|
Yesterday I bought a package of Lifesavers (6 oz) and I thought they were sugar free. I really wanted one. But I've been abstaining from sugar since freakin September and I refused to knowingly eat sugar. I mean, sure, they might put sugar in my tomato soup at a restaurant, but I won't knowingly eat a breath mint that isn't sugar free. It's my rule. The package cost $2.57. I was at the dry cleaners when I noticed my mistake. I left them there, at the cleaners. I tossed them in the mint jar. They were all individually wrapped anyhow. Once I gave them away, that was it, they were gone.
Then a while back, someone left an open bag of potato chips on my kitchen counter. There were just enough left to ruin my diet that day, but I knew that person wouldn't finish eating them. They were just being lame and leaving them out. I put them on the floor and stepped on them. Crunch, crunch, crunch. Potato dust. Garbage. Problem solved. I did it quickly, before I changed my mind.
Sunday, I made food for my husband that I couldn't eat and before I was tempted to lick the bowl with the sauce in it (because let's face it, how to do you log a "bowl licking" into FS?), I put used paper towels in it that had been cross contaminated with raw poultry, so there was no way I was going near that bowl.
When faced with temptation, I do whatever I have to, but I act quickly before my evil self can start justifying or rationalizing.
Bwy confessed that he has an issue with food waste. Man, he would have been so pissed at me for throwing away those sugar-free Twizzlers I bought the other day after I ate the 6 I allowed myself. But I couldn't take them home, or they would get eaten. I got them at CVS, I took out the 6 I wanted and threw the rest away right there in the CVS parking lot. It hurt. I hated to do it. But when I wanted those later, I was so glad I did it because I didn't go over my calories that day.
I have "moments" of strength, but I'm only human and I know myself. If you leave open chips out long enough, they WILL get eaten. By me. I'm not made of iron. But if I can throw them out or pour water into the bag fast enough, then I'm home free.
I do what I have to, silly though it may seem. I laugh at the lengths I go to in order to get by, but you know what? It works!
|
103,9 kg
Tappat hittills: 23,1 kg.
Kvarvarande: 36,3 kg.
Kosten följs: 100%.
|
|
1259 kcal
|
Fett: 51,28g | Prot: 48,04g | Kolh.: 114,60g.
Frukost: Country Hearth Multigrain Bread, Chicken Sausage, Tomatoes, Hometown Buffet Poached Eggs. Lunch: BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse Wedge Salad. Middag: Saltine Crackers, Tomatoes, Subway Tuna Salad. Snacks/Annat: Dried Prune, Lowfat Frozen Yogurt. mer...
|
stadig vikt
|
 Kommentarer
One must also take a closer look at the word 'food' which is used very loosely when we're discussing potato chips and soda pops. Would it be a waste of 'food' when more than half of what we throw away is actually chemical preservatives and artificial ingredients? Perhaps we are not wasting food so much as polluting the environment. Just my two cents lol
04 mar 14 av medlem: Annabelle3117
|
04 mar 14 av medlem: laurenwisswell82
|
I love this site. The wisdom, the shares, education and people. Thank you FS.
04 mar 14 av medlem: ClassicRocker
|
One of my friends douses extra food in pepper (to the point where it's ruined) so she doesn't eat it. I love your willpower. You rock.
04 mar 14 av medlem: Chef Karen
|
While "food" is loosely used in terms of life savers and soda, I suppose that anything that could keep me from dying on Gilligan's Island is considered food in my book. LOL.
04 mar 14 av medlem: mrsmole
|
I would never scold anyone for wasting food scolding people is a waste of time it gets nothing achieved. There are many times food waste can not be avoided.
So dear friend, waste away food as much as you like I would prefer you to do that rather than eat it...lol
04 mar 14 av medlem: Bwy39
|
I am so PROUD of you MM,stick to your convictions & SHAME ON the scolders! How dare they think this is wasting FOOD. It is POISON to *any* BODY that consumes it.Give it to your children?! What must ones be thinking??!! If an adult possessing capable thinking ability, of an adult, chooses to waste their body rather than the so called food,that's their choice. How is what you described as a survival mechanism any worse than letting the chips go stale because of the open bag left out,or rinsing a dirty bowl out in the sink? Maybe next time you grab a bag of twizzlers & have your portion you'll "accidentally" on purpose allow the rest to drop from your hand behind the car & who wants to eat them off the parking lot....let them! Run them over as you back out & if someone still would eat them,well, there they are,have at it! You have enough consideration for your family to continue to give them what they want even when its the very things that are killing you. Where is the consideration to you from them to not leave a "loaded gun" out for someone who is fighting "suicidal tendencies"?! MY heart certainly isn't *breaking* for anyone in this regard!As for sugar free lifesavers try the mini altoids,I like wintergreen.As for a chip craving,my SD just turned me on to roasted seaweed snacks(don't let the look fool you-they are yummy):D Keep up the fight.I'm right here with you!
