tara's chocolate challenge

tara747

I have fallen off the wagon again... this is hard. I feel so angry at myself.

Bronnie

I think you have to realise that you are not just fighting a fancy for choccie, but an actual physical sugar craving too, which after a night of fasting, you kicked off again with a choccie biccie this morning!! Can you plan tomorrow maybe to start the day with a sustaining protein-rich brekkie? (Eggs are good). Then make sure you've got a supply of sustaining healthy snacks to slot in? If you can kind of detox the sugar out of your system, it [B]WILL become physically easier. I would suggest though, trying to keep the fruit/dried fruit/fruit juice consumption lowish to start and maybe have things like rice cakes with savoury spread, few nuts, slice of toast,cuppa soup whatever's convenient.

Oh and I'd say fight one battle at a time, so treat yourself to satisfying filling tasty healthy meals and snacks in between time. You are saving loads of calories and fat intake by not consuming the choccie stuff, so be kind to yourself and enjoy your food.

Amanita_2

tara747 wrote: »

I have fallen off the wagon again... this is hard. I feel so angry at myself.

If I had chocolate that I could get at easily I'd be off the wagon too just now. It would be however be a 10 minute walk each way to get some at the moment and I don't want it badly enough to actually leave the office.

If you really can't bear to throw it in the bin can you at least lock it in the boot of your car or something. Anything just so that you can't get at it too easily?

tara747

Bronnie wrote: »

I think you have to realise that you are not just fighting a fancy for choccie, but an actual physical sugar craving too, which after a night of fasting, you kicked off again with a choccie biccie this morning!! Can you plan tomorrow maybe to start the day with a sustaining protein-rich brekkie? (Eggs are good). Then make sure you've got a supply of sustaining healthy snacks to slot in? If you can kind of detox the sugar out of your system, it [B]WILL become physically easier. I would suggest though, trying to keep the fruit/dried fruit/fruit juice consumption lowish to start and maybe have things like rice cakes with savoury spread, few nuts, slice of toast,cuppa soup whatever's convenient.

Oh and I'd say fight one battle at a time, so treat yourself to satisfying filling tasty healthy meals and snacks in between time. You are saving loads of calories and fat intake by not consuming the choccie stuff, so be kind to yourself and enjoy your food.

I do have a serious sugar addiction and I want to kick it as I am scared of what it might do to my health... I don't want to develop diabetes!

I boiled an egg and took it to work this morning to have for brekkie... but it was way too soft (even the white was runny, urgh), stupid me. I'll do better tomorrow!

Thanks for the tips. I am going to try a little experiment called 'not being MSE in my food shopping'. For the next two weeks I am going to buy what I really want as long as it's healthy - I will treat myself to indulgent exotic fruit, maybe some nuts, vegetables that I normally don't buy as 'everyday' food as they are too dear, some of those little M&S Asian wraps that Alex talked about yesterday, fresh sushi, maybe even some smoked salmon (I saw some WW 1-pt food suggestions, one of which involved smoked salmon and cucumber, it sounded lush). I am actually tempted to have fresh sushi for lunch every day for the next 2 weeks, it would be £5 a day but could be worth it? Or maybe I should just spend £2-3 a day on a really fabulously tempting healthy lunch instead. Either way, I will cut down somewhere else (toiletries spring to mind! and obviously I won't be buying chocolate) and treat myself to some good healthy food that's so tasty I won't even want chocolate.

Amanita wrote: »

If I had chocolate that I could get at easily I'd be off the wagon too just now. It would be however be a 10 minute walk each way to get some at the moment and I don't want it badly enough to actually leave the office.

If you really can't bear to throw it in the bin can you at least lock it in the boot of your car or something. Anything just so that you can't get at it too easily?

Yes, that is a good point. I literally have it in my desk drawer, so no effort required. I am going to chuck the biscuits in the bin *in the kitchen* and someone will throw gunk on top of them about 1 minute later so I can't get at them!!! You are right, I am making chocolate too easily available and giving myself a difficult decision every time!

