Torito - part of the trick is how you eat it. When I eat sweets on an empty stomach, I can get out of control. When I eat sweets after a balanced meal, I can just have one. Sometimes I stop before I've consumed my allotted serving.
Mkendrick – that is great insight. I know I eat to reward myself and to punish myself and to not deal with my emotions. The first step is realizing it and the next step is to find healthy substitutes what the other things you used food for “entertainment, comfort, happiness, etc”. You need to start filling yourself up on entertainment, comfort, and happiness from a source that is not food.
I find that making healthy chocolate chip cookies and muffins I can a) eat the foods I enjoy and b) avoid the addictive effect that would occur if I purchased them. And I eat them in the right portions.
Start looking for healthy alternatives to the junk food you enjoy. I like to “trick” my brain into believing its eating junk, when really it’s pretty healthy.
I use to have to struggle when I was around foods I wanted but know I should not eat. I have theories why this go around it is easier for me to eat healthy and lose weight – it seems almost effortless. But now I can decide if am going to have that or not.
It is a process, a journey. Keep educating yourself and learning from your behavior and things will get better.
I think what has helped, for me, is before I would say “I can work these calories off” but now I consciously know that weight loss is 70% diet and 30% exercise. I am also doing this for something besides destroying my fat (kind of like a video game). I am doing this for my mental health. Everything I am doing benefits my mood and I’ve dealt with the anxiety/depression without doing anything about it. There is something bigger than the size of my *** that is helping me to get through this.
Believe in yourself ladies (and gent)!
