i need to give up chocolate and junk food.. any tips on how?! please!?
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Decide to change your lifestyle.  Then clean up your environment - get rid of all junk food in your home, car, desk, etc.  Everywhere you hide your stuff.\n\nYou are addicted to the carbohydrates in the junk food.  If you only knew how bad this stuff was for you - how it actually contributes greatly to shortening your life, you wouldn't have any problem giving it up.\n\nPlan your meals, snacks.  Take care of yourself - this is not a dress rehearsal - this is your life and it's the only one your going to have - take care of it.  \n\nThe amazing part of changing your lifestyle is that you will find that you have more energy than you even thought was possible!  Life will hold more fun and vitality than it did when you were hooked on the drugs of junk food.  \n\nI know from first hand experience.  Try it for 1 week - you will see the difference!\n\nDo it, do it, do it.
922070
Stop eating sugar and while flour products.  Eat only meat, nuts, and vegatables and your cravings will disappear.
107706
Try a little negative association-every time you want chocolate,dab hot sauce on your tongue,or be good 6 days a wk,indulging on the seventh day.I think there's more power in the pull of something forbidden to us,so maybe foregoing it altogether isn't an option,but a sugar free alternative may help you atleast curb it,GOOD LUCK
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Dieting shouldn't be suffering, there is a book called French Women Don't Get Fat which uses that as its motto. I'll sum up some of the main points here and if you're interested you can buy the book somewhere.\n1. Eat everything in moderation. There is nothing wrong with eating chocolate, as long as you dont eat too much.\n2. When you eat, especially something unhealthy such as chocolate, enjoy every bite. Truly savor the food instead of just swallowing it.\n3. Make a list of everything you eat for a week then look over it and see what your eating too much of. Try extra hard to eat that in moderation. The easiest way to do that is to replace the food that you overeat with vegtables or fruit. \n4. Try out some new, healty recipies. Just go to the bookstore and browse untill you find something that looks tasty and healthy.\nGood luck and have fun!
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Other than taking a huge drink of water, try doing things that will have nothing to do with food...this would include staying off of the television and the internet. This question would be difficult to answer without knowing you personally...but I can tell you from experience that taking your mind off of food isnt the easiest thing to do. Best of luck to you on this...keep your chin up!
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Try these simple tips;\n\n1. Drink a plenty of plain water!\n\n2. Chew your food slowly\n\n3. Avoid taking food that kept in the bottle or jug. you will not realize how much you ate. But pick up a handful of it and put in a small plate.\n\n4. Cut your favorite fruits into a cute slices to replace unhealthy snack.\n\n5. Bring a bottle of mineral water anywhere you go. You'll find that you're not interested to buy carbonated drink. Even when you feel thirsty!\n\n6. Get enough sleep. Tiredness will make you eat more high calories foods.\n\n7. Take your foods away from TV. Removes all the foods to the kitchen. It will make you feel lazy to take it from there.\n\n8. Brush your teeth and your tongue. Making this will reduce your desire to chew.\n\n9.  You can take any food that you want. But remember! Take in a small amount!\n\nHave a try!
72314
throw out all junk food..dont buy any more..i bag of chips could hrrow u off, then eat salad before every meal and make sure u eat laot of apples and bannansa instead of choips or chocolate
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If you are serious and understand that there is no overnight way to loose the amount you are asking about maybe this will help. At about 5 lbs. a week it will take  about 10 weeks to loose the weight You would be better to set your sights on 2-3 lbs per week. NEVER, EVER eat anything after 5pm. Never eat just before going to bed. Eat only twice a day. Drink water, lots of water, and a glass of warm water before bed. Drinking water helps the body to flush out excess fat wastes and toxic body waste and helps with giving you a full feeling. It also helps with mental mentality. Have a bit of fat in some form early in the day, like REAL butter on a piece of toast, this will make the body feel like it is not being slighted. If you must eat sweets try the sugar-free kind, they cost a bit more but are worth it in the long run, pace yourself with them. Get out of the house every day if only to walk once around the block, don't rush, notice everything around you, think about what you see. Add more blocks as you feel as ease with, change routes. If you are pressed into feeling bad by someone near, start doing a chore, laundry, dishs, vacuuming, taking out the trash (and you can sneak that walk as you drop the trash in the trashcan as you go by), STAY AWAY from the ice box. Binge eating only makes the problem worse and you feel you are less of a person after it is over with. If you get weak when out and hit a fast food place and after ordering you feel you shouldn't be doing that, DON'T !!!!, pay for the food, walk OUTSIDE!, don't sit down, and drop the stuff in the trash can or give it to someone outside or an animal. You will feel odd doing this but then you will feel that you just took control over yourself and it will get you thinking about the other things in your life you should look into taking back control over, and you just proved to yourself that it is not impossible. Try taking yourself out of the circle you focus on all the time and place yourself on the edge and others in the center. When I was losing weight I found that taking Chromium tablets each day curtailed my craving for chocolate. I am a big choc-0-halic. Amino acids also helped for control (all over the counter stuff). Make sure you are not alergic to any of this though. And do not make a big deal of your trying to loose weight to others, keep low key, pretend to be eating so other do not try to keep handing you stuff to stuff in your face. I stopped smoking by not telling anyone and keeping a half pack of ciggs in my shirt pocket so all could see I had it and they did not offer me any. It was worth their bumming them from me to ward off any questions. Nobody near around you will help you if it is not in their best interest to keep you in the position that is more conveient to them. FAKE them out! Depend on yourself, in the end you are the only one who is there for you no matter what is said. O.K. eat more veggies, take them with you, snack on them, unlimited, try all the diffrent veggies at the store, take time out to go to the store just to see what is offered, strange to you or not, try it! And stay out of the other areas of the store. Well, that's what I can tell you for what it is worth. I gained a lot of weight after 3 surgeries and am an older person in my 50's, and now it is so hard to loose, so very hard. Do it now while you can, and like yourself, not what others want you to change into for them, you are not them, you are YOU, and control will come with practice over time.
