I have been trying to start eating healthy for the past 3 days but every night I end up eating ice cream or cookies with my boyfriend. I can't resist! When he is eating it, I first just want a bite, but then I end up eating most of it myself! The worst part about it is the next morning I get so mad at myself for ruining all the hard work I did late at night. I know if I get past the first day I can do it! Can anyone help or give me advice.
Well, i don't know what is your calorie limit, but actually you can eat ice-cream and cookies only a portion size. For example one cookie and half a cup of ice-cream. You can eat everything what is in your calorie limit. Don't buy cookies or ice-cream for now if you can't resist it, just don't have it in your house.
Do you know what works best? Well first off, I will tell you what DOESNT work best...deprivation!
When starting a diet, for the first two weeks add healthy, nutrient filled foods (low sugar fruit/veggies/lean protein and a multivitamin). Your body will begin to naturally reject sugars and processed foods.
That way you can continue eating 'some' things that you may struggle with resisting. I mean, for example...just in the last couple weeks I started adding healthy foods to my diet, such as raw carrots, some fruit and cooked egg whites. However, when I went home at lunch on Tuesday, I had a Haugen Dauz icecream bar after my Lean Cuisine. The icecream had 330 calories and 22 grams of fat!!! lol......but the only reason I think I ate it was because no one else was home to stop me and because I knew it was 'there'......I dont think I actually wanted it....
We would order pizze every Friday for supper and then basically my diet would fall apart during the weekends..... but after a while I started not even thinking about eating bad things....AND the best part IS my place is FULL of this nasty ****... (My boyfriend still eats it but I havent been bothered by it) and if I do eat a Double Stuffed Oreo or two, I wont beat myself up for it.
Trust me....Keep on your regular eating habits, just add some things and soon you will notice you will no longer have a desire for some of the things you used to eat.
(Omg, I even stopped having my morning coffee with French Vanilla cream in it lol) and it hasnt bothered me either, I dont feel like 'oh I had to give something up" I just lost my desire for it!
Good luck!
I have these really small bowls and if I want ice cream (coffee is my favorite) then I measure it out and put it in those bowls. I have also been able to substitute in diet puddings or diet yogurts. Ultimately I try not to keep anything that I obsess over in the house. For example, I don't buy coffee ice cream. I don't buy cookies that I like - my husband likes Chips Ahoy (YUK!). That works for me. I also for something sweet buy sugarless LifeSavers... It helps.
And celebrate your small successes - maybe you did not have a full bowl of ice cream the night before -- celebrate that you did what you did...
Good Luck.
Hello
Let me tell you a little of my history first (please bear with me). In september I was referred for a Gastric Bypass. Now to get that to happen Kaiser wants me to accomplish certain things in order for them to pay for it. Now my whole live I have been heavy and now at 46 I found out that I cannot live with it. I weighed 332lbs and kaiser wanted me to lose at least 10% before surgery. On October 19 my wife and I started the reccommended diet. I was dreading it completely. You know the story, I am fine and why do I have to eat better and be healthy. At that time my blood oxygen level when I was resting was 46%(should not be under 89%). The diet is a 1200 calorie diet. Each meal has a certain order of things you need to eat to remain strong on this diet. First your protiens, secondly your dairy and then your fruit of vegetable. It was really hard for about the first two weeks, then all of sudden I could not eay my whole meal. And the other thing I started to do was walking (just a little to begin with) and there more and more. As of today I weigh 265 (yes that is 68lbs from my beginning weight)! My health is a 100% better and last Saturday I walked 6 miles in one shot and ran about 3/4 of one of those miles. That is in an incredible achievement for me. Just the thought of me running is amazing. Now you might be asking why is this person just rambling on, but you know I am getting to a point. I don't know what your health is like, or even if you are having problems with your weight. But what I do know is that you need a little of encouragement and positive reinforcement. Put your self in my place. I have had to make the time and effort to change my lifestyle so that I can move onto a happier, healthier next half of my life. This is right, I have made the concious effort to make sure that I am good for the rest of my life so that I will be able to enjoy it and make sure I have time to be with my family. What you have to ask yourself when you look at that ice cream is what is the cost of that bite. It is not just a calorie thing(although I count everything now), but there is a physical and mental and yes an emotional cost to that bite of ice cream. It may not be immediate, and it may not be next week, but eventually you will have to pay for it. Nowadays none of us take the time to ask ourselves what we need and what we don't need. This is the realization I have come to. Whenever I want to snack on something I stop and think about it. My life is to high a price for me to pay for unneccessary food. Like I said I now weigh 265, I consume on the average 590 calories a day and work out for at least 30 minutes a day. Oh yeah and my oxygen level is now up to 77%(my brian gets to breathe and work again). So all I am saying, is that if I (a 46 yr old man on his way to his grave) can change an awful lifestyle to one that is outstandingly incredible. So can you. Everyone is capable of the change, we all just need to take time to tell ourselves it is time to fix it. Have a wonderful full filling life.
man oh man can i relate!!! late nights are my worst enemy!!! what i have thing for is pudding, I LOVE IT!!! lol but thankfully jello makes 100 calorie servings, so every night with out fail i eat one right after i put the kids to bed, then i dont have to share....lol 
but that works really good for me i am never upset that i ate 100 calories....you have to be able to enjoy yourself or this all becomes a chore and it will never last.... good luck!!!
I would suggest you start by making life a little easier for yourself. If you were trying to quit smoking would you have cupboards full of cigarettes? Bit of a no-brainer really.... 
So if you're trying to eat more healthily it really helps to remove anything you don't want to eat or 'can't resist' from your environment. If your boyfriend still wants to eat them, he can buy them outside the home.
Now someone will pop up and say 'don't deprive yourself'... and absolutely don't. Fill the fruit bowl with fruit, fill the fridge with nice crisp vegetables, saladstuff and low-fat yoghurts.... snack on those to your heart's content. Don't skimp on your healthy home-cooked meals. Eat plenty of good food... healthy-eating doesn't mean starving.
Once you're in a good routine of healthy meals and good quality snacks then see how you feel about reintroducing ice-cream and cookies into the mix. They're not bad foods by any means and you should be able to have small amounts as part of your healthy diet in the long-run. But if you're having trouble getting off the mark it helps to deliberately make your home a place where it's easier to eat well than to eat badly
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