Cheating all the time??

I have a major problem with cheating on my diet.. right now I'm kinda drinking a freaking Ice Capp and greasy french fries!! But it's so good. Can someone gross me out a little so I can stop this habit. Any healthier alternative for me?Thanks

Original Post by n9nelink:

 Any healthier alternative for me?

Best I can come up with is... put it down and don't eat it?

I don't know, if you don't feel its within your allowances, then don't eat or drink it. Take a cheat day if you want, but are you cheating like this all the time? Do you go over your calories?

Original Post by n9nelink:

 But it's so good. Can someone gross me out a little so I can stop this habit. 

Sprinkle pepper on all of it! 

lol

I LOVE PEPPER!

Sadly yes..but the wierd thing is.. im still losing weight???..Rapidly...but when I don't cheat I end up gaining a lb or 2 overnight???..Is there something wrong with me??

It is not realistic for most people but this is an extreme answer!

I am into lots of raw , unaltered foods, and fish. Natural food that humans have evolved to eat is what our bodies WILL NATURALLY CRAVE if we RE ADJUST our taste buds

If you eat processed foods with additives, man made chemicals and substances, too much refined sugar and etc then your body will KEEP CRAVING THESE FOODS.

The hardcore solution? Go cold turkey on natural foods and eventually your body will only crave the foods that humans were designed to eat!

I USED TO LOVE MCDONALDS, KFC, sugar milkshakes and sugar cakes and deserts. I used to eat 2 - 3 LARGE BURGERS IN ONE SITTING.

I have gone from that, to eating ONLY natural foods. My body no longer craves

These so called “ natural” foods actually taste better to me then fries now. Your body naturally honestly enjoy natural foods better if you start to feed it accordingly.

My advice is - and this is something that has ALWAYS bothered me regarding the way people deal with dieting - find another way to think about it than 'cheating'. I hate it when people giggle and say, "Oh, I cheated on my diet today". I guess it makes them feel like it's more of a game or experiment, and a little slip up is not really as bad as it seems.

Of course eating treats now and then is not bad, occasional ones should be included! But when you are trying to stick to a diet, and be committed to your overall health, maybe try thinking of it not as "cheating" but rather in terms like, "I just did my body and health a great disservice, I deserve so much better than this."

As for healthier alternatives, I agree with personaltrainer about retraining your tastebuds (If you abstain from processed foods/sugars for a month, they will make you sick when you have them), or else look into the healthier but just as tasty alternatives to sweets and junk food. Maybe choose an all-fruit smoothie next time, or baked potato wedges, rather than fried. Your body and mind will thank you profusely.

Best of luck.

Start weighing yourself every morning and tracking it on the caloriecount weight tracker. I've been doing this for at least 200 days pretty consistently.

I've noticed that while weight jumps all over the place (three steps forward, 2 steps back type of thing).. it almost always goes UP the morning after If I cheat the day before. It makes me think twice before scarfing down an entire bowl of bread at dinner.

Also, I made a rule for myself that if I REALLY want to at something that isn't on my diet, that I'll do it at Lunchtime instead of dinner.

So when it's 8pm and I feel like I'm tortured because I "shouldn't really" have < insert food here > .. I rationalize to myself that I'll wait until tomorrow so I can have it for lunch. 90% of the time, by the time lunch rolls around the next day, the craving/overwhelming desire is gone.

if your losing after cheating, and don't lose on your diet, your probably not eating enough calories on your "non cheating" plan. sounds a bit like starvation mode, but your body isn't letting you really go there?

you might want to re-assess the ratio of calories in to calories out, shoot for a slightly smaller deficit with a slower loss, and see if you are still craving your "cheats" on your revised plan. you might be craving your cheats because your body needs energy that its otherwise not getting.  good luck! 

incorporating treats into your diet is good because you won't feel deprived.  then you won't be so likely to cheat.

if you want to be grossed out enough to not cheat, check out this site: http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

some of it looks ok, but most of it looks nasty!

wow that is gross.. and thankz everyone for the posts!!! You give me confidence

The main thing about all this is developing more and more discipline.

Make mock fries in the oven (cut up potatoes, brush with a bit of olive oil, bake), I swear to the gods of cooking they taste much better than their evil oil-drenched twins, and are super healthy also.

Edit: Forgot to mention, this applies to nearly any junk that might tempt you, the Internet is squirming with people who have the same food issues and have come up with better alternatives for their old faves.