To ask advice on how to break unhealthy habit?

[ARareKindaBear]

I’m addicted to a certain type of biscuit. I’m eating half a packet of them every single night … I’ve eaten 10 of them tonight. I really must stop.

I have an addictive personality but despite this I managed to go teetotal from a drinking habit so surely I can do this! I feel like I need something else to fix the “habit gap”. But what?! Mints don’t cut it, neither does fruit.

Any advice on how to stop this awful habit? Apart from just not buying them!

Why "apart from stop buying them"?

Seriously, just stop buying them!!!

I don't have any chocolate bars in the house as I'll eat them! I just don't but them!

Put the money you'd spend on them in a jar then take up crochet. Busy fingers means you can't eat so won't get fat!

I admit, I can't quite grasp why not buying them isn't your first thought. Just stop buying them. I don't buy junk food because I don't want to be tempted to eat it.

Get some sugar/sweetener free sparkling water and have that with a slice of lemon or lime in the evening to take it's place. It will help you stop wanting something sweet.

Stop buying them!!!!

Don't buy them and When you get the urge to go to the kitchen for a snack do something else instead. Pick up a pen and doodle something, colour, do 10 star jumps, get the ironing board out literally anything at all that forces you to keep your hands or body busy doing something else.

How annoying, who is buying them for you?

One method is to think of these biscuits. Really close your eyes and visualise them, the taste, the texture. How it feels on your lips, in your mouth, how it smells.

Then think of a food you are repulsed by. It can be anything. Something you hate so much you can barely touch it and would be upset if it got on your hands or you accidentally ate some. Really close you eyes and visualise this food in the same way - taste, texture, smell.

Make the images bigger, brighter, bolder, the smells more intense.

Then imagine mixing the biscuits with the food you hate - if it’s spreadable it’s on the biscuit. If it’s solid it’s between two of the biscuits- then imagine eating the two together- taste, texture, smell and the ratio is 1 yummy biscuit to 3 disgusting food smeared on top and sandwiched between.

Then! Add some more disgusting toppings - and be creative! - hair, nails, mud - just really foul toppings.

If you buy the biscuits, put them in a really awkward place like upstairs at the back of somewhere so it’s a real effort to get them - then do this visualisation every time you think about going to get the biscuits… and see if that helps 😊

I had a sugary addiction too, I could NOT just not buy them.. i looked into the calories and worked out for the 6 months I'd been doing it and that somehow worked for me🤣

I'm like that, and I do tell myself, the decision is made at the supermarket.

Is it Jaffa cakes? I bet it’s Jaffa cakes.

I took up crochet when I stopped drinking, keeps the hands busy... and calorie-free!
Also drink large volumes of decaf tea in the evenings so I'm not hungry or thirsty.

I've just read this as I've finished eating biscuit number 6 😩

If so can you swap to a satsuma and piece of dark chocolate?!

Can you just eat them on a Friday night? Then you don't have to give them up completely but can spend the week looking forward to them.

Could you start intermittent fasting so you can't have anything in the evenings? I'm a bit of an all or nothing kind of person.

Try doing something else with your hands? I snack and drink much less when I'm knitting.

No, not Jaffa cakes, they are so small nowadays that I eat a whole packet at a time!

Paul McKenna?