"Emergency kit"?

[jcapulet]

I read somewhere about an "emergency kit" to have at hand should you start to crave bad carbs. Much better to have cream cheese for emotional comfort...but then I finished the pack and ate 2 krispy cremes.

Any advice?

[msnicksmom]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

Don't be anywhere near krispy kremes?

Put chewing gum in your emergency kit. Eat the cream cheese and then put the gum in your mouth.

Give your self a time limit. IE, I can eat the cream cheese, but then I HAVE to wait 10 minutes before I eat the nuts. Then I have to wait 10 more before I eat the pepperoni. Likely the crisis mode will have passed.

HTH.

Hugs
Denise

[jcapulet]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

Don't be anywhere near krispy kremes?

Put chewing gum in your emergency kit. Eat the cream cheese and then put the gum in your mouth.

Give your self a time limit. IE, I can eat the cream cheese, but then I HAVE to wait 10 minutes before I eat the nuts. Then I have to wait 10 more before I eat the pepperoni. Likely the crisis mode will have passed.

HTH.

Hugs
Denise

Chewing gum sounds like a good idea.

The krispy kremes were my hubby's ...that's one of the challenges of living with someone not doing Atkins with you. When he bakes a pan of fresh cookies, I have to run away!

I have lots of pepperoni in the freezer...should have gone for that instead.

[boonie stomper]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

Get yourself a roll of Mr. Yuck stickers.
Put them on ALL your hubby's bad carbs.

Keep backup emergency kits on hand - in fridge, freezer, cabinet, car, desk... things like water, porkskins, celery, extra water.
Never choose a Mr. yuck label - fill up on the good stuff!

[jcapulet]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

Get yourself a roll of Mr. Yuck stickers.
Put them on ALL your hubby's bad carbs.

Keep backup emergency kits on hand - in fridge, freezer, cabinet, car, desk... things like water, porkskins, celery, extra water.
Never choose a Mr. yuck label - fill up on the good stuff!

ROTFL!!!!! OMG I am going to print that image When hubby looks in the fridge he is going to crack up seeing that all over the "bad foods!"

Hm, pork rinds are a good idea. Better to munch on those than krispies!

[2big4mysize]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

the trick with the emergency kit is to have pics of you small and big, a letter from you to you explaining why you need to lose the pounds, any motivational stuff you use to keep you clean, a couple of bottles of water, paaper and pen so you can write out a 500 word paper on the reasons why you got to have this temporary fix with high carb foods that will let you down again in less then an hour and finally if you make it this far and still got to have food then something salty if you need salty foods something crunchy if you need a crunch something goey if you need that mouth feel and make then all low carb high fat to deepen your ketosis and keep you going. You will be amazed at how far you don't get working your way through that kit. Since I was running from my 300+ former self all it took was knowing she was back in charge of my food choices if I went high carb and I was good to go for almost 700 straight cheat free Atkins days.

[jcapulet]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

the trick with the emergency kit is to have pics of you small and big, a letter from you to you explaining why you need to lose the pounds, any motivational stuff you use to keep you clean, a couple of bottles of water, paaper and pen so you can write out a 500 word paper on the reasons why you got to have this temporary fix with high carb foods that will let you down again in less then an hour and finally if you make it this far and still got to have food then something salty if you need salty foods something crunchy if you need a crunch something goey if you need that mouth feel and make then all low carb high fat to deepen your ketosis and keep you going. You will be amazed at how far you don't get working your way through that kit. Since I was running from my 300+ former self all it took was knowing she was back in charge of my food choices if I went high carb and I was good to go for almost 700 straight cheat free Atkins days.

A 500 word paper on why I need that carb fix...that is a very good idea! I think by the time I realize I am stumped for a good 'reason' hopefully the craving will have passed. Thank you

[cristylp]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

Since I was running from my 300+ former self all it took was knowing she was back in charge of my food choices if I went high carb and I was good to go for almost 700 straight cheat free Atkins days.

That is such an accomplishment, 2big... you truly are an inspiration.

[Mothercooter]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

I have an emergency PROCEDURE rather than a kit. I took some advice and got out my skinny pics as a size 2. Then i have my starting pics as a size 24. Also a few during photos to see my progress. I look those over. Then i go to the before and after photosection in the forums. Talk about inspiration. I have never looked at those and been able to keep my cravings! Aftr 10 mins viewing those I am completely re-strengthened! I think that most of my cravings must just be mental. Those are harder to break than the physical ones. Wonder when i ever will be able to.

[2big4mysize]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

every time you ressit a mental craving the thought process that generated that craving is weakened, it has to do with you you were feeling and what foods in your life that you have comsumed made that feeling get better. Dr Brain has stored and cross referenced all of that info and wants to keep you happy so it prescribes foods that will and have in the past produced the correct brain and body chems to counter whatever you were doing or felling before you had the cravings. weaken the neural pathways signal strength and replace it with a new one and you will be okay BUT using ADBB before and after has one flaw you need computer access to ADBB so if we were down or you were away from your computer or had a power failure your energency proceedure is flawed. that was what happened to me I used my treadmill to walk away the cravings so when I had knee surgery my Dr Brain couldn't prescrib treadmilling or exercise so it went looking for other things in the files and the only other things were those confort foods before Atkins and it kept prescrining and I kept resisting until I caved and poof my cheat free was no more. so make you another won you can and do use when you are away from home or not online so you can have one avail all the time.

[kkat55]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

My advice...sit nekkid in front of a full-length mirror taking a good look at yourself and then ponder whether or not you want something "illegal" to add to your weight. (Or you can visualize yourself this way before you take your bite -- think of how you feel now and how you can feel when you reach your goal if you just resist.)

Is it worth it?

[climbhigh]

Re: "Emergency kit"?

Something that I have seen that should work that has been suggested on this site is to:

If you have to have those bad carbs, try eating them naked in front of a mirror. That should kill any craving.

No really, sometimes I just can't quite feel satisfied either. Normally, just the act of chewing on something like gum does the trick. Maybe try some sunflower seeds. The feeling I get when I crave sweets isn't because I am hungry, if you are hungry and on this plan, then you are screwing up. Its almost like or is an addiction to the refined sugars.

personally sugar free jello with whipped cream gives me some relief.

Hang in there, you know it works. Why cheat? You will only get down on yourself, if you avoid it, then you can be proud. What a way to take a negative situation and make it a positive one.

A