I've been working on my eating habits. I started off giving up sugar and that worked really well for me. I still do pretty much no sugar but I don't want to be as strict now. I want to learn control (something I definitely wasn't ready with at the beginning). However, I've noticed if I have anything at all sweet in the house that my first instinct when I'm hungry is to start thinking about it.
Today it was lunch time and I just couldn't stop thinking about chocolate but then I realized I had to eat lunch. I started chanting to myself the mantra "real food first!". Silly, I know, but it worked. I did have a SMALL bit but after eating a real meal and I wasn't tempted to binge. I just hate that after almost a year of doing this that I still struggle with my first instincts going to the wrong types of food. Does this ever go away??????