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belicia
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Posted: 16 Dec 2005 05:15 pm |
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| I am a senior in high school and still living with my parents. I have a really good diet and I work out pretty good too, but I tend to slip. My problem is that my mom makes really good cakes, brownies, cookies, muffins, etc. things and it is just really really hard to resist them, especially when they offer me those things all the time. I tend to be really strong the first day, but the next day I come home from school and i see that cake or something and I just have to have it. At first I take just a little bit, but then I overeat and I grab all kinds of other things too, because my house is full of good things. I especially tend to overeat when nobody else is home. Then after that I feel really guilty and I starve and exercise a lot. Or at other times I eat more the next day and the day after that, etc. I just don't know what to do anymore. If I lived alone I wouldn't have those good things around the house and I wouldn't slip from my diet. But I can't really tell my mom either that she wouldn't make those things, because she loves cooking. Now the overeating doesn't mean that my diet doesn't contain any sweets or a variety of foods. Like I said before, it's a good diet. So my big question would be: how to stick to my diet and not overeat when I have all those good things around me?
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Peter
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Posted: 16 Dec 2005 05:40 pm |
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Hi Belicia,
We are all so different. For me it doesn't matter if the food is in the house. If I want to eat junk, I'll get in the car and go get it!
I live with a roommate and have learned to manage my own food regardless of what is in the house.
I don't want to make it sound like it was easy, but that's what I had to do.
There are other posts about this topic... you are not alone! ;)
Peter
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fsahurie
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Posted: 16 Dec 2005 11:36 pm |
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Peter wrote: Hi Belicia,
We are all so different. For me it doesn't matter if the food is in the house. If I want to eat junk, I'll get in the car and go get it!
I live with a roommate and have learned to manage my own food regardless of what is in the house.
I don't want to make it sound like it was easy, but that's what I had to do.
There are other posts about this topic... you are not alone! ;)
Peter
I totally agree with you, that is so true, we are all responsible for the decisions and actions we make in life regardless if there is or if there is no food in the house, car, etc.:DLast edited on 16 Dec 2005 11:37 pm by fsahurie
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kathleenyork
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Posted: 6 Jan 2006 04:41 am |
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words out of my own mouth...when i go home to my mom, i slip into overeating mode and eat like it wont be there tomorrow! i finally accepted that i will mess up but when i get home, i can start over and eat what i need, not whati think i want.
when i lived at home, i gave my mom her snack cupboard. i put all her junk in the cupboard and never opened it. i as never even temptedbecause i knew i'd be embarrassed if she found out, and also, when its all together and you KNOW its bad, youll be less tempted...also, have your own cupboard...my consisted of soups (cream ofs and chicken noodle) broth, light jello, light hot chocolate, light soda and soda water, and other yummy and low cal items...
as for the baking your mom does...maybe get her to make you our own, but with spenda? theymake brown sugar too and its zero cal...and tastes great once you forget what real sugar tastes like lol. i have an out of sight, out of mind mentality, so have you folks or friends hide the food. i ask my bf to do this all the time (last week i actually lit 6 boxes of his cookies on fire because he hid them in the oven!)
def. keep a diary and youll see just how much of your caloric intake goes toward baked goods. cut it by half every week. be strict- for every 100 calories you go over, do one hour of cardio! hold yourself to it, keep your promises to yourself and youll be more inclined to beleive yourself in the future.
good luck and if you need any more advice or just a body, let me know, im more than happy to help!
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Chocoholic
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Posted: 16 Jan 2006 07:36 pm |
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I totally understand, I'm at university now but whenever I go home all I do is eat... literally! I walk in the door and head straight to the kitchen, and stay there until I go to bed (well unless I take some food with me to another room  ) It is really difficult, especially since fruits and veggies are harder to come by at home and if I want to snack on something (which I ALWAYS do) it's going to be some type of bread, cookie, cracker, etc. I've reached the point where I just plan to binge whenever I'm home... which is destroying my relationship with my parents incidentally, as the emotional side effects are pretty horrible.
I wish I could help you, but I really haven't figured out how to deal with it myself. If it's any comfort, I would say that it will be much easier when you do live on your own someday... Peter is right that we are all responsible for what we eat, but at the same time it's much easier to refrain from eating fresh-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies if you aren't smelling them and looking at the still-melted chocolate chips, right?
The only thing that I would say is to plan in advance exactly what you are going to eat for each meal each day, and stick to it no matter what! Turning down sweets does get easier after awhile, but getting over that hump takes massive amounts of will power... and there's always the danger of a relapse.
Sorry if that wasn't encouraging, but I do understand, and I'm assuming that in 6 months or so you won't be living at home anymore, so there is light at the end of the tunnel!
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