How do I stop eating so many brownies and cookies!!!?

Question

Ahhhh!
I'm addicted and I can't go back to healthy apples and yogurt and strawberries like I used to! :(
Help me stop the maddness!!!

Answer 1

I used to have the same problem.

Here's what you do: Sprinkle some tobasco or cayenne pepper (or curry) onto the brownies and cookies. Eventually you will assosicate those foods as "yucky" no matter how good they look and smell. A lot of celebrities sabotage their food so they won't indulge. I saw Catherine Zeta-Jones pour 1/2 a salt shaker onto what was left of her entree once, and saw Nicole Kidman douse her food with a glass of water then crumpled up her used napkin and tossed it on top of the water-doused food to make it unedible. So, if it worked for me and it works for celebs - it will work for you too. You need to sabotague those cookies and brownies so you won't WANT to eat them. Trust me it works. It's easy to say: "Just don't buy them", but when you have an addiction to these foods - that's just not reasonable advice. Its easier to just sabotage them when you aren't craving them, when you temporaily HAVE the will power. Then, later on, when you are weak, and craving them, you will take a bite and go "YUCK!" Trust me, this really does work. It's re-training your brain.

To make apple and strawberries more appealing to you - you need to trick your "sweet-tooth" into thinking: "Apples and Strawberries - sweet and yummy.... Brownies and cookies....icky!" I already told you how to achieve the "icky". Now this is how you make your sweet tooth crave apples and strawberries:

Take an apple slicer to cut up the apples into sections. If you like cinnamon, mix together a little cinnamon and Splenda together and sprinkle over the apple slices. For strawberries, just use Splenda, because I don't think cinnamon and strawberries go together well.... that might have the same effect as the brownies and hot sauce. Each time, you do this, use less and less Splenda until you are enjoying the fruit in its natural sweet state.

It worked for me - and I had a MEAN sweet tooth. Now, I have a new appreciation for all sorts of fruits and veggies, and I don't even go down the cookie isle anymore.

Good Luck and hope that helps you out.

Answer 2

Here are your options:
1. Stop buying and/or making them.
2. Go cold turkey.
3. Still eat them but also eat the healthy stuff
and also exercise.
4. Just exercise.
5. Look in the mirror.

Answer 3

Talk to a friend, to help you stop this. It also takes will power to stop eating junk food. If you make cookies and brownies, don't buy the ingredients to make them. If you buy them, stay away from the cookie lane, and the bakery lane. Not even go there to get bread. Go to the fruit and vegetable lanes, when it comes to grocery shopping.

Answer 4

Your glycemic index must be high. The more and longer you have eaten sugary foods the more you crave them. If you can be disciplined and stop eating them for two weeks, your body will automatically stop craving them. It works like magic! I'm not kidding. After the two weeks you can start incorporating them back in slowly and exercise prudence. You should be fine. Best of luck to you!

Answer 5

fight it. stop buying those kinds of things, and stop getting mixes to make them. make a list when you go grocery shopping and don't get anything not on the list, and don't put that stuff on the list! if that doesn't work, bring someone with you when you go grocery shopping to help keep you away from those places in the store and to keep you from getting that junk. also, figure out a rewards program, when you can go so many days with out eating any or just a small amount of those things, buy yourself someing small that you might want, to treat yourself to a dinner out or something.

Answer 6

WAIT A MINUTE LADY! WOULD YOU RATHER BE SKINNY AND UNHAPPY, OR FAT AND HAPPY!!!??? I KNOW WHAT I WOULD BE!
Well just set a limit and then when you have already eaten your limit don't eat anymore and if you feel like you need some cookies or brownies just drink some water!

Answer 7

Stop making/buying them. Then eat the healthy stuff when you crave the brownies/cookies and they will slowly take their place.

Answer 8

Stop buying the brownies and cookies, and thus, you will stop eating them.
Also supply your kitchen with a surplus of healthy foods.

Answer 9

When you find out let me know. Eat apples in the a.m. they are supposed to be better than coffee. Yogut for lunch, hey - maybe I will try this too. Let me know how you do on that. My worst time is late at night for eating junk!

Answer 10

Get a gallon of ammonia and pour it over every single piece of confectionery goodness in your house. Once every single brownie, cookie, cake, and pie has been doused see how hungry you are :)