What do you all do to strengthen willpower???
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DeguelloTex wrote: »
If "take responsibility for your choices and don't try to blame someone else's words or sugar for your failure to meet your goal" is sanctimonious, I'm fine with that.DeguelloTex wrote: »Trigger words. Trigger food. When did people start being so passive about their own lives?
Just because it isn't an issue for you doesn't mean it's not an issue for others. Stop making sanctimonious judgments about how people live their lives. We're all here because we ate too much--for a huge number of reasons -- including you.
Yeah, I ate too much and didn't move enough. That's not sugar's fault or my parents' fault or the fault of anything anyone ever said. It's my fault and I've taken responsibility for my poor choices and am making better ones. It beats blaming a particular kind of food.
All kinds of things are issues for people. Some of them involve putting on your big girl or boy pants and accepting you're the one who has to make the effort and you're the one ultimately responsible for your failure or success. Handling the devil sugar is one of those, for almost everyone.
Yes, and "making the effort" and being "responsible for your failure or success" includes different strategies for different people. If that means completely avoiding certain foods for a while, what's wrong with that as a strategy if it helps?0 -
Show me where I said that was wrong.DeguelloTex wrote: »
If "take responsibility for your choices and don't try to blame someone else's words or sugar for your failure to meet your goal" is sanctimonious, I'm fine with that.DeguelloTex wrote: »Trigger words. Trigger food. When did people start being so passive about their own lives?
Just because it isn't an issue for you doesn't mean it's not an issue for others. Stop making sanctimonious judgments about how people live their lives. We're all here because we ate too much--for a huge number of reasons -- including you.
Yeah, I ate too much and didn't move enough. That's not sugar's fault or my parents' fault or the fault of anything anyone ever said. It's my fault and I've taken responsibility for my poor choices and am making better ones. It beats blaming a particular kind of food.
All kinds of things are issues for people. Some of them involve putting on your big girl or boy pants and accepting you're the one who has to make the effort and you're the one ultimately responsible for your failure or success. Handling the devil sugar is one of those, for almost everyone.
Yes, and "making the effort" and being "responsible for your failure or success" includes different strategies for different people. If that means completely avoiding certain foods for a while, what's wrong with that as a strategy if it helps?
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I have a big, sugary cake right by my desk right now. And I love cake. Even the word "cake" just sounds amazing to me. I'm resisting it only because I know the sugar isn't going to make me feel better. It isn't going to give me more energy (and if it does, it'll be followed by a hard crash), it'll inhibit my ability to work out at lunch as early as I wanted to, and it'll be an additional 140 calories (per very tiny 1/2 piece) I can't eat in food that will actually keep me full.
Six months ago, I would've said "screw it, I deserve it" without thinking twice about it. At least today, I'm pausing to consider the pros and cons. That's what is helping me stay away.0 -
maniacallaugh wrote: »I have a big, sugary cake right by my desk right now. And I love cake. Even the word "cake" just sounds amazing to me. I'm resisting it only because I know the sugar isn't going to make me feel better. It isn't going to give me more energy (and if it does, it'll be followed by a hard crash), it'll inhibit my ability to work out at lunch as early as I wanted to, and it'll be an additional 140 calories (per very tiny 1/2 piece) I can't eat in food that will actually keep me full.
Six months ago, I would've said "screw it, I deserve it" without thinking twice about it. At least today, I'm pausing to consider the pros and cons. That's what is helping me stay away.
Good for you. I also LOVE cake and it's not that there is anything wrong with cake or the sugar in it, but I can totally understand staying away from it. Moderation is not indeed for everyone. Although I say "everything in moderation" all the time, I still would find it very hard to eat just a tiny slice of cake. I don't get many calories a day so I have to choose wisely. I suppose that's where willpower comes in huh *shrugs*0 -
ihatetodietalways wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
Because it's possible to lose weight while eating crappy, sugary, delicious food.ihatetodietalways wrote: »I find it funny that fitness pal is for losing weight, but people are very defensive about cutting crappy sugary foods.
