Are you staying completely away from your trigger foods?

Its sensible if you are that bad, not to have it round. I find just being very focused on target prevents food distracting me too much. I can have it if I want, but ive worked hard in the gym already and I want target more. I just moderate to fit the chocolate and chips into my allowance or go and burn more calories at the gym to earn it. Target is far more interesting for me.

Because people were banging on about peanut butter on here and how great it was then I bought several jars, but use it sparingly as I realised about the calories.

I would never be able to eat again if I did that. LOL

Completely agree people should do what works for them. Its common sense to keep it out of the house if its such a temptation that you cant trust yourself.

Nope, I eat everything, just make sure they fall within my allotment.

I haven't eat my trigger foods in about 10 years. I don't crave them and I don't miss them. It's worked for me so far.

I have tried to eat small amounts of my trigger foods many times and it always ends in a huge disaster. This especially happens with sugar as I am trying to cut back on sugar to very little. Small amounts of sugar always lead to big amounts, so no sugar for me!

frksfrau wrote: »

I am going to have to stay away from peanut butter for a long time. I may take JaneiR36's advice and buy just a single serving of it. Just can't do it often. :-)

I 2nd buying single serve portions - I love chocolate peanut butter ice cream so every once in a while I buy the single serving of haagen dazs ice cream (the teeny tiny one that comes with a built in spoon) & then I enjoy it & it is out of the house. They sell single servings of peanut butter - so that might work for you =0)

hell no. i just get it in smaller bags now.

I don't have "trigger foods." There are foods, though, that come in large containers; if you put the large container of them out in front of me, I might mindlessly eat far more than I would have chosen to eat had I measured them out beforehand and then put the container away. Chips, nuts, and other calorie-dense snacks fall into that category for me.

My solution is simply to measure out how much I want to eat, then stick to that quantity. If I'm at home, I'll put the container away. If I'm at a reception or somewhere else where I can't do that, I'll take a plate, measure out what I want to eat, and then stop when the plate is empty. It's not that hard to do if I commit myself to thinking of my plate as the total quantity I will eat; that encourages me to pace myself.

frksfrau wrote: »

I know if I get a taste I will eat the jar. What about you? ?

No the glass is too crunchy


Serious answer: whilst I agree moderation is good, I also think there are ways of acheiving this - and one of them is not to have said food in the house but to limit it to special occasions or places or methods whereby one cannot over indulge - eg buying single serve container, eating peanut butter if one goes to a breakfast or to someone else's place or orders a sandwich for lunch - eg circumstances you cant just get the jar and eat whole thing.
- That way you are not totally denying yourself but you are forcing moderation on to yourself without the temptation or opportunity to blow it.

I didn't think that I actually had any trigger foods. Turns out it's gummy candies. I will eat an entire bag of gummy bears if you put it in front of me. A days worth of calories just gone in a snap. I eat a few very very very rarely these days.

I stay away if at all possible, for me it is white carbs, bread and potatoes and crisps, once I start it is a steamroller effect....and I end up weighing nearly as much as the steamroller too! I find that the longer I don't eat these trigger foods the less I am really craving them and it is then easier to look at them and say ' you're just not worth it'. Good luck in finding what works for you, it helps to get ideas and suggestions but in the end it is down to you finding a balance that suits you and your body

Nope. I eat what I want, when I want it, in moderation. I stopped snacking mindlessly though (i.e. sitting in front of the TV with the family sized bag of chips; now, I'll measure out a serving and stop when they're gone).

It depends honestly. Basically I keep disillusioning myself into thinking that I can just have one piece of something, but it doesn't often work out that way. So right now, yes, I'm avoiding, although still having some other things in moderation (or I'll make room in my day and go somewhere and have one serving of the thing I crave).

For me it's always sweets though, typically baked good and hazelnut filled chocolates. Ice cream I can eat in moderation for a week then my hormones kick in and I finish the pint, so I'm actively avoiding buying some as well.

Some yes some no. That's because after so many months (years?) of eating better, I can actually enjoy some of my previous trigger foods in moderation! For a long time I couldn't buy cookies because I'd eat the whole package. My poor deprived kids! Now I keep cookies in the house and eat one occasionally and don't really think about it. Much.

Nutella is still a no. Can't buy that stuff...can barely walk past it in the grocery store. That stuff is like crack to me.