Help! Can't stop thinking about the bad foods I'm giving up!

If you like midnight ice cream (or any other food), preplan your day and leave enough calories for it at the end. If you're concerned about eating too many portions, try the individual serving sizes.

Maybe a mind reset can help. I think we get ourselves in a bad place saying this food is good or this food is bad. As long as you can create that calorie deficit, you can have ice cream or cookies or chips. So, they aren't bad, there are just healthier choices. But denying yourself the things you love isn't good either. It will set you up for a terrible binge. I'd say try really hard to just have a serving of ice cream if you want it that badly. Individual packaged servings of treats could be a great solution. Personally, there are times where I have to purge all the treats from the house because my control isn't there. If it's not around I can't eat it. Absolute worst case, dish out a serving and wash the rest of the container down the sink. It'll at least get you by tonight and then you can work on pre-planning treats into your days more often so it doesn't become a thing of desperation, which almost always turns into losing control on portions. Stay strong. You've got a goal, so get after it. Best of luck!!

I like eating at night. So I don't really eat in the morning. Around noon to 1pm my body starts to give me the "hey I'm hungry, feed me" signs and so that's when I eat. I try and pre-log my food so then I know what I can eat. Denying yourself things you like is only going to make matters worse. It's easier in the long run to say "okay, I can have 1 serving of Ben and Jerry's tonight" and log it and be done with it. Better than kicking your own *kitten* when you "slip up".

I am also a midnight snacked and I have found it best to save calories so I can have a snack at night. I don't crave bad foods but just a snack like yogurt. Also if you like ice cream I find that swapping for a healthier alternative will help as well as saving calories. Artic Zero and Halo Top run from 150-250 calories for a pint. For myself I usually eat a later breakfast after my fasted workout around 10:30 and try to not eat after midnight. Find ways to make it livable and sustainable or it won't work

I plan a treat for every single night. Sometimes it's just a half cup of slow-churned ice cream (110 calories) and sometimes it's something big like my husband's carrot cake (450 calories!). I go ahead and log it early in the day so I make sure I have enough calories for it. Sometimes I'll take an extra walk to buy myself enough calories. If i run out of calories, I still have something small like the ice cream) because 100 calories isn't going to ruin everything. What will ruin everything is if I start feeling deprived. It's worked for 6 months. I don't feel like I'm dieting.