patient, toss the junk, keep good things available for when you want to snack.

Candy I'm safe from... I have my sugarfree chewing gum...

Cookies? That's another story... I should get rid of them, but I should also learn to live with them and not succumb... No? *is lost*

To start with, since they are a weakness, toss 'em. Keep them out of the house. Make a cookie a "once in a while treat" that you get when you go out, so you can't succumb to eating an entire box even if you wanted to, because a whole box isn't available.

This right here! I'm a stress baker, and personally, I never go out and buy something sweet that I can just bake myself. That way, you get the exercise of having to make what you eat, and more intimate knowledge of what you're eating.

Bless your heart! You, like the rest of us, just took the 1st step....Asking for help...I will pledge to yell at you for eating bad, frequent things if you promise to do the same with me....:flowerforyou:

If you were an alcoholic or a heroin addict would you keep it in the house just to test yourself to see if you'll fail? NO!! Of course not!!! So ditch the cookies...

The problem with the surgery for weight loss is that people never really learn to deal with the root causes of their overeating. It sounds like you are doing your best to fix that now, and that is a huge part of the battle. You'll do great. Just log everything that crosses your lips and you will see your own patterns and what you need to change. You can do it!

Andrea

Healthy eating begins in the supermarket; if you don't buy the candy and biscuits then you won't be tempted by them at home. I have no willpower at home, if there's rubbish in the cupboard I'll eat it, but in the supermarket I don't even go down the biscuit aisle.

Your kids don't need to eat rubbish and neither do you. Save the money for a day out with them.

oops..silly me....It's there...lol

Thanks to all of you... My excuse is I have kids... So what does it mean? Candy and cookies... Plus night visits to "that" cabinet...

My secret with this cabinet is to keep the child locks on it. That way I have to consciously ask myself every time I open it... Do you REALLY need those chips? Do you REALLY need those cookies? Are you hungry or are you bored?

Sometimes little tricks like that help a lot.
You have made an important step just logging on and trying something new. Sent you a friend request

If you were an alcoholic or a heroin addict would you keep it in the house just to test yourself to see if you'll fail? NO!! Of course not!!! So ditch the cookies... Lots of super responses here. This is the best reply I have seen. Agree whole heartedly.

The problem with the surgery for weight loss is that people never really learn to deal with the root causes of their overeating. It sounds like you are doing your best to fix that now, and that is a huge part of the battle. You'll do great. Just log everything that crosses your lips and you will see your own patterns and what you need to change. You can do it!

Candy and cookies are unhealthy for the kids too.....

Get the junk food out of the house replace it with healthy snacks. That way you can get your kids on a great start to a healthy lifestyle too!

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This !

If the problem is sugar/baked goods ..... GET RID OF THEM ..... detox from that stuff, otherwise nothing ever changes ......

(You can friend me if you'd like :flowerforyou: )

So much this.

I'm a SAHM to 5 kids. We have treats in moderation but I've learned that, when it comes to foods that I lose control over, we just don't have them in the house. Some junk food doesn't do that for me and I can have it around but for the most part I get my junk food in single serves.

Don't make excuses.

Your kids aren't an excuse. You need to teach them to eat healthy foods. Don't let that surgery be in vain... you have altered your very body to make this work! This is the only body you get... make it work. Treat it well. I needs to sustain you in this lifetime.

You're worth the effort.

EDIT: And don't worry about going over... set a lower goal too. Aim for 1/2 lb per week loss. Track everything and just see where you are. Then you can start by adjusting what you're eating in small steps. You don't have to dive in and do twenty things differently from this very moment on or you're a failure. It doesn't work like that. Today, aim to write everything down and drink 8 glasses of water. Tomorrow do it again. The next day, try getting 5 servings of fruits/veggies. The next day, spend time looking at the nutritional info of what you're eating and find high protein foods you like... there are so many steps you can take to learn. Each one takes time.

All y'all can add me (: