Well this week was a bust.
I was doing so well until my mom got three big tubs of ice cream with cones for quarantine. I’ve noticed my binging habits getting worse after this, and having a cup of each flavor per day as if it would disappear the next day.
Then i realized that’s why my habit has gotten worse, it’s the “Limited Resource” mentality.
When I was younger, my mom only bought us sweets on special occasions. Even if it was simple fruit like plums or peaches, my siblings and I would fight to plough through them in a few days. And ice cream? Forget about it. She only got one flavor in a blue moon, and that would disappear as fast as it came.
Same goes for Ginger Ale (which always goes good with a bag of popcorn), bc she goes from never even buying fruit juice, to having boxes of soda cans stashed in the garage. My craving for fruit juice is not as strong as it used to and Pepsi and Cola lost their luster, but OH BOY is Ginger Ale a rarity!
ON TOP OF THAT, I’m an adult now, and my parents don’t tell me what I can and cannot eat anymore. So it makes it so much easier to binge now that I have more (less?) control.
I’m not blaming my folks for my problems by any means. I just noticed that the “Rare” foods trigger my binging habits when they make themselves available.
How to I change up my thinking out of that primal “fight for gold”? I used to binge on fruit juice and soda until I realized how they were always available, and i don’t care for them anymore. It’s novelty that gives me that rush of dopamine...
Any advice?
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/fmu41p/the_limited_resource_mentality/
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