Do you still keep treat food in the house?

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I am pleased to say mounjaro works for me and I can at last make choices over how much I eat and I have lost a lot of weight though still some left to lose.
I don’t follow what is largely considered a healthy diet because there are many foods I have an aversion to, plus I am vegetarian and can’t cook from scratch due to disability.
On top of all of that side effects from cancer treatment left me permanently unable to digest most fibrous vegetables.
Chocolate and sweet stuff has long been my downfall and comfort food of choice but I don’t eat much of it now because it is so high in calories and would therefore leave me very little in my daily limit but I always keep it in stock.
In fact I have a cupboard dedicated to chocolate and biscuits and I eat a very small amount most days.
I have heard friends say they don’t have treats in the house at all if they are dieting so that they can’t be tempted but for me it is quite the opposite because if it is there I know I can choose to eat it or not but if I don’t have any then I feel denied and restricted.
For me I think this stems back to a horrible childhood where control of food was one of many abuses.
Does anybody else keep or avoid keeping their temptation foods at home?

Yes, because the rest of my household eat them. But I don’t feel like eating them anymore, or only a tiny bit.

Great that it’s working for you! Hope it’s giving you some space for self-care after cancer and what sounds like a difficult childhood xx

@shrinkingthiswinter I suppose I am lucky in that because it is only me in the household (well apart from my lovely cat who isn’t a chocolate fan!) I can suit myself entirely.
When I was married I always found it difficult to cook for a non dieting husband.
Of course in hindsight I should have told the faithless fucker to make his own dinner but that’s another story!

Pre Mounjaro any treat food in the cupboard/fridge would be crying out to me to eat it.

Now, I still have treat food in the fridge but I can take or leave it. Mothers day chocolates haven't been touched yet and I only had a few mini eggs over easter.

What I did find, over Christmas, is when still on Mounjaro and I did indulge in the sweet treats to join in with Christmas it started a cycle where I was beginning to crave them again and it took most of January to get that to stop.

When, or if, I ever stop Mounjaro I would expect those cravings, which I think are physical not emotional, to come back and I would struggle to resist and the food noise starting again. Not got to that point yet though.

Everyone needs to do what feels right to them I guess.

I do - we also have a cupboard dedicated to chocolate, crisps, biscuits etc. I still eat all of it but my quantities have reduced massively. If I'm having Pringles, for example, I now have 3-4 crisps rather than half the tube before! I'm also going off a lot of crisps flavours and mostly eat plain salted crisps like Kettle chips. Same with chocolate, I'm still going through the mini eggs we bought for Easter but 3 or 4 is enough so a bag last a lot longer.

Yes, but I don't like them! There's chocolate and crips in the cupboard and I put sometimes take a little bit of chocolate but spit it into the bin.

My food aversions are getting really bad now. It's getting hard to eat sensibility because other than super bland carbs, there is nothing that I like.

The house is still full of chocolate from Easter. I have no interest in it.

Yes, a crucial part of me losing weight now has been making it clear to rest of household that they can eat to suit me (with extras) or make their own. Shopping and cooking skills have never developed so rapidly.

Yes. I’ve got four kids and a skinny husband. I don’t buy the specific things that only I liked anymore though. I often have a small piece of chocolate or biscuit in the evening. Now my urge to binge is gone I don’t have an issue with having this food around. When I eventually come off MJ it will be a different story but I’m going to have to learn to live with it.

I don't think of food as a treat. For is just food on a scale of unhealthy to healthy.

If I want to treat myself, I will do something I enjoy. Although as I get older, the idea of rewarding myself for something (good behaviour, eating properly?) seems odd. I'm not a child that needs bribing and I take responsibility for my actions, be they good or bad. For me, losing weight and getting fit is enough.

I have less healthy stuff in as the rest of the family eats it but I just don't want it and can easily walk away.

Everything in moderation and I personally wouldn't view it as bad food and as long as it's within your calories then have it.

I live alone so there's only me to eat any of the temptations that make their way into my shopping trolley.

Now that I stick to a daily calorie allowance it turns out that a lot of those "treats" just aren't worth the extra calories.

I've thrown out bags of crisps that were a year past their use by date, after finding out that all the salt and the hermetically sealed bags didn't save them from growing stale and rancid.

I used to find it difficult to open a packet of biscuits and not eat them all within a couple of days, now I only buy individually wrapped biscuits and store them in air tight containers.

Same thing with chocolate. I eat one square of Lindt 90% chocolate for lunch each day, and despite Lindt dark chocolate truffles and Bendick's Bittermints being my favourites I still haven't finished the packets that were given to me last year.

Reading the ingredients list and eating to protect and serve my gut microbiome by avoiding UPFs has turned me against a lot of shop bought treats. I tell myself that if I can't find a ready made version that doesn't contain mono and digyclerides of fatty acids, weird emulsifiers and artificial sweeteners then I can make it myself from scratch, but I'm such a lazy cow that I'd rather have a bowl of fresh berries and kefir than get the mixer out and heat up the oven.

We do because DH likes a treat. But I’ve massively reduced the quality that I eat. Usually 3 wine gums after dinner satisfies my sweet tooth these days.

The best part of Mounjaro for me has been breaking up with "treat" food. It's left me completely free to stick to nutritious food without spoiling all of my efforts with a packet of biscuits or chocolate bar or, more likely, both. I am just not bothered about having the junk in the house, let alone it calling to me.

Not really, we’ve all stopped eating it in the house and tbh I prefer not having it in for the kids let alone me or DH. I’d rather have us walk to the shop for a ‘treat’ from time to time than have stuff in the drawer that they badger about - if it’s in the house then they will always want it, if it’s not then they don’t even ask - plus I’ve tried to cut out UPFs and a lot of that packaged snack stuff is UPF.

I do have a bag of dark chocolate peppermint creams and tend to have one a day with a cup of tea in the evening! But that’s it. If someone’s coming for coffee I’ll buy some biscuits in specially.

A big part of this for me was the chance to eat differently. I have been trying to really limit the UPFs I eat so I tend NOT to have 'treat' stuff in stock because it doesn't fit that aim.

I do have some dark chocolate in, but that's a self limiting treat anyway.

Occasionally there is a reason to make something, like a cake. I'll make it and eat some without worrying. But it's not just in the cupboard and it's not part of the usual food I have.