Quitting eating, any tips?

Try smoking instead?

How about a juicy piece of fruit or a nice healthy salad. 'Cause they really satisfy those fucking junk food cravings, right.

Carrot sticks? celery?

get married and divorced and start drinking a lot. or, just do something stupid to ignite some sort of shitty depression, and get drunk. you probably won't feel like eating then.

hello! try this thread for ideas!

Not buying them and having them in the hosue is often the best way. Biscuits etc are the kind of thing you eat when you're bored/ just because they're there and nice. If you're prepared to go to the shops to get it, then it's a justifiable craving and you should buy it and eat it. I do this with cheese.

Not altogether obviously, but I seem seriously addicted to eating biscuits and chips and other rubbish at the moment and need to stop.

try and replace biscuits with toasted nutty cereal in either honey or with fruit. i like those poncey yogurt pot things a lot of places do now (pret etc.) but you can make your own easily.

chips is harder but i've found eating more protein foods tends to make me crave them less - or you can just go for baked potato more (i NEVER eat these anymore tho, daamn).

If you're prepared to go to the shops to get it, then it's a justifiable craving and you should buy it and eat it.

it's like the calories you burned walking to and from the shop the bad food you bought puts back - so you haven't actually gained weight. definitely!

xpost Drinking makes me want to eat though. Not having biscuits in the house is not an option. The kids would kill me and then steal my wallet to buy biscuits.

I like those yoghurty/granola things they have in EAT. But it's the going to EAT and just having that that is the problem. It makes me angry too, because I think really it's down to willpower and I should have more of it. It's pathetic really.

Most cereals are as fattening as anything else if yr gonna snack on them like chips. It really is all about eating less, sadly.

Depression helped me lose a shitton of weight, but obviously thats no solution :/

Not buying them and having them in the hosue is often the best way. Biscuits etc are the kind of thing you eat when you're bored/ just because they're there and nice. If you're prepared to go to the shops to get it, then it's a justifiable craving and you should buy it and eat it. I do this with cheese.

-- Anna, Thursday, 23 August 2007 10:48

this is really good advice, and is the reason my flat contains no chocolate, crisps*, biscuits or sugar. it's full of all manner of other crap, but hey, you've got to start somewhere. Also, no sugary cereals! Check your cornflakes packet, it's usually full of the damn stuff.

*actually i relented on that front last week but i'm regretting it now.

Yeah, but like Ned says, it's different if you have kids in the house. Unless you just don't buy those things as part of the weekly shop, but give the kids money to buy them for themselves on an individual basis? It might reign them in a bit as well if they have to make a conscious decision to go to the shops every time they want something sweet, but at least you're not denying them. I don't know how practical this is, though, because I don't know how far you live from shops.

My nearest shop is a twenty minute walk away and I live in a village that's just too far for any fast-food place to deliver to. I have lost about 20 pounds just because of this.

As you have the biscuit/crisp/piece of chocolate in your hand, before eating it ask yourself if you REALLY REALLY want it.

Also, if you find yourself craving sweets, make a cup of tea or get a glass of water then walk away and wait half an hour. If you're still craving it - eat it!

As you have the biscuit/crisp/piece of chocolate in your hand, before eating it ask yourself if you REALLY REALLY want it...

... then say YES, and eat it like you mean it!

A couple of years ago I lost 2 1/2 stone on weigh watchers. Keeping track of what I was eating really made me realize how the biscuit/crisps etc. really add up. I loved WW though because you can really eat whatever you want - it's just about balance.

Cheese is the belly-killer.

For me anyway.

Boredom = weight gain for me so I do what Anna does and don't buy them, but also (because Londis is 1 minute away) I keep myself busy with something. Knitting is particularly good for keeping you concentrated on something and your hands busy.

I suppose if you don't know how to knit, you could try wanking.

knit a sex slave?

what you need to do is buy all the chips and cookies you can and eat them for like 5 days straight.

In the healthy snacks department, we've really been digging the heirloom cherry tomatoes this year. If you have any room for gardening, even container gardening, grow cherry tomatoes. Dozens of times this summer, my wife and I have wandered into the kitchen to find something to snack on, eaten a handful of tomatoes while we looked, and wandered back out happy and chipless.

Become a lighthouse keeper on a remote coastline and omit to bring any biscuits, chips or rubbishy food. Do bring a good book. A very long good book.

Drink lots of water and non-sugar packed drinks like vegetable juice. Then when you feel like snacking out of boredom find something else to keep yourself busy. (easier said than done, I know)

I really try not to have any snack food around, it forces me to either cook and/or assemble a whole meal that will be filling and also keep me busy, or just decide "fuck it" and have a cigarette instead. That way I have lots of caloric intake left for beer.

i wish there was something like cigarettes that wasn't smoking. i think the biggest thing keeping me from smoking is that i'm against corporate cultural domination. the next biggest thing is the health issue, obv. i like the whole idea of 5-10 min breaks throughout the day to do something enjoyable - that isn't harmful (e.g., smoking, eating junk food) or socially unacceptable in public (e.g., sex, massages) or detrimental to my workday (e.g., w33d, booze, long conversations abt tangential stuff)

anyway, yeah, no junk food in the house is the best idea. also, i think giving the kids an allowance for it is a good idea. you could even give yourself an allowance. knowing how much you're spending on junk food wld be pretty sobering, i bet.

also, cognitive behavioural therapy

i think the wanking is the best advice so far.

it's cardio vascular exercise as well as keeping your hands busy

Exercise, then you won't want to eat so much crap.

I sometimes have the same problem re: kids, so I usually try to buy stuff he likes and I don't. I've also been eating the hell out of blueberry applesauce because for whatever reason my brane thinks it's enough like candy that it satisfies my craving.

socially unacceptable in public

Smoking is definitely headed this way.

