Think of your diet like you do physical training. It has to be something you can sustain. It has to be healthy. You have to take scheduled breaks to recover. Weekly and monthly. It has to be long term. It can't like wearing a hair shirt and being stylite.
05 Jun 17 by member: jparlett
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If you ever find something that works lets us know. I have gone out in -20 degree weather, bundled up in parka, mukluks, scarf, and mitts, warmed up the freezeing cold car for 15 minutes for a two minute drive to the store just because of a ice cream craving.
05 Jun 17 by member: fatoldlady
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About 95% of all dieting and exercise advice is utter silliness. I take the little bits I think I can use and ignore the rest. I continue to read all sorts of articles and information, in hopes of gleaning one or two tidbits that might push me forward even that smallest step.
05 Jun 17 by member: izzypup68
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The food deprivation technique will cause "fitness induced BED". Remember that whole cake you wanted to shove your face in? There ya go. I am working through mine. What if I told you that you never have to deprive yourself of any food you want? What if I told you that you can choose to not eat any piece of that cake you talked about and NOT feel like throwing your face into it after you decide to leave it alone? How would you like to have such control over your appetite that you won't need to eat second helpings to feel satisfied? The answer is free. I ain't selling anything and it isn't a pill. Go to YouTube and type in The Mindset for Healthy Eating.
05 Jun 17 by member: rockettmanpro
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Can I recommend Quell, if you want to be distracted. Download the apps for free on the play store or you pay on Apple. Quell Memento is the first, Quell is second and Quell Reflect is 3rd. Its addictive....... ;)
05 Jun 17 by member: Rindaloo
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I think the best advice I've seen is to not keep the cake, icecream, etc. in my house in the first place, or the ingredients (like flour) to make it, either. Family doesn't need (though they may want) sweets, so logically cannot reach for that excuse while in the grocery store. Hmmm... in A Clockwork Orange, they cured the main villain of raping women with hypnosis. Perhaps to cure carb cravings, give that a go (without Beethoven, of course)?
05 Jun 17 by member: soonsoonsoon
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My way of avoiding cravings? -- I developed IBS which means that all the things I tend to crave make me violently ill as in can't leave the house for even the time it takes to walk the dogs ill. And yet, even with these dire consequences, I plan days when I will stay home so I can eat a dish of frozen custard.
05 Jun 17 by member: Hermiones Mom
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Sounds like HermionesMom has a touch of A Clockwork Orange!
05 Jun 17 by member: soonsoonsoon
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St. Francis of Assisi used to eat with the really rich, but always put ashes on his food to remind him not to enjoy it. If saints need help - what chance have we got. I suppose we could put ashes all over cakes, but I think your kids would notice. Mmm Ash icing.
06 Jun 17 by member: minitata
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A Zen Master who, while out walking one day, is confronted by a ferocious, man-eating tiger. He slowly backs away from the animal, only to find that he is trapped at the edge of a high cliff; the tiger snarls with hunger, and pursues the Master. His only hope of escape is to suspend himself over the abyss by holding onto a vine that grows at its edge. As the Master dangles from the cliff, two mice – one white and one black – begin to gnaw on the vine he is clutching on. If he climbs back up, the tiger will surely devour him, if he stays then there is the certain death of a long fall onto the jagged rocks. The slender vine begins to give way, and death is imminent. Just then the precariously suspended Zen Master notices a lovely ripe wild strawberry growing along the cliff’s edge. He plucks the succulent berry and pops it into his mouth. He is heard to say: “This lovely strawberry, how sweet it tastes.”
We are burdened with guilt about what we did yesterday and terrified of failure tomorrow but fail to enjoy properly what we do today.
(not my explanation, I'm not that insightful)
06 Jun 17 by member: jparlett
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I like that jparlett - well said
06 Jun 17 by member: minitata
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Maybe as he is about to imminently perish it wasn't fair to harm the poor strawberry and he really shouldn't eat and talk at the same time but couldn't the one who is near enough to hear him slay the tiger or throw out a rope?
06 Jun 17 by member: ARB0001
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In a more serious vein, especially since I developed IBS and many of the things I crave now make me terribly sick... I have identified some substitutes that work for me when I get cravings. If I crave ice cream, which I do quite a lot, I either eat Talenti chocolate sorbet, which is not low sugar, but is significantly lower calorie than ice cream OR I take a Chobani coffee yogurt, mix in 1/2 tsp cinnamon-sugar and 1 TBSP of extra dark chocolate chips. This is really delicious. If I crave chocolate cake, I keep in my freezer Gardenlite Chocolate-zucchini-carrot muffins. These are really good and about 140 calories and gluten free. Again -- not low carb, but they satisfy the chocolate cake craving without getting you into too much trouble. You can even put a small spoonful of the sorbet on the chocolate muffin and it's a very close facsimile of cake and ice cream. Before I had all these restrictions on what I could digest, I always had a splurge meal once per week -- usually Saturday nights. I could eat anything I wanted including dessert. I know this doesn't work for everyone, but for me looking forward to that splurge meal was enough to quell the craving.
06 Jun 17 by member: Hermiones Mom
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Where I work, WTF stands for " WHERES THE FOOD "" HA HA !!! Just Sayin !!
06 Jun 17 by member: DO N OK
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06 Jun 17 by member: zonisyulia
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@Jparlett. A shortened version...
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Mr Confucius... ;)
06 Jun 17 by member: misterbee
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Or about this one
True happiness is… to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
06 Jun 17 by member: misterbee
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07 Jun 17 by member: jparlett
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Haaaaa ha ha ha ha!!!! Kombucha rules!
07 Jun 17 by member: revvit
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You are a wonderful writer! Go for a walk. I do every day!
07 Jun 17 by member: mmarguy
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