i agree with what you say colin but must say willpower is whats needed mostin my house. i have 3 kids (4 if you include hubby) so there is always loads of naughty food around for them, by that i don't mean they don't eat healthily they do, they actually like fruit and veg lol, its just the crisps and biscuits and homebaking that i have to resist. if i lived on my own i think i would be more successful as i would def only have the things in the house that i was allowed to eat and not be tempted as much. basically though, its down to me and i've just got to learn to stop making excuses and get on with it!
Your house sounds like mine, i have 3 kids too and its so hard to be good when you see the kids and your OH eating things you wish you could. To make things easier on myself i came up with a plan. As of 2 weeks ago i decided that when i do the shopping ( i'm the only one in the house who does ) i wouldn't buy my kids any crisps, biscuits or any other junk for that matter. Now i don't mind my kids eating it to be honest as long as they don't pig out but common we have to be fair to ourselves when doing what you and i are doing
so i have now told my kids that should they need something to eat we will always have fruit in the house ( that's also kinda easy for me as my brother works on the fruit n veg stall on the market so brings me home lots ) My middle child cant stand fruit or veg sadly but then i cant force him to eat it, i can only encourage him. Having not bought any goodies ( as we call them in our house ) when shopping its been a life saver on those moments when i could easily go to the cupboard and munch a bikkie and no one would know a thing. so its kept me on the straight and narrow for sure.
The other hard thing in my house is my OH, he can eat his dinner and then eat cereal or anything else he may fancy and though i'm not hungry i want to join him, i do save my evening snack till he is about but it never seems enough. I have tried telling him no eating after dinner or if you must then do it away from me but i cant stick to it as i feel guilty for making him not eat when he wants to.
I came up with a new way of looking at food and over weight problems the other day whilst moping my kitchen floor ( strange things i think about whilst doing housework ) but anyway my mum and dad are also big but i have noticed since i started my diet quiet how unhealthy they look. My poor mum suffers with a lot of joint pain as she has arthritis and my dad has sciatica but sadly they just keep eating and im sure a little loss would help some of their symptoms. anyway back to my thoughts whilst cleaning, i asked my self what does over eating do ? and my answer was
KILL YOU, so i then thought to myself well food can only kill someone if they choose to over eat so food isn't the killer its ourselves so by over eating you are committing yourself to a slow and painful death which i call food suicide. My thoughts sound very gloomy but common this really is for those who are seriously over weight and i am one of them, though i'm not killing myself anymore i did go down that root i suppose and i find that very sad. Most my family say oh well most women in our family are on the big side so we are meant to be that way and we do love our food so i think i grew up with these excuses in my head but i'm fighting them away now and i do understand that they are excuse and nothing more. Just wish i could get others in my family to think and feel the same. My mum says to me on a daily basis that she really needs to do something about her weight but then she will call me in the evening and real off all this bad food she has consumed, all i can say is WHY, WHY do you have to eat all of that after the dinner you have eaten. My mum is a huge carb fan and she sometimes has 2 carb items on her plate which i'm sure isn't good but i have to keep my mouth shut, i don't want her to think i'm always looking down on her food choices. Parents hay ?!
Anyway that's enough psychology for one post.
