Willpower against corporate food tricks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chew gum so you are not tempted to grab candy

At a party, carry a glass of water (or tonic with lime) so you don't have 2 hands available to grab junk food

At the grocery store, shop the permiter (dairy, produce, meats) and skip the aisles, which are full of processed foods

Remind yourself, "nothing tastes as good as thin feels"

Hello, Kate Moss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chew gum so you are not tempted to grab candy

At a party, carry a glass of water (or tonic with lime) so you don't have 2 hands available to grab junk food

At the grocery store, shop the permiter (dairy, produce, meats) and skip the aisles, which are full of processed foods

All good advice.

But you should have stopped before plopping down this:

Anonymous wrote:Remind yourself, "nothing tastes as good as thin feels"

You know that's a slogan from the pro-aneroxia and pro-bulimia crowd, right? Like, starving yourself to death kind of body control. The goal of making better food choices should be better health, not death.

[Anonymous]

It's also a decades old Weight Watchers mantra

[Anonymous]

You might be interested in learning about intuitive eating and trying some of those practices

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop eating garbage and you will crave it less.

This. It’s amazing how quickly you adjust. I thought I was eating clean but was eating a lot of processed stuff. I gave up gluten due to an allergy and, by extension, just ended up giving up almost all processed food (it’s just easier) - I do eat rice and polenta, rice cakes, and dairy. But anyway. My palate changed so quickly, my hunger decreased, and I adjusted. Good luck op.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chew gum so you are not tempted to grab candy

At a party, carry a glass of water (or tonic with lime) so you don't have 2 hands available to grab junk food

At the grocery store, shop the permiter (dairy, produce, meats) and skip the aisles, which are full of processed foods

All good advice.

But you should have stopped before plopping down this:

Anonymous wrote:Remind yourself, "nothing tastes as good as thin feels"

You know that's a slogan from the pro-aneroxia and pro-bulimia crowd, right? Like, starving yourself to death kind of body control. The goal of making better food choices should be better health, not death.

It’s still true. Just because you and the upper middle class mom crowd disapproves, it is responsive to the OP’s question. Drastic times (food engineered and processed precisely to be irresistible to mortals) calls for drastic measures. I listened to a popular weight loss doctor who advocated along similar lines, just not with that precise slogan (Katrina Ubell). She said that nothing feels better than going into a store and being able to pick out something without worrying about size. Or needing to have multiple sizes in your closet to accommodate weight fluctuations. She preached restraint around food, in contrast to overindulging and creating excess weight. Same concept.