Yes, but in the long run, you will not sustain your weight.
And while eating sugar and still keeping to your calories....it is still not good for you. The way your body digests it is really bad for our systems. Whach Fed Up.....it will change your mind. I never realized until I saw it myself! It's very informative. I honestly believe now a calorie is not just a calorie. Some are good for our bodies and some our not.
Just my thoughts
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You don't eat fruit?esaucier17 wrote: »ihatetodietalways wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
Because it's possible to lose weight while eating crappy, sugary, delicious food.ihatetodietalways wrote: »I find it funny that fitness pal is for losing weight, but people are very defensive about cutting crappy sugary foods.
Yes, but in the long run, you will not sustain your weight.
And while eating sugar and still keeping to your calories....it is still not good for you. The way your body digests it is really bad for our systems. Whach Fed Up.....it will change your mind. I never realized until I saw it myself! It's very informative. I honestly believe now a calorie is not just a calorie. Some are good for our bodies and some our not.
Just my thoughts
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@esaucier17, it's scary to me that a biased "documentary" like Fed Up has the power to change people's minds. I demand better evidence. I suspect five minutes in to a movie like that and I'd have a strong urge to wring the director's neck.0
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maniacallaugh wrote: »I have a big, sugary cake right by my desk right now. And I love cake. Even the word "cake" just sounds amazing to me. I'm resisting it only because I know the sugar isn't going to make me feel better. It isn't going to give me more energy (and if it does, it'll be followed by a hard crash), it'll inhibit my ability to work out at lunch as early as I wanted to, and it'll be an additional 140 calories (per very tiny 1/2 piece) I can't eat in food that will actually keep me full.
Six months ago, I would've said "screw it, I deserve it" without thinking twice about it. At least today, I'm pausing to consider the pros and cons. That's what is helping me stay away.
Good for you. I also LOVE cake and it's not that there is anything wrong with cake or the sugar in it, but I can totally understand staying away from it. Moderation is not indeed for everyone. Although I say "everything in moderation" all the time, I still would find it very hard to eat just a tiny slice of cake. I don't get many calories a day so I have to choose wisely. I suppose that's where willpower comes in huh *shrugs*
I know what you mean. I'm trying to stay good on sugar just because of how it makes me feel, but if I had the calories to spare at the moment, I'd be diving into a bite right now (I only get 1200 today). I mean, it's cake.... chocolate.... and it's within arm's reach.
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The question of the OP was "What do you all do to strengthen willpower???
Some people have to make this in a "sugar bad good war" again
On purpose to troll around or not.
It was about strengthen your will power not if sugar is good for you or not.0 -
Logging calories here helps keep me honest. By "honest" I mean I'm less likely to think things like, "Oh one *little* cookie won't hurt..." If I know the little cookie will put me over my limit, I'm less likely to eat it.
(I wish I did not have cookies in the house, but I have a skinny teenage boy to feed.)0 -
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I have very little willpower, so the best I can do is to stuff myself with the healthiest foods I can find, lots of beans and veggies and no sugar added desserts like banana "ice creams" and black bean brownie smoothies, things that are really more meals than treats but still feel like treats. And that helps me stay within my calorie goals so I don't even miss the junky, sugary stuff. If you keep yourself feeling full on healthy stuff you will be less likely to binge on the unhealthy stuff, which has more calories.0
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TimothyFish wrote: »Willpower is something you learn. You will never learn it if you always give in. But you'll always give in if you set yourself up for failure by having lots of stuff available that tempt you. If you resist stuff enough, it'll get easier to do. Work up to it gradually.
On the other hand:
I used to have a lot more willpower, As I've gotten older I've gotten more relaxed and less obsessive about nearly everything in my life. It's way easier to say "One little cookie won't hurt" than it used to be.
