I've been having lots of trouble staying away from my "trigger" foods, as they are called by Overeaters Anonymous. They trigger a binge, so that's why they should be avoided. I keep trying to play with fire, though, and not avoid them, thinking I can control them in small quantities. But alas, I can't, and find out the hard way.
Instead of the word trigger, though, I prefer a word like cascade. Eating such foods tends to send me cascading down into a binge. The effect reminds me of the cascade of cards at the end of an electronic solitaire game. That's how it feels when I eat a piece of chocolate, or some other intense food. I feel like I'm losing control, as if I've dropped a deck of cards and they're cascading to the ground.
So what to do? Avoid those foods, of course. Again--simple, but not easy.
Yesterday when I wanted to eat something sweet, I thought about going to the chocolate candy trough in the skywalk, but then I thought, "That will cause me to want more and more chocolate, so I'd better not." Then I ate a butterscotch and was mostly satisfied. I made a choice to do something that did not cause me to overeat. I need to keep doing that.
I like the term "cascade foods"; I think I'll use that. There are quite a number of those kinds of foods for me. I have to keep watch over my consumption of them so I don't lose control.
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