really want to stop eating junk food
Ladyinwaiting4
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I am going to buy all healthy food for grocery shopping day tomorrow. no sweets, no junk food. I really hate eating both of those things and I really notice a difference when I eat a lot of crap food. I want to refrain from eating crap food. anyone give up crap food to eat healthy food would love encouragement as I begin this on Monday.
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I wont be doing my weekly shop until maybe wed. but happy to try and do it with you!! x0
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I do most tomorrow and the last bit on thrusday. I so need to do this and it will be a lot better for me in the long run0
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I love junk food like really love it pizza chocolate and cheesecake are my got to haves,I had a massive blow out on Friday decided yesterday to set myself a 40 day challenge! no junk food for 40 days its not that long in the big scale of things it takes 21 days to form or brake a habit sooo hopefully fingers crossed I wont want it as much after.0
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It would be a sure way to binge for me, but good luck.0
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when you do the challenge of junk I would like to join you. as far as the binges go if I only have nothing but healthy food my binges if I did have them would be on veggies or fruit0
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i am half way through day 2, would love for people to join me
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when you do the challenge of junk I would like to join you. as far as the binges go if I only have nothing but healthy food my binges if I did have them would be on veggies or fruit
Until that day when you have 'just one cookie'. Unless you're planning on never eating junk ever again.0 -
I love me some junk food! So I feel you. It was an awful struggle to kick that habit. To not crave it all the time.
I used fruit as a way to help me with that. I would shop for the fruit I like (Strawberry, Kiwi, Oranges, Grapes) and whenever I would want something sweet, I would reach for that. I probably ate more fruit than I should have, but it was all so sweet, that it took my cravings away. I started to not want the junk food anymore. I would have a serving of reduced fat wheat wheat thins and a wedge of laughing cow cheese if I was craving crunchy and salty. In my opionion it is all about the mind. It is a slow process of changing how we think about food, and how to pull back on the need for junk, and learn how to love fruit and veggies.
Maybe try and buy more healthy food than junk food. I would not say go cold turkey and cut all junk food, as you may feel deprived. Cut it out slowly. You can do it!!0 -
I have a really simple rule which has helped me hugely: I never eat junk by myself.
I used to sit and study and manage to eat family sized bags of sweets of crisps and just hate myself for doing it. Now I won't let myself do it. But I don't restrict myself when it's a social occasion. Well, I try to not binge too much but at least this way I know that if I do eat too much junk. it's been a social occasion and I will have enjoyed good food/drink with good company. And also, it restricts how often I can eat junk - if I eat too much one day in a week then the other 6 healthy days balance it out!0 -
"Until that day when you have 'just one cookie'. Unless you're planning on never eating junk ever again."
^^ I agree with the above comment. I used to be a big consumer of chocolate but in January (when I started my journey to lose weight) I decided to give it up. However, I read other posts about how it's not necessary to give chocolate (or whatever is your thing) up completely, it's just not realistic. So I went a minimum of 21 days with no chocolate and then slowly introduced the odd chunk. I find I can now eat chocolate and biscuits in moderation. I take what I need i.e 2 biscuits or 2 chunks of chocolate (not sit with the whole packet or bar) and just enjoy. I don't crave more but if I do find myself trying to convince myself "just 1 more biscuit/chunk won't harm", I have to use all my willpower to not eat any more. This part is getting easier. For example yesterday, my family and I were at a restaurant and after I had my soup and they'd eaten their food, they opted to have cheesecake (I love cheesecake) BUT I said no, not for me thanks.
WILLPOWER! WILLPOWER! WILLPOWER!
Oh! In addition, I did give up sugar in my tea too (big tea drinker) and I've stuck with this. Sugar's not necessary in tea. :drinker:0 -
Why do people see extremes as the only course of action, when if fact it's pretty much a given fail. Why not allow some crap as you say, and junk food has many definitions, some people think pizza and cheeseburgers are crap, where I don't at all if they're sourced properly or home made......0
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I am going to buy all healthy food for grocery shopping day tomorrow. no sweets, no junk food. I really hate eating both of those things and I really notice a difference when I eat a lot of crap food. I want to refrain from eating crap food. anyone give up crap food to eat healthy food would love encouragement as I begin this on Monday.
good luck girl! it's tough in the early going, but pretty soon you'll break the addiction and you'll stop craving crap. I don't even want it anymore. pretty great. 0 -
Why do people see extremes as the only course of action, when if fact it's pretty much a given fail. Why not allow some crap as you say, and junk food has many definitions, some people think pizza and cheeseburgers are crap, where I don't at all if they're sourced properly or home made......
oh noooooo somebody wants to approach their lifestyle differently than you! the horror.0 -
lol, I know ah.Why do people see extremes as the only course of action, when if fact it's pretty much a given fail. Why not allow some crap as you say, and junk food has many definitions, some people think pizza and cheeseburgers are crap, where I don't at all if they're sourced properly or home made......
