So, I've been doing the healthy eating thing..

Hello Enchanted, One of "life's little pleasures" as I like to call it. One of the ways to overcome these small obstacles when trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle is to... Ready for this answer? GO FOR IT. Yes, go ahead, eat a slice or two of pizza, or a cheeseburger. Actually, eating healthy 7 days a week isn't so great. Wait, before you jump on me let me explain. You see, our bodies, just like anything "adjust" to the healthy lifestyle eating healthy 7 days a week and it becomes a plateau. In order to break that through the abyss sometimes it's great to eat healthy 6 days a week and eat whatever your heart desires on the 7th day of the week. Consistently "tricking" your bodies metabolism doing such will keep, {yup now you're starting to understand it} your bodies metabolism shedding off the pounds. It works...try it. Just don't over do it and have the mental strength to overcome the desire on day 1 of 6. Don't be hard on yourself should you find you skipping a beat here and there. Know you are human and just keep plucking away. Inch by inch, pound by pound. Cordially, Andrew http://www.shopgbg.com/enrgy_for_women.aspx?ID=pahart

It's hard! My problem is that I don't really like to eat that much and unless it's something I really want I would rather not eat at all. This has been this way my whole life. I remember many times as a kid if I didn't like what mom made for dinner I was given a choice... eat what's being served or go to bed without dinner. Many times I chose to go to bed without dinner. Another problem I have is when I make healthy stuff hubby complains and it makes me feel bad that he isn't happy with the meal. Since I have expressed this to him he is getting better. I think it helps too that now I don't always tell him or I tell him AFTER he has already tasted it and loves it hehe. We both really have to watch our health and I'm really hoping we can do this as a team.

You will crave these things when you are changing your diet, especially if you have been used to eating them a bit before. The trouble with eating healthily or dieting is that you are trying to totally deprive yourself of all the things that you like, when I have done this I eventually end up just losing it and eating everything in sight, and then I feel guilty. I have changed my whole eating lifestyle over the last 2 years, I lost about 5 stone and I intend keeping it off. But I have a treat once or twice a week, I never deprive myself completely a little bit of what you fancy never hurts and also gives you something to look forward too. I set myself a day that I will have a treat on every week and then I really look forward to it, plan what I am going to have and everything! I have kept my weight off too.

Good for you wish I could getmyself on a good program. I know what to do its just getting into doiing it. I need to lose fiftypounds to really control my diabetes and it is so hard. Iam trying to fill up on lowcal veggies and fruits and some lean meat plus lofat dairy but have not had any success yet. I am handicapped so its hard to get enough exercise Salads help me to contol cravings a lot plus drinking more water.a lot of times I find I am not hungry after Idrink a glass of water as though maybe I was more thirsty than anything. good luck.

I prefer changing lifestyle to dieting. I have changed my lifestyle since febuary. I have lost about 10 lbs but I think a person goes nuts if they deprave themselves. I have treats once in awhile. A good thing is portion control, instead of eating a whole bag of chips, try to count out the serving amount. Popcorn is also a good, healthy snack. There's a great site where you enter your wieght, body type, what your goal wieght is and when you want to wiegh that and they figure out how much calories you should eat a day. Each day you enter what you eat and they calculate the calories, you can also put in activities you've done and it calculates how much you have burned, this is things anywhere from house cleaning, to treadmills, to even being intimate, lol. Anyhow I don't have the site address, but if your interested go to a search and put in Calorie Counter, its the about.com one. Ever since I stopped eating so much junk I find I don't eat as much and I'm fuller.

I guess that the only way to truly keep myself away from the things I'm trying to avoid is not to have them in the house! At the very least, I need to keep 'baddies' out of sight & still wrapped. Once things are open then they're fair game & just asking to be eaten, at least as far as my reasoning goes anyway! Like any other craving, I find that the best thing to do when one comes along is just to do something else that involves the mind. Think about something else. And here's a yukky tip for you. Go clean out the animals or do some other messy job, and DON'T WASH YOUR HANDS!!! You'll not want to be poking them in the cookie tin for a while :-) I think you're doing really well to be in your second month. I really wouldn't beat yourself up over the occassional lapse or craving. Every day that passes is a day that you've been better to your body but don't make yourself miserable. I'm a firm believer that a little bit of what you fancy does you good. Just make sure it's just a little bit!

