I actually follow a mostly healthy diet, but those were two of my biggest weaknesses, and I decided those were incredibly crappy things to be splurging on. Now, I save my splurge calories for good things, like wine and Girl Scout cookies (which Elliot is proudly selling, by the way). I’m happy to report that I can’t even remember the last time I ate a Pop Tart, and I’m positively repulsed by the thought of a donut. You might not be tempted by Kwik E Mart food like I was, but if, by chance, there is one little temptation in your life you’d like to kick to the curb, this might help you too!
1. First and foremost, I’ve been picking more produce than a migrant farm worker. I always have a purse apple at the ready. Fruits and veggies are my constant snack companions now, to the point that I never actually get hungry enough to want junk.
2. I don’t let myself have ‘a little treat’ just once in awhile. That’s how I started down the long and dark donut alley. Cold turkey is the only way to go. There was a time when I might have had a donut with the changing of the seasons. Then I decided once a month would be okay. Before long, it was a weekly treat, and I was craving them fiercely.
3. Now those first two can be filed under the “Duh” category. But here’s the next step. You know how there are those days you wake up feeling yucky and nothing sounds good to eat? THAT is the day to go buy a donut. Make yourself eat it, just like Uncle Donald made Huey, Dewey, and Louie smoke all of those cigars. You will hate it, you’ll be miserable, and then the last memory you’ll have of that food will be bad.
Well, there you go. I’m going to eat an apple now.
3 comments:
Brilliant. I just wrote a post about sugar...it will show up on my blog tomorrow. Bravo, sister! Apples are our friends...
I would LOVE to claim I had the willpower to do something like that, but I just don't. Simple as that. I will always be the kind of person who has to lose weight through exercise, because I absolutely LOVE food too much to restrain myself.
I do find, however, that when I'm in a 'training regime' and doing lots of exercise, junk food doesn't appeal to me as often as other times, even though the strength of its pull is the same as ever. I soooo wish I could claim to be as strong as both you and Katie, being able to give up temptations (and even eventually lose them), but I accept it as one of my failures in life.
Whatever. I'll go be good at something else. ;-)
Well done to you, though!
I thought we had the same mentality, Chandy! I mean, what! No more Pop Tarts? Admittedly I don't keep them in the house for very good reasons, namely twin one and twin two which have taken up residence in the derrier, along with the 25 pounds of maternity weight in the front!
Okay, so yeah you. I'm happy that you've become disgusted with yourself and have the willpower to just say no! :) Okay, I know you're not disgusted with yourself. You've had quite a year for yourself and if this is something you have decided, then Brava!
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