How to force myself to only eat one serving

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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.

Which cookie?! My pick has a posted calorie count of 170…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

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I try not to keep chips in the house, they are my weakness. Once in a while I buy my favorite kind in a "single" serving type of bag. I walk out of the store, open the bag, and dump at least half of them into the trash can before I have a single bite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Doubting this part...

I was just going to post the same thing. The contents would be gone in 24 hours but the bag would still be there.

[Anonymous]

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

+1

Also, drink a big glass of water with the snack.

[Anonymous]

Eat the one serving very slowly. Drink a glass of water. Wait 30 min. See if you truly want more or if your mind has moved on to other things.

[Anonymous]

Anything loaded up with toxic oils and fake sugars is addictive for most people. Stay away from that sh*t.

It’s killing you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I’ll be your friend if you split your cookies with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

But then you end up with 40 cookies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anything loaded up with toxic oils and fake sugars is addictive for most people. Stay away from that sh*t.

It’s killing you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

This. Eat dessert after a meal, not as a snack or replacement for a meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

How insanely wasteful. Have some self-control!

[Anonymous]

I try not to keep chips in the house, they are my weakness. Once in a while I buy my favorite kind in a "single" serving type of bag. I walk out of the store, open the bag, and dump at least half of them into the trash can before I have a single bite.

I'm sorry, but who doesn't have room in their diet for an occasional one serving bag of chips? Has your husband threatened to leave you if you eat a carb or balloon up over 100 pounds or something?

I generally eat healthy, minimize added sugar and processed food, stay active, BMI around 19, stick to small treats like dark chocolate, etc. But at least once a month, I buy a regular size bag of something I really like (peanut butter filled pretzels or tortilla chips) with the understanding that I'm going to eat the whole bag (like 8 servings) in two or three sittings. Nothing terrible happens, I swear. I don't feel sick, I don't gain weight, my clothes still fit. It's satisfying to indulge and it's even more satisfying to not let myself feel guilty about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I try not to keep chips in the house, they are my weakness. Once in a while I buy my favorite kind in a "single" serving type of bag. I walk out of the store, open the bag, and dump at least half of them into the trash can before I have a single bite.

I'm sorry, but who doesn't have room in their diet for an occasional one serving bag of chips? Has your husband threatened to leave you if you eat a carb or balloon up over 100 pounds or something?

I generally eat healthy, minimize added sugar and processed food, stay active, BMI around 19, stick to small treats like dark chocolate, etc. But at least once a month, I buy a regular size bag of something I really like (peanut butter filled pretzels or tortilla chips) with the understanding that I'm going to eat the whole bag (like 8 servings) in two or three sittings. Nothing terrible happens, I swear. I don't feel sick, I don't gain weight, my clothes still fit. It's satisfying to indulge and it's even more satisfying to not let myself feel guilty about it.

People with eating disorders. This sounds like something I would do in the throes of ED in my 20s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Doubting this part...

I was just going to post the same thing. The contents would be gone in 24 hours but the bag would still be there.

As would a half-handful of pulverized crumbs. That gives them an out — they didn’t actually finish it, so they don’t need to throw it away.