Chip Addiction!

I do ok eating small bags. I am not giving up my chips. I eat a bag of funyuns every day!

What happens if you stop purchasing them?

Rather than cut them out completely, treat yourself to one small bag a day - have it in the evening so you can look forward to it. Build it into your calorie allowance - deprivation never works.

You're on a good foods/bad foods cycle of deprivation/binging/guilt. That's no good.

Come onto the site every day. Track everything you eat. Set a reasonable caloric goal based on your activity level and goals. For right now, work on "maintenance", because right now you're gaining. Figure out how much you can eat and still allow for a little bit of chippy goodness every day. Once you get some balance, you can either add exercise or cut back on food (either real food or treats) to start losing.

You'll also want to weigh and measure them, and eat them out of a small bowl rather than straight out of the bag.

The problem isn't the chips. The problem is portion size and very likely emotional eating. The more you eat, the more you feel guilty, and the more you feel guilty, the more you want to eat. It's a horrible cycle. Tracking your food and budgeting for treats will end the guilt, which helps curb the eating.

ostrichrider wrote: »

Hey guys, some of you might think this is funny. But I cant stop eating chips. The longest I've gone without eating chips was 2 weeks (about 3 months) and I "relapsed" and gained over 20+lbs. I don't even crave them, but I I cant stop. I eat like 2-3 bags a day. I've tried to stop eating them and every time I feel like I cant control it. The time that I stopped for 2 weeks, I was sleeping a lot, because if I'm awake I cant hep myself. I told myself that I was going to start eating clean today so yesterday I binged...I ate the big bag of Hot Cheetos, the new Chester's Puff (Pizza Flavor), nachos.

Did any of you know what I'm talking about? A certain food that you just cant stop eating.
How can I control this, I tried substituting other crunchy snacks, but it doesn't work.

This is my first post, PLEASE DONT BE MEAN.

The only way to stop...just stop.
There's no secret or trick.
Every chip you put in your mouth is a choice you're making to eat it.

I told my doctor "I can't stop smoking...I just can't". Know what she said?
"Of course you can. Just stop".
So I did.

You can too. Just stop.

Oh and making your own air popped popcorn is heaps healthier and might be a good replacement for the chips

Chips are my downfall too, but I am finding I eat less of them if I am tracking.

There are various strategies you can use.

1. Get the right mindset and make the commitment properly about why you want to lose weight and your commitment to reaching target. Mindset is very importnat because that helps you make the choice between taking steps towards or further away from target. Its your choice.

2. What kathyrain said about tracking. It works because if you are serious it becomes your objective to hit target and you spend calories wisely.

3. MFP is all about change of lifestyle, which means you dont have to deny yourself anything but you should learn portion control, with the aim of eating less than you burn until you reach target. Hence peoples suggestion of smaller bags. Fit a bag a day in as part of your diet. Possibly have it at your most vulnerable time to take away the craving. I have my kind of reward foods at the ned of the day.

4. If that doesnt work consider just not buying them and having them in the house.

5. Consider what it is about the snacks you like is it the crunch or the strong flavour? I like pickles as an alternative quick snack, few calories and strong flavour. I also get the crunch from crisp and ryebreads. Find acceptable alternatives and wean yourself off. I also try and avoid being hungry as chips are a grazing food, that really dont satisfy hunger, but are convenient. No hunger then it means less likely to graze.

6. Pick the less calorie dense form of chips that are baked instead of fried. You get more chip for your calories i.e 85 calories per 25g bag ccompared to 150 cal.

7. If they are that important then do exercise for them. It will take you 15-30mins to earn 1 small bag of chips doing cardio.

8. You can stop if you want to, but getting hooked into the idea of denial, banning foods completely and having ideas about eating clean means you are going into a diet you will not be able to sustain imo. Start with babysteps and just loging plus learning how to use MFP properly. Plan your mindset, deficit, diet and exercise, then implement it slowly to give you time to adjust. If you go too hard then you will burn out and either quit, get stressed or binge.

I like crisps/chips and follow all the above. For goodness sake when you eat them, then enjoy. They are fine in moderation or if you are prepared to exercise for them.

I have not touched chips since I started on MFP. I honestly cannot buy them without eating them all. If I didn't finish a bag I used to eat them for Breakfast the next morning! Even the portion control bags don't do it for me, it's just too tempting. I think I might get some at some point when I really want to treat myself? But the thought of logging like 1000 calories of chips is enough to keep me away from them. I don't go down that isle in the grocery store. Crispy mini's are an OK replacement, but again I will still eat a whole bag of them (at least it's only like 400 cals!).

Chips for me, not so much. Cheez-Its, however, are a little more of a problem. My solution is the small bag trick. Okay, being deployed helps when it's more difficult to get them. LOL

I crave them sometimes. I just get a small bag if I spurlge on something.
btw kale chips and apple chips are awesome .

Chips and a soda at work was one of my biggest downfalls!! I would raid the vending machine. Now I just make sure not to bring cash to work. I will have chips every now and then but not like I used to because they are so high in calories.