What Are Some of Your Weight Loss Cheats?

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6/3/11 5:45 P

Creamy Peanut Butter

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6/3/11 4:55 P

chocos

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6/3/11 4:39 P

After my last meal/snack of the night, I clean up. Once that's done I say out loud, "The kitchen is closed!" After that I do not enter the kitchen for the rest of the night. If I get a craving, I just remind myself that the kitchen is closed and I can't go in there. I live alone so no one thinks I'm crazy to be talking to myself except for my cats.

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6/3/11 2:51 P

Once a week i am allowed to have a piece of chocolate cake.

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6/3/11 1:19 P

I don't track anything on Saturday, my cheat day.

I overestimate calories too. If I have, let's say, homemade chicken stir fry and had not done a recipe calculator for it, I'll choose some chain restaurant stir fry.

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6/3/11 12:55 P

My biggest cheat is too-large portions, or 2nd helpings. Ice cream and salted snacks are a problem, so I try to keep them out of the house, but my DH likes and wants them... so sometimes I cheat.

Another problem is that I don't exercise enough. Right now it's great, because I'm gardening a lot, but I have to force myself to keep working after that.

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6/3/11 11:55 A

Sometimes I overestimate the calories of a food, just a little, which takes those calories off the menu for the rest of the day without applying them to me.

I allow myself to eat carrots without entering on tracker. They are crunchy and satisfying, and forgetting to enter them doesn't do much harm . . . allows for a fairly guilt-free snack while preparing a planned dinner.

Like EMAVERICK, I also try to make some foods unappealing. Sometimes I imagine that they are not fresh, or otherwise undesirable.

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6/3/11 11:32 A

I think this might fall into your category of cheats. I pretend some foods are are below my dignity to eat. Some of it isn't pretend, because I am prone to acid reflux, coffee, chocolate, and over-eating, really bother my stomach. Pain is not good, and I don't want to eat up my poor esophagus either.

(Since this time I learned of a friend of a friend who is recovering from a burst esophagus from trying to neutralize the acid in it with pop rocks. It almost killed him and he is still being fed through a tube months later.)

But other phobias are more habits I've developed rather than based on immediate health effects, like sticking to whole grain foods, eating spinach leaves instead of lettuce, etc.

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6/2/11 5:01 P

I'm interested in seeing other people's "cheats".

I don't really like cooking that much, but I'm the only one that will do it. So I cook refridgeratable things in bulk. For example, I made 6 eggs, 12 slices of bacon, and 6 oz of cheese into a scramble. I added some mushrooms and green peppers, then wrapped it all into 12 low-carb burrito wraps. Now I have a healthy breakfast for me *and* my SO for a week.

I had some problems snacking after I was done eating, so when I'm finished with meals I go brush my teeth. I hate eating right after that, especially after I've mouthwashed, so that really helped to kick that bad habit.

I also reward myself with little things. I like to play games online, but I'm "not allowed" to get on until I've done one productive thing for the day, which is usually working out. I programmed a little pop up when I open the game that says "have you been productive?" so that I don't 'forget'.

After about a month of forcing myself to do stuff and cheating to stop doing little stuff, it's pretty much a habit. It gets soooo much easier after that. Now I get up and workout without thinking about it, even though the first month I was very "DO NOT WANT" about it all.