I train at my local gym and have found that the biggest culprit for women is chocolate! I don't get it, seriously, I don't have cravings like that, never have. But they're all like "PLEASE don't take away my chocolate."
Does anyone else get this excuse??
I dont find this desire for chocolate that suprising.
If a person takes a look at the world with wide open eyes and lets their mind absorb the surrounding contents, they realize fairly quickly that all of us, though made the same, we are different, and likewise have different tastes, likes, dislikes, and have certain "foods" (and other things in life) that we desire that are sometimes different from the next person.
I love Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, but I havent had one in over two and a half years, and replaced this craving with the Natural Peanut Butter option.
While it isn't optimal (IMO), one can lose weight on a so-called dirty diet, if the calories are in deficit in accordance with activity. This is in "general" leaving out any medical complications.
Additionally, one can lose weight on a 90-10% ratio plan if they have their personal control behavior in sync with the correct desire (and knowledge) to earn their goal (s).
Whether one abstains 100% (from so-called junk foods) or allows a tolerance of a 10% margin (or a varient) largely depends on the person and their personal "tolerance-o-meter" (or applying "enough" of them) to get the goal they seek accomplished.
Either way, it will require some life style changes. And, alot of people fail within diet and fitness (IMO) because some do not TRAIN THEIR BRAIN while they are training their body.
You are in control, you are not the controlled.
Instead of Chocolate, I am obsessed with NPB, I love and adore it, but this love and affection I have for it, doesn't control my eating habits: I control my eating habits, and as such, I WILL have this in my diet knowing this truth:
That it is healthy for me to eat, everyday. Is calorie dense and takes a small portion for allot of calories, and know that-no matter what I do--nothing will change this truth.
Bang your head on the table, cry in your sleep, yell all day at your dog, kick a cat in the street, and scream at your momma, when your done, the mighty NPB will sit there smiling and staring at you--->still being calorie dense in all of its glory and just as tasty as before.
So, I work with it by training my brain.
Most people do not spend enough time training the brain.
And, there are far too many people that do not train the brain and the entire body at the same time.
THIS IS A SHAME.
Because in the end, when all the smokes clears, its the MIND that dooms many, many, to complete failure. "Some" simply do not know "how" to manage their selves within diet and fitness.
I practice what I post/preach on this forum.
I am the ultimate MASTER of diet self control (of myself), and THIS is "main reason" I have been successful.
And, it will be the main reason YOU are successful too.
For example, if I had hit my calorie limits for the day.
One can wave NPB in my face all day (twice per day and everyday), and I will say no. And, yes, this would include Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. A matter of fact, it wouldn't matter "what" the food item was, I would "reject it".
It’s a need versus a want.
And, if my restriction had been met, then the need for it is "eliminated" and what is left is a want (desire), and I mentally remove the want (desire) as it doesn’t fit within my goal; my desire for my goal is stronger than the desire for the specific food item.
I adore and love NPB, but I control it, and eat it--because it has purpose.
Eliminating it would be a personal "defeat" (to me).
Why? Because here is a generally accepted healthy food item that has its (draw backs in the caloric sense), and I cannot control my self-behavior "enough" to eat it within the confines of my diet structure, that I have to resort to eliminating it from my diet entirely, because I do not have the self-control to allow it in my diet.
This would upset me just as much as it would upset me if I had a problem with a generally accepted food item that is not healthy, and I couldn’t stop eating it. I removed the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups--for obvious reasons, they are just not healthy, and are not a "necessary" inclusion within my goal path.
You have to address the realities of your needs, wants, and desires, within your goal and diet structure.
Having a desire for Chocolate (or another sweet item) isnt surprising at all. Its how its "handled" within the brain that will control the outward action and result.
Best wishes to ALL!
Be happy and spread love and kindness to ALL!
Chillen
