Weight Loss, Trigger Foods, and an SBI Contest!

I got this weight loss question from one of the people I am helping privately and thought maybe other people have the same problem and would like this information too.

Client Question

Both myself and my husband are compulsive eaters that have a strange thing go off in us that tells us that if we don't eat it, it will be gone. So though we could easily put the food away and have it later he keeps eating and I keep eating until it is all gone.

My husband does not see this as a problem and brings trigger foods home. It is not in my power to stop this. So, I must learn how to rise above this and not allow myself to be pulled into this.

I generally do well staying to my eating plan for about two weeks until something, birthday, too hungry, tired, something like these happens and I fall into the binge eating again. It takes me days to stop. because of this cycle I keep losing and gaining the same 5-7 pounds over and over. Can you help me?

FITINFUN Reply:

You don't need an eating plan you can fall off of. You need to change what you do eat to be healthier. A 10% improvement in nutrition along with a 10% reduction in toxins done gradually again and again will work better. What are some of the trigger foods so I can know what you are dealing with?

Client Trigger Foods

White bread, sugar, peanut butter, chocolate.

Fitinfun Help

All of the foods you list can be healthy.

White Bread

Please go organic at least. It is full of chemical additives if you are eating the regular stuff on the shelves, and messes with every system in your body. Start there - look at the ingredients. The vast majority of the chemical additives are addictive and damaging.

If you have to eat white bread either get it from a local bakery that uses organic ingredients or bake you own. It's very easy, better for you, tastes better, and you can make a week's worth in an afternoon. When people get off the store bought bread, they can smell the chemicals in that aisle of the grocery store. This would be a good place to start.

Sugar

Make sure you are eating "Pure Cane Sugar" Everything that says "Sugar" now is GMO beet sugar. If you eat it, you are the lab rat since it has never been tested on humans. I use sweeteners - all organic - brown sugar, not white usually, molasses, maple syrup, and any sweetener made from dates.

Peanut Butter

Go organic and try other nut butters - the other nuts have more nutrition than peanuts. The Jif and Skippys might as well have a poison label on it.

Chocolate

I am a chocolate addict myself. But I will never eat something you can by near the checkout anymore. I get raw cacao, which has health benefits, and make my own hot cocoa, mochas. Any candy bar type thing I want, I will get organic only so the cost stops me a bit :)

I used to have kitkit's as a food group - the last time I tried to eat one, I spit it out because it tasted like chemicals and salt - no chocolate flavor at all. Now my new raw cacao concoctions are luscious and satisfying.

Why you fall off your "Plan"

The reason you cannot last on an eating plan is that you are not getting enough nutrition. Eating half of nutritionally poor food will not work in the long term. You need to improve the food you do eat and then keep making it better. This works better than trying something completely new.

Get trackers going and start tracking whatever it is you DO eat now. Find out where you are getting nutrition and work to improve it. Ignore calories, calcium, and iron for now.

Try to get 125-150 percent of a few nutrients. Try tracking:

• Vitamin C
• Fiber
• Iodine,
• Magnesium
• Selenium

Just start working on any one of those and then keep going.

Example

For selenium, you can buy Brazil nuts at a health food store. Eat 5 a day. That's it. You can just eat them, soak them, break them up and put them on salad.

Ideas to Face Reality

Calculate the BMI score for both you and your husband, and track it every 3 months or so. It is really easy to do and gives you a good idea of where your life and health is now.

Have him look up the ingredients in something he brings home on the cdc website. They flat out tell you when some thing is cancer-causing and addictive or whatever.

He might want to change if he has more information and then life will be better for both of you.

Client Reply

Wow! Thank you! I see some home baked bread in my future. Is grass fed butter okay in that or do you recommend a particular oil for bread making ?

Fitinfun Wrap Up

The butter is perfect. The only oil I heat is coconut now.
Check easy bread recipes in blogs. After the first few tries, you can do it in your sleep.

Also - hemp oil is awesome - nothing about weed and very nutritious and delicious on salad or added on top of anything savory after you cook it.

You have to refrigerate hemp oil. I got a huge pack of organic oregano and mixed it with the hemp oil and it keeps in the fridge. My son can eat this mixture out of the jar while standing there, and it is good on top of anything savory.

I eat a high fat and low carb diet and do well. Remember - count nutrition and ignore calories. Please get back to me to let me know how it goes. {{{Hugs}}}

So there you have it - a bit of personalized weight loss coaching.

SBI Contest for your comments!

The best two comments on this post will an SBI share. I will award those near the time this contest closes. You can say anything, but here are some ideas.

• Tell me about your trigger foods in the comments.
• What are they?
• Do you have any good strategies?
• Ask any questions you may have.

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