Who do you live with? Hubby, kids, roommates? I live with my bf, and I just ask him to hide his junk food. I know it's there, but I don't have to stare at it all the time- and that makes a huge difference. If there are no kids involved, maybe the person you live with could hide it? Or maybe you could put them in a "cookie jar" type thing, where they all know they're there, but they're not in plain sight. It helps, trust me.
Also, when I was getting close to goal last time, my dietitian suggested I start working in the "bad foods" I had been avoiding on my diet. For me, that meant eating something that seemed "bad" a few times a week, in normal portions, and counting them into my calorie count. E.g. a single serving of icecream, as suggested by the box, or a small piece of candy here and there, etc. She said the idea was to get rid of some of the power that food has over you by letting yourself eat a little and growing to trust that you can stop after a normal-sized portion. Your mind, like mine, is trained to think that it has to eat 17 of those babies in order to be satisfied, and if you give in a little, you'll go nuts and eat them all. But by eating one or two, working them into your diet without "ruining the day," then you can start to trust yourself more and realize you can be around those things without going bonkers. Plus, your obsessing over them just gives them more power, making it more likely that if you stumble, you'll want to eat 17. If you take that power away, you'll start to realize you don't need so many.
Last edited by kelly315; 09-06-2011 at 05:56 PM.
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