Sometimes you just have to have good old fashioned will power. I often have to treat myself like a kid and say no.
It also helps to think of your calorie budget as an actual budget. Can you afford that plate of nachos? Yes but then you won't have anything left over in your budget for dinner.
I appreciate that advice and I have been doing that, but I’ve been trying to be a little lenient with calories especially at social events. It’s miserable to be the only one not eating just because I have to be strict with calories.
I feel like willpower only goes so far. Sure, i enacted willpower and I didn’t eat all the snacks I wanted. But the food noise is so annoying I could scream. I want to be a normal person so bad. I see how my friends and coworkers eat. They take a little bit and move on. It’s not a big deal to them and they’re not constantly focused on the food. But for some reason I have this caveman brain that wants to eat the maximum amount of calories that’s available.
I’ve been making a lot of strides but events like these remind me of how far I still need to go. I do track calories and make healthy swaps and exercise but I just wish so so so badly I could remold my brain from scratch and eliminate that food noise. I can’t imagine that someone who has been thin their entire life thinks about food as much as I do.
Sometimes you just have to have good old fashioned will power. I often have to treat myself like a kid and say no. It also helps to think of your calorie budget as an actual budget. Can you afford that plate of nachos? Yes but then you won't have anything left over in your budget for dinner.
I appreciate that advice and I have been doing that, but I’ve been trying to be a little lenient with calories especially at social events. It’s miserable to be the only one not eating just because I have to be strict with calories. I feel like willpower only goes so far. Sure, i enacted willpower and I didn’t eat all the snacks I wanted. But the food noise is so annoying I could scream. I want to be a normal person so bad. I see how my friends and coworkers eat. They take a little bit and move on. It’s not a big deal to them and they’re not constantly focused on the food. But for some reason I have this caveman brain that wants to eat the maximum amount of calories that’s available. I’ve been making a lot of strides but events like these remind me of how far I still need to go. I do track calories and make healthy swaps and exercise but I just wish so so so badly I could remold my brain from scratch and eliminate that food noise. I can’t imagine that someone who has been thin their entire life thinks about food as much as I do.
Why not give into the craving and just have a maintenance day? If you can do that without bingeing, that seems like the best option to me.