Dealing with cravings
Ok buddies, this is where I need your feedback, advice or suggestions. Pretty much, help!! Been doing well and I haven’t eaten off plan and don’t intend too (not without losing my crown in longest loser) not only that because it is fun but I do’t want to back track where I have already been and lose what progress I have already made. When I went to check on the tailors to see if she had my dress ready (she did not) and get some skirts cut down (too big) she was telling me it must be so hard to buy clothes since I am so big. So, no big head here for me. But when I was looking in the mirror today, it just amazed me. Where is the bubble butt, where is the table that you can stack dishes on and eat from? Wow, it has gone down so much. NOw, that doesn’t mean it is gone. I wish! But it looks almost normal. Wow.
Ok, I digress. My problem is how to deal with cravings. I am not hungry. I checked my inner hunger gadge and that is not it. But usually I can look past those ick things but yesterday and today, oh man, it just looked so good, smelled so good (I indulge in smell kinda like a look but don’t touch) and all I could think of was, man, do I want that! Do the cravings ever leave you alone? I have been on this plan since the end of Feb. I have a feeling they never leave you. Do they lessen in intensity in time? Do you learn how to avoid them? HOw to deal with them? I went on a walk today, I kept busy and all that but they were ther ein the background like the boogiemonster just waiting to pounce when I least expected them. When I get to goal, how to handle the cravings. I can’t give in to them or I will be back up fat again so what do I do. PLease don’t tell me to just have a little piece of whatever I want. To be honest, that is not me. I am physically not where I need to be to be able to do that. I am one of these people that will eat and eat and feel sick and still eat because it is still there. I would buy popsicles and ice cream and would eat one then two then three and up to six to eight feeling terrible but unable to stop. That is me and I acknowledge that weakness.
Cravings are not a weakness on anyones part, I do realize that. If you do’nt crave the ick, you crave tv, or attention or something. We are humans and we crave things. I iknow one lady that just can not resist wine for nothing. For me, wine, yuck but something made with bread or pastry, oh yeah! Just put it down slowly and back away!
But seriously, how to deal with the cravings. They will never go away, I realize that. Like alcoholics, they always have the desire to drink, they always hae to fight to not stop at that last bar, to not have “just one sip” and they have to do that all their lives. Even 15 20 years later, they still realize they must fight it because all it takes is that one sip to undo all those years of fighting. Does this mean that even when I am at goal I must fight like this to keep from giving in? Will I learn to portion control myself or should it be forbideden to me even when at goal as alcohol is forbidden to an alcoholic? THese are questions that I have to answer and fear to answer.
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My guess is that the cravings will subside a bit and that no you will have to always be a bit vigilant. I seem to have real problems with carbs. It doesn’t take much to make me go into a carb coma. But maybe some day I can exercise off 200 calories and then have a 200 calorie goodie provided that I add a protein to level me out and then limit access to food. Like take a walk, or distract myself some other way. I will eat an entire bag of peanut m&m s
My mom’s an alcoholic. I wonder if that physiology is something that makes me unable to control eating, like it’s my drug. I don’t drink for that reason. I always thought I would become a drunk.
What helps me in dealing with cravings is to go to the forum for support groups and post about my cravings, what I want, why, etc… then I re-read what I wrote and think if it worth it to put one pound of fat on my hips and have my pants tight the next morning.
Instead of repressing the thoughts about cravings, I let them out and look at them… it really helps to see that ice cream is just plain sugar with artificial additives and cheesecake is almost the same only with tons of lard in it.
If I crave something badly I try to substitute something else. My favourite anti craving thing is cherry tomatoes, they are sweet, grabable and if I eat 20 it isn’t a bad thing. I also drink a glass of water.
If that doesn’t work, distract yourself, blog, try to get your mind on something else.
For me craving come in waves like labor pains. Its really really bad while its on you, but if you can ride it out, by grabbing a healthy snack, drinking ice water with lemon, or going for a walk, it passes for awhile maybe an hour maybe a day or 2. But the craving do come back so you have to always be prepared with an alternate plan of how you can ride it out. Good luck. You can do it! -Dee
oh rachel…I so feel you.
I am getting ready to start on the plan you gave me tomorrow!
Nervous about it.
So used to having things to help me curb my cravings…and this is going to be much more strict for me!~ But I am going to try it!
Thanks again for going out of your way to help me!
I have gotten to where I can eat only one treat or one serving of a treat…and I used to be like what you described. So, I think it will come…in time. It will become easier and easier for you!