How to stop eating crap all time?

[Moose657]

Why do I like sweet things (always been this way) I have to have them in the house because husband wouldn't be happy to not have chocolate in the house, but why do I have no willpower!

I'm trying to better during meals too and eat healthier but my whole diet is shit and I'm like no wonder I'm overweight.

Anyone can follow a recipe. Just go on BBC good food and look at all their recipes. It's fun! I make sure I try several new recipes a week. It never gets boring.

Thanks everyone,

I do love roasted veg but it's so time consuming!

I am well aware it's only me that can change it, but I do feel hungry quite a lot.

The times I've had most success with weight loss are when I genuinely believe that I am in control of it. I'm in control of what I buy, what I cook, if I snack, how much water I drink. I'm in control, not the chocolate. I've also been most success when I reframe a treat. So a glass of water or some fruit or veg is a treat for my body because it makes it work better.
I've yoyoed loads and am not being very successful at the moment but I know the key every time is to getting my head in the right place and the rest follows.

I hear a lot of “my husband or parents “ are to blame. Actually it’s your own personal responsibility now as an adult. Once you accept that, then it will be easier. And ultimately you need to loose weight more than you want the sweet stuff. Unless of course something else going on mentally or physically.

You want to get off the blood sugar rollercoaster and stop spiking your blood sugar with sugary foods or carbs (which the bloody converts into sugar). Non refined carbs don’t spike blood sugar as quickly as refined carbs. Protein and fats don’t spike blood sugar, and eating them with carbs slows down the rate at which the carbs spike blood sugar.

The easiest way to do this basically don’t eat refined carbs/sugar (or only have occasionally as a treat) and make every meal and snack you have a mix of protein, carbs and fat. Some examples below:

Protein
Meat
Fish
Eggs

Non refined carbs
Vegetables
Potatoes
Wholegrain rice
Wholewheat pasta
Wholewheat bread

Fat (healthy fats)
Olive oil
Avocado
Nuts
Seeds
Oily fish

Example meals
Breakfast
Egg, avocado, wholemeal bread
Oats, milk, mixed seeds

Lunch
Jacket potato, tuna salad olive oil dressing
Wholewheat wrap, chicken salad olive oil dressing

Dinner
Chicken, whole grain rice, veg
Steak, chips, veg

I always had this problem….kept telling myself I wouldn’t have the treats or that I would only have a nibble of chocolate here and there etc but I just couldn’t stick to it.

And then I downloaded a calorie counting App on my phone so I could actually track what I was eating and when I saw how many calories I was taking in I was HORRIFIED!

I just couldn’t believe it.

I realised that when it came to drinks, having one cup of tea (made the way I like it) equalled the same number of calories as 9 glasses of squash…..so now I just drink squash instead of God knows how many cups of tea day!

So for the last 5 weeks I have reduced my calorie intake and stayed completely away from the unhealthy snacks and I’ve lost just over 8lbs.

I do miss my cups of tea though 😂

Don't have the chocolate in the house

Your DH can buy his own/keep it somewhere

@RoachFish do you not have sugar / treats in your window?

Lots of great advice on this thread! You have to start small and focus on one thing. so decide what the priority is...cutting out evening snacking, changing your drink habits to cut out sugar. It will be really hard for the first week but will get easier.

I find Dr Rangan Chatterjee's books and podcasts really helpful for implementing small changes which stick.
I also recommend Shahroo Izadi's books The Kindness Method and The Last Diet for breaking habits.

My tips (not starting all at once!)
-cut eating window to 12 hours. This stops me eating after dinner and gives my system a chance t recover. We're not built to keep eating 16+ hours a day.
-cut out as much UPF as possible. This does mean cooking from scratch and batch cooking but once you get into the swing of things it's okay. We have certain meals that we always have in the freezer like bolognes, chilli, soup, curries, casserole that can be done after work/school quickly with some pasta/rice/potatoes and extra veg added. I've found the hardest UPF to cut out bread. I limit it to breakfast (rye toast with boiled egg) and have non-bread meals for lunch (often leftovers or portions of soup that I make up at the weekend). For recipes I use BBC food and the Hairy Dieter's books are quite good.
-Eat as many different types of veg as possible. Fruit is good but not too much (I try to have more veg than fruit per day, max 2 pieces of fruit). Eating more leftovers/soupd for lunch means I always get some veg in there.
-My downfall is savoury stuff like crisps which I just have to go cold turkey on as I find them so addictive. We avoid buying them.
-If I want something sweet then I try to bake something myself (but in practice that doesn't always work!). I'd rather have something with some sugar than sweeteners but this isn't every day. It sounds like you have a lot of sugar in your drinks - I'd start there. It might take a while for your tastebuds to adjust.
-Be careful about treating yourself on the weekend. My weekend starts Thursday night so if I eat and drink crap from then until Sunday night that's half my week!
-trying to break old unhealthy habits is the hardest. try to replace with a healthy habit. I used to start scarfing down crisps once my kids were in bed. Now I either go for a walk or do some relaxation exercises, then watch TV with mint tea. I also go to bed and read (we don't eat/drink upstairs in our house). All these things are helping me stay away from the cheese/crisps/nuts.

I really liked what someone else was saying upthread about being in control of your own health. Definitely true. My mantra is, "I deserve to feel good". I know I feel like shit when I eat and drink certain things. I definitely eat emotionally, so dealing with stress through things like yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and exercise like walking have really helped me. I'm also struggling to implement all of the above but staying consistent as possible is helping me feel better.

Crosta and Mollica is a good brand for bread with minimal ingredients! They sell it in Tesco & Waitrose.

Thanks @BLT24 💐Unfortunately I don't live in the UK. Our bread has less crap in it than I find in the UK (British bread seems to be really sweet as well!) but I hope your tip helps someone else on the thread.

If you find yourself eating snacks late at night, consider moving your supper later so you're full til bedtime. I've never eaten before 9pm and so don't find I need to snack between the end of supper and my bedtime. As a family we do snack but when we get back from school & work when it's easier to go for something savoury - tends to be toast, pitta & dip or cheese & biscuits with fruit, which are better for you / less likely to be binge eaten then sweet things late at night.