Re: Re: How do you fight cravings/addiction/overindulge ?

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Hey,There's a great book that can be very helpful with stuff like this, A Life Worth Breathing by Max Strom. I highly, highly recommend it :)Best!

 

Annie,

I'm no monk.

I have ended up with partial bowel obstructions to over indulging.

Some days I am good, others not so much.

" I can't quit you " comes to mind when it comes to nuts, honey and dates.

Misty- I am so tired with the addict attitude with these items.

Now, since I make coconut yogurt I have honey and dates in the house and it is like beyond forbidden.

Have you ever made spiced nuts and stuffed dates. Whoa! beyond delicious I loose all sense of proportion I inhabit a human shell.

My hubby tells me I don't eat " that much "

but that same " that much " gives me such a tummy ache and the runs that you would think I learn..

Having it in the house out of sight is a true excersize in I don't even know what to call it and at times I cave.

They should just usher me to a clinic to give me a fix.. like seriously.

In mourning full of loosing laughter with my fellows over the insanity of this addiction..

Jodi

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> This idea of a nut-addict group made me smile. If I ever put my hand in the nut jar (my craziness right now is about brazil nut), I get uncontrolable and can eat so much of them it hurts. This week-end, I couldn't stop eating cherries and now i'm suffering...

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> Maybe we could share our tricks to avoid cravings or to have a better control on portions and avoid excess ?

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> I'll start :

> - Between meals, I found that drinking tea is really helping with hunger. Green tea is working the best, but I also take mint or ginger when my guts are upset

> - I hide sweet stuff (like honey) behind other non-attractive things in my cupboard, like the bottles of oil. So my eyes don't see it when I open the cupboard

> - Never ever eat yogourt, or apple sauce or cheese directly in the container or out of the package.

> - Freeze goodies as soon as they cooled down in induvidual portions

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> Sometimes it's not always working though. I'm still doing the " I'll take two almonds and put the jar away " and 10 minutes later I'm still munching on them with zero self-control

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> Damn.

> Annie

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