Ugh, I'm so close to caving and having a cookie or 5...

[Anonymous]

I'm pleased with the results that I've been getting on my weight loss plan. I know that I'm headed in the right direction - yay me!

But today is one of those days when I feel like I could eat a fruitcake and down it with a pitcher of eggnog. Yes, I'm exaggerating but only a little.

How do I keep myself focused when temptation is everywhere?

[Anonymous]

I don't know, because I am having a hard time not inhaling the box of cookies two coworkers thoughtfully gave me (all homemade, all almost certainly delicious).

So far, I'm holding off by chewing gum and drinking water... my plan is to get home and throw them at DH and the kids.

[Anonymous]

I've been drinking water all day, too. Soon I'll microwave a cup of water with lemon and apple cider vinegar for my "treat" while dh and the kids snack on cookies.

It's hard but it's going to be worth it!

[Anonymous]

I've given up fighting temptation until gingerbread season is over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pleased with the results that I've been getting on my weight loss plan. I know that I'm headed in the right direction - yay me!

But today is one of those days when I feel like I could eat a fruitcake and down it with a pitcher of eggnog. Yes, I'm exaggerating but only a little.

How do I keep myself focused when temptation is everywhere?

That was me yesterday. Sometimes you have to give in. Especially if you've been doing well for a while. My weight loss journey is going to take months. I cannot restrict myself from treats and other "forbidden" foods for the duration. It just has to be in moderation. Moderation can be a small cookie at night or a fruitcake once every 2 weeks. Yesterday I had a glass of wine, a few cookies, a 2 slices of pizza. Definitely blew my calorie count for the day, but today is a new day and I'm back on track.

[Anonymous]

Good god this is depressing. I respect that you are dieting and want to stick to a plan -- really I do -- but if you can't have a cookie or two while still eating reasonably that is hot a healthy mindset and you are setting yourself up to cave hard in the not too distant future.

Go for a walk around the block after dinner, come home, make yourself a cup of tea, and eat 1-2 cookies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pleased with the results that I've been getting on my weight loss plan. I know that I'm headed in the right direction - yay me!

But today is one of those days when I feel like I could eat a fruitcake and down it with a pitcher of eggnog. Yes, I'm exaggerating but only a little.

How do I keep myself focused when temptation is everywhere?

That was me yesterday. Sometimes you have to give in. Especially if you've been doing well for a while. My weight loss journey is going to take months. I cannot restrict myself from treats and other "forbidden" foods for the duration. It just has to be in moderation. Moderation can be a small cookie at night or a fruitcake once every 2 weeks. Yesterday I had a glass of wine, a few cookies, a 2 slices of pizza. Definitely blew my calorie count for the day, but today is a new day and I'm back on track.

That's a healthy viewpoint. I think I'm going to make it through today w/o stumbling. I do plan on allowing myself some treats closer to Christmas.

I'm hopeful that tomorrow will be a less tempting day for me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good god this is depressing. I respect that you are dieting and want to stick to a plan -- really I do -- but if you can't have a cookie or two while still eating reasonably that is hot a healthy mindset and you are setting yourself up to cave hard in the not too distant future.

Go for a walk around the block after dinner, come home, make yourself a cup of tea, and eat 1-2 cookies.

I hear you. I think it's just the time of year, pp. If I gave in every night and had a treat or two that would wind up stalling my weight loss. I can indulge a night or two a week but I can't have sweets every night and expect to lose any weight. Monday seems to be a pretty good night to pass on the treats.

[Anonymous]

Good luck good luck I've had a rotten week will power wise. Today is another day!!! No cookies!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good god this is depressing. I respect that you are dieting and want to stick to a plan -- really I do -- but if you can't have a cookie or two while still eating reasonably that is hot a healthy mindset and you are setting yourself up to cave hard in the not too distant future.

Go for a walk around the block after dinner, come home, make yourself a cup of tea, and eat 1-2 cookies.

I'm a PP, I'm not dieting, and I also don't want to make a habit of eating cookies every night. We're not talking about one day here. Pretty much every day from Thanksgiving until now, someone brings treats into the office, or my kids have some event, or there's a holiday party, etc. And these are wonderful things, but if I indulged at every single one of them, I would gain more weight than I'd like to gain. Oh, well. I'll stick to my habits--which include things like wine and pizza--and fit into my clothes come January. For most of the year, I'm fine with the occasional sweet. When they're shoved in my face daily, I have to exert a bit more self-control than I normally would.

[Anonymous]

Personally if I was craving a cookie i would have one.

over the years i have really learned to have a more balanced approach to eating. When i dieted hardcore in my 20's and 30's I restricted calories and treats so much that when I was around them i couldn't control myself. I was the person who couldn't keep ice cream in the house because it was all I would think about and I wouldn't sleep until it was gone. I would restrict so much that I would search for anything sweet I could find in the house. It has been a long process to get to a place where I never imagined I would be, a place where if I want a treat I have one and, because I am not deprived and know it isn't my last chance ever to eat a cookie before I swear them off forever, I can stop at just one. I also work sweets into my diet instead of putting them completely off limits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Personally if I was craving a cookie i would have one.

over the years i have really learned to have a more balanced approach to eating. When i dieted hardcore in my 20's and 30's I restricted calories and treats so much that when I was around them i couldn't control myself. I was the person who couldn't keep ice cream in the house because it was all I would think about and I wouldn't sleep until it was gone. I would restrict so much that I would search for anything sweet I could find in the house. It has been a long process to get to a place where I never imagined I would be, a place where if I want a treat I have one and, because I am not deprived and know it isn't my last chance ever to eat a cookie before I swear them off forever, I can stop at just one. I also work sweets into my diet instead of putting them completely off limits.

How did you get to that place? People like me, and probably OP, would end up triggering more cravings, which makes each meal and day harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been drinking water all day, too. Soon I'll microwave a cup of water with lemon and apple cider vinegar for my "treat" while dh and the kids snack on cookies.

It's hard but it's going to be worth it!

Vomit.

Allow yourself a goddang cookie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been drinking water all day, too. Soon I'll microwave a cup of water with lemon and apple cider vinegar for my "treat" while dh and the kids snack on cookies.

It's hard but it's going to be worth it!

Vomit.

Allow yourself a goddang cookie.

Some people cannot have just one cookie. If they could have just one cookie, they would have just one cookie. They are trying to avoid eating many many cookies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally if I was craving a cookie i would have one.

over the years i have really learned to have a more balanced approach to eating. When i dieted hardcore in my 20's and 30's I restricted calories and treats so much that when I was around them i couldn't control myself. I was the person who couldn't keep ice cream in the house because it was all I would think about and I wouldn't sleep until it was gone. I would restrict so much that I would search for anything sweet I could find in the house. It has been a long process to get to a place where I never imagined I would be, a place where if I want a treat I have one and, because I am not deprived and know it isn't my last chance ever to eat a cookie before I swear them off forever, I can stop at just one. I also work sweets into my diet instead of putting them completely off limits.

How did you get to that place? People like me, and probably OP, would end up triggering more cravings, which makes each meal and day harder.

I stopped thinking of food as good or bad and stopped the mentality that eating a cookie blew my diet. Which always then led to saying "screw it" and eating 10 more cookies. i started eating more calories when I diet meaning I lose weight slowly but I am also not so deprived on a 1300 cal/day diet that I binge multiple times a week which meant I thought i was dieting so hard but was really still eating too many calories. It was always a cycle of being really "good", restricting calories too much, telling myself I couldn't eat X, Y , Z or I blew my diet, followed by a day where I ate the "bad stuff" hated myself and swore I would never eat junk again and so on.