Struggling to give up.....
Lilith5
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I'm struggling to give up anything sweet.....I was fine for a little while but then I went and bought cake yesterday and sweets today. I bought fruit and I love what I bought, I just can't seem to stop 
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Why bother cutting out things you will go insane without? Learn to eat in moderation.0
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I'm struggling to give up anything sweet.....I was fine for a little while but then I went and bought cake yesterday and sweets today. I bought fruit and I love what I bought, I just can't seem to stop
Yep, and neither can most people. Fit the sweets into your calorie goal and you'll have much more success. Completely restricting or giving up specific foods is a great way to lose weight and then gain it all back. Find something that works for you-for life0 -
Don't cut them out. Find a version that will fit in your calorie goal - whether that's a serving of regular ice cream, dark chocolate squares, or a half a doughnut.
The easiest way for me to fail at eating better and losing weight is to tell me that I can't have something. Nothing is off-limits, it's just a matter of eating a correct or reduced portion of the foods I love. I have a Skinny Cow ice cream bar almost every day. Some days, I have regular full-calorie/full-fat ice cream if I have room for it. I *love* my ice cream. I'm going to find a way to fit it into my day and still lose.0 -
I have a glass of wine pretty much every day. I just know that I need to move enough to burn those 100 calories. I make it fit my day.0
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I have started preparing easy "sweet" recipes to replace similar things I love, healthier with no added sugar. I keep almond butter "fudge" in my freezer all the time (ridiculously easy to make!) It makes me crave the really bad stuff less.0
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Iron_Mommy wrote: »I have started preparing easy "sweet" recipes to replace similar things I love, healthier with no added sugar. I keep almond butter "fudge" in my freezer all the time (ridiculously easy to make!) It makes me crave the really bad stuff less.
define "really bad stuff" @Iron_Mommy I eat a chocolate bar every night and lose/lost consistently.0 -
I have a self control issue. I know this. So I get it. There are certain things I can't keep in the house. But everyone is right, you can have everything if you fit it in.0
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Why give up things you enjoy?0
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I am a sweet lover too & it does take patience and I agree that cutting what you love out completely is just asking for disaster because when you think "oh, I can have a little"...it turns into a whole cake. I've started adding in plain vanilla ice cream and fresh raspberries after dinner when I get the craving. It's amazing to me how 1/2 c. of vanilla ice cream and raspberries is filling and it gives me the sweet treat that I need. So, you can still eat them, just watch your portion sizes.0
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Well, @SezxyStef , really bad stuff is I guess different for everyone. I don't think chocolate bars are bad at all in moderation. But for me, "bad stuff" is ice cream, candy (for me it's snickers!), and other sweets with lots of additives. That's the kind of stuff that makes me just want more and more when I eat it. But when I have slightly healthier alternatives, I don't usually crave more afterwards. But everyone is different. Was just offering my advice to keep somewhat healthier sweets on hand.0
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I've lost 41 pounds and I feel like sometimes I only eat sweet stuff , as a lot of people have said as long as it's in your calorie goals then you'll be fine x0
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I've learned there's nothing that is off limits in moderation, but for me personally I know I have to stay away or find a way to portion control certain foods. There are some things that I just have to know I can't trust myself around because just having 1 taste can open the floodgates for me. There was a great chocolate easter bunny massacre at my house one year where I devoured a box in 5 mins without thinking...the next year the box went to my parents so I wouldn't have it tempt me and I could alllow myself 2 a week. There are other sweets that I can have in my house and I can have 1 and walk away.0
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Unless you are prepared to give those foods up for life you need to figure out how to fit them into your calorie goal.
It may take time to learn that but you can do it.
Take smaller portions. Log before you eat to see if it is worth that amount of calories. Eat the item slowly.0 -
Totally agree!! I do the same @Iron_Mommy . Bottom line- do what works for youIron_Mommy wrote: »Well, @SezxyStef , really bad stuff is I guess different for everyone. I don't think chocolate bars are bad at all in moderation. But for me, "bad stuff" is ice cream, candy (for me it's snickers!), and other sweets with lots of additives. That's the kind of stuff that makes me just want more and more when I eat it. But when I have slightly healthier alternatives, I don't usually crave more afterwards. But everyone is different. Was just offering my advice to keep somewhat healthier sweets on hand.
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Diabetics have to give up a lot of sugar, but over time I've found that things like fruit suit very well, while foods like rice did NOT. Instead of seeing sugary foods as being NEVER, it might help to see them as something to be CONTROLLED. Then you will not be fighting insane cravings while trying to lose weight too.0
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@Iron_Mommy can you share the almond butter fudge recipe? Sounds yummy!!0
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@lana0715 Sure! Here is the link, rebootwithjoe.com/almond-butter-chocolate-fudge/
You might also like this recipe for chocolate peanut butter bites, it's actually a MFP recipe. https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/chocolate-peanut-butter-bites/
And if you're on pinterest you can follow my food board, lots more yummy recipes on there! https://pinterest.com/iron_mommy/food-recipes-yum/ 0 -
Iron_Mommy wrote: »@lana0715 Sure! Here is the link, rebootwithjoe.com/almond-butter-chocolate-fudge/
You might also like this recipe for chocolate peanut butter bites, it's actually a MFP recipe. https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/chocolate-peanut-butter-bites/
And if you're on pinterest you can follow my food board, lots more yummy recipes on there! https://pinterest.com/iron_mommy/food-recipes-yum/
Thanks! I'm going to try http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/almond-butter-chocolate-fudge with peanut butter and baking cocoa instead of almond butter and cacao.
I make and like https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/chocolate-peanut-butter-bites/ - I use a 1/4 C scoop and get 9 instead of 12.
