i can't eat certain foods unless i eat them to excess. almost anything processed to be super palatable effects me this way. i've tried over and over not to eat these foods in the way i do and i've never been able to do it. i now know going in, no matter what my intentions are, i'm going to eat the entire tub of ice cream or the entire pizza or the whole bag of family chips. i know now that reducing my portions of this kind of food, at this point, doesn't work for me so i've opted to completely cut them out. and it's been going very well! since some time in september, i've eaten exclusively only food i've cooked myself from scratch. the exceptions have been a few bars of halloween candy on halloween night only, a single slice of pizza and a croissant from a bakery.
i do still make baked goods, and sometimes eat too many, so it's not perfect or anything but it keeps me away from the worst foods possible. i've been tempted a couple of times lately, though, and i'm trying to be balanced about this. things are going to come up and i have to be prepared. well, two days ago my brother moved out of the country. right before going, he'd left a bunch of food for me that he didn't want to throw out or donate because he knew i'd be able to use it. some of it is great, like these awesome dried mushrooms. and then some of it is evil.
french toast crunch. it's a cereal he and i always wanted when we were kids. he left me an entire box. this is exactly the kind of food i used to eat by the box and just bliss out on whatever brain drugs you make when you eat the food equivalent of crack. and i almost did, it was a very narrow miss. i just thought 'seriously? a box of cereal is going to break you? some cardboard sugar processed turds? you can do better.' and i can and i did.
i looked up the nutritional info. i saved myself 121 grams of sugar and something like 1300 to 1500 calories. what struck me is how often i used to actually eat like this and think it was fine. how could it be any wonder that i got so fat and always looked like shit?
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from loseit - Lose the Fat https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/e3o9lp/resisted_temptation/
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