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I look at motivational quotes on Pinterest. Doesn't always work. My daughter and husband leave chips around the house, and that is hard for me to resist. If I do grab the bag. I make myself portion out an amount, weigh it and log it before I eat it. At least, that is what I try to do, my willpower is not always the best.0
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And any time I want more to eat, I can go for a fast walk to "earn" my snack. I love that MFP lets me see what I need to do to earn the food I want. Also, I don't go under 1200 calories, ever, and usually go over by 200-300 calories, and I always eat back my exercise calories. Very little deprivation, here, and I've lost 25 lbs in 5 months.0
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Another way to get willpower is to look in the mirror and work up some disgust about your fat. I don't think "body acceptance" is necessarily a good thing, excepting extreme cases. You can still love and respect yourself, while hating your excess, harmful fat.0
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@esaucier17, it's scary to me that a biased "documentary" like Fed Up has the power to change people's minds. I demand better evidence. I suspect five minutes in to a movie like that and I'd have a strong urge to wring the director's neck.
Oh there was a lot of evidence. Doctors that had done a lot of tests to prove what they said. I wouldn't believe someone just because it's what they told me....i like to see proof. I don't eat sugar and I eat all natural foods, not processed consistantly for about a week now and I already feel so much better....Inside and Out. I am not telling anyone they should do this but what is working for myself and making me feel so much better 0 -
esaucier17 wrote: »ihatetodietalways wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
Because it's possible to lose weight while eating crappy, sugary, delicious food.ihatetodietalways wrote: »I find it funny that fitness pal is for losing weight, but people are very defensive about cutting crappy sugary foods.
Yes, but in the long run, you will not sustain your weight.
And while eating sugar and still keeping to your calories....it is still not good for you. The way your body digests it is really bad for our systems. Whach Fed Up.....it will change your mind. I never realized until I saw it myself! It's very informative. I honestly believe now a calorie is not just a calorie. Some are good for our bodies and some our not.
Just my thoughtsesaucier17 wrote: »ihatetodietalways wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
Because it's possible to lose weight while eating crappy, sugary, delicious food.ihatetodietalways wrote: »I find it funny that fitness pal is for losing weight, but people are very defensive about cutting crappy sugary foods.
Yes, but in the long run, you will not sustain your weight.
And while eating sugar and still keeping to your calories....it is still not good for you. The way your body digests it is really bad for our systems. Whach Fed Up.....it will change your mind. I never realized until I saw it myself! It's very informative. I honestly believe now a calorie is not just a calorie. Some are good for our bodies and some our not.
Just my thoughts
Sorry but the Fed Up documentary is just a movie that misrepresents how the body works just to push their own agenda. Can you tell me in your own words how the glucose in fruit and the glucose in candy or rice or bread get processed different from each other. Please don't day fiber because fiber doesn't make glucose not be glucose. And please don't say to watch Fed Up because that's not the answer. I want your answer. An actual answer.
I'm not a doctor or scientist so there is no way I can give you an answer. It's just what I believe and how my body feels when i do not eat sugar or processed foods. Everyone has their own opnion and I was only giving mine.
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DeguelloTex wrote: »
You don't eat fruit?esaucier17 wrote: »ihatetodietalways wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
Because it's possible to lose weight while eating crappy, sugary, delicious food.ihatetodietalways wrote: »I find it funny that fitness pal is for losing weight, but people are very defensive about cutting crappy sugary foods.
Yes, but in the long run, you will not sustain your weight.
And while eating sugar and still keeping to your calories....it is still not good for you. The way your body digests it is really bad for our systems. Whach Fed Up.....it will change your mind. I never realized until I saw it myself! It's very informative. I honestly believe now a calorie is not just a calorie. Some are good for our bodies and some our not.
Just my thoughts
I eat fruit....in moderation. I don't eat food with ADDED sugar.0 -
esaucier17 wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
You don't eat fruit?esaucier17 wrote: »ihatetodietalways wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
Because it's possible to lose weight while eating crappy, sugary, delicious food.ihatetodietalways wrote: »I find it funny that fitness pal is for losing weight, but people are very defensive about cutting crappy sugary foods.
Yes, but in the long run, you will not sustain your weight.
