you know you're taking your diet seriously when...

puckit61
puckit61 Posts: 112 Member
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... you count out exactly 45 little chocolate chips to still maintain your goal.

I ate my dinner and I had a little under 200 calories below my goal that I could still eat. I decided to treat myself to some chocolate chips. I laughed when I acknowledged just how ridiculous this might come across to someone else. What is something you found yourself doing in order to accomplish your goal?
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  • 2stepscloser
    2stepscloser Posts: 2,900 Member
    Went on vacation and got a week pass to a local gym so I could still continue to workout.
  • thatonegirlwiththestuff
    thatonegirlwiththestuff Posts: 1,171 Member
    Your kids didn't finish all their ice cream and instead of eating the remnants, you scrounge up the willpower to toss it out.
  • TheBeerRunner
    TheBeerRunner Posts: 2,777 Member
    Don't trust the measuring cup and weigh out a portion of trail mix with your food scale instead.
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    when you are happy that you dropped a big ol submarine in the evening cause tomorrow morning you can weigh in.
  • SilverLotusGirl
    SilverLotusGirl Posts: 537 Member
    Your coworkers comment on how you're on a health kick and how they never really see you eat junk food anymore.
  • jesssi1984
    jesssi1984 Posts: 17 Member
    Your kids didn't finish all their ice cream and instead of eating the remnants, you scrounge up the willpower to toss it out.

    ^^^this! More food goes "wasted" now because I have made such a habit out of it!
  • AmykinsCatfood
    AmykinsCatfood Posts: 599 Member
    You resist seconds even when your family is shoving them in your face
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Food tastes better because you don't just spend all day stuffing your face with whatever you see.
  • welly5
    welly5 Posts: 293 Member
    Package up cookies as soon as they are cool to be given away so that I don't snack on them (I develop and test recipes, always baking around!)
  • Nicole6
    Nicole6 Posts: 9 Member
    When you weigh out your 7 grams of croutons on a scale. Which, BTW, is a ridiculously small amount of croutons!
  • ChristinaR720
    ChristinaR720 Posts: 1,186
    You literally body block your kids from taking a piece of something you've already counted or measured out. I know sharing is caring and all of that schlockeroo, but *kitten* gets serious when it comes to food!
  • greenmonstergirl
    greenmonstergirl Posts: 619 Member
    when you are happy that you dropped a big ol submarine in the evening cause tomorrow morning you can weigh in.

    THIS^^^^ LMAO!!!!
  • lilyhel
    lilyhel Posts: 77
    You do not break the diet in your job's parties.
  • chanel1twenty
    chanel1twenty Posts: 161 Member
    You begin having a reoccurring dream of all the food in your house coming into your room in the middle of the night and attacking you in proper Revolutionary War-era formation with tiny food-sized weapons

    O.o
  • puckit61
    puckit61 Posts: 112 Member
    You begin having a reoccurring dream of all the food in your house coming into your room in the middle of the night and attacking you in proper Revolutionary War-era formation with tiny food-sized weapons

    O.o

    This one made me laugh :)
  • rosiepott
    rosiepott Posts: 7
    You stop drinking a large double double (to all my Canadien brothers and Sisters out there...) because it puts your sugar through the roof for the day...
  • myroadto130
    myroadto130 Posts: 9
    count every single gram/ounce that you eat! lol. i go crazy with my food scale weighing my mushrooms, tomatoes, anything really.
  • Stump_Likker
    Stump_Likker Posts: 2,059 Member
    I knew I was serious about it this time because I didn't tell anyone I was doing it. I just joined a gym and started going. I usually would make a big presentation of it and wouldn't follow through. This time I just did it. No fanfare.
  • TheFitHooker
    TheFitHooker Posts: 3,357 Member
    I knew I was serious when I quit calling it a diet and started calling it a life style hehe...
  • knittingwitch
    knittingwitch Posts: 231 Member
    when your at a party and you're counting out chips while people waight.
  • Morninglory81
    Morninglory81 Posts: 1,190 Member
    I knew I was serious when I quit calling it a diet and started calling it a life style hehe...
  • sc10985
    sc10985 Posts: 347 Member
    You stop drinking a large double double (to all my Canadien brothers and Sisters out there...) because it puts your sugar through the roof for the day...

    Not Canadian, but I love my timmy ho's! We have it in buffalo, ny :) I used to get an iced coffee with 1 cream 2 splenda like 5x a week lol. Now I aim for only one on Saturday morning. Try making it at home but it's just not the same. I don't think I'm using enough crack ;)
  • margelizard
    margelizard Posts: 89 Member
    On Friday, which is traditionally my blow out evening, I weighed out a single portion from a giant bag of pretzel m&m's. My hubby nearly crapped himself he was so proud :p

    I also took a big tub of peanuts to work and made a label of what a portion would be so that I wasn't tempted to go crazy. I quote "1 portion = An awkward Eva handful"
  • SilverLotusGirl
    SilverLotusGirl Posts: 537 Member
    My SO complains that I don't want to eat pizza anymore
  • margelizard
    margelizard Posts: 89 Member
    Oh my god, is that going to happen to me?!! *SOB*
  • DanciaKS
    DanciaKS Posts: 10 Member
    ..all your friends think the only thing you do is exercise and drink protein shakes/eat vegetable. ^.^ they think I never have time to study ha ha
  • BGoodz22
    BGoodz22 Posts: 55 Member
    When you get a salad craving instead of a bag of chips!
  • allisonmrn
    allisonmrn Posts: 721 Member
    Youre eating chicken breasts, for the 80th time this wek, while everyone else in the fam is chomping away on pizza and beer
  • GnomeLove
    GnomeLove Posts: 379
    .... I gave up beer for the time being.....:grumble:
  • Habiteer
    Habiteer Posts: 190 Member
    You finish making your peanut butter and jelly sandwich (peanut butter and jelly, perfectly measured, of course) and then you go to lick your spoon, but then you think "wait, I don't think I measured the peanut butter and jelly stuck to this spoon," and then you toss the spoon in the sink.

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