oh noooooo somebody wants to approach their lifestyle differently than you! the horror.0 -
Sugar makes you crave more sugar. Sometimes it's hard to break the junk food fest because it just leads you wanting more, hence the initial stage of going cold turkey to reduce cravings. Then it'd be easier to practice moderation with sweets/junk when you try to add them back into your diet.0
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that is the point I am wanting to reach also to where I don't want it. tomorrow I begin now that I have healthy food in the house. the reason I have to be extreme is because I have zero discipline to just limit to " some crappy food." i tend to binge eat on it so for a time i have to take extreme measures like that.0
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I like this idea. Almost all of our groceries are real food, but we have the occasional treat when we're out and about.I have a really simple rule which has helped me hugely: I never eat junk by myself.0 -
I love junk food, fast food etc...but now all i eat is healthy food, small portions, sugar free snacks and low calorie snacks. I'm pretty surprised at myself of how good i've been doing in avoiding all that crap. I feel much better now that i dont eat any of it.0
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junk food is my biggest downfall, I fall off the wagon because of it, and it is hard to quit once you get started again. It is cycle for me, and has caused me to be less successful than where I could of been.. It's a nasty habit, addiction.. I just took it out of my life again about a week ago. I don't have the willpower to just have a little here and there. I crave it then day after day after day.. So I have come to the conclusion, that I just have to not eat it again.. At least not until I am at my goal weight and can figure a way to maintain and not gain. I have been good at that part, I can manage to maintain, but just not lose eating it.0
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It gets easier with time, but I was one of the ones that gave it up completely in the beginning and had a problem with a huge binge after a month. After maybe 3 weeks you will get to where eating unhealthy food does not make you feel so great and you will not even want the "bad" foods. I do still eat a chocolate here and there and have a .5 cup of slow churned ice cream at night, but to look at a huge chunk of cake and really want it does not happen anymore. Good luck with this and I wish you the best!0
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Why do people see extremes as the only course of action, when if fact it's pretty much a given fail. Why not allow some crap as you say, and junk food has many definitions, some people think pizza and cheeseburgers are crap, where I don't at all if they're sourced properly or home made......
Wrong. At least for me. Allowing myself junk food is a "given fail". But I eat very differently from a Standard American Diet so what I consider junk foods are what lots of people think are healthy foods. I LOVE what I eat now, I'm no longer sick, and I'm losing body fat. No junk food even remotely desired.0 -
I dont keep snacks in my apartment or house. I go to the grocery store 3+ times a week.
Even though I advocate a omnivoric diet I took a look at my food that I consume and it is closer to a lacto-ovo veg most of the time.
If I want sweets I will have to drive out for it, if I really want it I will buy it.
Going to the extreme is a way most people fail just so you know...0 -
Why do people see extremes as the only course of action, when if fact it's pretty much a given fail. Why not allow some crap as you say, and junk food has many definitions, some people think pizza and cheeseburgers are crap, where I don't at all if they're sourced properly or home made......
oh noooooo somebody wants to approach their lifestyle differently than you! the horror.
That sounds quite hypocritical coming from you!!0 -
it is not going to the extreme... I have also recently given up smoking COLD TURKEY it has now been over two months so giving up junk food COLD TURKEY will work for me I cant just have one I have to have the whole packet so not having any in my mind makes it easer everyone has a different approach to how they will succeed with their health and weight loss journeys its not for anyone else to say HOW YOU SHOULD DO IT! suggesting's and advice are great but just because it worked for you doesn't mean it will work for everyone.0
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I eat junk food six or seven times a week, over different meals, mainly breakfast cos its easier for me... but I am cutting it down to once a week... Sunday... breakfast0
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I am going to buy all healthy food for grocery shopping day tomorrow. no sweets, no junk food. I really hate eating both of those things and I really notice a difference when I eat a lot of crap food. I want to refrain from eating crap food. anyone give up crap food to eat healthy food would love encouragement as I begin this on Monday.
Are you issuing a challenge? If so, I'll do it with you. Sugar is my downfall. It has been proven that you can become addicted to sugar because of the endorphins that sugar causes in the brain, much like heroin and you can actually have withdrawal symptoms, which I've had. It takes me about three to five days to go through withdrawal and stop craving sugar but it's so worth it if you have a real issue with it. I was off of it for 21 days due to another medical issue I was having and I felt so much better. So yes, I would love to challenge myself again. You can friend me if you want. :flowerforyou:0 -
I still have some crap food in my cabinets that have to be eaten, but I hope to leave them out on my next shopping trip. I did make progress as there is also actual fruit and vegetables in the fridge now, lol. So, yeah add me!0
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