January/February weight management challenge

[goldfinch]

In my case, nuts are a trigger food. I don't know what it is about nuts, but I am incapable of eating just a few. You know those big jars of mixed nuts they sell at Costco? Well, I can motor through one of those in a couple of days. So, FOR ME, nuts are some I simply SHOULD NOT have in my house when I am actively trying to lose weight.

I agree with both of you.

In some ways the behaviorists were right. Certain things get associated with eating behavior. Have the stimulus and get the response. Appetite is not rational. But our rational selves can identify and address the triggers like you did with nuts.

When I was actively losing weight I did the same with chocolate, bread, sugar and most other carbs. I had no chocolate or bread around at all because I would eat it and I was low carbing. Shaking myself out of the foods I used to overeat worked out good for me. And the only sugar I ate was fake. I still mostly use fake sugar as I have developed a taste for stevia based sugars but now I can manage chocolate and bread products in moderation.

I also never ate in front of the tv, to break the tv stimulus. I never had dessert because eating a meal would make me want to have something sweet at the end. I left the sweet things, which were primarily fruit, for other times of the day and not associated with meals.