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I'm struggling to give up anything sweet.....I was fine for a little while but then I went and bought cake yesterday and sweets today. I bought fruit and I love what I bought, I just can't seem to stop
Are you eating enough protein and fat? This can help reduce sugar cravings.
I plan for a small amount of treats and don't get bingy anymore. Being overly restrictive can be dangerous for some people. Others need to do it for medical reasons and others can do this without issues.
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Work the sweets into your calorie goal and macros. Everything is fine, in moderation, unless you have allergies or medical condition that dictates it otherwise.0
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Work the sweets into your calorie goal and macros. Everything is fine, in moderation, unless you have allergies or medical condition that dictates it otherwise.
that's my point. If we label food "bad" then we give it power. Self control, making it fit and having it in moderation is the key to life long weight loss maintenance imho...if you can't learn that well....0 -
give them up and most people will crash and burn like you've seen
work the sweets into your calorie defecit, you will work out what you have to give up to eat them and then you'll start working out whether it's worth it .. if you're feeling hungry for the sake of a chocolate bar you aren't going to keep doing it are you?
I eat sweet stuff and chips (crisps) daily .. because I don't believe in deprivation
But I hit my protein and fat macros and make sure I get a good nutritional spread of foods too
it's about learning to live appropriately in the modern age not about constant commitment .. and it becomes more natural as time goes on .. although sometimes it's still a struggle and that's where willpower comes back in0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I'm struggling to give up anything sweet.....I was fine for a little while but then I went and bought cake yesterday and sweets today. I bought fruit and I love what I bought, I just can't seem to stop
Are you eating enough protein and fat? This can help reduce sugar cravings.
I plan for a small amount of treats and don't get bingy anymore. Being overly restrictive can be dangerous for some people. Others need to do it for medical reasons and others can do this without issues.
Your sugar cravings must come from a totally different place if eating protein and fat sates them
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kshama2001 wrote: »I'm struggling to give up anything sweet.....I was fine for a little while but then I went and bought cake yesterday and sweets today. I bought fruit and I love what I bought, I just can't seem to stop
Are you eating enough protein and fat? This can help reduce sugar cravings.
I plan for a small amount of treats and don't get bingy anymore. Being overly restrictive can be dangerous for some people. Others need to do it for medical reasons and others can do this without issues.
I've done it before but it wasn't so hard coz there was nothing like it in the house. But we have my niece living with us and she eats crisps, sweets and chocolate etc. Yeah I just think it's taking a while maybe coz my body is used to eating it everyday?0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I'm struggling to give up anything sweet.....I was fine for a little while but then I went and bought cake yesterday and sweets today. I bought fruit and I love what I bought, I just can't seem to stop
Are you eating enough protein and fat? This can help reduce sugar cravings.
I plan for a small amount of treats and don't get bingy anymore. Being overly restrictive can be dangerous for some people. Others need to do it for medical reasons and others can do this without issues.
Your sugar cravings must come from a totally different place if eating protein and fat sates them
Well, I noticed when I ate proportionally more protein and fat, I didn't want sugar as much in general and my premenstrual sugar cravings all but disappeared.
So it wasn't: want sugar > eat protein and fat instead
But: eat more protein and fat > don't want sugar as much0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I'm struggling to give up anything sweet.....I was fine for a little while but then I went and bought cake yesterday and sweets today. I bought fruit and I love what I bought, I just can't seem to stop
Are you eating enough protein and fat? This can help reduce sugar cravings.
I plan for a small amount of treats and don't get bingy anymore. Being overly restrictive can be dangerous for some people. Others need to do it for medical reasons and others can do this without issues.
I've done it before but it wasn't so hard coz there was nothing like it in the house. But we have my niece living with us and she eats crisps, sweets and chocolate etc. Yeah I just think it's taking a while maybe coz my body is used to eating it everyday?
Oh, I'm sure if it were in my face it would be hard for me too. If you don't want to be tempted, can you have your niece keep this in her room and not eat it in front of you? Or keep stuff in the back of the frig/freezer? In a brown paper bag, lol.
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You have to figure out what you want!
Do you want to include cake? It would seem, since you went out and bought it - that you do. If that's what you want, then include cake in your plans so that it doesn't become an overage and a binge. Lots of people here have said that they purposely eat small amounts of things they love because if they don't, they will binge. You won't be alone there.
If you don't want to include cake, then you're going to need to be more disciplined and not cave in while you're trying to change your habits. It takes time. But you keep working on it and you get better at it.
Going out for cake, though, I think it's time to sit yourself down and figure out what it is you really want. It sounds to me like you want cake. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that way.
Either way, figure it out and commit to it. 0 -
I can't have trigger foods around. I hide them. From myself or have my hubby or I will eat the whole thing! I don't buy sweets for me but tge others like em so its hard if im in that place bc I will eat it then im craving sweets so its better to not go there if I can.0
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kshama2001 wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »I'm struggling to give up anything sweet.....I was fine for a little while but then I went and bought cake yesterday and sweets today. I bought fruit and I love what I bought, I just can't seem to stop
Are you eating enough protein and fat? This can help reduce sugar cravings.
I plan for a small amount of treats and don't get bingy anymore. Being overly restrictive can be dangerous for some people. Others need to do it for medical reasons and others can do this without issues.
I've done it before but it wasn't so hard coz there was nothing like it in the house. But we have my niece living with us and she eats crisps, sweets and chocolate etc. Yeah I just think it's taking a while maybe coz my body is used to eating it everyday?
Oh, I'm sure if it were in my face it would be hard for me too. If you don't want to be tempted, can you have your niece keep this in her room and not eat it in front of you? Or keep stuff in the back of the frig/freezer? In a brown paper bag, lol.
No not really...food don't get eaten up the stairs. It's big bags of crisps, can't really be hidden0
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