Weekends! It was out ritual to go out to dinner on Friday night. Which usually meant the rest of the weekend was shot with mexican, chinese, fast food. Now we may do something like the Mongolian Grill or Subway. But my downfall is french fries. So now if I crave french fries I'll get some frozen ones from the store and bake them. Its only like 140 calories for 13 fries. Perfect!

my trigger is basically... bread.
soft, tasty, wonderful bread, maybe with olives or some strange seeds, even with wholemeal... SLURP! :-))

And it's very difficult to resist because here in Italy that bread is everywhere, on every table, in every corner of the house! :-D

But I'm learning to eat it with control... before I tried to avoid it totally for some time, it worked for few days, but after that I freaked out and came back to my old habits, even worse...

So now I just assume that I'm eating a little bit of bread anyway... and I compensate it with NO pasta or rice AT ALL... which is very easier for me.
And I try to choose wholemeal bread instead of the refined one... I try to limit the damage, let's say, ehehehe.

My emotions!!

white rice. I have to have it AT LEAST once a week. it's always in the house, with the rice cooker on the warm setting, waiting to be gobbled up

:)My trigger is anxiety, creamy,gooey foods,homemade whipped cream, homemade chocolate pudding (warm), fresh italian thin pizza, fried eggs and homemade toast,cocoa (with above mentioned whipped cream), sadness, lonliness....but lately mostly pizza.

divinechaos, I LOVE white rice. I have trouble seeing it as "bad" though, since I lived in Japan for 10 months and they eat it at almost every meal (and look at how skinny they are! I actually lost weight there without trying, and I was eating a LOT of white rice).

lol, I know, my mom eats a TON of white rice every day and she's weighed like 115 lbs her whole life. It's just right now I'm on a low-carb diet so white rice is something I'm supposed to stay away from x_x

What is your guilty pleasure?
Oreos
Skittles
Starbursts
Cheese, Salami and Crackers
Pick-up-stix

How could you lighten it up?
I rarely buy oreos, skittles, and starbursts. For cheese, I just buy the veggie slices that I use to make grilled cheese and string cheese for snacks. No blocks, or I'll just eat it! At pick up stix I order brown rice and terriakyi chicken

Have you made an action plan to avoid this food/place?
I just avoid the candy and cookie rows in the grocery store!


If you don't avoid it, how do you control yourself?
I don't, which is the problem! Lol. Once I eat one of these things, I immediately start craving more, so avoidance is key. If I don't eat them I usually don't get cravings too often. Except right now, my coworker is eating pick-up-stix and the smell is making my mouth water.... mmmm....

Ice Cream. I need to learn to just not buy it. If it stays at Giant, I can't eat it!

Mine is not a certain food or place. It's more of after I ate something really healthy but is just not satisfied I start rationalizing by saying if I ate xyz it's okay...this is why I can not cut out sweets or crabs because I go crazy.

What is your guilty pleasure?
Bread, pasta, carbs of any kind. I work at an Italian restaurant, and I swear they call to me. I opened a bag of hamburger buns today and I felt faint because it smelled so good. As soon as I eat a little bit, I'm starving for anything in sight. I think if I cut out carbs completely, I would never have cravings for anything...too bad that's impossible.


How could you lighten it up?
I buy the Sara Lee 45 calorie bread to make my sandwiches, and light hamburger and hot dog buns. As for pasta, I order kids meals with marinara sauce, and get the bread with no butter.


Have you made an action plan to avoid this food/place?
I completely ban bread at work, where it is so available. I do have a cheat day on Sunday when I can eat a piece of bread if the cooks make it by mistake or something.


If you don't avoid it, how do you control yourself?
I know from experience that if I get started on the Italian bread at work, I'll never stop. So I just don't touch it.

I totally agree with you. I get this "empty" feeling and the only thing that seems to fill it is food. It could happen when i am stressed or upset or even just bored. I am trying to find a way to fill it with out eating but my first thought is to get rid of the physical feeling by eating something and then i feel at ease.

I've found that my main trigger is boredom. If I'm bored, I'll just wander into the kitchen and stuff my face with whatever I happen to have lying around. Before the recession, if I had an urge to eat, I'd just go to the clothing store and buy something cute. Or I'd go to the theater and watch a movie.

Now with the recession and no job, anything that costs money is no longer an option. And I've had to cancel my gym subscription. And I can't buy salads anymore because I can't afford them. Yup -- I'm packing on the recession pounds.

My biggest trigger is my my dichotomous thinking which means if I think I have ruined the day diet-wise, then it is a license to eat.

I am realizing that is simply not true and allowing myself to eat my forbidden foods in moderation and mindfully without spending the rest of the day pigging out until it hurts.