How you can handle TRIGGER FOODS.
What are trigger foods? These are foods that you can’t resist, and once you start, you cannot stop. When eaten, they make you crave more and more. Typically these are high-calorie, highly palatable foods that are highly processed.
My biggest trigger food – CHIPS, mainly Doritos, but it doesn’t matter. If it’s a chip, it’s in my mouth. This is why when I’m on a diet or cut, you won’t find any chips anywhere around me. I know what would happen, so I don’t risk it.
How can you handle trigger foods? The easiest and the best solution is not to buy them. If you don’t have them at your house, you can’t eat them. If a craving hits and you have to have some ice cream, but you don’t have any at your home, the likelihood of you jumping in your car, going to the grocery store, and getting ice cream is highly unlikely.
But my husband/wife or kids have to have my number 1 trigger food in the house. The second best option is out of sight, out of mind. Set your kitchen up to hide your trigger foods, making them much less accessible. If the trigger food is in view and within reach, you are 90% more likely to eat it.
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What are some of your trigger foods?
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