"What's Dragging You Down?" Challenge

[pagangoddess]

Good point. It's called the 90/10 Rule. Eat well 90% of the time and bad 10% of the time. Whether your trying to give up beer or candy or salt or whatever I think it's crazy to say "I'm never having another candy bar again but you can say I'm not having one today or for a few days or a week. Then if you have one it's no big deal because you've been lifting and eating clean for a week and that one slip up is not going to hurt much, if at all because you've go the metabolism of a week of good living to help burn that candy bar. It's hard to say never but shoot for a week or if you were a daily candy bar eater shoot for 3 days. Give yourself an easily attainable goal but don't set yourself up for failure by saying never again.

Moderation is one of my weak points.

I know now that I set myself up especially given old habits. Someone warned me of it and I ignored him. I guess now I need to pick myself back up and work on a more moderate and sensible approach.

Thanks for the reminder.

[Tintin]

Sweet Chilli Niknaks and Lays chips are my vice, once I start with a bag I find it very hard to stop. Just not buying them seems to help. Consuming alcohol, breads and chips at a barbeque (braai) is very hard to resist. I let it just count as part of the 10%.

Interesting that many people struggle with coke or diet coke.

[bhughesiii]

So far my limiting chocolate/candy is doing good. Found some dark chocolate that had 4 pieces to it and only have had 1 so far. I am going to use them as a treat instead of a craving, slowly ween myself off.

[greasygemo]

Two things really.. That kind of merge into one thing..

Late night eating habits and a boyfriend who exists on junk food and hates vegetables and fruits..
There is always junk available, and I cannot seem to get a grip on my late night snacks. Sigh.
I always crave breads and pastries, cookies and chips at night. I have a really hard time with it.

[bhughesiii]

Two things really.. That kind of merge into one thing..

Late night eating habits and a boyfriend who exists on junk food and hates vegetables and fruits..
There is always junk available, and I cannot seem to get a grip on my late night snacks. Sigh.
I always crave breads and pastries, cookies and chips at night. I have a really hard time with it.

I can kind of relate as far as the relationship part goes. My girlfriend is 100% Croatian, they cook nothing in a healthy way. When I am at her place and I say no thanks it's detrimental to my eating habits, they look at me funny. Eating anything around her or her family that is not cooked in some heavy cream or in butter or fried is next to impossible.

[MidLifter]

Two things really.. That kind of merge into one thing..

Late night eating habits and a boyfriend who exists on junk food and hates vegetables and fruits..
There is always junk available, and I cannot seem to get a grip on my late night snacks. Sigh.
I always crave breads and pastries, cookies and chips at night. I have a really hard time with it.

I can kind of relate as far as the relationship part goes. My girlfriend is 100% Croatian, they cook nothing in a healthy way. When I am at her place and I say no thanks it's detrimental to my eating habits, they look at me funny. Eating anything around her or her family that is not cooked in some heavy cream or in butter or fried is next to impossible.

I dated a girl from there once. Her mother would practically force feed me every time I visited. I once tried to eat before I went to justify not eating. When I told her mother I'd eaten already, her mother looked at me disapprovingly and said, "ok, just a snack then." Then she brought out a whole platter of sausages and cheeses and crackers, handed a full-size plate to me, and just stared at me.

[bhughesiii]

Two things really.. That kind of merge into one thing..

Late night eating habits and a boyfriend who exists on junk food and hates vegetables and fruits..
There is always junk available, and I cannot seem to get a grip on my late night snacks. Sigh.
I always crave breads and pastries, cookies and chips at night. I have a really hard time with it.

I can kind of relate as far as the relationship part goes. My girlfriend is 100% Croatian, they cook nothing in a healthy way. When I am at her place and I say no thanks it's detrimental to my eating habits, they look at me funny. Eating anything around her or her family that is not cooked in some heavy cream or in butter or fried is next to impossible.

I dated a girl from there once. Her mother would practically force feed me every time I visited. I once tried to eat before I went to justify not eating. When I told her mother I'd eaten already, her mother looked at me disapprovingly and said, "ok, just a snack then." Then she brought out a whole platter of sausages and cheeses and crackers, handed a full-size plate to me, and just stared at me.

Been there, experienced that, also if dessert follows a meal, and there is more dessert left, they try to make you have more.

[bhughesiii]

Two things really.. That kind of merge into one thing..

