That's the one that really gets me--a huge craving for salt that seems to be premenstrually linked. If I do eat some chips (even a limited amount), I end up feeling bloated and worse.

I no longer keep ice cream or frozen yogurt in the house--it's just too hard. I buy Trader Joe's chocolate almond biscotti--not too high in fat and one is a very satisfying snack with a cup of cold milk.

I am thinking about switching to ff sugar free hot chocolate now that the dark fall days are settling in.

Another weak time: being too hungry to make rational decisions about what to eat. I've posted about that other times so probably don't need to say more.

I wish that worked for me vmelo; however, I can eat while watching an autopsy. I always said I missed my calling in life...to be a coroner. Thinking of disgusting things while eating is like a pastime to me...but has no effect whatsoever upon my appetite. LOL! And it would be nice if my family would, at my request, avoid buffets, but they're not the type to go out of their way like that. So, I just put some distance between us, and try to eat as best I can when I visit. I did eat all the stuff good for me, and only tried desert one night. But I ate more than I normally would.

That would make a great commercial !!

Originally Posted by Meg
<<I get incredibly frustrated with so-called “experts” who think that all we need is “education” about dieting and nutrition -- and then we’ll have an ah-ha moment that carrots have fewer calories than cheesecake and effortlessly spend the rest of our lives as slim people. I don't think so!>>

This quote hit my fancy. Many years ago while ending a protein diet supervised by a physician, some of us were in the office of his newly-out-of- school nutritionist. She was a very nice young woman, meant well, and we had gotten to like and trust her. In school she had learned, and believed, that all it took for fat people was to lose the weight, then learn about food and good eating and that was the end of it. We would then walk down the path to a thin life forever-after with her imparted food wisdom clasped tightly to our grateful breasts, as if we had never heard about carrot sticks before.

ONe day we were sitting in her office and talking about hard-core binge eating that we all had done, what a binge was, what/how we ate when out of control and so forth. She sat there with glazed eyes and jaw agape. This was a college graduate with an advanced degree in nutrition, AND DID NOT KNOW ABOUT BINGE EATING. She had never heard about it before, either in school or in her personal life with friends, etc. How could someone who did not know even the basics of compulsive eating possibly know the solution??? She must have thought fatties such as we were just ate too much at meals as well as made wrong food choices.

I am sure she is not the only nutritionist out there who did/does not know the about the pitfalls of real maintaining.

I can also report in subsequent years, this woman educated herself and is now a bonafied specialist in disordered eating. Our tales of bingeing years before are what spurred her interest in a subject she thought she knew, but didnt.

Jan

I was reading in the Library section just now and came upon an article about '8 eating emotional triggers' or something like that, and their solutions. Here is the addy:

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21248

Jan