Diet?

[KYS]

Gee Rachel,
thanks a lot. NOw I am craving cookies and ice-cream.

I eat food for comfort. I have to
be pretty depressed not to want to eat.

If you can get past that mental block and not let
food control you.
What's that saying, You should eat to live not
live to eat.
I live to eat and that is my problem.

But I will say don't deprive yourself.
Eat smaller portions and if you get a craving
try to munch on stuff like carrots, jello anything
with out the fat and calories.
If you have to eat that peice of cake, than
cut down on something else.
Drink plenty of water.
Once you get past that mental block and are
able to change your eating habits it does
finally get easier.
Exercize is important too.
I rarely like to exercize so I started
taking daily walks.

Do not keep anything fattening in the house.
If you are like me, I can not just have 1 cookie.

(of course I haven't gotten past that mental block
yet.)

[lizzielou742]

One summer I switched to diet sodas and started swimming four times a week for 15-20 minutes at a time and lost 30 pounds. Of course, the 30 pounds was gained during a period of zero exercise and eating nothing but chocolate chip cookie dough and ice cream (breakup ). Anyway, I have since gained 10 of it back because I stopped swimming. Swimming is an awesome full-body workout. I enjoy dancing/aerobics too. Also, when I feel hungry, I drink a big glass of water and then wait 20 minutes to see if I'm still hungry. I heard somewhere that people confuse hunger for thirst a lot. Sounds hard to do, right? It actually works quite often for me.

[PJ's Mom]

How do you guys have so much self-control? I quit smoking, but can't seem to quit eating. *sigh*

[CathyBogart]

What helped me most was cutting out soda, and snacking on fruit/veggies before I eat a regular meal. I'm a grazer, so I'm constantly munching, which can be detrimental to trying to eat well. I keep carrot sticks, celery, and fresh/dried fruit VERY handy, and easier than anything else to get to, and I munch on those.

Since water isn't very satisfying to drink all the time for me, I have quite an assortment of teas....jasmine, blueberry, green tea, earl grey, various others.

I also started to really slim down when I started walking a lot....it doesn't have to be vigorous exercise to be beneficial! ^_^

[Logan]

I do not crave sweets (yes, I'm the one who threw away a Krispey Kreme Doughnut). I do not crave pasta. I do know that my love for salty things (chips, crackers, etc) hurt me. I only drink water or diet Coke when I have something to drink, but I also love to drink wine on occasion which is a HUGE "no no" when on a diet.

I think consistent exercise is the key, and it helps in more ways than one. Now, if only I can get myself on a regular regime for exercise! My dogs would be happier if we walked more and I would be too!!!!

[PJ's Mom]

Originally posted by Logan
I do not crave sweets (yes, I'm the one who threw away a Krispey Kreme Doughnut). I do not crave pasta.

What??? Have you ever craved them? If I didn't have those kinds of cravings, I wouldn't have any at all.

[Aspen and Misty]

Eatting slow will REALLY help you. I had a friend who "stole" me for a week, everytime she would eat I would say "EAT SLOW!!" to remind her. Now she eats HALF of what she used to eat seriously to! Eating slow is the best thing I did for myself I eat about half of what I used to, and I still stay full! It's really great.

O, find something you LOVE and eat it. For instance I looooove Cinnamon apple sauce, I could eat it all day! So we buy the snack size now and I eat them all the time!

One thing I also did is that I'm a "I see it I eat it" kind of person. So, we have a cupard in my house that I'm NOT allowed into. It has all the snacks, donuts etc. etc. In the Fridge the shelf that is eye level is full of grapes, apples, yogurt and apple sauce. So I open the fridge and say YUM! Thats what I want!! It sounds crazy, but it works!

If you cut out the things you love, you'll only fail. So, what I would do is figure out how many donuts/cookies you eat in a week, if you have to eat normally for a week and count them ALL. Write it down every night you can hide the sheet so no one knows how mnay you eat if you need to then cut that in Half. Like, if you eat 12 cookies every week, now you can only have 6. And go with that for awile till you feel ready to cut it down to 3. Then 2. Then One. and then none.

Ashley

[Pam]

Originally posted by Logan
I do not crave sweets (yes, I'm the one who threw away a Krispey Kreme Doughnut).

Poor Logan you will never live that down! LOL!

You know sometimes other people can sabotage your best intentions. The other day I took a little baggie to work with me with maybe a dozen grapes in it. That was going to be my snack. Of course little did I know that one of my co-workers would come in with a cream donut especially for me (yes I am known at work as a cream donut lover) and it wasn't even a Krispy Kreme one, rather a Dunkin' Donut (hey, they all work for me!) Anyway, I put away my grapes and ate the donut! I agree with what others have said about not even bringing the good stuff into the house. If it's not there you can't be tempted.