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For me I picked a food that I knew was bad and cut it out. I didn't cut every thing out at once, I did it gradually. The hardest for me to give up was sweet tea. I set a date and said NO MORE. I had a period of 2 months of " cutting" foods out befoe I began my full diet.

I think it is a good idea to stop eating a food you know you will lose control over. That was exactly my problem with certain foods. The best way is to just not have them in the house so you won't be tempted. We just talked about this yesterday in my WW meeting. Green, yellow and red light foods. Red light foods are ones you know you can't stop eating once you start so keep them out of the house until you know you can control yourself.

For me, if I really like it too much to quit I would try to come up with a healthy alternative for it. Other wise, just quit. To day I am going cold turkey on pop. I only drink diet pop but I need to break myself of this addiction. Like Lisalynn said you just can't have them around or else you will just fall back into the way you were before. Try to remember that you are trying to change yourself and your eating habits are the first that needs to change.

I have to cut it out entirely. I know no control when it comes to things like, chocolate chip cookies, or just the chocolate chips, or just chocolate, so I don't eat any of it...except hot chocolate, which for some reason takes the edge off without sending me on a binge. I won't eat pasta, muffins, or any cookies, for the same reason. It sucks, but not as much as a week or month long binge that I can't get out of. I'll take abstinence any day.

I have never really been able to eat a reasonable amount of the foods I tend to binge on. Lately I have found one thing that works... I stay away from those foods for about a month straight and then give myself one day off per month to eat some of my "trigger foods." So far I'm still losing weight that way and it helps me to know I will be able to eat those foods again (on that one day break) then to deny myself by saying I will NEVER eat those favorites again.

well, cutting cold turkey does not work for everyone but slowly cutting back works pretty well.
For example if you drink 2 cokes at dinner, try drinking one slowly and with ice for 3 weeks and you would probably not miss it. then work down to 1/2 a can then not at all.
Also, there are a lot of 100 calorie packs which are good, if you eat only one as a treat once a day. it is better than eating the whole bag which can done mindlessly very easily.
writing things down helps because then you can get the "big picture" on what is actually going in your stomach.
Good luck on your weight loss journey, I'm here to help anytime!!

I'd try to have that particular food under a CONTROLLED situation (e.g. only having ice-cream when I'm going out for a walk with a friend). If that didn't trigger any binges, then you know you can still have that food under that certain circumtance. Otherwise, I'd say it's better to cut it out of your life entirely.

I quit eating sugar when i went on the adkins diet. although i didn't stay with it and regained the weight lost, i will say that if you quit sugar for 2 weeks you won't crave it. goodluck.