Weakness foods...

I understand about that. I used to help polish off a whole bag of cookies! Now, I limit myself to two cookies at a time. I just do it because I have to. Because I want to be healthy more than I want a ton of cookies or any other junk food. You have to be stronger than the trail mix. There's no real trick besides not having the bag sitting in front of you. Take your two cookies or your one serving and walk away. I love fat free newtons and there are others. Trail mix is very good, I used to eat whole bags of that stuff, too. I don't recommend avoiding it because you will be tempted eventually to binge on it. You have to train yourself to one serving. Measuring cups/spoons and kitchen scales are your friends. I now know exactly how much cereal is supposed to be in the bowl or even ice cream. Hint!! One regular cake cone (20 cal) holds about 1/2 cup of ice cream with a small dome on top!! This avoids the "pile of ice cream" I used to have in a bowl.

Have your trail mix, but make sure you realllllllly want it. Measure it and log it! You'll find that when you do this, it will last longer, too. Ex: I have a container of heart healthy mixed nuts that I only have 1 oz of at a time. I used to eat almost the whole thing in one sitting. It has lasted longer and I am proud that I can have my treats and still be okay. Good luck to you!! :flowerforyou:

Peanut M&Ms at the moment , I cant have them in the house otherwise the packet would be gone.
Then again all chocolate isnt safe either

Yeah.....just don't keep it in the house if you know it is a weakness. That would be silly. If you are trying not to drink, you don't keep a bottle in the liquor cabinet, you know? I even make my boyfriend hide cookies from me when he insists on buying them.

pretty much anything with refined sugars: chocolate, cake, cupcakes, cookies, etc. I try to avoid them as much as I can or substitute other stuff in so that I'm satisfied.

Pirate Booty is my weakness, I can't not eat it. I just make sure I burn enough calories to earn it. :bigsmile:

Okay, admit it. We all have them. Weakness foods- foods that we love and crave and sometimes can't stop eating once we get a hold of them! I.E. Cookies!! LOL, anyways I was wondering what you guys do to take control. Do you avoid your weakness foods at all costs or do you exhibit a lot of self-control to only take 2 cookies instead of 5??! For me, trail mix is my weakness. I can't just eat one serving. I have begun to avoid it at all costs b/c my will power fails.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Caprirenee925/view/what-haven-t-i-got-to-lose-73745

I wrote a blog inspired by this post, because I have more than one weakness food :[ ahh!

Biscuits. If they find a way into my house, I just can't eat one or two. I HAVE to overindulge. But from now on, I'll be buying whole wheat biscuits! YAY!

Mine is in my signature. lol

I realized that I could turn down and/or walk away from any other food, no matter how much I love it or may even want it at that time. Except for a donut. I have yet to be presented with the opportunity to have a donut that I didn't accept it and eat it.

Mind you, I've never eaten more than one at a time (since MFP) but I just can't seem to be strong enough to say no to a donut. They are my one true weakness in that way.

But there hasn't been anything, since joining MFP, that I've gone crazy with or eaten a bunch of in one sitting or binged on, however you want to say it, unless it was a pre-planned time for enjoyment. I do everything on MFP 100% on my phone, so I check everything I may possibly want to eat in the log first, before I even pick it up. And that's typically enough to stop me from actually eating it.

A lot of people have been saying that you shouldn't "forbid' foods from yourself, otherwise you obsess and will binge. I don't necessarily agree, because I find that often I behave in exactly the opposite manner! Like If I have even one of my weakness foods (cookies are the bigggggg one! anyy kind), I just can't stop! So I just don't start. If I never start, I forget about them in a few minutes, but once I eat that first one I just have to have another and another, and that's when the binge starts.

I've found that when I want that weakness food SO BAD I JUST HAVE TO HAVE IT.....that's when it's the MOST important to say no!!

70% dark chocolate

Sushi....bad for you???!!!

I LOVE Mexican food. I'm a salt, fat, grease weakness guy, and Mexican food has it all. If I have a "junk day", I'll get Mexican food, and go for maybe chicken dishes as apposed to beef dishes. I’ll eat chicken tacos or enchiladas and I’ll ask for easy on the cheese and no sour cream. I eliminate “some” of the extra calories, but not all of them because………..it’s a junk day!!!

Candy canes (still working my way, one cane at a time, through a box of mini canes from the beginning of December), Starbursts (leftover Halloween candy, again, slowly disappearing), and the mini chocolate easter eggs with the sugar shells (which have just hit the stores, but I cannot really bring myself to buy any while I still have part of the bag of Halloween candy I bought.)

So, after Easter, when they're totally reduced, I might buy a bag and see if I can make it last until Halloween....