Late night eating habits and a boyfriend who exists on junk food and hates vegetables and fruits..
There is always junk available, and I cannot seem to get a grip on my late night snacks. Sigh.
I always crave breads and pastries, cookies and chips at night. I have a really hard time with it.

I can kind of relate as far as the relationship part goes. My girlfriend is 100% Croatian, they cook nothing in a healthy way. When I am at her place and I say no thanks it's detrimental to my eating habits, they look at me funny. Eating anything around her or her family that is not cooked in some heavy cream or in butter or fried is next to impossible.

I dated a girl from there once. Her mother would practically force feed me every time I visited. I once tried to eat before I went to justify not eating. When I told her mother I'd eaten already, her mother looked at me disapprovingly and said, "ok, just a snack then." Then she brought out a whole platter of sausages and cheeses and crackers, handed a full-size plate to me, and just stared at me.

Mmmm Kobasica!!! (ie. sausage)
Been there, experienced that, also if dessert follows a meal, and there is more dessert left, they try to make you have more.

[greasygemo]

My boyfriend isn't really MAKING me eat the junk food, but he sure makes it easy to get!

[DaveT]

My boyfriend isn't really MAKING me eat the junk food, but he sure makes it easy to get!

No chance of persuading him to eat healthier - it'll be better for him in the long run, too!
I'm lucky that my gf and I have very similar attitudes towards what we want to eat.

[pagangoddess]

My boyfriend isn't really MAKING me eat the junk food, but he sure makes it easy to get!

No chance of persuading him to eat healthier - it'll be better for him in the long run, too!
I'm lucky that my gf and I have very similar attitudes towards what we want to eat.

Hubby and I are opposite. I'm the bad influence.

On the other hand it makes changing eating habits easier because hubby doesn't eat junk food. He likes beer and there's no chance of me drinking it.

[greasygemo]

My boyfriend isn't really MAKING me eat the junk food, but he sure makes it easy to get!

No chance of persuading him to eat healthier - it'll be better for him in the long run, too!
I'm lucky that my gf and I have very similar attitudes towards what we want to eat.

I do get him to buy himself fruit.. and he really only eats bananas.. but he literally will gag and puke trying to eat vegetables.
And I steer him towards whole grains, which he does prefer most of the time.. but his daily diet is something along the lines of..
1 litre of white milk, 500ml of chocolate milk, 2 packets carnation instant chocolate breakfast, 3 eggs, 2 toast, 4-5 bacon, 2 pizza pops, a box of junior mints..
He might swap the pizza pops for a frozen pizza, or tortillas with taco beef, or battered chicken strips and fries.. He might not eat the eggs and bacon and toast at all, and have pop tarts instead.

But yeah. 80-90% Junk. All Day.

Anyway, I do my best to eat clean anyway. Despite the temptations I face at home!

[Cleave]

I did OK over the weekend on the salt. I added a little to my T-Bone yesterday at Mothers day lunch but for the most part have stopped adding extra salt.

The next two things I'm working on are going to be cutting back on the alcohol and keeping an eye out for corn syrup. Corn syrup seems to be hidden in a lot of prepackaged food and drink and it's just bad for you. I don't eat many items that it could show up in but I did find it in an Arizona tea that I've been drinking. Beer is going to be tough, however beginning today I'm shooting for going all the way to Friday without any alcohol. I know that doesn't sound like long but making it to Friday would be a big accomplishment and can help me drop the rest of the weight I need to drop.


Cleave

[bhughesiii]

I have been doing awesome on my chocolate issue. I am very happy, now if I can just tweak my workout routine to allow some cutting it would be great!

[MidLifter]

My wife likes to cook high fat/high sugar items like pie and pastry - she's a gourmet. She also doesn't mind using shortening in her pie crust which contains trans fats. I've talked about using leaf lard instead, which she seems amenable to, but it isn't sold anywhere nearby (have to order it by mail). When I carb-up on the weekends, it is very easy to eat junkfood along with my oatmeal and baked potatoes because you can't buy junkfood anywhere else that tastes as good as she makes it. She also looks at me sideways when I eat meat, eggs and cheese all week. I know I'm lucky, but sticking to the AD on carb days is really hard living with a gourmet. It is kind of ironic.

Luckily, I've got her on the 5x5 program with me and she is seeing results in the mirror over time.