Remove or not to remove triggering foods

I honestly used to think about this a lot.....when i first started trying to lose weight i had the mentality that out of sight out of mind was good....but i have 2 babies (14 months and almost 3) and a hubby that likes junk....i was starting to realize that it would be almost impossible for me to avoid some of the foods that i used to crave so much.....i would always catch myself sneaking or eating a little of this and that...and eventually i kept telling myself eating this will not get me results.....it took me a while but i have built some will power around those foods....and they dont taste as good to me any more....i totally agree that you are always going to be faced with challenging situations....you have to have will power to make the right choices.

There some who will argue that no one should ever remove anything from their diet. I look at it like this. Would I say that to an alcoholic or a crack head who have recovered? I would not tell either of those recovered addicts to just have beer or crack rock in moderation. It would derail their sobriety. My personal experience with my dietary choices is to eliminate the triggers and eliminate the binge. For me, wheat based anything would trigger a binge. I took out wheat, and now I don't binge. I still have moments of over indulgence if the time is right, but binge no more as long as the wheat is out of my diet. I say perhaps eliminate the trigger for a period of time, and see how you do if you try to have it again. It takes much more discipline to admit the problem and get rid of the trigger than it does to keep sabotaging yourself. Some of us just don't have the will power right NOW to allow the stuff in the house, some do. You have to decide if it is worth it to keep going back to square one. I also don't think that denying that they are indeed triggers will help. It is important to be able to identify and admit the problem with certain foods. I find that after a period of time, I was able to have certain things in small amounts, however other things still send me off track.

When I first started my "diet" I did remove temptations from my house but over time I've learned to resist even when these things sneak back into my kitchen. Once I started seeing the results of clean healthy eating I had no desire to eat junk food.

Exactly this! I did have to remove all treats from the house at the start or I couldn't resist, I used to pack everything in a plastic bag and keep it in the boot of the car (DH wanted to have some so couldn't throw them out)

Now couple of months later I'm not bothered about it, so we have a lot of biscuits and cakes, I even started baking with the kids. I would have occasional blip and eat some, but most days it's planned and under calorie limit.

There are just some things that I can't say no to, while its ok to say everything in moderation and you should keep them around there is no stopping me when it comes to a jar of nutella. I can't even buy this anymore because I know it's my biggest weakness. To remove or not is completely up to you.

If you're trying to stay healthy and stick to a clean, healthy lifestyle you have to make the changes. Or else you'll be back here next week complaining about over-eating on junk that you made the choice the purchase.

I just don't understand what you people are thinking when you make these threads.

Common sense says, If you want to eat well, don't buy ****ty food.

Common sense says, If you want to eat well, don't buy ****ty food.

Bazinga :flowerforyou:

I think it depends on how "triggering" those foods are.

I used to date someone who, when I met him, had 10 years of sobriety (we didn't date long, but we remained friends). He asked me nicely not to keep liquour in my house and to please not drink alcohol when we were out together. I've known him now for more than 10 years, and that has gradually relaxed so that now he can be around people who are drinking and not feel a need to indulge himself...but it took time, and he had to be sure about himself before he could do that.

You know whether or not you can control your urges. If you can't, or are not sure, then at least for now, keep those foods out of your house. Once you're well into this, you can experiment with those things.

Common sense says, If you want to eat well, don't buy ****ty food.

You do realize, don't you, that not all trigger foods are ****ty foods, right? Some people binge on avocados, FFS.

And you do realise it's a matter of making a choice for yourself. Thinking before you act and force another piece of food down your throat.

No matter what it comes down to the desire to actually get healthy. If you know you shouldn't binge on any food, why are you doing it?

Because you have no self-control. Learn it.

Real easy.

Common sense says, If you want to eat well, don't buy ****ty food.

You do realize, don't you, that not all trigger foods are ****ty foods, right? Some people binge on avocados, FFS.

If it causes you to binge, I would say it is a ****ty choice in foods.

I've been wondering about this for a while; should or should one not remove trigger-foods from their house?

I'm in two minds about it.

A) On one hand, it would make controlling the diet a little easier. There's no food around to binge on or get tempted by.
Something a friend of mine said, which actually makes a lot of sense; you are and will be faced with triggering foods all your life. You can't not go out to dinner with friends just because you might be faced with triggering foods. You'll have to learn and live with it, it's not as if you can avoid them forever, so why not try and deal with it now?

I'm confused and eager for another opinion on this!

if you are not able to eat it as part of your healthy diet, don't have it in the house.

if you cant eat it right now, don't buy it.

break the habit. don't have it around. eventually it wont even factor into your life much anymore.

theres enough temptation, you don't need to have it in your fridge.