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lainzain
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Sometimes I do so great and other times I crave three doughnuts. I never crave sweets until I start diets. I'm not even a sweets person. Chips are my downfall an Asian and Mexican food. My intake is all over the place.
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Yep - sounds about right.
It's a process, learning how to eat mindfully. Keep working at it.9 -
Are you telling yourself you can't have sweets? We always want the forbidden. Allow yourself occassional sweets within your calorie goals.15
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It's all about moderation. You can have a donut. You can have take-out. If you're planning on having these items, pre-log and then fit your macros around those splurges. Mexican food can be healthy. Chipotle features a lettuce bowl option which automatically decreases the calories and increases micro-nutrient intake. Try Dough Bar Donuts for lower calorie, higher protein donuts. There are substitutes for just about everything these days.5
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Probably silly to mention it on here. You could try looking to see if you are low on zinc, it can do all manner of strange things. Trouble is general medicine does not bother with the seemingly small stuff.
You can win the battle of the doughnuts.4 -
`serindipte wrote: »Are you telling yourself you can't have sweets? We always want the forbidden. Allow yourself occassional sweets within your calorie goals.
This is the key for me. If I am not allowed to have something I want it even more. If I am allowed to have it and eat in occasionally in moderation then no problems. If you really want a donut then have one, but maybe just one and not three.6 -
I get the moderation thing, but there are just some times I want the damn doughnut (or 3). And I don't have the calories for it.
Crap, last night it was trail mix. Man the serving size of that stuff is tiny.6 -
I had two doughnuts this morning. They weren't planned, but they were delicious. Someone brought doughnuts to work and I chose to have them.
I'm now tweaking the rest of my day to make them fit my calorie allowance. Which means a lower calorie lunch and dinner, and no dessert. It's about choices.
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Sometimes I do so great and other times I crave three doughnuts. I never crave sweets until I start diets. I'm not even a sweets person. Chips are my downfall an Asian and Mexican food. My intake is all over the place.
I've found my life became easier when I just fit things into my calorie goal and ate fairly normally instead of dieting. Prelogging was also helpful.
I pair higher calorie foods with more lower calorie vegetables. I reduce calories in foods by using less cheese, less oil, lower fat milk, thinner crust for pizza. I might skip rice or bread if it doesn't fit well that day. I don't try to have doughnuts, stuffed crust pizza, fried chicken, bacon cheeseburger and a peanut butter shake all in one day.
Ask yourself if you are being too restrictive. Weight loss is about having a calorie deficit not eating particular foods. You can create a calorie deficit by reducing calorie intake, increasing activity (calorie burn) or both.
Is your calorie deficit too aggresive? Maybe choose a slower rate of loss and lose more comfortably.
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I only discovered I really don't care that much about donuts since I have been working within my calorie allotment. I know I can have them, but every time I think of what to trade off to have them, they lose. It's like I ate them out of habit, but I really don't like them enough to give up something else for them that day,8
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I found that if I try to restrict sweets/food in general, I end up way overeating. I even have a hard time banking calories..I end up overeating on the weekends
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I love donuts, a downfall of mine, I know if I have one I will want more.
I keep telling myself I'll have one ... just not yet.
I am responsible for picking up 5 dozen once a month for my church ... haven't had one yet this year. I will though when the time is right. It's my own personal mind game. Have had other desserts though (pie, ice cream) just holding out on the donuts.
But I agree with earlier posters, if you really want a donut indulge ... carefully but without guilt!
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Donuts are just so good though.2
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This isn't so much a complaint about food as it is your own self-control. My best advice is moderation. Don't say "no" to donut, just say no to 3 donuts. Mexican food can be very diet friendly, you just need to watch the cheese and sauces as they can add up quick. If you like something, and have no dietary restrictions, eat it if that will help you to be successful.2
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I'm an "all or nothing" type person, so I stay very strict on this healthy living. The older we get, the quicker time flies. I've been living in Florida for what I thought was only 3 years, but it's my 5 summer down here! So, with the time flying by so quickly, I just say to myself..."the mcDonalds, sweets and alcohol will STILL be there a year from now when I get to my goal". So, that's what keeps me going. I DO steal a chip now and then from hubby who sits there and eats the BEST meals...because I cook them for him! I sit there and eat my plain sweet potato and shrimp! LOL! It's a struggle, but like they say..."being thin feels better than food tastes"...or that's what I heard. By the way, how do you make friends on here??3
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I've recently started running. I feel great and I get to eat a lot more "bad" food when I pretty much do a 5k (1/2 run, 1/2 walk at the moment) for breakfast.
I no longer eliminate foods, I just eat what I want in smaller portions.0 -
My biggest complaint is my kids having all this candy in my house!! There's still Easter candy in this one corner of the kitchen and I'm all, "I WANT THAT LINDT CHOCOLATE BUNNY NOW!! GET IN MY BELLY, PEEPS!!" Then, the saying I learned on this journey kicks in, "That will never taste as good as feeling skinny feels." Freaking sweets!!3
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Believe it or not, I have several different types of snack foods in my house right now. The ice cream cups have been there so long, ice crystals are forming on the surfaces.
In the past, I would have devoured everything before it was even in the house 6 hours.
The difference this time around? I am not on a starvation diet. I don't consider that stuff off limits. I try to buy single portion stuff if it is available, and FoodSaver single portions if it is not available pre-packaged. This way, I am very aware of how much I am eating, and what it will do to my "budget" of calories. I just don't crave it anymore now that it is freely available if I want it. Many times, I'll stand in my kitchen, staring at those foods, thinking, "What do I feel like eating? Meh, nothing." and turn around and go back to what I was doing before.
Fri-Sun is my weekend. I plan to eat some of my exercise calories on those days. No feelings of deprivation. Last Friday I had 3 slices of pizza and a couple glasses of wine. And an ice cream cup. Had the calories already planned out.
I'm thinking Asian food tomorrow night. Need to pick up some plum wine.1 -
I have 125 days of logging and eating intelligently. Yesterday I opened a bag od Fritos Scoops and scooped some Ranch dip. I just stopped earlier than the old days and logged the calories and moved on.4
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Sometimes I do so great and other times I crave three doughnuts. I never crave sweets until I start diets. I'm not even a sweets person. Chips are my downfall an Asian and Mexican food. My intake is all over the place.
I am a fan of Asian and Mexican food too but have learnt to adapt the recipe to make it more calorie friendly. I add as much vegetable as I do meat and serve with either spiralised zucchini or cauliflower rice if I don't have enough calories for tortilla wraps and rice. I have also reduced the amount of cheese I add.
As for sweets and chips just plan ahead to include a treat into your meal plan occasionally. You are more likely to crave what you think you can't have. It is not uncommon for a dietician to recommend aa 80/20 food split where 80% of your food is largely fresh and unprocessed food and 20% is those special treats for this reason.
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Oh man if you make Mexican food at home it's even more delicious and healthy!!! I made a homemade fahjita bowl tonight and it was amazing!!! Do you like to cook? If not it's not hard at all!! There are some really good low calorie desserts out there too like fiberone brownies.. they taste just like real yummy chocolate brownies! You just have to experiment and find new foods and eat in moderation! You can do it! Here's that fahjita bowl recipe for you..
https://www.yellowblissroad.com/healthy-chicken-fajita-bowls/2
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