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Team Pilot Rabbitcraft
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 # Posted: 1 Jan 2007 00:24


I was just thinking about some of the bad food habits that I've finally broken and wondered what some other folks used to struggle with.

Other than just eating poorly in general, I used to "need" a candy bar (or other sweet treat) everyday after dinner.
pseudo intellectual
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 # Posted: 1 Jan 2007 02:07 - Edited by: iamthepinkylifter


i have replaced my juice and soda habit with a water and club soda habit.

i also used to get almost daily cravings for things like pop tarts, potato chips, and candy.

i've really learned to control my eating impulses in general. i think more about what i eat, when i choose to eat, and whether i'm really hungry or not.
Paul Erickson
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 # Posted: 1 Jan 2007 03:11


Oddly enough, I'm finding my bad habits aren't about food. For me it's finding the motivation to exercise.

But that's just me.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Nick Hopwood
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 # Posted: 1 Jan 2007 06:38


Am sure you have heard the 21 day rule? Keep doing something for 21 days and it becomes a habit? get up early 21 days on the trot and it just becomes natural to do it. Grab water instead of juice as Cindy says and soon dont even think of the alternative. For me when I get past 21 days of not automatically having a beer (or worse) on way home or when I get in then becomes a habit to exercise instead to fill the time. Ah well 7 days gone and already feeling 100% better.
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NYCinephile .
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 # Posted: 1 Jan 2007 16:29


@Nick:

Am sure you have heard the 21 day rule? Keep doing something for 21 days and it becomes a habit?

Can you refer me to a source that discusses this further?

I used to binge on fatty and sugary foods...sometimes out of loneliness, sometimes because I had missed a meal, sometimes for the pure pleasure of overindulging. Occasionally, this was spurred by alcohol-induced tipsiness.

I've tackled this by becoming clear-headedly concious of my impulses.
EmmaJane Reed
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 # Posted: 1 Jan 2007 17:40


A piece of beef jerky makes a good snack. It takes a lot of chewing, is low on carbs and fat.
Nathan P.
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 # Posted: 2 Jan 2007 20:45


Soda/Pop - has been discussed in other threads, but I don't crave them anymore, ever.

Binge eating - well i don't know if I would call it binge eating considering it was like every meal, but I keep my portions under control now. And, I don't eat everyone else's leftovers at the end of the meal anymore.
Steve Corona
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 # Posted: 2 Jan 2007 21:03 - Edited by: spcorona


@NYCinephile
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-t o-success/
Same thing, 30 days instead of 21 though

I've broken the habit of drinking soda, now I grab an unsweetened iced tea. It's almost natural. At first, I thought it tasted bland but after drinking it for 3 months straight it tastes great.
frank aiello
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 # Posted: 3 Jan 2007 14:24


I used eat chips and dip with a beer watching tv....now its veggies and hummas with sparkling water.
and hard candy got substituted by raisins.
Laura Scott
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 # Posted: 3 Jan 2007 15:01 - Edited by: sports_chick


I dont think i have ever binged on that junk food like fizzy drinks, sweets or chocolate. My problem was just binging on whatever i could get my hands on...mounds of pasta, ham & brie sandwhiches and my fav: hot toast with lots of butter with a big glass of ammereto & coke!

My mum said something to me the other day which put all my binging into prospective. She said that you dont eat because your hungry, it is because you have deep emotional problem within you and finding it will stop the binging all together. I have finally found my source of the problem...It was that i thought i would get fat and be happy because nothing mattered any more because my boyfriend still loves me for who i am. I realised this and sooner than i thought, my cravinbgs disappeared. Although when i do get the craving to eat every thing in sight, i take my dogs out or have even gone for a run!!!

I thought this comment may help some people as it honestly stops me from binging or having a munch on all that rubbish stuff whch aint too good for you.

Lau xxxxxx
Fred L
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 # Posted: 3 Jan 2007 15:19


For me...cookies and pizza. For some reason, these are always hard to give up. All other bad habits, I have been able to get rid of.
Stephanie Q
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 # Posted: 3 Jan 2007 17:04


I stopped binging on junk food and cookies lately becuase I got soo sick of them. When I eat them, they taste good at first and then turn bland. I don't taste what I eat. Then I get kinda sick and queasy and it affects my study and everything. Going home for the holidays where these foods don't exist is great.
I agree that beef jerkies are a great alternative if you want to chew something. Also, sugarless is gum is possible. I am not a big fan of gum becuase I grew up without gum...it is banned where I live.
i Slappy
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 # Posted: 3 Jan 2007 18:37 - Edited by: iSlappy


This is a good topic for me personally because it relates well to this morning. Every day at work we have a Food Truck (Roach Coach) that comes in the morning. My old habit was to go out and have at least a couple of tacos. The grease dripping monsters quickly became addicting and a staple in my daily routine.

Well, since I started my new 'lifestyle change', I haven't gone to the truck anymore as I usually have some Eggs Substitute, Salsa, and lite Whole Wheat toast or Oatmeal in the morning instead. Today, I was running late and only had time for a protein shake. Still hungry, I had to go out to the truck for some carbs ... I returned with a banana and a V-8. Habit broken!

I've always been told that it takes 2 weeks to start a habit, but 6 weeks to break one. I don't have any references to back that up, but anecdotally, it has worked for me. I tried googling, but didn't come up with any hard data references.
Aoife Hammersmith
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 # Posted: 3 Jan 2007 18:59


There are times when I quite literally would have something (candy) "just because I can." I would kinda want it, (but not crave it because if it was out of sight it was totally out of mind,) and decide that it won't hurt and I can have it. Of course, do it enough and it does... and I did. I guess I'm saying I'm breaking the habit of being a 5-year-old brat? HA

There's a big difference between an occasional indulgence of something you really like and savour and just grabbing a snickers every time you see one and never really even want it. The former is fine, the latter is just a stupid way to add some pounds.
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