Thanks so much for all your help, I really do appreciate it and I feel really weak willed for not being able to do it on my own.

Eric_Pisch

tara747 wrote: »

Thanks for the tips. I am going to try a little experiment called 'not being MSE in my food shopping'. For the next two weeks I am going to buy what I really want as long as it's healthy - I will treat myself to indulgent exotic fruit, maybe some nuts, vegetables that I normally don't buy as 'everyday' food as they are too dear, some of those little M&S Asian wraps that Alex talked about yesterday, fresh sushi, maybe even some smoked salmon (I saw some WW 1-pt food suggestions, one of which involved smoked salmon and cucumber, it sounded lush). I am actually tempted to have fresh sushi for lunch every day for the next 2 weeks, it would be £5 a day but could be worth it? Or maybe I should just spend £2-3 a day on a really fabulously tempting healthy lunch instead. Either way, I will cut down somewhere else (toiletries spring to mind! and obviously I won't be buying chocolate) and treat myself to some good healthy food that's so tasty I won't even want chocolate.

a good plan, before i started my epix quest i worked out what i spent each month on junk food, snacks and the other crap, i then put that money into my food pot to allow me to upgrade to quality healthy food, ironically eating salmon, steak etc and veggies does not even cost half what i used to waste on crap food

tara747

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

a good plan, before i started my epix quest i worked out what i spent each month on junk food, snacks and the other crap, i then put that money into my food pot to allow me to upgrade to quality healthy food, ironically eating salmon, steak etc and veggies does not even cost half what i used to waste on crap food

Thanks for that Eric, I'm sure you enjoy your food much more now too. I actually didn't realise until the other day how much I spend on chocolate! It really sickened me! So I am hoping that stopping buying it will save me some £s which I can put towards the healthy stuff.

Right, off to my PowerPlate session now, then Mr T afterwards to stock up on healthy goodies and not look at the prices!!! I might even go to M&S as well (oo-er, pushing the boat out) just to treat myself to some really good stuff. If it's tasty enough I won't even notice that I'm not eating chocolate! I feel all excited, like it's a positive change rather than a negative one.

*Vikki*

No choc for me today! Yayy! Just fruit!

Kaz2904

My vice is toast with butter and marmite!

trudij

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

tara747

Vikki, you are soooo good! :T:T:T

Kaz - I also love toast with butter (none of yer Flora nonsense) but will probably find it easier to forego that than chocolate. Breakfast will now be a boiled egg with some low fat greek yog, a couple of nuts and maybe a few prunes.

So anyway, I went to my PP session, which was great. Then I stopped off on the way home at M&S, wandered around thinking 'I don't care how much stuff costs, if it's healthy and tasty I'm having it'. I did pretty well, got strawbs, peaches, mini blinis (low in cals as long as you *don't* eat the whole pack lol), parma ham, a three bean salad, peppers (5 peppers for £1.99, cheaper than Tesco, who knew???), flavoured water and a pineapple.

I also had a nosey at the rest of the stuff for reference (there's a big M&S beside work which I can nip into for lunches). Their salad pots look fab and they're 2 for £3, so £1.50 for a lunch isn't too bad. I'd probably have some rocket/spinach/gem lettuce with them to bulk them up a bit (so they'll take longer to eat lol) but they are looking very promising!!!

I did balk at the M&S smoked salmon though - £6.99 for 100g!!! I went to Tesco for that. I'll be having it with blinis and cucumber slices, what a tasty lunch mmm. I'm also going to treat myself to a fresh sushi lunch every week or two, I would happily eat sushi every day but at £5 a time it is very expensive!!!

I am feeling very optimistic, as I have lots of new food choices!!

This evening has been better than usual. I had a pretty healthy dinner (veg pasta with tom sauce) and 2 of my little luxury chocolates rather than half a jar of Nutella or half a dozen biscuits. As I said, I am NOT going to buy any more chocolate, but these chocs cost me £3 for five and they really are delicious. The cost normally prohibits me from buying them but I thought 'sod it' the other day and treated myself. Well, there will be no more treats involving chocolate!!!

Sorry for the long post.