can't keep fasst yummy stuff around

[Lenie]

I am finding on this my second day that I can not keep the atkins bars or whipped cream around or I will over-do on them. Have otherrs of you had this problem?

[aztova]

Yes, it is hard having them around. Find I want to eat them when stressed.

[Karen]

I can not keep the atkins bars or whipped cream around or I will over-do on them.

Whipping cream yes, but I've never had any Atkins bars around. I absolutely loathe them.

I like welcoming my addiction head on and making myself tasty low-carb desserts that keep me addicted to sweetness and prevent me from dealing with my addiction. Great fun! Not! I used to have a liter a day habit, sometimes more.

Don't do this to yourself Lenie, it's not worth the agony. Keep your WOE simple and clean and don't muck it up with stuff that will continually bring you back to square one. Pitch it out. You're winning the weight battle, and you've done so well with it. Whipping cream and artificial sweetener addiction is real and a battle that you can't afford to lose.

Karen

[Marlaine]

I think that the problem you are talking about is the REAL problem so many of us have.

Some of us have some problematic eating behaviors. It's not just food we are eating. We are eating our fears and our insecurities, our anger and our pain. We are eating to compensate and to fill gaping holes in our hearts.

I think we need to understand that food is simply to nourish us. It's not a safe refuge in a storm. It's not love. It's not a way to punish ourselves.

Just because we are eating Low Carb doesn't mean that those behaviors are going to disappear. Besides learning a way to eat that suits our metabolic make up, we are going to have to learn new ways to deal with all of the issues we've been handling with food. That is, if we want to get to our healthy weight and STAY there.

I wrestle with those demons every day. So far...

Demons ... 0
Marlaine ... 4 months, 9 days on Atkins

So far ... I'm winning.

[DWRolfe]

What a wonderful message, Marlaine!

I think I will print this one and keep it posted in front of my desk. I not only feel as though I've found a new WOE, but that I'm in recovery. I'm determined to face my fears and find out what has been driving me to be overweight for almost my entire life.

Thank You! :)

[Marlaine]

Hi there DW......

It's great to meet you!! and thanks for the kind words. I went to visit your journal and left you a note there.

Very much like your tag line....

Marlaine

[razzle]

many many others have this problem. I have to really watch it with cream cheese; if I let myself have Diet Rite sitting around, I can get back into the habit of a daily one quite easily.

Karen and Marlaine have great insight into this. It's darned difficult to change a lifetime of self-medication with sweets, but it's worth the effort.
I simply don't buy such stuff...or I buy it in small quantities (as I do cashews--which I buy in a 1.5 ounce amount, maybe once a month, then eat them over two days...it's a struggle sometimes, but I always feel better for not having just "let go" and eaten a half pound of them.)

This inability to control eating any item is really a gift...it's a message telling you this is one of your trigger foods--you likely have a food sensitivity to something in the bars and, I suspect, to lactose. So now you know--probably also best to limit your cheese intake and monitor if you tend to overeat that. Once we get rid of our personal bad foods, cravings disappear entirely (or close to entirely), we start living life around other issues but food...it's really wonderful!