There’s nothing you can do about the high-fat or high-calorie foods that are in the local pizzeria or fast food places, but you don’t have to live with them in your own house. If you could live with them, you wouldn’t have a weight problem. So don’t try to tempt yourself. Recovering alcohol or addicts don’t keep Scotch or cocaine around just to test their resolve. Why should you? Keeping your house clean from fatty and unhealthy food is the start of a weekly healthy eating habit.
Even if some members of your household grouse about not having twenty-four-hour access to potato chips, keep your perspective. If you were recovering from alcoholism, no true friend or loved ones would insist on keeping fully stocked bar in the house against your wishes.
Keeping your trigger foods out of the house is not an unreasonable condition as long as you make it clear to household members why you need to do this. They need to know it is more than just a diet issue — it’s a health issue. It is about becoming, and remaining fit , healthy and in control of your life and your diet. Weekly healthy eating habits will start difficult but once you get the hang of it, things will be easy and breezy.
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We literally eat with our eyes. So going about one’s business in a home that has food on display can be dangerous. If there are foods that you decide you need to have around the house for others, but that you find a potential trigger food, establish some new habits instead of risking your resistance capacity.
Keep foods, packages, cookie jars, and other container off the kitchen counter. Keep them off easy-to-reach shelves. The prospect of pulling out and climbing up onto the stepladder to reach a bag of potato chips nestled on the top shelf may be enough occasions to make you say, “forget about it.”
Don’t forbid foods, but forbid them from those areas of your life.
If someone insists on buying Haagen-Dazs, just ask them to do it when you aren’t around or to do it somewhere else. If they want pizza, tell them its fine. But they have to take it all outside.
Provide the people you’re living with canisters wherein they can store their special foods that may cause you problems. Tell them to keep it anywhere as long as it’s not within your reach. This helps you as much as you help them keep their choices.
Give them lockable cabinets or boxes wherein they can store their foods. Give them the lock and make sure you don’t have access to the combination key.
Part of taking control of your food intake is to learn to live and maintain control in a world of food, a world with other people, and a world where other people’s wishes and desires don’t always go with yours. Educate those around you and take steps to make your home environment fairly safe. You have to convince people around you that your weekly healthy eating habits will be there to stay so might as well they get used to it also.
Sometimes we find ourselves justifying our cravings by saying that “food is everywhere — I have to learn to live with it.” This rationale is very considerate, rational, and even logical. But they are still wrong.
As far as depriving the other people around you, take a moment to assess who is really applying the pressure. More often than not, you will find that you, and not the other members of your households, are the ones who are bringing the foods in.
A house full of people may be a house full of different points of view, but sometimes, when health is at stake, it is better to temper these points of view and stick to ground rules.
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