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Originally Posted by indestructible  Thanks for the advice. I don't eat at McDonalds 4x a week - more like once a week - but would prefer it to be once a month (as a "break") - so this is good advice. I could use the slow plan for cleaning and reducing desserts after dinner though  .
It seems like the key is to make the "rule" to be healthy and neat, but if it goes off track, not to give up on the plan entirely. Instead - consider it a small departure, and go back. To be honest - is pretty hard to go back to that plan after it has been tainted by a "slip" into the old ways... but transformation doesn't happen overnight I suppose.
I have seen the "Sugar Busters" book around - but now I want to buy it. My cravings are for both sugar and carbs and I have diabetes in my family. So - maybe my cravings have a different root than simply lack of self-control. |
Definitely sounds like it could be...I think some doctors recommend certain vitamins to help with it (b, i think)
However, i don't think you should think of a slip as 'tainting it' think that you have made a permanent shift in lifestyle -pardon the unsolicited advice...but it sounds like you still have the internal image as someone who eats that kind of stuff on a regular basis a healthy person- someone with a self image as a healthy person - wouldn't shift back to eating that way or look at one incident as the road back...i only say this because i made the shift to eating healthy foods -read a lot about it, had periods where i completely slipped into the old lifestyle (its so easy, living in the city with cheap fast food and no time for lunch!) but gradually , i made a permanent shift, and don't think about eating at mcdonalds anymore than i'd consder eating out of a garbage dump.