Congrats on eating healthy. Its hard as I am choosing a much better life style and controlling my portions and the weight is coming off. However if you DEPRIVE yourself of the things you are craving, the cravings will get worse. It won't make a dent in your eating if you choose one day a month to eat what you want! But just be sure to get back onto healthy eating immediately after. Afterall, its never a bad thing for your metabolism to have an upheaval once in a while. If your system is too used to you consuming a certain amount of calories for a prolonged time period the weight loss will plateau because the body is too used to it. One day..just one day, eat that pizza, eat that burger and fries...I am sure you'll feel like utter crap after but at least the craving will be taken care of and your metabolism may be a bit confused and as long as you get back onto it right after.. it will be a win-win situation in many ways (other than you feeling like crap lol) so go ahead, choose ONE day and ONE day only (per month) to eat what you want! It will be okay, I tell you it will!

I try to find a healthier, lower calorie version of what I am craving. I tend to crave dairy stuff. Cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, ice cream, flavored milk. I use skim milk for the flavored milk and a small glass. That way I see the glass as full of milk instead of a big glass with hardly anything in it. Portion control is the key. You can't totally deprive yourself of everything yummy or you will go insane.

You should make yourself busy when you have this cravings to get your mind off of itor chew something to keep your mind occupied with the taste of what you are chewing than what you want to eat. Hope that helps.

I was told by a physician that if you deprive yourself, you will never stick to a diet. What he meant by that was say were good all week, you have a craving for chocolate, don't tell your body no, eat a small piece, like a Herseys kiss. Your body gets its craving, you haven't put that many calories in your body and you can go right back to the diet without feeling guilty. The biggest thing to help lose weight is portion control anyway. Hope this helps.

Well i've been doing the same thing you are doing since the beginning of the year and let me tell you that you should hang in there because it's worth it. Once you get the hang of it it's pretty easy to tell you the truth. I would promise my mother year after year that i would lose weight and I would never accomplish that promise. So this year I said that I'll try again and that this time I will do it. What motivated me even more this year is that I am going to audition in my university for their musical threatre program and I want to be in shape because i would have to take some dancing classes. So far i've been doing really good and i've lost weight. I've actually not had any cravings because I still eat sweets whenver I want and am still losing weight and when I am not losing it I've maintained it. So what I've been doing is eating in smaller portions three to four times a day. Then when I get a little hungry I might eat some cookies or a chocolate. Then I always try to get in one hour of excercise a day. I use my treadmill for that. I'm going to admit that I don't keep that promise about excercising every day but I try. There are days when I'm doing so much things that I can't barely fit everything into the day. But if I at least get four days of excersie a day then I am happy. You also have to remember that if your trying to lead a healthy lifestyle you have to first work on how you look at things and change your attitude about things. Don't try to do those crazy diets where you lose ten pounds a week because it's not healthy. My doctor said that the maximum of weight I should lose per week is one pound a half. So far I started at 142 and right now I am in 136. I now that's not a lot of weight but it's a huge number for me because I've never really buckled down and actually tried to lead a healthy lifestyle. So just take it slowly and one day at a time. I'm actually drinking a soda right now so I guess I'm gonna have to put in more than an hour in the treadmill tomorrow. Good luck with this.

I feel you!! It's so hard to stop eating those things and the worse part is that once you do it you better not go up again or it would be worse, but hey what I do is as soon as I get out from work I go to the gym for 45 minutes and when I do my grocery I only buy stuff I know it won't get me fat maybe some fruits, salads and beef, I don't eat rice (well maybe 1 time every two weeks or so) and try no to eat anything sweet 'cause sugar is one of the factors that would make you get really fat also buy some mineral oil and drink two little spoons everyweekend I do it on friday night or saturday morning that would help you lose weight and clean your entire organism, well good luck

wow, you have good apetite then. Me here, i doesn't like to eat at all. will my hubby go to work so I eat alone and i am not use to it. And when he gets home, what he wants to eat is what i eat.