Trigger foods

One day I will be strong enough to just say no or control myself. Just starting, I walked by my favorite cereal in the store and really contemplated if I am strong enough yet. I am not, so I didn't buy it. I don't live alone so I just keep myself full or busy so that I am not tempted by things I can't yet handle. Diet Soda has been immensely helpful in eliminating ice cream cravings.

Well i had been successfully avoiding chocolate until I bought some for Halloween. Now I have almost completely lost all control and have eaten most of it . Now I feel sick and fed up. Back in the saddle tomorrow.

Chips are my weakness too! Doesn't matter what kind lol the only way to deal with them...is not buying them if I get a craving for them I will go get one of those small bags from the gas station or grocery store! That way it can't get too out of hand! No matter how far I've come or how strong I think I am...a bag of chips can always take me down lol

juliaky84 wrote: »

Hi all,

My trigger foods are chips and ice cream. If I want a frozen treat I only keep 100-calorie portions in my house. But the other night I wasn't prepared with healthy snacks and my brother gave me a big bag of chips...I ate almost the whole bag. Sigh. Oh well, hopefully this will remind me for next time how awful I feel after eating all those chips! I don't even keep potato chips in my house because of it. How do you all handle your trigger foods that lead to over-eating?

Is it mindless eating? I can eat a lot out of a bag while I am doing something else. I take the portion I want out of the bag and put the bag away. I can go back but that makes me pay attention to how much I am eating. And log it.

Cheese!

Tacos, and these cookies I like to make. Sweets in general are very tough, especially if they are the cheap "chocolates" fun sizes that come out in full force around this time of year. I think, oh I'll have just one but then somehow one becomes six and by then I could have just eaten a full-sized candy bar.

As for tacos...they are my all-time favorite food. I've had all types and I just want to keep 'em coming! Just this week I have eaten around 16 tacos, 9 of which were consumed in just one night. Talk about crazy LOL.

The way I try to keep in check with candy is to buy gourmet/higher end. For some reason I can't overindulge on it. I actually start to feel a bit sick/full if I try to eat over a serving size. Because it costs so much more than the stuff in grocery stores, I also tend to want it to stick around longer, so there's that.

As for tacos, the best way I can control how many I eat is if I make them from scratch. A bit of work goes into frying shells (yeah, I like hard shell tacos, sue me), cooking meat and prepping toppings and I'm just way too lazy to stand there in front of a hot *kitten* frying pan, holding a corn tortilla in shape so it can fry up nicely for too long. xD I can usually do two-three for under 400cals but more often two for around 200cals.

Eventually I want to be able to control myself around any of my favorite foods. That's a long road to walk down, but I'm trying. >.<

juliaky84 wrote: »

Hi all,

My trigger foods are chips and ice cream. If I want a frozen treat I only keep 100-calorie portions in my house. But the other night I wasn't prepared with healthy snacks and my brother gave me a big bag of chips...I ate almost the whole bag. Sigh. Oh well, hopefully this will remind me for next time how awful I feel after eating all those chips! I don't even keep potato chips in my house because of it. How do you all handle your trigger foods that lead to over-eating?

I used to do this same thing, until i stopped categorizing food into trigger categories. I couldn't keep chips, cookies, ice cream, or nuts in my house because I'd go hog wild.

I stopped demonizing food and started learning how to weigh food and eat portions.

Now, I have those things in my house. I open bag, weigh out portion, put bag away, and eat.