Do you know your trigger foods??

Avoid the foods that do you in. 

What, if any, foods trigger negative emotions in you? Do you crave certain foods? Are there foods that make you feel deprived? These foods are the ones to avoid as much as possible. 

No one is perfect, but the people who succeed at lasting weight loss are the ones who understand how certain foods negatively affect them and eliminate those foods from their diet. Try to be honest with yourself as you examine your feelings during meals.

Action for the day: In your journal, write down how you feel about this day's inspiration. Do any foods come to mind that you need to consider eliminating from your diet?
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Cookies and fast foods are my trigger foods.  I do not eat cookies and  I am working on eliminating all fast foods from my diet.  So far doing good. 

Molly

Fast food has been gone for a while - take out.. hmm...  once every few weeks we pick up chinese and I TRY to limit myself to like.. shrimp w/broccoli (shaking off the sauce) - but that has to stop.

I think bread is a danger for me.  One bite of toast and I might just say "well.. I screwed up, might as well go all the way".  Grandmas cookies while shopping.  If I'm REALLY hungry, I might pick up a 2 pk of the peanut butter cookies at the register.. take 1/2 of one, and pass the rest to him.  But still, I have NO   business having that 1/2 cookie!!!!!

Today is  a "so far so good" day.  I had two pieces of bacon (as I delivered his breakfast of 3 pieces of bacon, 2 over easy eggs, 2 pieces of buttered whole grain toast, 2 sliced strawberries, and 1/2 sliced banana).  <---  the fruit just sounds so good.

Butter
Certain cookies
Salty chips

I do not bring them in the house so I am not tempted.
Between Christmas and New Years I did a lot of baking (for my neighbors****pt some of the cookies and froze them so I couldn't keep picking on them every day....I went through about 5 days or so that I ate 2 or 3 cookies every afternoon.  Mercifully I did not gain weight that week but still wasn't the healthiest choice for me.  Now I take 1 or 2 out once in awhile as a treat and I'm fine.
But I have no butter in the house for my toast....and no potato chips or pretzels.
If I'm out and at Panera having lunch I will have or share a bag of chips and that's it, I'm done...just can't keep them in the pantry.
I know my limitations and live around them.

I have a very long list of food triggers and they all have one thing i common - they aren't healthy in any sense of that word. I can eat them on one of my rare feast days when I can enjoy them knowing that the next day I'm back eating healthy. I have found that totally not eating any of them for many months has made a huge change in how I feel about these foods. I no longer crave them or dream about them or feel deprived that I can't eat them. Instead I've found that most of them don't taste good and don't feed that psychological need that they used to. Now when I have a feast day I'm more likely not to bother with this type of food.

Good Post Molly, I especially enjoyed your second post when you talked about how this affected you personally.

This works for me some times and some times not.  Since I have a binging problem right now some foods I know send me on a binge and that is why I have to be particularly careful when I decide to eat a trigger food.  Thanks for reminder because I have been successful picking a time when I am going to have a certain food and get right back on program with the next meal.