Are there some kinds of foods that are favourites – that you can’t say no to no matter how full you are? Do you go for the buffet sections while eating out? Do you always celebrate with food? If your…
Category: Manage Surroundings
Manage your external triggers by Removing (e.g. if you don’t buy chocolate, you won’t eat it), Replacing (e.g. walk a different route if the vada pav stall tempts you) and Routine (e.g. plan your meals and snacks). Set up your home and office to ensure maximum success. Also see ideas on shopping, travelling and partying
Setting up your home for success
There are several small but proven steps you can take to set up your home/living quarters for success. We have listed the tried and tested ones below. Be sure to add to the list from your own experience and inventive…
Behaviour chains and how to break them
Every Sunday afternoon, Nita would buy a full 500 gram packet of potato chips from a local chips shop, that sold it fresh. Home was a proper three-storied staircase climb, so she would leave the potato chips on the dining…
Behaviour chains and how to break them, another example
When you are ready to break a negative behaviour chain that is leading you to overeat, it’s very important for you to be able to identify the triggers for certain behaviours. Take a typical day at work. It’s a regular…
Slowing your eating rate
Most of us eat faster than we should. Blame it on upbringing and habit, but the speed with which we eat doesn’t allow our taste buds to get the full benefits of the food. Experts say the satiety factor is…
Bracing yourself against a toxic environment
People struggling with excess weight have never had it so tough: the triggers and temptations to eat are ceaseless and powerful. You could even say that the atmosphere we live in is toxic for someone struggling to lose weight. Fast…
Retracing your steps to find your triggers
Many of you have heard of the phrase ‘domino effect’. This section will show you how to start viewing your eating as a sequence of events that contain many links, and then, how to break this sequence at any given…
Eating at parties, holidays and other events
Most of you – even those who are normally cautious about their foods, tend to eat more at parties, holidays and other special events. These events are a problem because you are encouraged and even pressured to eat. The reasons…
Shopping for food
Do you plan your grocery shopping? Since shopping is one activity that most of us use either as “something necessary to get out of the way as fast as possible” or as a stress buster, the very idea that you…