How to force myself to only eat one serving

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to force myself to eat one serving of chips of cookies at a time? Eat one serving and give the rest away?

[Anonymous]

Put exactly one serving in a bowl. Put the rest away somewhere inconvenient.

[Anonymous]

I used to always buy a big bag of chips because, price per ounce, it's a better price. But I recently decided to just buy single servings of things. It's not worth that amount of junk food.

Earlier this week I was craving cookies and bought ONE from Whole Foods. Came home, ate it, and was completely satisfied. Did I need to spend $2 on a cookie? No. But if I'd spent $4 on 12 cookies, I'd have eaten 11 more cookies than I was craving.

[Anonymous]

Eat the chips while butt naked in front of a mirror. Trust me, you won’t eat that crap at all.

[Anonymous]

Read intuitive eating

[Anonymous]

Get some teenagers in your house. Eat a serving, leave the snack alone for a couple of days, and realize that the rest of the bag has been emptied and thrown away.

[Anonymous]

Don't buy cookies or chips.

If I want a cookie, I need to make them myself. So, I don't make them very often.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to always buy a big bag of chips because, price per ounce, it's a better price. But I recently decided to just buy single servings of things. It's not worth that amount of junk food.

Earlier this week I was craving cookies and bought ONE from Whole Foods. Came home, ate it, and was completely satisfied. Did I need to spend $2 on a cookie? No. But if I'd spent $4 on 12 cookies, I'd have eaten 11 more cookies than I was craving.

Those Whole Foods cookies are 400 calories per cookie. Delicious - but better to split them with a friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to always buy a big bag of chips because, price per ounce, it's a better price. But I recently decided to just buy single servings of things. It's not worth that amount of junk food.

Earlier this week I was craving cookies and bought ONE from Whole Foods. Came home, ate it, and was completely satisfied. Did I need to spend $2 on a cookie? No. But if I'd spent $4 on 12 cookies, I'd have eaten 11 more cookies than I was craving.

Those Whole Foods cookies are 400 calories per cookie. Delicious - but better to split them with a friend.

I don't have friends to split a cookie with - but since I eat one maybe three times a year I' m okay with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to always buy a big bag of chips because, price per ounce, it's a better price. But I recently decided to just buy single servings of things. It's not worth that amount of junk food.

Earlier this week I was craving cookies and bought ONE from Whole Foods. Came home, ate it, and was completely satisfied. Did I need to spend $2 on a cookie? No. But if I'd spent $4 on 12 cookies, I'd have eaten 11 more cookies than I was craving.

Those Whole Foods cookies are 400 calories per cookie. Delicious - but better to split them with a friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't buy cookies or chips.

If I want a cookie, I need to make them myself. So, I don't make them very often.

This is the only thing that works for me.

[Anonymous]

I once read that Lindsay Lohan would dump water on the rest of her plate of food when she wanted to stop eating it. Maybe try that.

[Anonymous]

Figure out why you can’t stop eating after one cookie. Are you having the cookie when you’re starving and a meal plus a cookie for dessert would be better? Are you under-eating? Are you being too restrictive with foods you like and as a result giving cookies and chips too much power or significance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to force myself to eat one serving of chips of cookies at a time? Eat one serving and give the rest away?

Why even tempt yourself? Some people don't have control over certain items. Nothing wrong with helping yourself and not buying the stuff you can't control yourself?

[Anonymous]

I know this is wasteful, but for things like chips and cookies we immediately open the package and separate it into individual ziplock bags of a serving each. It has helped with portion control and mindless eating and has also helped cut down on fights over who ate the whole package of Oreos!