OOOH SHINY! - How to distract from eating?
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- Gardening is the most effective distractor for me. Dirty hands, focusing on something else.
- Every weekend I get a Costco rotisserie chicken that I use for weekday lunch salads. Then I'll put the carcass and water and veggie scraps in the InstantPot or Crockpot and make broth, and freeze in mason jars. Having a big mug of hot broth (which I control the sodium level of) can be satisfying/comforting/warming.
- Putting my retainers in my mouth when I'm in the kitchen is a very effective snack-deflector, but I hate doing it (because its so effective).
- Drinking a bunch of water (sometimes fancified with bubbles, lemon, or infused with herbs/fruit trimmings).
- Making tea. Sometimes I forget to drink it once it's made, but the process of making tea is somehow therapeutic in itself.
- Brushing my teeth is an amazing re-set.
- Deciding, "OK, I'm going to eat a snack, but I have to put it in MFP first and put it on a plate." Then I'm more likely to choose something smart like 10 almonds + 1 cup of cherry tomatoes than my usual 6 tablespoons of almond butter eaten straight out of the jar...
- Prepping raw meat kind of disgusts me and kills my appetite. I still eat meat because I have food intolerances with eggs, dairy, and legumes, but if I didn't, I could see myself following a mostly-vegan diet.
- Grabbing a handful of dog treats and doing 5 minutes of obedience training then playing with my pup.
- Switching to a task I hate is really ineffective, because then it doubles my desire to eat a snack as distraction from the hated task.
- Chopping lots of VEGGIES is therapeutic. I do eat some pieces, but they're low-calorie, and come in slow enough that I reach satiety as I go. Any other type of food prep that involves handling higher-calorie ingredients like nuts, fruit, or cooked meat is a disaster.
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Thanks for all the great tips, ladies! 0
