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Post by bbbearsmom on Nov 7, 2019 0:32:23 GMT
Thursday, 11/07
Day 7 – Arrange Your Environment
This is about avoiding environmental triggers that might encourage you to eat especially at the end of the day when you are low on mental energy. Beck believes in the “out of sight, out of mind” adage. This can be applied to your home, your work, or any other environment you are in for a period of time.
For changes at home she suggests:
Remove your personal temptations. Throw away give away food that might tempt you. Food you can’t dispose of and is a trigger store out of sight.
Use smaller utensils and dishes.
Work with others in your home to come up with solutions to you being able to avoid food/drink triggers.
Beck suggests being proactive at work about the food/drink environment to try to change it.
How have you changed the environment in your home, at work?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Nov 7, 2019 0:33:01 GMT
My biggest change is I don't bring sweets home any more. Big help. I didn't want to struggle and I didn't want me spending my points and calories on sweets everyday. My husband has ice cream in the house now but I seem to be fine with it. In the beginning I wouldn't let it in the house. Told him I would take him out to an ice cream store or go get him a single serving if that is what he wanted. A number of years ago he got pretty sick and afterwards he craved sweets so that is when I let ice cream back in the house.
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Post by cathygeha on Nov 7, 2019 5:10:51 GMT
I sometimes think I have not made changes BUT I have. I used to bake sweets often and now don't make them unless someone requests them. We don't keep candies and such in the house as many homes in Lebanon do...for guests when they visit. If someone calls ahead or we know they are coming it is usually fruit from the garden and not sweets that are offered.
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Post by lani on Nov 7, 2019 16:06:03 GMT
My at home food environment is good. The only truly unhealthy item we keep around are single serving snack packs of chips that we allow ourselves one of on Friday night. Mr. lani has his ice cream and other treats out of the house. He has gotten better at not bringing home his latest taste sensation that I must try.
Forgot the cheese, we are both major cheese rats, but we weigh and track it every single time.
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Post by luvvinlife on Nov 7, 2019 17:05:27 GMT
I love to bake but since DH asked me not to I stopped. He was diagnosed with diabetes which he controls extremely well. So now I bake only when company is coming.
Wine racks used to be kept full. Now we keep only 2 whites and 2 reds in the house at a time. It makes it more desirable to want to measure.
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Post by ladymajky on Nov 8, 2019 1:44:10 GMT
Periodically I go through the cupboards and purge the stuff that I shouldn't have. Somehow chocolate often leaps from the grocery shelves into my shopping cart and then finds its way home with me.
It's harder to avoid the treats that DH specifically requests. I designated a cupboard for him to store his snack cakes and chips and candies. However his ice cream takes center pride of place in the freezer. I try to buy only one flavor at a time. It is too much to resist when there are three different cartons in there calling out to me. I was pleased to discover that Halo Top now makes a Halo Top Pop ice cream bar which is only 60 calories or 2 points.
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Post by surfgirl on Nov 8, 2019 19:49:19 GMT
I try to limit salty, crunchy snacks, which are my downfall. If I bake for my nephews, I might take one bite but I wrap it up as soon as it's cooled and send it out right away.
My birthday was this week and we went out for dinner and to a really decadent dessert place. I had what can only be described as a SLAB of carrot cake, which the lady assumed I'd take most home with me. She seemed sad that I rejected the doggy bag idea, but no way was I bringing the rest of that slab home with me. It wasn't necessary to extend the dessert debacle into another day.
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