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How To Stop Eating So Much Junk Food & Sugar!
A popular question that I get all
the time is about how to stop giving in to food cravings. You know, how to stop
eating so much of your favorite junk food and high sugar snacks. Andrew F.
Smith, in his book, Encyclopedia
of Junk Food and Fast Food defines
junk food as "those commercial products, including candy, bakery goods,
ice cream, salty snacks, and soft drinks, which have little or no nutritional
value but do have plenty of calories, salt, and fats. While not all fast foods
are junk foods, most are. Fast foods are ready-to-eat foods served promptly
after ordering. Some fast foods are high in calories and low in nutritional
value, while other fast foods, such as salads, may be low in calories and high
in nutritional value." Foods commonly considered junk foods include salted snack foods, gum, candy, sweet desserts, fried fast food,
and sugary carbonated beverages. Many foods such as hamburgers, pizza, and tacos can be considered either healthy or
junk food depending on their ingredients and preparation methods. The more highly processed items usually fall under the junk food
category, including breakfast
cereals that are mostly sugar or high-fructose corn syrup and white flour or
milled corn.
Whether you
want to lose weight or build muscle, no matter what your goals are, we all love
some type of junk food that we know we need to stop eating or at least greatly
limit. The problem is, some people just can’t stop. They just can’t “get rid of
the cravings” for these foods, and just can’t stop giving in to their food
cravings. Luckily, I’m here to help you.
But First, A Warning.
Before I go any further, let me give you an honest warning.
This article is NOT intended for everyone. It’s something I’m writing specifically for
people who lack will power and desperately need a strong kick in the ass to get
motivated and stick to their diet. These are the people who can’t make cheat
days work (it just causes them to fall off their diet) and can’t just “indulge
in moderation” like many of us can (which is something I often recommend, just
not in this article).
I get
emails from these kinds of people all the time, and they constantly ask for an
article like this. So, if this describes you, then keep on reading. If it
doesn’t, then this article is definitely not for you. I don’t really recommend
doing what I explain in this article to anyone except the type of person I just
described. So, you’ve been warned. Now let’s get down to business.
“Sticking To My Diet Is Too Hard”
Who the hell are you to whine to me?
Shut up already! Sure, I can completely understand if your problems with
getting the results you want are from the wrong information about your workout
or diet. I’ve been there before. I used to do the wrong stuff. But after I
finally learned what works, I created this website to help others avoid the
same problems I used to have.
I want to
save you time, money and effort by giving you free honest information about how
to get the results you want. But, this isn’t about your diet or workout. This
isn’t about you wasting money on some useless ab workout machine or stupid
weight loss product or other useless supplements and gimmicks that weren’t
working for you. This is about food cravings.
Don’t whine
to me. I’ve heard it before… “It’s so hard, I’m around this type of food all
the time, the cravings just won’t go away, I have a sweet tooth, I just have to
give in to the cravings.”
Stop it,
you’re boring me. Don’t give me your little stories. Like how you are around
this type of food all the time. Do you think you are the only one, buddy?
Everyone I know and am related to eats junk food all day long. This crappy food
is everywhere I look. I am no different than you, except, I don’t give in.
Do I have super human powers? No. Do
I not give in because my arms are bigger than yours? No. Do I not give in
because I can bench press more than you? No. Do I not give in because my body
fat is lower than yours? No. Do I not give in because I am physically better or
physically stronger than you? No.
I don’t give in because I am Mentally Stronger Than You. That’s
all it is really, mental. And for you to give in and me not to give in, we can
only assume that I am mentally stronger than you. How does that make you feel?
I don’t know a damn thing about you, but I know that mentally, I can do
something that you cannot. It sure makes me feel good though. That fact puts a
smile on my face every single day. So, thanks for being so mentally weak. It
will make me work that much harder during my next workout. Thanks a lot.
Sorry, did I hurt your feelings yet?
I didn’t mean to, I’m just stating the truth. It’s not my fault if the truth
hurts. You understand now that this is all mental, right? You understand that
it’s all a matter of mental strength and will power, don’t you? Good. Here’s
what you do.
Next
time your little food cravings start coming out, think about this. Look at the
food and think, “What do I want more… the 5 seconds of enjoyment that I will
have while I chew this food, or the enjoyment of the fact that 24 hours of
every day, 7 days of every week, I will have the body that I want to have.” That
is what it comes down to really, and let me tell you… no food tastes as good as
that feeling feels.
And you other people, you
bullshitters. The ones that give me that speech about how “every food is okay
if eaten in moderation.” And how “no one should deny themselves anything.”
These are the same people who probably believe in having “cheat days.” Cheat
days are the 1 day of the week where some people allow themselves to cheat a
little from their diet and give into their food cravings, in moderation of
course, kind of like a reward for the good work they did all week.
You know what… BULLSHIT! The hell
with you and your cheat days. Your reward for sticking to your diet all week is
1 day of cheating? What kind of crap is this? Your reward for sticking to your
diet all week is RESULTS! Remember them? They’re the reason that you are on
this diet and working out in the first place. To get results! Not to have a
cheat day at the end of the week.
Every food is okay as long as it’s
eaten in moderation. One candy bar won’t hurt. One cookie won’t hurt. One piece
of junk food won’t hurt. Maybe, but only if you CAN stop at one. If you can’t,
then it WILL definitely hurt. That means that the cheat days and the idea of “giving into your food cravings in moderation”
that supposedly helps us stick to our diets actually does the opposite for many
of us. It makes people feel guilty. It makes people crave that food even more.
It keeps the cravings alive and strong.
What are you thinking now? Who am I?
Like I never cheat or give into my cravings a little? This isn’t about me, this
is about you. And you appear to be someone who is unable to give in to sugar
and junk food cravings in moderation and should therefore avoid it completely.
The thought of eating some type of junk food needs to be removed from your mind
in order for you to stick to your diet.
Eat
For Purpose, Not Pleasure.
Call it will power, or call it
mental strength. Your goal is to get results. Your road to getting those
results doesn’t have to have 5 seconds of chewing pleasure. You need to eat for
purpose, not pleasure. Food is not a hobby. Food is something your body needs
to survive, and in the case of working out and getting results, food is
something your body needs so that you can get those results. Food is nothing
more than that.
So, give your body only what it
needs to make these results happen. Does your body need the 5 seconds it takes
for you to chew a piece of chocolate? No. Does your mind need it? It shouldn’t.
It should be stronger than that because the feeling of not needing it feels
much better than any piece of chocolate would ever taste.
Like I said, you need to eat for
purpose, not pleasure. That statement sums up the solution to the problem many
people have with “cheat days” and “food cravings” and “everything is okay if
it’s eaten in moderation.” If you can make that type of mindset work, go for
it. But if you can’t… then it will always be the downfall of your diet.
So don’t whine to me about how hard
it is for you. Do you think I will feel bad for you? I won’t. You are not
special. It is exactly as hard for you as it is for me and EVERYONE else.
What’s the difference? I have what it takes mentally. You know what else? You
have it too. You just need to learn to use it. And, hopefully… this article has
helped bring it out.
Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_food
intense-workout.com : 2001
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