04 mar 14 av medlem: myawethinTICself
|
04 mar 14 av medlem: knslovinggod
|
MrsMole knows my issue. I'm eating to support my weight lifting now, and so I'm looking at substantial calories. (I know. Whine, whine, whine.) But the thing of it is, I look at things now like a bag of Corn Chips and think, '500 calories. Not bad.' That's a problem! It would be so easy to make the excuse and have those calories to gain. Adherents of IIFYM would say 'do what you want'. I prefer better nutrition 90% of the time. The calories I'll stay inside anyway. tbh, it's not a problem to have something like that say, once a week if it's timed after the lifting when it will be properly use by the body, but that doesn't mean it's a best choice. I hate it. Temptation is almost worse after th weight loss diet than on it. It's so easy to make an excuse. I'm working on it. For those of you still dieting, you have two choice - waste your food, or waist your food.
04 mar 14 av medlem: northernmusician
|
Kudos MrsMole! That is a great testimony of self discipline and wisdom. On a side note, I don't think I ever had that line of reasoning given to me growing up- I had other issues going on at home that helped create food anxiety that made me more inclined to "clean my plate"- but it is somewhat sad/ tragic/ ironically amusing that that mentality is so prevalent. It's so inane, so irrational!!! I understand the underlying appeal is for appreciation, but the delivery is all kinds of borked. When would the amount of food we eat or not eat help needy populations like those in third world countries--or even the homeless in our own backyards? Most of the time it's just a method of manipulation with no practical benefit. It's a sobering reminder for me that I need to be mindful with my children what messages I give them because I want to nurture and empower them. Yes, it can be frustrating when there are disagreements on what food or how much should be eaten, though I also know I've struggled enough with my own emotional eating issues that I don't want to pass those on to my girls.
04 mar 14 av medlem: MrsTofu
|
Awesome mrsmole!! I have a cook book that I love. It is a low fat but has some really good whole food recipes. It keep asking which would fill you up more? and compares grams of fat--I change that to calories or nutrition. Fyi From the book based on fat content which would fill you up more 1 plain croissant or 31 cups of strawberries?
04 mar 14 av medlem: wholefoodnut
|
I'm with you Mrs Mole!
In my view there are 3 types of rubbish bins 1) the bin 2) someone else's stomach or 3) my stomach and I'm going to make sure that the junk doesn't reach no 3 (or No 2 if that stomach belongs to my kids).
05 mar 14 av medlem: KellyM25
|
Well said msmole!! I also agree with Buffy consider many thing to be non-foods and really not good for anyone. Potatoes are good foods but not in the form of chips. Most Hot dogs and lunch meat are all the wasted parts of hogs, beef, chickens or turkeys, parts that they can't sell because most people wouldn't eat them ground up, chemicals added and formed. Sodas are chemicals, sugar, water with carbon dioxide added. These thing are not going to help the world eliminate hunger only promote bad nutrition and disease from it.
05 mar 14 av medlem: wholefoodnut
|
I dont know if my thoughts on this will make sense but here it goes ... I was once a human garbage disposal. if we went out to eat and my kids had food left that they couldnt eat , where did it go ??? I ate it. And in my mind I was thinking ... I paid for this , someone needs to eat this. Well , what did that help ??? It helped me get fatter , it certainly didnt solve world hunger , it didnt feed anyone but me. Now I find my thoughts changing. Portions in restaurants are often DOUBLE or more what a normal person should eat. So if my kids cant eat it all , why the hell should I ? And who will it effect. Me and only me. We ate out a few days ago and when the kids were done I heaved all the food off of their plates onto one plate of slop. Therefore I wouldnt want it. and I thought to myself... You know who eats that. PIGS ... Pigs are fed SLOP. I hope I am not offending anyone by this. There is a part of my brain , the part that hates to waste that thinks WHAT , why are you wasting good food? And then this new part of me says ... Its not wasted, my kids ate a nice meal and now they are done. It was waste to begin with, now it will be thrown away in a proper garbage disposal instead of me being a human garbage disposal. Because I am not a PIG who eats slop , I am not a garbage disposal that needs to solve the problem of waste. I am a human being , a girl who struggles a food battle, a girl who wants to be healthy, a girl who finally sees that I am MORE than a garbage disposal...
05 mar 14 av medlem: chryssm
|
I wish there was a "like" button to support specific responses! Mrs. Mole, GOOD FOR YOU for FIGHTING TO BE HEALTHY! I am all for donating leftover food to the hungry, but that doesn't mean you can't throw away food, especially if it is not "healthy food". Pass on what you can, when you can, but don't be a human garbage disposal! (That is my husbands job lol...sad but true)
05 mar 14 av medlem: JeanineDS
|
I can so relate to this! I find myself poring soapy water over leftovers or throwing them in the dirty trash bag before i eat it, feeding them to the dog or my husband lol i was raised with not throwing food away or wasting it i was also raised with my mom saying "one time wont kill you"! guess what it did hurt me because one time was every day!thats how i got to the weight i did and that is why i was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 20!
Thank you so much for sharing these stories and letiing me know i am not alone. i always felt so ashamed of having to do things like this but now i know i am not alone in this struggle and i am stronger. It feels good to do a dance on a bag of chips or throw away something you know would have defeted you!!!
05 mar 14 av medlem: sanjorjas
|
| |
|
|
| |
Lämna en kommentar
Du måste logga in för att kunna lämna en kommentar. Klicka här för att logga in.
|
|
|
|