Know Your Triggers
I truly believe you can lead a healthy lifestyle and lose weight AND eat everything...in moderations. Depriving yourself of foods like carbs or dessert does work in the short term but almost never in the long term. You will inevitably wake up in your bed with an empty bag of chips next to your pillow...believe me, it has happened. That's why you need to know your triggers.
Everyone has a certain food..or foods...that you can't get enough of. For me for example, they are ice cream and pita chips. I know, totally random, but I could not be in a room with either food without finishing the entire container or package. When you are first starting a healthy eating plan...you have to just cut out the foods that make you lose control.
Take me for example. When I first overhauled my lifestyle--I told myself that I could have a half gallon of frozen yogurt in the freezer and I could portion out half cup servings when I wanted to. That lasted two days before I was sitting on the couch scraping the frozen remnants from the container. So, I quickly realized that until I had a handle on my eating habits--ice cream (and a few other things) could not be in my home. Fast forward to today--I have yogurt in my freezer at all times. I just know my limits. More often than not, I have my husband scoop it for me so I don't overdo it. But--I eat it almost every night!
So the moral of this story--if you know chips (or whatever it may be) are your downfall...just remove the temptation in the beginning. Allow yourself to form a healthier relationship with food--one where you are in control. Then add back your trigger food and have normal healthy servings. Imagine...a world where you can be the healthiest version of you and eat your chips too!
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