I’ve been on a eat healthy / eat junky swing. Whenever I try to eat healthy, it’s followed by a period of eating junky. I guess it’s akin to people dieting and then overeating.
How do I just eat healthy?? I don’t have the willpower to not eat chips or pizza or desserts. My kryptonite lol. It’s easy just to tell someone to eat healthy, or even tell yourself that. But actually doing it is so damn hard.
1- How do I eliminate my cravings for tasty delicious foods like chips and fries, pizza and fried stuff, and desserts?
2- What foods are healthy but also tasty? And does NOT involve any cooking?
I eat plenty of fruits so I got that covered. But I don’t really like eating raw veggies. I get fresh veg drinks like once or twice a week but that’s not enough. I take tons of vitamins and supplements but I know that’s not enough either.
It’s sooooo hard to resist things like cake. Really, the only few reasons left for living is eating tasty stuff. I mean, if we’re forced to live in this damn world, at least enjoy some tasty food!! But…I really don’t want to be eating so junky. I mean, I WANT to eat it, but I don’t want to be sick either (I’m already sick from other things).
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I’d suggest just giving in and eating whatever you want.
This is a suicide site, but even if you don’t kill yourself you’re still gonna die eventually, so you might as well eat whatever you want without over analyzing the consequences.
If you wanna live to the ripe old age of 120, ignore the above ^ paragraphs.
I’m on the road right now and 5 minutes ago I was sleepy, miserable, and grumpy. I pulled over for fuel, a glazed twist, and a hot coffee. It can’t be that healthy but my spirit has been lifted. At least until the insulin bomb wears off, and I’ll resume hating myself. What’s that worth?
Define tasty. The only definition that truly falls into the category that you’ve described that is both tasty and doesn’t require any cooking are fruits and nuts. Then again some people like myself are more into salty tastes while others crave sweets. So it definitely varies from person to person.
I like drowning my food in chilli sauce
Why don’t you like to cook? I went vegan for like 6 months then I started cooking meat dishes. It’s not very difficult to cook.
Try having a LITTLE bit of something fun with veggies. Like dressing for carrots, or peanut butter and celery. Emphasis on LITTLE bit, hard as that may be.
It’s really hard. If you’ve depended on junk food as a crutch for ages, and enjoy the ‘losing control fuck it all’ period of excess and sinking into a food coma fog! I know it probably sounds comical to some people (and is by no means in the same league as drug or alcohol addiction!!!) but food addiction really is real, processed foods really do have a lot of addictive ingredients. And as you probably know the emotional aspect is huge. It’s a quick short-term reward.
I love all food; I like cooking, I like healthy food. But I also have really bad binging habits that are out of control. I wonder if you are a bit like that? MIght be totally wrong, of course. 🙂 I’m not overweight, I don’t think, but am out of shape and would love to lose a bit.
Binges can make mood swings a lot worse and are often followed by shame. But before one it’s all I can think about. Maybe you, in a way, crave that ‘period of excess, eating until pain’ thing as well, which is why a balanced diet with the odd bit of junk food is especially hard for you to maintain?
If you eat normally in public but massively overeat on junk in secret that it could be a sign that it’s more of a serious problem?
Though if you’re really are just talking about the odd bit of cake and junk food, it really is fine, and will probably benefit your whole body more in the long run, than if you really restrict your intake. Because then at one point you’ll probably snap and overeat anyway.
Get help for eating disorders if you need to. Best wishes.
Sorry if I’m not making total sense; bit of a foggy head atm.
Well written. Thank you. And yes, while a food addiction may not be in the league of drugs or alcohol it still plays hell with quality of life so I do thank you for condensing these insights into a nice half a dozen paragraphs.
I also want to take this opportunity to share what is working to slowly drive my weight down. It all started with seeing a video made in 1942 showing workers walking in droves in and out of an aircraft factory during a shift change. I made a startling observation. Of the hundreds of them on;y one was obese. Well I worked hard on airplanes too but I was always obese. The difference between them and me, said my research, was just as you say: processed foods. They did not have them to any significant degree.
So starting at 226 pounds on Jan 7 I decided to substitute non processed foods for processed foods bit by bit and by mid year I was at 220. That is when I learned that diet soda, of which I was a large consumer, plays hell with appetite. I dumped it. Just three months later I am at 212. This gentle trend shows no sign of letting up soon and I want for nothing as food goes. I hope to be back to 170 in about three years. It is a long time but better that than the yo-yo effect of any sort of crash program.
Nah, it’s not like that. I’ve, for the most part, decent eating habits. I eat more healthy than most Americans (I know, that’s not saying much), but I’ve become allergic to a lot of things some years ago, and even more allergies 2 years ago. I’m not supposed to eat practically everything, so it’s making it super hard. No dairy, no seafood, no wheat, no gluten, no rice, no potato, no banana, no apple, no soy, no joy.
Because I’m not supposed to eat ANY of the above (plus a bunch more), the more I want to eat it. It’s one thing if it’s just junk food. It’s one thing if it’s just one or two things I’m supposed to avoid. But I can’t do it if I can’t have almost everything!!
That’s why I binge and start eating all the junky food. I can’t do it.