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It's the sugar.  Try cutting out processed sugar from your diet.  The first week or two is tough, but then you'll find you don't crave it any longer.  \n\nOr...try having a small amount of dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate.  It's a lot healthier for you, and your body will be happier with smaller amounts.
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If your life was so important to you, then you would be strong enough to fight the urges. Do you live with parents? Tell them to stop buying junk food. If you are hungry, and you see junk food, you are going to eat it.Same thing for being hunfry & having healthy food around-- you will eat it. You seem young, and you have your whole life to live. Think positive. Talk to your family, and tell them to buy healthier things.. because YOU want to change yourself. They will support you. GOod lUck.
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I love chips and junkie snack foods but i'm on a diet so i've been finding alternatives\n\nVeggie chips taste great and have much less fat than your average potato chip. (read the labels though..some have just as many calories as regular chips!!)\n\nIf you have a sweet tooth try dipping fruit in fat free yogurt\n\nAlso, to try and avoid bingeing, chew ice, try boullion cubes (only 5 calories and the warm soup-like quality fills you up), sleep, excercise, do your hair or makeup, clean up (i recommend a nasty job like picking up dog poo..definitely turns you off of eating) anything to get your mind off eating\n\nalso, try brushing your teeth with a strong mint tooth paste...it makes lots of foods taste nasty\n\nGood luck!!
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Well, I'd say your first step would be to pack your lunch,snacks, any food you need bring from home. Make sure it's healthy,low calorie and nutritious. You just have to say NO to that impulse to grab anything. Make sure you have something to eat at all times. Cereal bar, yogurt, I know it's hard but it's really the only way.You know, the same old same old...veggies, whole grains, proteins and watch the carb and sugar intake. Limit or better yet eliminate soda completely. Stick to water or milk. As far as exercise, if you can't squeeze even 20 minutes per day for yourself, then you need to re-evaluate what's going on. Your worth 20 minutes a day, don't you think? Good luck. I know it sucks, I struggle myself.
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You should gradually cut it out. Take small steps to get rid of junk food. Eventually you should attempt to cut it out altogether. If you have a good enough metabolism you can get away with it, but to be on the safe side make gradual decreases and you won't have a total spasm. If you can gradually decrease your junk intake by the time you cut it you probably won't notice. As far as the caffeine goes, try drinking tea.
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The more you count the worst you are going to do.  Just stay away from anything w/sugar alchohols.  \nEat the good stuff--the less processed--no fake chocolate or ice cream until you are close to maintinence.  If you put it in your routine you will regret it.
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Sounds to me like you already have the primary [and essential] ingredient: THE DESIRE TO! Add to that, the fact that you've already mentioned ACTIVE, and I think you are actually already there! Now, on the other side of the fence, [the body part], decide a good high protein, low carbs, fat, routine. Write it down, and post it somewhere it can be seen! [there's nothing like a good memo!] And allow for times when you're going to want a disgustingly-delicious yumm yumm (chocolate etc!) and let yourself have a little of that-which-you-love! Your on a roll!
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Try an eating disorder support group.\nNow where did I stash that Snickers bar?
99230
chromium picolinate.. naturally boost metabolism..it's in One a day weight smart.. or you can buy it seperately. I quit 5 months ago after smoking for 10 years. I read ALOT of books to keep my mind off of it. It was hard.. But now every time i smell it i want to vomit and i actually turn to my fiance almost every time and say 'Gosh I am SO glad i don't smoke anymore!!" Eat alot of whole grains and take chromium.. look at labels.. watch your fat and sugar intake. More than 30 grams of fat a day is too much if you are trying to lose weight or keep it off. MY biggest problem was turning from the cigs to CHOCOLATE and other sweets. It is proven that chocolate is just as addicting as heroin!! SO TRY not to sub the cigs with other bad addictions..lol. As for how long the first part was i'd say it was the first month that was the worst for me. The physical withdrawl part anyway. After that it's all in your head. GOOD LUCK!!