arghhhh i cant stop cheating on my diet

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  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    This is super hard. I cant stop cheating after dinner i keep looking for sweet treats.
    This is an easy one: save some of your calories for your after dinner snack, and make it whatever you like. :smile:
  • MiniMarc
    MiniMarc Posts: 19
    drink a glass of water before eating any treats. if you still want it 5mins later then go for it
  • BeginningAgainMay14
    BeginningAgainMay14 Posts: 97 Member
    You've gotten lots of good advice and I hope some ideas about different ways people deal with their eating. Personally, I don't keep sweet stuff in the house as it's too difficult for me to control my intake if I have it around. On the other hand, I really enjoy having a glass of wine after dinner in the evening and have no difficulty stopping at one. So I build my day with the expectation that I'll have that glass of wine, which serves a double purpose: I can have my wine if I want it, but I also have room if I decide I specifically want something else.

    Today was one of those days. Instead of my wine I drove to MdDonald's and ordered a chocolate chip cookie. It cost me 40 cents and 150 calories and was still warm and gooey and I enjoyed it very much and it didn't come with any friends that would live in my kitchen and I would have to try not to eat.

    The point is to think strategically instead of bemoaning that you can't stop cheating. If you can't stick to what you're doing now, you certainly won't be able to stick to it after you lose all the weight, so it's time to tweak it to something that you can stick to. Whether you call it a diet or not, remember you have to do it forever or the weight will come right back. So it's time to rethink. You can manage your calories, keep the food out of your house, schedule in a treat, take up a hobby to get you out of the house (a lot of night eating is actually boredom,) or otherwise change what you're doing.

    Or don't. Maybe you don't want it enough right now. Maybe you'd rather not put forth the effort. If that's the case, that's okay too. MFP isn't going anywhere. The boards and tools will still be here if you decide to take a break. If you're like me though, I slowly gain when I'm not working on my food intake, so be prepared for the possibility that you could lose ground if you give up and stop.
  • nixxthirteen
    nixxthirteen Posts: 280 Member
    I am a BIG bedtime snacker. I work afternoons, so on an average day I consume 900 calories between breakfast and lunch, and save my remaining 1000 for dinner and 1-2 BIG snacks before bed.

    It's midnight and I just finished eating a big piece of frozen leftover Easter chocolate. I'll be up for another 3 hours so I'll probably have a PB&J. I just do as everyone else suggested and plan days around treats :).