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Originally Posted by Cheese
why cant healthy eating be "yummy"? I eat many fantastic meals as a Vegetarian and dont miss the foods I used to eat at all.
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(A) I'm a vegetarian. Have been since I was 17 (I'm now in my mid-thirties).
(B) I'm sorry, but as good as nice veggie wrap with tofu-beef tenders is, that greasy pizza is just oh so much better.....
Sample: Good to know I'm not the only one.
I was at a weight loss conference last year and one guy got up and said that he made his living as an addictions counsellor getting people off alcohol or gambling or drugs. But he was 280 pounds. He felt like a hypocrite. He was addicted to eating and he knew it. But in all his experience, overeating is the hardest addiction. Because if the person was an alcoholic, the solution was to get them to stop drinking. If the person was gambling the solution was to get them to stop gambling. You can't quit eating. So you *HAVE* to eat in moderation. It is much easier to get a gambling addict to quit gambling than to get him/her to gamble moderately. By removing the temptation completely and getting their lives away from what they are addicted to it is more likely that they won't relapse into their old ways. But with food, there is the constant concern about "if I go on my holiday... and these hotels have all you can eat breakfasts.... and the eating out for dinner with these wonderful 3 course meals.... I'm going to gain it all back and I'll fall back into my old habits and all of the hard work I put into losing the weight will be lost.....".
What I did at Christmas last year... I went back east for Christmas for the first time in 5 years and I knew the family would have out big meal after big meal, so I starved myself for the three weeks before. I went down to 155. So when I came back I was at 165. I still felt like crap for gaining 10 pounds even though I was still 5 under the goal my doctor had set for me. I still felt guilty about eating all that bad food.