Snacks you don't binge on?

I don't have a ton of help with this. Personally, I used to find that I couldn't keeping binging items in the house because it would go horribly. A 1lb block of cheese would only last a few days! For the salted nuts, I've traded them for raw nuts. They are slightly less flavorful, but have the same nutrients (and way less sodium), and since they aren't *quite* as tasty, maybe you wouldn't binge so much. I also get them in a Pakistani/Indian isle of the local grocery store, and they are much cheaper than the roasted and salted kind (3lbs for $12).

As for everything else, personally, I just try to think: I have to log this; I can't go over. I've started weighing out my cheese, and even if I have cheese twice in one day, I've been under my calorie goals. I also eat very often, but small amounts. My weakness is being around the house and doing nothing, so I try to get and do more. Also, if you're hungry, get up and do a few exercises around the house for a few minutes to distract yourself. Usually it's all mental and it'll go away.

I get the single serve greek yogurt cups with the fruit on the bottom. One of them satisfies me and I stop with one. I also keep fruit in the house such as banannas, apples and oranges. Other than that I have learned not to keep "snack" foods in the house. Even my kids think yogurt and fruit are "snack" foods. When we go grocery shopping that is what they beg for.

This is a wide open field. I can honestly say that I haven't binged since I started. A binge could hamper my goals, so I choose not to do that.

For nuts, I just count them out and put the rest away to avoid eating too many. Same with peanut butter, measure carefully. The other option is to never purchase any foods if you are unable to control yourself with them. Then after it's been a few months, try them again to test yourself.

When I first started, I went the first month with no sugar at all, except for fruit. After a month, I was able to gradually add it back in without any problems.

Good luck to you! :flowerforyou:

I can honestly say I don't binge eat. I do however find it hard to not eat certain foods. Especially salty snacks. I have to keep reminding myself that unless I want a heart attack I need to stay away from those things. There is a bag of fritos BBQ in my cabinets as we speak but I haven't had a single one. There was a time when I would have taken a fist full with no concern for my health. Now that I'm 50lbs down and off all meds I don't want to go backwards so I just say no and visualize a skull and cross bones when I look at that bag of salty junk. Hey it works for me! :laugh:

I have trouble with like every food you listed! Dried fruit, especially apricots and figs are just so hard to resist for me. And don't even get me started on all nuts, nutella and PB products! Some snacks I don't binge on are-

- raw mushrooms
- rice cakes
- warm water (you must try this! Totally kills all my binging urges...if only it didn't take so long to warm up! )
- coffee
- spicy wasabi peas

Dark chocolate just does not satisfy any cravings for me, so if I ever want to stop a binge I try and eat something as spicy or bland tasting as possible. If it doesn't taste good, why should I binge on it? I agree with the others that just not purchasing foods you binge on might be your best option, but in the long run I would rather not do that because then whenever you do purchase them you might go crazy...hope I helped!

Lulu

There's a few things that although they aren't necessarily unhealthy or high calorie, I only bought once and haven't bought since because I could never seem to control myself to just one serving.

For example, with almonds or walnuts I can eat 10 nuts and then put them away....i bought a container or cashews....I ate the whole container at once haha

Same reason I haven't put pistachios on my grocery list since I started to lose weight....they're healthy for you, but I'll eat them until I physically can't anymore.

I actually find the only things I binge on are the really crappy things - something about refined sugars and bad fats just triggers that 'eat more, eat more' response in my brain.

I dont have a problem at all with good stuff, I eat the amount I set myself and I feel perfectly satisfied.

Favourites at the moment:
-apple slices
-dried dates
-wholemeal crackers with natural peanutbutter
-dark chocolate

I love all of those, but never feel the need to go back for more. Whereas milk chocolate, or anything with added salt, sometimes I wont stop until I start feeling sick.

I think its about making some effort to find healthy options that you actually really enjoy - not just force yourself to eat because they are good. The list above are my current favourites, in a few weeks I'll be sick of them and I'll move onto something else for a while, as long as I have something I enjoy I'm hardly tempted to go back to the 'dark side'.

Sometimes its also about putting in a bit of effort to make a snack - for example I find the thought of picking up a piece of fruit from the fruit bowl boring as hell, but chopping things up and putting them in a bowl to munch on slowly = best snack ever. Weird, but works for me lol.

i have good results with greek yogurt loaded with my own fruit not the kind with fruit in it. i love to add strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and just a little granola. It really fills you up. I also like to snack on almonds. No matter how healthy the snack you sometimes just have to exert self control and put them away and do something to get your mind occupied. It's hard but you get used to staying within serving sizes. Good luck.