The Best Diet Tip EVER

I’ll be forwarding this to patients. They act as if the food HAS to be there and/or forces itself down their throats. And the “but I have kids” excuse doesn’t cut it either. They don’t need it readily available 24/7 just as adults don’t.

Hey Joel,

Not was some very simple yet rock solid advice that anyone can follow! Thanks for the reminder.

Wishing you optimal health,

~ Pete

As the one who buys groceries in the family, I know this is the best idea – not to buy it, but I often buy some of these things because “others” in the family want them – like my husband who requires a dessert with every meal. When I am weak on willpower, I can tend to sneak in a few servings here and there. I really wish I didn’t have them in the house! But in my case I just have to be stronger – and I know I can do that if I put my mind to it.

A powerful tip. I snack all the time, the only difference is that now U snack on fruits and vegetables instead of ice cream and chips. Keeping only healthy snack options at home has made a difference for me.

AWESOME Tip Joel. Thanks for the reminder !!

Nuff said! And so true! Thanks Joel!

That’s been my strategy for years … can’t eat what’s not there. However, I do stash a few things in the freezer for when I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want a treat badly enough to take the time to find it and let it thaw (no microwave defrosting allowed). We women like our comfort foods on occasion :).

Too funny, I too don’t eat ice cream or potato chips that I crave because they are not in the house. This tip is awesome and so logical.

I agree with you. I do the same thing. When I do not follow this rule I fall out of the track. Thanks for the tip.

Indu

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What’s amazing is how easy it is to be rigid and buy the correct foods in the grocery store. I never feel temptation for junk food while in the grocery store I always want to buy very healthy foods. Keeping calorie dense snack food and my weak spot “trigger” foods out of the house allows for a much more stress free diet and leads to a lean hard body. You’re right Joel if it’s not there you can’t eat it, even more importantly you don’t miss it. Guilt free eating feels better too!

This has been my best diet approach for years, especially as I am way too lazy to leave the house to go get whatever it is I am craving late at night. Now though, with the babies, this has been harder and I occasionally find myself surreptitiously eating their biscuits laden with guilt…I guess at least I am getting some good vitamins, though probably waaay to many calories! ;-)

It must just be me…..
When I have cravings like that and don’t have the object of my craving in the house, I end up eating all sorts of other things and still have that craving. I sometimes even just go out and buy whatever it is I’m craving because otherwise I will just eat and eat until the craving is gone.

Good tip but living with a chocoholic hubby (who is also the cook and shopper in this house), I had to learn to close my eyes to his nightly choc munching. What helped me is my late evening chocolate protein shake (calories and stats duly recorded of course)….. I get my chocolate fix the healthiest way.
I got this tip from CWYT, thanks Joel!

@ Mike:
Boy, that’s for sure!!! If I go food shopping when I’m hungry, I purchase all sorts of stuff I’m sorry for later.

So simple but so true. Too bad people have family members that don’t agree.

@ Leatte:

I don`t know how junk food became a staple food for people. These things are “treats”

I’d let my kids save their allowance and buy a bag of chips with it. Not make it part of my grocery list.

Your advice is a great one. I live by this principle. Healthy food is all one find in my kitchen. Yet, I have not lost an ounce since last September, 2009.

It’s the only way I can stay on my diet is by not having those foods in my house

I have tried to be determined and do this several times before…say I’m going to quit buying flour, sugar, cereal, and bread, etc. But its so hard when my husband still LOVES these foods and doesn’t want to eat healthy like me. How do I get someone else motivated to eat better?? If I know there is something sweet or starchy in the house, I think about it all day long, and usually give in, feel guilty, and so on. Joel is so right on this matter.

Great tip Joel. I keep my fridge stalked with lots of veggies, so when i do get cravings, I binge on them instead! I have a romaine lettuce monster!

haha. Keep em coming man.

Right on Joel, Thanks and keep up the great work for us.

I haven’t had ice cream, cake, sugar, honey, molasses, agave nectar or any artificial sweeteners in any form since Oct. 2007. Oh, and I don’t eat bread and a whole bunch of other processed foods either. But they’re still in my home. Having them out of the house is great advice if you’re still eating the occasional bit of processed food. I find that when I completely eliminate it (and know I just don’t eat it) and have eliminated physical cravings by doing so that it’s easier to resist the psychological cravings.

I totally agree. It is the way I’ve been able to keep away from things I know I shouldn’t eat. If I had a bag if chips in the house, well, I can’t stop with just one.

Maybe I am some kind of wet blanket, or kinda retro, but it seems to me that if we returned to the way our grandfathers and grandmothers ate. We would could keep all that “illegal stuff” there and not eat it, in reasonable sized portions, too, at the appropriate times.

Some food is good for meal times, and inappropriate for other times. The older folks simply couldn’t imagine eating something heavy towards evening before retiring to sleep. They were human, too, but they lived “differently”.

Heck, some of them are still around, and, towards evening, after the big dinner has been mostly digested, the reply to an offer of something that will add “weight” into their stomachs is a polite “no thank you”.

Yeah, a cup of tea, coffee maybe, a cracker or two, a few cookies, perhaps, a piece of fruit would do in some cases. These are people who are not tempted by the media as much as many of us are. The fact is, that in spite of modern medicine and the attempts of some nutritionists to improve our lives, there are things that never changed, that many of us, regrettably forgot.