If you’re thin, what does the voice in your head say?

[SunshineAndFizz]

If you’re offered a biscuit, or need to make a selection in a restaurant, what does the voice in your head say to help you make a healthy choice?

Kate Moss famously said ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’. And my aunt used to say ‘oh I don’t like to feel full’.

If you’re thin, do you have a healthy phrase you tell yourself to help keep on the right track?

I like sweet things as much as anyone but being vegan helps a lot because it naturally restricts which ones I can have, like if there’s a cake at work I might not be able to have it and I won’t mind or feel like it’s a diet.
My kids would happily eat five ice creams but we tell them say if you have one now you don’t have one later - it’s not as nutritious as some other foods, so you need to eat more of the nutritious foods than foods that’s main benefit is that they taste nice - otherwise you could get full on things like ice cream and not have enough protein, vitamins and fibre. So same for myself I’ll have a sweet thing but just choose when to have it - didn’t have a cake in the cafe this morning because I’ll probably want something after dinner and I don’t want to end up accidentally eating both.

For me, Mountjaro was an absolute miracle drug because not only did it suppress my appetite to a place where I was in a big calorie deficit enabling me to lose 37 Kilos over a year and 12 inches off my waist. It also completely suffocated the food voice monster, I’m still on a maintenance dose as having been size 22 and now a 6/8.. I never want to go there again. Nothing taste as good as thin feels.

I was 3 stone overweight (at 5’2) and have lost just under 2 stone on Mounjaro. People who don’t get “food noise” don’t understand how all-consuming it is.

I think about eating all the time. Even after a massive Sunday lunch, like 15 minutes after, I’m thinking about what I can eat next. I suppose some people might call it greed but when you just constantly crave food it’s draining.

The MJ totally silenced the food noise when I started (4 months ago) but it’s crept back in - plus I am reducing my dose because it’s got too pricey, I’m nearing my target weight and I don’t want to be on it forever.

So I’m really trying to deal with the food cravings rather than give in to them. My most successful thing I tell myself is “after you’ve eaten that biscuit/chocolate/bag of crisps, you will feel exactly the same as you do now, but you’ll have undone all the exercise you did this morning”. IE you’ll still crave something even if you eat a treat to “satisfy” the craving. So I just suck a sugar free sweet/ ice poke instead.

But it’s bloody hard!

edited to add - I also remind myself of the lovely clothes I can now fit into and how great it is not to feel bloated all the time.

I’m still on a maintenance dose as having been size 22 and now a 6/8

That's an incredible achievement!