Unsupportive family and food.

For when you want to binge: "I will not eat this food because it will make me feel weak and regretful. I do not need this food. I eat to nourish my body and keep it healthy for life. I eat healthy foods because they provide my body with the nutrients it needs and deserves, and makes me feel good."

Great thought. I love the first sentence and plan to email it to my office email.

I don't have a home like the OP, but the OP's home is almost like my office, swimming in sugar and junk food -- very hard for a sugar addict like me to resist.

rosieannaxo, just checking to see how you are doing. It can be so discouraging when family members aren't willing to help. Luckily, as a mom, I was able to say "No food except in the kitchen!" I understand that you would really like their support to eating better, or at least not leaving their food out. If you ask them to be cleaner and keeping food in the kitchen so the place would be easier to clean and look better, you may get a better reception.

I also have to work on not binging. I drink water and walk around for 10-15 minutes before eating a portion that I have measured and dished out for myself. I would recommend that you try to balance fat, carbs, protein before just watching sugar. See how the foods track in MFP. Keep working out and add in some weight training and high intensity aspects to the workouts. Hang in there and good luck.

You're 21. Move out. There's nothing like having your own fridge and putting whatever you want in it.

I'm a little annoyed by some of the comments in here. No offense to some of you that made them, but there is nothing wrong with needing support from your family to be successful at something. One of the most important things to being successful at breaking habits is having a great supporting cast. Basically telling the OP to suck it up and deal with it on her own, how is that helping her? Grr..

OP....It sucks that your family doesn't support you at all, and even go as far as to taunt you with junk food, they should be ashamed. All I can recommend is, if you ever feel that overwhelming urge to grab a brownie, just go to google....type in "fat people"....and then click images. Check out those pics for a bit and see if the urge for the brownie goes away.

Good luck....BE STRONG!!

Well as someone older (I could be your mom) and has 3 kids.. I own my kitchen; however, it IS all about control throughout the house. I have kids that get their snacks, my husband eats like pure crap with all kinds of chips, cookies etc... I still buy them when I shop..

On the flip side, I buy all my own stuff as well and if they touch it - they know I will break their hands they can have theirs and I can have mine. I see it in all the time on the counters, pantries (3 of them), cabinets etc.. I don't let it bother me and just move on. I watch them eat what they want as I eat my cottage cheese (but hey, I like my cottage cheese!).

The point is, even as you get older with your own kitchen - it goes the same way. It comes down to being able to say No. I took my 6 year old trick or treating last night. Knowing that I LOVE milk duds, she gave me 3 of those little boxes. I ate one and logged it (woohoo treat time!). I said no to the rest as she sat eating her candy.

It will ALWAYS be in your face, in your house, on the counters, in the cabinets, and in the store - just face it and say no. Someone at work today brought in doughnuts - I said No. We have a potluck today - I will measure out my stuff and say no to the rest. I get weird looks and my husband FREQUENTLY says "Oh you can have that" when I say no. I don't let it bother me - when they want to change for them then they will. Until then, this is for me.

Another way to deal with people who try to sabotage you—sabotage them right back. Pick up nice fattening cupcakes from the store, and leave them out for them. Watch them grow. Two can play this game. :devil:

if it was me, I'd take it all outside to the trash and that's the way it would be, and if they brought more in, i'd put my foot so far up... well, I think you get the picture

This post is a year old. And FWIW, if you threw out MY food, in MY house, my foot would be up your *kitten* all the way to the kerb. Who the hell are you to impose your food choices on the rest of the household?