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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: I need HELP!!! (bingeing)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.050832.16322@spdcc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 05:08:32 GMT
- References: <63620075@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1992Nov16.154837.16654@spdcc.com> <97872@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <97872@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >I finally realized how ridiculous this was; if I was going to eat this
- >stuff anyway, I might as well have it at home and stop playing games with
- >myself. So I gradually stocked my house with stuff I'd never allowed in
- >before. Initially, I ate lots of it and gained weight. But you know
- >what? I don't do that anymore. The stuff just sits around most of the
- >time, and I find I'm making healthier choices more often than not. I know
- >if I want it, I can have it; I just don't want it most of the time anymore.
-
- Hey, if it works for you. I have no trust in the "eat what you want when
- you want it, think healthy thoughts, don't deprive yourself and everything
- will be OK" diet plan, because that's what got me posting here. I won't
- ever not want it if it's too available. Most of the things I don't allow
- myself in the house (e.g., peanut butter, cookies, whole milk, Haagen-Dasz)
- I'm not going to encounter outside the house in quite the same way. All of
- these were great late night (or other time) snack foods, and what made them so
- nasty was that they were at hand, easy to snack on with little preparation, and
- were refilled more often than not. Plus, they were terribly calorie-dense.
-
- Skim milk, fruit, lowfat yogurt, cottage cheese, beans, etc. just don't have
- the same reward value. While I enjoy them as part of my daily diet, I'm
- not inclined to drool over them or overindulge. And, I find that it's easy
- for me to avoid snack foods outside the house. In general if they're not
- easily at hand, I have no trouble avoiding them.
-
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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