What was your hardest "fat habit" to break?

bcmlam1001
bcmlam1001 Posts: 118 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Mine was and still is holding my stomach in! I find myself subconciously trying to hold it all in and I realize it doesn't look any diffent holding it in or letting it out now and it feels better not having to hold it in but it's just a habit! And I would pull my tights/panty hose up to where they wouldn't give me a roll and now I have to make sure I pull them down to where they go or they are just uncomfortable and they don't cut into my fat now. I am sure there are a few more I could think of but that is the 2 right off top of my head. What's the hardest habit you had to break and still find yourself trying to break it?

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  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    Talking myself out of exercise
  • helenx55
    helenx55 Posts: 48 Member
    covering myself up,
  • Honeybea86
    Honeybea86 Posts: 107
    How I stand for pictures .... With my hands on my hips to try and make my arms lean looking. My friends hate it and I know why, I'm not 220 lbs anymore so why do it still?! It's a hard habit to break
  • serenapitala
    serenapitala Posts: 441 Member
    Adjusting my clothes all the time. I still feel like I have to get my shirt to lay perfectly or it won't look right. I've lost over fifty pounds, and my clothes look fine however they lay, but I feel like I still need to get that little bit of ruching on the tummy to hide it.
    Also, I always go to the plus size section in a store. I know I don't fit in those clothes, but my mind thinks it does. It isn't until I realize my size isn't there that I go to the right section.
    To be fair, I still have to lose a good amount to lose and hopefully I can stop doing those things at some point.
  • junebaby21
    junebaby21 Posts: 260 Member
    Having a hard time taking a compliment about my "new" body.
  • stetienne
    stetienne Posts: 560 Member
    Swerving into the parking lot when the "Hot Now" sign lights up at Krispy Kreme :)
  • tessaeve
    tessaeve Posts: 75 Member
    I still feel that little bit of panic when the hostess at a restaurant seats you in a booth. I also gravitate to the back for group pictures and head right to the plus size clothing section automatically.
  • Mini_Medic
    Mini_Medic Posts: 343 Member
    Amen steteinne! I have to drive my ambulance past a Krispy Kreme everytime we take someone to the hospital. It's so hard!
    Also, I have the tendency to eat fast food, alone in my truck. In fact it used to be a true binging problem because I would hide it for everyone and I would often pre-eat fast food in my truck before an event (I was worried there wouldn't be enough food for me to eat) and I would not just eat to eat good tasting food, I would eat till I was beyond full. Like painfully sick and sometimes until I would throw up because my body couldn't handle the quantity of food I ingested.
    So happy I am past that and I have learned to eat healthy and fuel my body with nutrients.
  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    I still feel that little bit of panic when the hostess at a restaurant seats you in a booth. I also gravitate to the back for group pictures and head right to the plus size clothing section automatically.

    Woah, I hadn't ever thought of this, but really, walking towards a booth, I'm ALWAYS sweating a bit and saying "please fit!!" in my head... I do now!
  • Iceman420
    Iceman420 Posts: 195
    Walking into the gas station without getting Fried Chicken. I used to eat TONS of that chicken, with Mountain Dew to drink. Of course I never removed the skin because the skin is the best part. Now I just pay for the gas and leave ASAP :)
  • helenx55
    helenx55 Posts: 48 Member
    Reg seatbelts fit me on planes now, but i still tuck my extender into my bag 'just in case'
  • Hbazzell
    Hbazzell Posts: 899 Member
    eating
  • louisel809
    louisel809 Posts: 335
    full fat coke.
  • lveh8lve
    lveh8lve Posts: 162 Member
    NIghttime snacking. I probably would eat double my amount of daily calories in sugary garbage at night. No wonder I never could sleep :(
  • xoxomarshmallow
    xoxomarshmallow Posts: 675
    Chinese food! Oh and sucking in my tummy when I'm out hahaha
  • misssmarita
    misssmarita Posts: 130
    Talking myself out of exercise

    How did you break this habit? I am really struggling with this right now.
  • Hbazzell
    Hbazzell Posts: 899 Member
    Talking myself out of exercise

    How did you break this habit? I am really struggling with this right now.

    Someone told me this helped them today. It is going to help me too!

    "The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullsh** story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.” "
    ― Jordan Belfort
  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 Member
    Going to the plus size section of shops to get big clothes that cover me up completely and don't show any rolls.

    Still thinking I am fat, even though I am not that bad looking now (still have 13kg to go, but already lost about 30kg). Doesn't do my confidence a lot of good.
  • JessicaRobin67
    JessicaRobin67 Posts: 275 Member
    I loved the new chocolate covered ice cream cones at McDonalds (the chocolate hardened)...so Yummy! I haven't had one in a LONG time! Since I drink healthy smoothies at home, I haven't had the urge for ice cream now.
  • supplemama
    supplemama Posts: 1,956 Member
    Overeating.
  • lizp114
    lizp114 Posts: 202 Member
    i would have to say eating when i'm stressed or upset...i am better at controling myself but i still need yo work on it
  • billiegirl17
    billiegirl17 Posts: 47 Member
    My worst habit is what I call "the all or nothing" mentality. If I goofed - I told myself the whole day was shot and I could eat whatever I wanted and start over tomorrow. Sometimes, this was a whole week thing - "start over on Monday" Now, I trying to plan for when I might 'goof" a little and eat lighter throughout the day or simply accept it and move on. Last week, we went out for Mexican food with friends - 300 calories over goal. I logged it, did well the following days, and lost 2 lbs that week. !!!!
  • tiffanyheth
    tiffanyheth Posts: 510 Member
    Eating until I popped!
  • BellaFe
    BellaFe Posts: 323
    Getting my *kitten* off the very comfortable couch
  • hdlb
    hdlb Posts: 333 Member
    My worst habit is what I call "the all or nothing" mentality. If I goofed - I told myself the whole day was shot and I could eat whatever I wanted and start over tomorrow. Sometimes, this was a whole week thing - "start over on Monday" Now, I trying to plan for when I might 'goof" a little and eat lighter throughout the day or simply accept it and move on. Last week, we went out for Mexican food with friends - 300 calories over goal. I logged it, did well the following days, and lost 2 lbs that week. !!!!


    I do this too. If I made 1 bad choice, I would throw the whole day out the window and eat whatever I wanted since I'd already "ruined" that day, and I could always start over tomorrow. Now I try and remember that its never too late to save the day, and there is no reason to make it worse then it aleady is.
  • ApexLeader
    ApexLeader Posts: 580 Member
    eating candy like m&ms and cookies. i love the crap out of that food.
  • firemanfive0
    firemanfive0 Posts: 228 Member
    Mine has been ordering way to much at restaurants. Just an old habit, but ordering two sandwiches, fries and a drink. I am only in this 5 months and still at times when I am ordering think I need to get 2...but never have. Or feeling we 'need' an appetizer. Or feeling I 'need' to get my moneys worth at a salad bar and consuming 3X the calories and that is before my entree comes. BUT logging this has helped me break this and the desire not to go back to those habits.
  • brandyk40
    brandyk40 Posts: 78 Member
    My hardest habit is eating at night. I do really good all day and then I sit down at night to watch tv or play on the net and I want to eat alot of junk! Now I get on my bike and ride while I am watching tv!
  • HollyHobbitToes
    HollyHobbitToes Posts: 131 Member
    i would have to say eating when i'm stressed or upset...i am better at controling myself but i still need yo work on it

    This! Stress makes me instantly hungry and I automatically start thinking of cheesecake!

    Also....subconsious eating....like I see food and pop something in my mouth without thinking about it...without really being consious that I am eating something....

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