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Originally posted by Bee:
My trigger foods change.

Yep.

But some stay the same...

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Originally posted by d.maya:
Been here?
Dana

Oh YES! ALL exactly the foods you described... the pb truffles... cheese... nuts.

The truffles: I might make them again for a large group... I do ok with health food store peanut butter, unsalted. Don't do so well with Jiff or supermarket peanut butter.

Ditto nuts: I do fine with unsalted. I keep them in the freezer. Salted mixed nuts, in a can? Forget about it. Unless one can is one serving...

Cheese: I do fine with fat free American... which is actually pretty yucky. I do NOT have the urge to unwrap a slice and eat it. But it is sort of like fast food cheese and I don't mind it on a homemade egg mcmuffin.

Make sure that you are eating enough fruits and vegs and lean protien, dairy, whole grains, etc. Make sure that you don't end up feeling deprived or hungry... because deprivation and dieting can turn healthy individuals (and rats, I read a rat study) into bingers.

But, WW has this Core program and no bingy type foods are on the Core list... and PB, nuts and string cheese are not on the list... so you are not alone in having trouble with control around these foods.

I've totally been there Dana (and sometimes still am).

For me, it was that I was in the habit of eating throughout the day. When I took away the junk food, I still hadn't broken my habit of grazing so I turned to otherwise healthy food and ate too much of that.

It took me a long while to get into the routine of just eating at my planned meal/snack times and only the proper portion size.

Measuring and weighing items helped me greatly but it took a lot of "retraining" to stop going back for more.

There was also another side of this coin for me too. My trigger foods change. For a long while I could portion out 1 T of mini baking chips and be satisfied with that for dessert. Then I found myself going back for more and more and had to stop buying them. One of my new trigger foods is pretzles. I used to be just fine with them in the house but now I end up eating too much.

I used to berate myself for "losing control" with foods that I used to fine with but now I just accept it and stop buying that product until such a time I feel "safe" around them again.