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I used to be significantly overweight and the advice in the first box of the flow chart was the most helpful for me. I avoid buying tempting food items in the s

I used to be significantly overweight and the advice in the first box of the flow chart was the most helpful for me. I avoid buying tempting food items in the store to begin with and I have often eaten one or two cookies that have been sent to me as gifts and thrown the rest away so I wouldn't eat them.

suzzer99 6y ago
Same here. When I was looking for jobs, companies would always tout their snack room. To me that was a huge impediment that I'd have to fight against every day.
- verroq 6y ago
  Maybe the incentive should be extra pay for not using the snack room.
  - toast0 6y ago
    Who wants to work for a company that tracks your usage of the snack room. If you're going to tie snacks to money, just put in a coinop snack machine (with credit card support, I suppose)
    - verroq 6y ago
      I was under the impression it would be an honour system.
sukilot 6y ago
The critical point -- which applies to packrats at well, is that some things have negative value and are better destroyed than used. We know this for obvious toxins like smoke, but less often know this for sugar and junk gear.
Tarsul 6y ago
I use a box that I can lock with a timer (called kitchensafe), which means I have no chance (except breaking the whole thing) to get to my cookies (in my case all kinds of sweets) after i set the timer (which i usually set after taking a few things). Really helps with exactly this type of problem. Although I had to buy another one for the office a few weeks ago... (I gained pounds during covid anyway, so it's not the be all end all.. but it helps me)