Self-Sabotaging Habits: Confess them to help (everyone) beat them!

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  • explodingmango
    explodingmango Posts: 171 Member
    edited October 2017
    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.
  • misshoe
    misshoe Posts: 2 Member
    I tend to reward success with food. Terrible habit & self sabotaging! I have to find a non-food reward!
  • besaro
    besaro Posts: 1,858 Member
    beer. and having a handful of nuts without weighing.
  • DanielleFayeS
    DanielleFayeS Posts: 1,981 Member
    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.
  • lili200
    lili200 Posts: 200 Member
    If I drink alcohol, even 1 beer I lose control over my food
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    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.

  • kathskelly53
    kathskelly53 Posts: 119 Member
    Bread bread and more bread need a lock
  • KenzieTeague
    KenzieTeague Posts: 10 Member
    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.
  • verybusybee
    verybusybee Posts: 131 Member
    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.
  • jessica91b17
    jessica91b17 Posts: 9 Member
    I have been binging on sugary snacks when I'm stressed or bored even though i know it's the wrong choice, I usually end up saying things to myself like I'll start over tomorrow or i just don't care right now and then I feel guilty later.
  • PositiveChange2013
    PositiveChange2013 Posts: 25 Member
    My biggest problem is using binge eating to numb the pain of my work related anxiety. I'm going back to my old habits of saying, "Ahhhh.....what the hell. Tomorrow is another day." When tomorrow comes, I repeat the whole tomorrow is another day mantra once again. This needs to stop.
  • vmtdawn
    vmtdawn Posts: 5 Member
    I "borrow" calories from the week so I can binge eat. If I'm out of calories on Monday, I borrow some from Tuesday so I can eat what I want.
    Then when Tuesday gets here, I get frustrated I don't have enough calories, say screw it, and binge eat.
    I'm still figuring out how to fix it. Well, I know how to fix it..Just controlling myself to not do it.
  • verybusybee
    verybusybee Posts: 131 Member
    @jessica91b17 I am also a bored eater and stressed eater. Although I don't always know when I am stressed. What I have been trying to do is keep healthy snack individually wrapped and with me at all times. Nuts in the car or pork rinds (I do keto) so no carbs or cheese etc.
  • verybusybee
    verybusybee Posts: 131 Member
    @vmtdawn The concept of borrowing calories comes from weight watchers. While on weight watchers you are given a number of points and then additional points you can use a little each day or have like a cheat day. It isn't a bad concept but I am not sure how you do it with calories. May you can work on staying between 50 and 100 under Sunday through Friday and then you have 350-700 to play with on Saturday or a day you choose.
  • jessica91b17
    jessica91b17 Posts: 9 Member
    I was doing really good before it started getting colder, what worked for me before was to either chew sugar free gum or take a short walk instead of snacking when im feeling upset.
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    Brittfitt16 wrote: »
    aeloine wrote: »
    There are foods that I delude myself into thinking I'll be able to control. This week I bought a bag of individually wrapped chocolates thinking that I'd be able to ration them.

    Woke up one morning on a pile of wrappers and a chocolate hang over.... I guess you could say I *browned* out :wink:

    My fix is to NOT keep chocolate in the house.

    I've totally been there

    Me three. I have a bad habit of sort of hoarding certain foods, thinking I can control my intake of them but the fact is that the only times I do buy these foods is when I cannot control my intake, due to emotional stuff. Lately, it has been mince pies (Uk Xmas food) and Red Velvet Cake. I got rid of all the funsize chocolate bars I amassed during the Halloween period as even putting them in the freezer did not stop me. It is not self sabotage in the sense that I have any weight to lose, but that I end up binge eating and feeling like rubbish from all the sugar.
  • kathskelly53
    kathskelly53 Posts: 119 Member
    Did someone mention mince pies. Now that’s going to be hard

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