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Hi Deborah, I personally don't have too much of an issue with fast food at the moment. Not that I don't love it, one of our fondest wedding related moments was the "family sized" bucket of KFC we ate on the beach afterward because we'd been too nervous to eat much at the reception, but because I like to cook for dinner and I've got easy, reasonably healthy default meals in place for breakfast and lunch. Pirateman2k and Lynda give excellent advice, I'm pretty much going to echo that. Here goes: 1. As pirateman2k suggests, make it an S if it's a problem. "S-days" are a useful construct for lots of habits (even if they don't start with S). That way you can console yourself with the weekend prospect of eating that big mac when you're going without during the week, and imagine how good it will taste when you can eat it without guilt come the weekend. 2. Ask yourself *when* you are succumbing to this temptation. Is it usually for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? When you are on the road or every day? When you've identified your weak point, identify alternatives. If you travel a lot and must eat out somewhere, subway sounds like a good alternative (thanks for all the details, Lynda). If lunch is your problem, bag it or make sure you have lunch supplies at work. Exactly what you choose is less important than the fact that you have *some* intelligent default in place. It doesn't mean you have to eat bagged lunch or subway every day, but just that you know "If I can't think of something better, this is my easy, reasonably healthy no-brainer alternative." Easy is just as important as healthy, because if it isn't, you won't do it. My defaults are "mestemacher" bread with something for breakfast, oatmeal for lunch (quick to prepare and easy to keep at work). I don't think either of these has wide appeal, I mention them just to get your gears spinning. Good luck, Reinhard --- deborah deborah <notleftnorright@...> wrote: > Hello, > I think I am addicted to fast food. Has anyone else > ever experienced multiple big mac attacks and been > able to overcome the addiction? Thanks for any help > you can give me. > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > |
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