And while eating sugar and still keeping to your calories....it is still not good for you. The way your body digests it is really bad for our systems. Whach Fed Up.....it will change your mind. I never realized until I saw it myself! It's very informative. I honestly believe now a calorie is not just a calorie. Some are good for our bodies and some our not.
Just my thoughts
I eat fruit....in moderation. I don't eat food with ADDED sugar.
Oh good...then you should be able to explain why they are different then, right?0 -
esaucier17 wrote: »Oh there was a lot of evidence. Doctors that had done a lot of tests to prove what they said. I wouldn't believe someone just because it's what they told me....i like to see proof...
It's the quality of the evidence that makes me shudder. You probably don't drink soda either.
I can show you a beautifully presented video with doctors in lab coats that would convince you that blood transfusions are bad for you. I dare you to tell me what is wrong with their reasoning.0 -
ceoverturf wrote: »esaucier17 wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
You don't eat fruit?esaucier17 wrote: »ihatetodietalways wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
Because it's possible to lose weight while eating crappy, sugary, delicious food.ihatetodietalways wrote: »I find it funny that fitness pal is for losing weight, but people are very defensive about cutting crappy sugary foods.
Yes, but in the long run, you will not sustain your weight.
And while eating sugar and still keeping to your calories....it is still not good for you. The way your body digests it is really bad for our systems. Whach Fed Up.....it will change your mind. I never realized until I saw it myself! It's very informative. I honestly believe now a calorie is not just a calorie. Some are good for our bodies and some our not.
Just my thoughts
I eat fruit....in moderation. I don't eat food with ADDED sugar.
Oh good...then you should be able to explain why they are different then, right?
Wow...people are so quick to jump on you if they don't agree. I was only stating what I believe and how I feel! But this is what I think about the difference if you must know:
Fruit contains many benefits compared to refined sugar. Besides being rich in antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals, fruit is an excellent source of fiber. The presence of fiber in fruit determines what happens to fruit sugars in your body and how quickly they are broken down in your gastrointestinal tract. Unlike refined sugar, fiber in fruit expands in your gut, making you feel full. Fiber is the biggest secret as to why fruit sugars are not as dangerous as refined sugar, preventing the sugars from being rapidly broken down and stored.
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...so sugar water with a tablespoon of Metamucil would do about the same thing, right?0
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I have found that imagining the things I crave that are bad for me, covered in something disgusting really helps me! Sounds mad but my habit have changed completely by doing that.0
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carriefeidt wrote: »I used to be super strict with my diet but it seems that sugar has gotten the best of me lately (normally only at night) and I feel like I go in zombie mode... How do you guys strengthen your willpower?
I made a decision about what I want to see weight/healthwise and what I'll do to achieve it.
I agree with others here that any change you make must be one you can CONTINUE to make. If your thought process is "I'm going to completely give up eating (forbidden food here) until I reach (magical weight number here)" then the second you get to (magical weight number here) you're going to binge on (forbidden food). That's assuming you even hold off that long.
Make small incremental SUSTAINABLE changes that will make you healthier..things like "I will only eat dessert every other day" or "Since I tend to binge on ice cream, I won't keep it in the house but will instead just go buy a scoop when I feel like ice cream" or "I will no longer have a day where I just sit on the couch all day long".
Over time, those changes will add up. I have lost over 40 pounds since last December and kept it off for the most part (there was a short period of about a month where I stopped coming here and logging and surprise, surprise..when I stopped paying attention, I gained weight).
I intend to keep on making small changes toward my final goal of 150-170 pounds (depending on body composition).0 -
So, the reason one sugar isn't like another sugar is because of something that has nothing to do with sugar. Is that your final answer? I mean, you just admitted that the difference wasn't the sugar, right? What if I dip my strawberries in sugar? Is that sugar good, or bad, now? Why?"esaucier17 wrote: »Unlike refined sugar, fiber in fruit expands in your gut, making you feel full. Fiber is the biggest secret as to why fruit sugars are not as dangerous as refined sugar, preventing the sugars from being rapidly broken down and stored.
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