Sweets.

After more or less abstaining for over a year, I went a little nuts this month using my pregnancy as an excuse to indulge. I've had to put the kabosh on sweets all over again just in the past few days so I can feel like I'm in control again.

This is an old(er) thread, I know. I still want to share:

My biiiiiiiggest health struggle is eating just because I see something. It has zero to do with hunger. I just want it.

I have many issues, but Holy Hannah that's the worst one.

ohhhh yes. Some people feel grumpiness from hunger, which happens to me, but I also get grumpy if I simply want food and I'm not hungry. I very very much feel it so that I am full, I still want to munch on more. I just want it. Its not even really about taste, I like the act of eating.

My mind!

I have a lot of old ingrained thoughts, and habits, and so on, that are hard to overcome.

I know, that I know better, but sometimes that old stuff rears it's ugly head!

Clean your plate, meat is expensive, there are starving children, (insert country), you have an owie, have a cookie, had a bad day at work, have beer or 6, and so on.

The messages over my life concerning food, have been so mixed, it's insane!

Emotional eating is my biggest problem and then boredom. Not that I eat due to boredom as I am never bored but rather I get bored with my food. Oh I guess I do get bored. LOL But just with having similar foods over and over and over.

Pretty much like the others...WANTING to eat when i'm not really hungry at all.

The "F" it attitude if I'm not perfect. I get caught up in the idea of "Well, I wasn't totally perfect so therefore all effort is wasted and I should give up!"

Eating in the evenings. I really am fine with two meals a day, but even if I've had a great day and I'm genuinely happy, I feel very much alone when I get home in the evening, and I fill the void with food. I can easily eat 1000 calories in an evening.

My biggest struggle is not "rewarding" myself with comfort food after a hard day at work.

THIS happens to me all of the time. Than I gorge.
It's a habit I'm trying to break.

This is another one of my rituals! A lot of times, if I've had another one of my super stressful days, I get fast food on my way home. Other times I'd just over-eat at dinner time for the **** of it.

Too many helpings at dinner, luckily I eat dinner early and nothing after.

Staying on track with exercise. I'm usually pretty good about it but sometimes 3 or 4 days will pass and then I force myself to get back to they gym and then I can stay on track again for a while. I have to exercise for many reasons, not just for weight.

Ditto. It's like a mini "Congratulations! You did stuff today!" Here's a milkshake.

=P Gotta try and not use food as a reward. Perhaps it could be new jewelry or a new book every once in a while instead of junk food.

Champagne, hands down. I still keep my calories low enough with it, but it would help to cut it out.

I have a major sweet tooth but have been pretty successful managing it. I have a variety of techniques I use; however, often times it comes down just avoiding sweets altogether.

Most of the time I am fine with my decision - eating sugary things in moderation is key for a healthy body. However, a big obstacle is that often - even if I have the points for it - I will choose something healthy. In general this is a good thing, but I am finding myself denying myself a treat even on the weekends when I usually spend my weekly points.

I just get really paranoid that if I eat this cookie or that slice of birthday cake, that it will send me off in an uncontrolled binge. And I don't like the idea of eating sweet treats when I am sad or stressed. Which has been often times lately, so there hasn't been a lot of treats for me in the last hmmm nine months or so.

Overall, my biggest challenge is to find balance and to trust myself that I'm not going to wake up being 260 pounds again. It's hard.

Another obstacle has been the treats offered at work. Often it's all day, every day. Well meaning people bring in muffins or cupcakes or truffles. Or they will be eating a single portion snack and come up to you and ask if you'd like to try it's. Then there are days where there is all you can eat free pizza, birthday cake, bagels, cupcakes etc.

So it can be challenging to avoid an entire room full of sweet treats for a whole day. And to explain over and over why you are not participating. I'm not complaining about my work tho, just sharing one of the obstacles that are featured in my life currently.