Comments on: Food inertia: Why not eat healthy?

By: mary

mary — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:52:19 +0000

A psychology professor of mine, way back in misty history, once said, “You don’t eat something because you like it; you like it because you eat it.” And one more quote from the Duke of Wellington: “Habit is not second nature; it’s ten times nature.”

By: susan

susan — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:20:12 +0000

If you truly listen to your body when you are physically hungry you will rarely choose to eat junk food. The only time I want to eat Cheetos or Oreos is when I want to eat for emotional reasons. When I’m actually hungry (but not OVERLY hungry) I don’t want to reach for a bag of chips.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:32:49 +0000

Thanks for the link Beth! I’m getting lots of traffic from it . . . I hope whatever purges out of my brain is useful to someone, somewhere. Love your site, read it regularly. Keep it up!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:53:52 +0000

you might want to check out Calorie Commando on FoodNetwork. He was a contestant on the early Body Challenge series on Discovery. On Calorie Commando he takes peoples favorite high fat, high calorie recipes and reworks them, keeping the flavor and losing the fat. I’ve tried a few and they are really good. I especially like the fried parsnips and cauliflower. Who’d had thunk it!

I’m not sure when he show airs, but you can check their website for his recipes from previous shows.

By: Debra

Debra — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:42:51 +0000

Proving once again that the boldest act is to slow down, take your time, incorporate changes gradually and lose the weight over a long period of time from a healthful, balanced diet.

By: carlaviii

carlaviii — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:59:56 +0000

Our problem was, for years, eating out. It was a habit we’d picked up in the college years when trying to cook was more difficult due to the living situation. And then inertia set in and I got too lazy to really cook anything — I could blame it on work, the commute, whatever, and the hubby can’t cook — and we ate boxed/frozen food even though I didn’t really like it.

Well, we also didn’t have the income to support those habits in the long run. It wasn’t the only contributor to our debt, but eventually we looked at the credit card bills and agreed that we had to make some rules.

Stupid part is, I can cook from scratch, and I enjoy it. One of the best things I did, a few years ago, was subscribe to Cooking Light magazine, because as a kid I learned to cook with bacon grease and lots of red meat. Their input really helped me shift from a very Northern European diet to something more Mediterranian. And I slowly re-learned the love of cooking, which meant a lot less salt, fat, sugar, and additives with questionable long-term effects (I’m a biology person, rather than physics.)

But I take weekends off. We still eat out on weekends, and that’s when I scratch any craving itches I might have… assuming I can keep them in mind until the weekend ;)