Crisps !!

louise5754

Hi guys!! Looking for some advice. I know it sounds silly but I may be addicted to crisps!! I eat a healthy varied diet but my big down fall are crisps. I just love them any flavour or type baked,fried,tortilla etc.
I eat a bag a day although I didnt the last two days because Im desperately trying to stop. I can easliy go through a large bag meant for sharing if Im watching a dvd at home.
So basically any advice on cutting them out or has anyone else had this silly problem?
I know there is obviously health risks Im taking eating so much of them thats why I want to stop. This probably sounds silly to a lot of people but I posted it here because I know you guys take your health so seriously and it is really worrying me. I tried giving them up for lent and only got a week in. Help!!!

vicwatson

BALANCED diet is the key, as long as you don't have them for breakfast, lunch and dinner I don't see the problem.

Leeg17

Ever try vegetable crisps? Slice up some sweet potato and throw it in the oven with a sprinkle of oil and some salt (I'm sure there's better recipe's online!)

Or even some carrot sticks in humus when you feel the urge

The Big Red Button

Nuts and seeds might be a good substitute, or maybe popcorn for a treat.

Or, if you're at home, something like homemade chips made with potato/sweet potato, and plenty of seasoning.

flutegirl

Try rice cakes. I used to eat a bag of mccoys with lunch every day. Made a conscious effort to cut down so switched to rice cakes during the week and would have a small (ramekin size) bowl of really good quality crisps with lunch at the weekend. Takes a bit of willpower so need to do this for a few days but you'll feel a whole lot better for it and you still get to have a few crisps

Kimia

I had the same problem. I truly believe that the reason you are addicted to them is because you are eating them, if that makes sense. The more you have them, the more you'll want to have them. If you're like me, you can't have them in moderation. I wasn't able to. When I stopped eating them, there was some cravings over maybe 2-3 days but now I rarely even think about eating crisps.

Compare it to smoking.

Mellor

I'd have a similar enough "addiction". I mange it by eating less on days I want a bag. Eg, keep breakfast lunch and dinner portions on the small side and have a bag later on with tea.
If i have a full dinner with a carb based side. I simply skip them.

saa

Depends its if just habitual you can cut down or space them out, aim eventually to have one pack a week then none but if you have an emotional tie to them it gets more complicated, like if you feel happy, let yourself relax, the food reminds of a nice memory or it is an event [sitting down with some crisps] you're going to have to find something to replace it, making sure you're getting enough food in other meals you should only feel mentally deprived of the crisps, which poses the threat of quitting and then falling off the wagon, there will be social situations with crisps, times when you need a snack and all you can buy is crisps or chocolate in a shop.

I used to eat a bag a day when in school maybe another in the afternoon but after a couple of years of leaving school I realised I didn't actually like them that much I was just used to eating them, also I realised I dont like chips that much but I love a nice microwaved potato.

So if its just a habit away you go maybe get some herbal tea into you and make sure you're eating enough good food. If there are emotional purposes though for a food beware that "food" that you love and just need to have or could eat 10 portions of can change to healthier foods, some people can't eat weetabix because its just one of those foods that they would eat and eat.

I think if its triggering a I NEED them feeling a lot and you feel out of control with that food i.e regularly eating a share bag or some when you don't need food, failing at giving them up its a trigger food and if you know what it is providing you with or why youre afriad of not having them you can suss out what you need to do, if its just the taste (of the potato, salt or oil more maybe its the crunch) you can find a healthier food with one of those elements, if its a habitual thing where at 5pm every day you have x, you make yourself busy or replace it with something else so you dont feel deprived.

Vote 4 Pedro

I had a similar problem but not with crisps, i tried and tried to stop but i could never do it by limiting myself to a certain amount,
so i stopped eating them altogether for six weeks and told myself that if i could do without for the six weeks then after that i could have them a couple of times a week,
Somehow I did manage to the six weeks ? ? don't know how but i did and found it easier to be strict with myself
now i am allowing myself my treat i'm finding that i just don't want them anymore,
and now even if they were right in front of me i don't think i would be fussed,
I think it was just a habit that was very hard to break

czgalway

i have the same problem i could eat two or three bags of doritos or something a day and some chocolate but then if i go shopping and buy the bumper pack of crisps like 12 or 15 bags i always eat them in one go along with a few snickers ice creams or similar ,i just never get full ,i eat 5-6 times a day including breakfast and i am no way overweight or even heavy i am 6ft 1 and 14 stone but have no belly at all ,my wife thinks ive worms i always start excercising for a couple of weeks then get bored and stop and have been doing this for a few years and by excersising i mean lifting weights not too heavy but heavy enough that i can only do 8-10 reps max of 3 sets ,i started jogging 3 miles an evening a couple of months back but found i lost half a stone in a few weeks so stopped because i dont want to loose any more weight , my metabolism must be going ninety with all the crap i eat,i also read on the net that if i excercise every second day it gives muscles time to heal and since doing that i put on a stone since 2009 but i am starting back everyday now instead to see what happens

Vote 4 Pedro

czgalway wrote: »

if i go shopping and buy the bumper pack of crisps like 12 or 15 bags i always eat them in one go along with a few snickers ice creams or similar ,i just never get full, i dont want to loose any more weight , my metabolism must be going ninety with all the crap i eat

Lucky Ba57ard, he he

ConorSTF

I had a similar problem with Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps recently. I would eat between around 3 or 4 big packets, or 6-12 of the small packets four or five days a week. I don't know what it was, I just couldn't stop buying them. I'd get them and literally munch them down. I would finish 3 big packets in under 10 minutes. But they made me happy. Eating junk food tends to make me really happy, regardless of what's going on around me, I'm usually oblivious to all that.

Think I hit a point with the crisps a few weeks ago. I bought a 12 pack and I eat them all as I do. I think I just reached the point where I was sick of them. I still buy a couple of packets a week, but it's not something I have to do anymore and I can survive easily enough without them.

czgalway

well i am going cold turkey for the next seven weeks no more crap food til i go on holidays and exercise every evening and im gonna start back jogging i read that by doing aerobic excersises you will lose muscle but if i keep up training along with it i should be fine ,fingers crossed i dont want to be big just more defined and this holiday is a bit of motivation cos my will power is sh1t

ConorSTF

czgalway wrote: »

well i am going cold turkey for the next seven weeks no more crap food til i go on holidays and exercise every evening and im gonna start back jogging i read that by doing aerobic excersises you will lose muscle but if i keep up training along with it i should be fine ,fingers crossed i dont want to be big just more defined and this holiday is a bit of motivation cos my will power is sh1t

I am similarly giving up all crap and exercising more in two weeks time when I finish school for the summer.

Good luck!