For breaks I usually just get a soda and walk around outside a bit. On days when I don't go out for lunch or have meetings outside my building getting up from the monitors is U&K. (meaning: walk is good substitute for smoke break or snack.)

oh i just figured out another thing that is a good break/distraction:
listening to a song or two that you really like and that y'know takes you away for a bit
like right now i'm listening to over the hills and far away and it is awesome

If you stop eating grains, sugar and red meat you can get away with eating IMMENSE amounts of other foods— fruit, cheese, fish and chicken. MOUNTAINS of food.

grains, sugar and red meat

B-but, these are some of the best foods!

just cutting out grains and sugar will go a long way. Red meat is good for ya!

COCAINE DIET

i don't eat those things! tho sometimes organic red meat
i eat lots of vegetables and fruiiit and nuts and chickens and yogurt and honey and things. i seem to be losing weight though taht is not the main point of not eating these certain things of system upset
xpost

i'm not a conspiracy theorist but they are not really the best foods; everyone just thinks they are

I like bread and cake and steaks. :(

COCAINE COFFEE AND CIGARETTES AND DIET COKE

This way madness lies.

okay but yes some people do really well with the bread and cakes and steaks, i'm sure

oh hey there should be a place like pies n' thighs called cakes n' steaks!!!

Yeah, the grass-fed beef IS amazing.I will eat a bite on occasion. But red meat is bad for arthritic inflammation.

As I have boringly droned on about elsewhere.

cakes & steaks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI4jj-vPkuA

oh hey lookit that - but there's room in the world for another one, esp with the 'n part instead of boring 'and'
xpost

i haven't even looked for grass-fed beef - i hear bison is grass-fed but i haven't looked for that either. another good thing abt not eating convenience junk foods is that when you don't buy them you have more money to spend on expensive yuppie foods like bison aw yeah

COCAINE COFFEE AND CIGARETTES AND DIET COKE + HEART BREAK = SEXYTOWN USA

AMERCIAN DREAMS

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what's that one called, k?

I ain't Kenan, but that's Hopper's 'Automat'

lonely, lonely automat

I did my gap year of vodka + cigarettes + caffeine already: lost 30 lbs and slept A LOT and my friends had to intervene to feed me. Also I learned that when I have run out of body fat to hate (because I'm starving), I will instead hate my skeleton for not being narrower. THAT is the way madness lies.

LETTUCE AND MEATS AND OLIVE OILS AND TOMATOES AND BLUEBERRIES AND SWIMMING AND FRIENDS AND DRIVING 10 MILES OVER THE SPEED LIMIT AND ZEPPELIN AND SABBATH YYYYEEEAAAAAH

not eating is the worst thing you could do

stop eating crap processed food, how's that?

it is like whatever works for you really

xpost
yes not eating is not good

You don't have to stop eating, just throw everything up afterwards.

U WILL MISS THE DELICIOUSNESS BELIEVE ME

it's really not that hard to make healthy eating decision

self control + will power + some exercise really goes a long way

i know i already called you all lazy fucks in another thread today already but yeah

in all seriousness avoiding crappy processed foods in excellent advice.

has anyone else noticed that the urge to overeat is greatly reduced when eating good food. not necessarily like health food just tasty well prepared food.

wait self control + will power?

AKSING TOOO MUCH

It's true! I've dropped maybe two sizes since winter just by bringing my brek + lunch to the office from home. It forces me to cook (and saves money) and makes me look forward to eating my own awesome handiwork much more than when lunch was pizza. Not to harsh pizza, because y'know it's PIZZA...but. And also I <3 <3 <3 my bike(s) for keeping me outside and occupied and getting me places FAST.

seriously when i see someone eating fritos and reeses peanut butter cups for breakfast (as i did today) i want to slap them

Drumming does not burn as many calories as people think.

not if you are playing correctly--shouldn't be much movement at all!

sex on the other hand...

yeah, sometimes I like to change hands, too.

Sex and then brunch? Or brunch first, THEN sex? Hmmmmmmmmm.....

depends what yr eating

depends on how hungover

"No fries after 25"

Actually strike my last, nobody wants to be around me when my blood sugar starts plummeting.

that's where cocaine comes in

No, that was the night before.

cocaine is tricky. it increases the need to drink, so there's beer calories, plus "suicide tuesday" often finds one seeking comfort food.
crystal meth might be the better choice.

uma thurman eats naked to keep the pounds off.

plus "suicide tuesday" often finds one seeking comfort food.

ugh. so otm.

xpost

I think you're better off with crack. Less skin issues.

well you cant just be a weekend warrior you can to really commit to the cocaine

can have

whatever you do, dont look at this gif: http://piesandthighs.com/images/steve_smoker.gif

That looks incredible...

This drug talk is making me sick to my stomach. The smoking meats was a good ancedote.

Buh, anyone who has worked in a grocery is going to hate me, but how I got to stop BUYING ricockulous snacks was: I would carry it around with me in the store and then stuff it somewhere it didn't belong. "This bag of miniature Almond Joys does not belong next to the barbecue sauce and mustard! Hahaha, SOMEONE is going to think this is the craaaaziest grocery store ever!" (Well, it wasn't so much about the toddler-level of comic sophistication as I got to ditch the item as impulsively as I picked it up, which is equally fun in its own way. For me.)

that makes a lot of sense to me

Back when I cared more and was committed to losing weight and also working out in every spare moment of my free time, I ate a low fat (never more than 25%) diet w/no convenience/snack foods every day except Fridays. On Fridays, I got to indulge the food fantasy I'd been having all week - chocolate or barbeque or crispy duck w/ plum sauce or cheesecake. Then it was back to beans and salads and lowfat plain yoghurt on baked potatoes. It worked for me for as long as I needed it to.

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