Self-Sabotaging Habits: Confess them to help (everyone) beat them!
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I have the same shameful habit of bingeing. Also, lying in my diary is another one.1
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For me, it's thinking that the one thing I do today won't result in a long term problem. It does. It always does. At one point I had lost 75lbs and I ran constantly. So the thought that I could be bad one week and then go back to "good" the next week and see the water weight disappear became really ingrained in how I viewed my eating habits. However, what wound up happening is I would always do one thing... so that one thing became a collection of one things that would ruin all my hard work.
I also have a terrible time turning down the foods my boyfriend brings around. He's a MUCH bigger guy (he's tall and built like a linebacker) and so he can eat and barely show anything. Whereas for me, I eat one cheese cracker and suddenly I've eaten 1/4th the cheese and I've gained 3lbs, whereas it was just a quick snack for him. I have to really start looking at how I'm not thinking of things in a collective manner. I also need to start making my choices more independent of his habits. He's totally supportive of this and if I'm honest, this has been my failure. Not his.0 -
Sometimes I have a bad day of eating and attempt to compensate the next day. Sometimes it works, other times it sends me into a yo-yo like pattern that leads to a sort of binge-fast cycle. If it's only a few hundred calories over my calorie goal then I've learned to forget about it and just move on. Sometimes it's 1000, though.1
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Ordering candy online1
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SisterSueGetsFit wrote: »One word- Booze.
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Plus I look at the calories I have burned that day and say cool I can have a drink or I can have extra (fill in the blank). I quit looking at that until the next day and that has helped plus laying off the Tito's vodka lol. Damn I love Tito's Vodka.1 -
I make every excuse under the sun not to go to the gym. It goes something like this.
Me "Tomorrow I will go to the gym".
Me the next day> I must eat first, I need to let the food settle, I need to hang washing out while it is sunny, I had better clean up first because I wont feel like it when I get back, I need to stay in this morning because I am pretty sure that parcel I ordered will come and I might need to sign for it, I will go this afternoon, I think I am getting a headache so I will wait and see if it goes away, really dont think I have the energy to go today I will probably feel better tomorrow, yes that's it I will go tomorrow. <breathes sigh of relief>6 -
Here's a coping mechanism: bought TJs cookie butter for the first time ever. I've been doing well for the past couple of days - have it ONLY on my breakfast sandwich but went straight for it when I got home today. One teaspoon turned into one tablespoon turned into five teaspoons. The spoon before last I consciously said out loud "no more after this".... and then there was one more after that. When I went back to the pantry AGAIN for another spoon, I literally just changed directions and grabbed a serving of rice pudding from the fridge. It was small but the taste was so different from the cookie butter that it threw my brain off.
No more cookie butter for me, and I managed to fit BOTH into my calories for today without giving into a cookie butter binge!6 -
My eating is out of control once I get home. I'll start with a reasonable snack, which becomes a marathon of gorging until dinner is done. Also, I haven't been accurately logging the binging because it is embarrassing to admit in my diary.
It is disappointing because I'd made it under 150 lbs for the first time in over 2 decades. I am now that much further from my end goals because I am not reining in this habit that I previously let push me to almost 250 lbs. Things will get better! Just really frustrated in backtracking.
Here's what I do: when I know that the binge is BAD but I'm too embarrassed to log it, I just add 1 or 2 thousand calories. I know that I binged and that I'm forcing myself to be accountable, but it's literally just one line item in my diary, like anything else. Log it and move on.2 -
My confession is that when I read cookie and candy discussions here, it takes me less than 48 hours to binge on cookies and candy. I must stop reading those discussions.2
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Peanut butter is my cookie butter^^^
It’s is my kryptonite for sure.0 -
ent3rsandman wrote: »Sometimes I have a bad day of eating and attempt to compensate the next day. Sometimes it works, other times it sends me into a yo-yo like pattern that leads to a sort of binge-fast cycle. If it's only a few hundred calories over my calorie goal then I've learned to forget about it and just move on. Sometimes it's 1000, though.
I have the same problem so bad it constitutes a major part of my eating disorder. What I've found that works fairly well is this:
Instead of a single number, fixed calorie target every day, I give myself a target range. Mine, specifically, as of right now, is 1200-1500 - so, 300 calorie difference between the low end and the high end. I do not, under any circumstances, take in less than 1200.
So, if I were to eat 2000 one day (500 over the high end of my range) then, my goal would be to eat closer to 1200 for the next 2 days (total of 600 under the high end). Thus, on average (i.e., where it actually counts) I remain within that range - and I didn't have to starve myself and restart the yo-yo cycle to do it.3 -
I tend to reward success with food. Terrible habit & self sabotaging! I have to find a non-food reward!1
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beer. and having a handful of nuts without weighing.2
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I love cake. Anytime it is in the house, i'll slice little slivers off of it and eat it right off the platter or pan instead of putting it on a plate when no one is around. One sliver turns into 10 slivers and at that point, I've just consumed a normal size piece. Except I didn't enjoy eating it at all cause I do it as fast as possible. My mind can pretend I never ate it since it wasn't on a plate but it is embarrassing. I think I'd feel less bad about eating things like cake if I would just serve myself on a plate.5
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Paradoxically both getting too discouraged/feeling too ashamed of minor upward trends and falling off the wagon. And getting too cocky when I finally do start to see the scale dip downward and go "I got this I can surely have a couple bad days." Which turns into a bad week. Which leads to situation one.
I also LOVE sweets. I try to schedule them into my diet so I don't completely give up.
Social eating is also a problem. I like to go out to restaurants with friends and don't want to be a killjoy and don't always like the low calorie options.1 -
If I drink alcohol, even 1 beer I lose control over my food2
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Normally i overpay to get a single serving thing, Like a drumstick from a variety store. Some times ill cave and buy a tub of icecream or a box of 5 cones for what would be 1.2 cones cost at a variety store. I tell myself every time ill moderate them and make them last. I know i cant. I eat until im sick and keep eating with foods like icecream/cookies/cakes. I know that, Yet every once in a while i get cocky (lie to self) lol.
Lately i hid my sweets from self, But i live in a tiny place so not overly well. Instead of wasting a few $ i tell myself i cant possibly waste 2$ worth of chocolate chips! Such a waste...So i keep digging into them every few days -.- Iv wasted alot more on alot less. Im totally lieing to self and totally aware if it but i still cant throw them out lol.
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Bread bread and more bread need a lock1
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Beer/alcohol is something I have noticed myself consuming more often. I am still a light to moderate drinker, but alcohol calories really add up. Before I joined MFP I wasn't even thinking about the glass of wine or beer with dinner, or the sunday football beers, PLUS just one drink in and I am already reaching for the snacks. I decided recently I will only drink on holidays and special occasions. Currently I intend on sobriety until New Years! It honestly hasn't been challenging at all, and I have noticed a big difference in how I feel. My boyfriend probably drinks a beer every other night and I started drinking more often with him. But, I can no longer use another's action as an excuse for my own.1
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I would say mine bad habit is pasta, bread and carbs. Since I started Keto I have done much better but I still slip and crave once in awhile. Now its just staying strong for the holidays.0
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