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Conference rocks::weight_control

Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
Notice:**PLEASE** enter notes in mixed case (CAPS ARE SHOUTING)!
Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Tue Jul 10 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

51.0. "Saboteurs" by CHOVAX::GILSON () Wed Jun 03 1987 14:35

    How are you handling the other members of your household who complain
    "There's nothing good to eat in the house" and bring in illegal
    food.  I'm trying to prepare healthy, low calorie meals and having a 
    very difficult time resisting "goodies" if they are in the house.  My 
    rationale is if there is no junk food around I won't be as tempted to
    binge (too lazy to go out any buy it).  I sat them all down and
    explained how I felt about the problem.  The cooperation lasted only
    a few days.
    
    Other members of this file have commented that their cravings have
    lessened or disappeared, mine have increased since I have been on
    a weight-loss program.

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51.1CompromiseCHESIR::WOLOCHWed Jun 03 1987 15:0022
    Please don't flame, but I can understand the way they might feel.
    
    Maybe you could schedule trips for them to the local ice cream shop
    and make sure they eat their cones/sundaes before they come home.
    That way, they satisfy their craving and you don't have to put up
    with ice cream in the freezer.
    
    If its your spouse, have him/her satisfy the craving while at work
    so that you won't be in the audience of a candy bar.
    
    They may feel resentful after awhile if your diet causes them to
    have too many restrictions so its important to give them the freedom
    to choose what they want, too.
    
    Good luck!
    
    Signed,
    
    Nancy-whose-sweetie-eats-potato-chips-in-the-car-because-they-aren't
    allowed-in-the-house.
                                  

51.2a couple of thoughts...ARGUS::CORWINI don't care if I AM a lemmingWed Jun 03 1987 15:1132
I can think of lots of suggestions.  I don't know which of them are really
useful, though.

If you talked to "them", and it worked for a few days, can you talk to them
every few days about it?  Tell them how much they're helping you by
cooperating, and send them out for snacks.  Encourage them to eat their
junkfood outside the house and not tell you about it.  I don't mind Bill
eating his ice cream sundaes at work, but I don't want to hear about them!

You can also counter by having legal food that you enjoy.  I love Weight
Watchers ice cream sandwiches (one at a time!!), and don't mind Bill having
regular ones at the same time.  I also love WW chocolate cake, chocolate
mousse, etc., etc. :-)

Another option if they must bring illegal stuff home, is to have each one
bring their own individual size portions, so you can't just snack nonchalantly
on it.  A big bag of chips is a no-no.  Or, encourage them to eat things that
you don't even like.  This works great for me, since I hate nuts (peanut
m&m's, plain peanuts, peanut butter cookies are yucky, same as half of the
ice cream flavors one can choose from).  I also hate coffee, so coffee ice cream
is safe for Bill to buy.  On the other hand, he won't eat chocolate, which is
my favorite, so if he was ever on a diet, I'd be all set :-)

I guess we should all be changing our eating habits so we don't crave all this
stuff that we shouldn't have, especially since it's all around us.  But in the
event that we can't yet do that, sometimes we can change our environment to
help us, especially at the more trying times.

Good luck to you!

Jill

51.3Whose diet is it anyway?SQM::AITELHelllllllp Mr. Wizard!Thu Jun 11 1987 02:5526
    It's your diet, not theirs.
    
    I live with someone with a FAST metabolism, who loses weight
    easily.  We have goodies galore in the house.  I generally
    have MY food and HIS food, and I know that I'm not to touch
    his.  It usually works.  When I really crave that chip or
    icecream, I first look at my calorie record book.  If I
    can afford it, I measure out ONE serving, return the container to
    its storage place, and eat my portion.  Then I make sure I
    write it down.  If this means I'm about to go over my limit,
    I think about whether I really want it.  If I cannot resist,
    which is rare after all this hoopla, I have to make up the
    calories THE NEXT DAY.  So it'd better be under 200!
    
    What helps the most is having my substitutes for the goodies.
    The nutrasweet Jello is a lifesaver.  So's diet soda that has
    no aftertaste.  I've drunk up a quart of soda to stave off
    a food attack - hard to eat when your tummy's full of liquid!
    Or I go for the fruit.
    
    You've gotta remember, it's YOU who is sticking your hand out
    to get that food, noone else, and it's noone else's fault.
    It's not easy.
    
    --Louise

51.4TOOK::D_LANEWe're on a road to nowhereMon Feb 20 1989 11:227
    My SO complains that when I go on a diet he goes on a diet.  Or
    that there's never anything "good" to eat.  So, now when I go shopping
    I buy my diet food and buy him sweets that I don't like (strawberry
    icecream, fig newtons) that way I won't be tempted to eat them.
    
    Debbi