"Emergency kit"?

[jcapulet]

I read somewhere about an "emergency kit" to have at hand should you start to crave bad carbs. Much better to have cream cheese for emotional comfort...but then I finished the pack and ate 2 krispy cremes.

Any advice?

[msnicksmom]

Don't be anywhere near krispy kremes?

Put chewing gum in your emergency kit. Eat the cream cheese and then put the gum in your mouth.

Give your self a time limit. IE, I can eat the cream cheese, but then I HAVE to wait 10 minutes before I eat the nuts. Then I have to wait 10 more before I eat the pepperoni. Likely the crisis mode will have passed.

HTH.

Hugs
Denise

[jcapulet]

Originally Posted by msnicksmom

Don't be anywhere near krispy kremes?

Put chewing gum in your emergency kit. Eat the cream cheese and then put the gum in your mouth.

Give your self a time limit. IE, I can eat the cream cheese, but then I HAVE to wait 10 minutes before I eat the nuts. Then I have to wait 10 more before I eat the pepperoni. Likely the crisis mode will have passed.

HTH.

Hugs
Denise

Chewing gum sounds like a good idea.

The krispy kremes were my hubby's ...that's one of the challenges of living with someone not doing Atkins with you. When he bakes a pan of fresh cookies, I have to run away!

I have lots of pepperoni in the freezer...should have gone for that instead.

[boonie stomper]

Get yourself a roll of Mr. Yuck stickers.
Put them on ALL your hubby's bad carbs.

Keep backup emergency kits on hand - in fridge, freezer, cabinet, car, desk... things like water, porkskins, celery, extra water.
Never choose a Mr. yuck label - fill up on the good stuff!

[jcapulet]

Originally Posted by boonie stomper

Get yourself a roll of Mr. Yuck stickers.
Put them on ALL your hubby's bad carbs.

Keep backup emergency kits on hand - in fridge, freezer, cabinet, car, desk... things like water, porkskins, celery, extra water.
Never choose a Mr. yuck label - fill up on the good stuff!

ROTFL!!!!! OMG I am going to print that image When hubby looks in the fridge he is going to crack up seeing that all over the "bad foods!"

Hm, pork rinds are a good idea. Better to munch on those than krispies!

[2big4mysize]

the trick with the emergency kit is to have pics of you small and big, a letter from you to you explaining why you need to lose the pounds, any motivational stuff you use to keep you clean, a couple of bottles of water, paaper and pen so you can write out a 500 word paper on the reasons why you got to have this temporary fix with high carb foods that will let you down again in less then an hour and finally if you make it this far and still got to have food then something salty if you need salty foods something crunchy if you need a crunch something goey if you need that mouth feel and make then all low carb high fat to deepen your ketosis and keep you going. You will be amazed at how far you don't get working your way through that kit. Since I was running from my 300+ former self all it took was knowing she was back in charge of my food choices if I went high carb and I was good to go for almost 700 straight cheat free Atkins days.

[jcapulet]

Originally Posted by 2big4mysize

the trick with the emergency kit is to have pics of you small and big, a letter from you to you explaining why you need to lose the pounds, any motivational stuff you use to keep you clean, a couple of bottles of water, paaper and pen so you can write out a 500 word paper on the reasons why you got to have this temporary fix with high carb foods that will let you down again in less then an hour and finally if you make it this far and still got to have food then something salty if you need salty foods something crunchy if you need a crunch something goey if you need that mouth feel and make then all low carb high fat to deepen your ketosis and keep you going. You will be amazed at how far you don't get working your way through that kit. Since I was running from my 300+ former self all it took was knowing she was back in charge of my food choices if I went high carb and I was good to go for almost 700 straight cheat free Atkins days.

A 500 word paper on why I need that carb fix...that is a very good idea! I think by the time I realize I am stumped for a good 'reason' hopefully the craving will have passed. Thank you

[cristylp]

Originally Posted by 2big4mysize

Since I was running from my 300+ former self all it took was knowing she was back in charge of my food choices if I went high carb and I was good to go for almost 700 straight cheat free Atkins days.

That is such an accomplishment, 2big... you truly are an inspiration.

[Mothercooter]

I have an emergency PROCEDURE rather than a kit. I took some advice and got out my skinny pics as a size 2. Then i have my starting pics as a size 24. Also a few during photos to see my progress. I look those over. Then i go to the before and after photosection in the forums. Talk about inspiration. I have never looked at those and been able to keep my cravings! Aftr 10 mins viewing those I am completely re-strengthened! I think that most of my cravings must just be mental. Those are harder to break than the physical ones. Wonder when i ever will be able to.

[2big4mysize]

every time you ressit a mental craving the thought process that generated that craving is weakened, it has to do with you you were feeling and what foods in your life that you have comsumed made that feeling get better. Dr Brain has stored and cross referenced all of that info and wants to keep you happy so it prescribes foods that will and have in the past produced the correct brain and body chems to counter whatever you were doing or felling before you had the cravings. weaken the neural pathways signal strength and replace it with a new one and you will be okay BUT using ADBB before and after has one flaw you need computer access to ADBB so if we were down or you were away from your computer or had a power failure your energency proceedure is flawed. that was what happened to me I used my treadmill to walk away the cravings so when I had knee surgery my Dr Brain couldn't prescrib treadmilling or exercise so it went looking for other things in the files and the only other things were those confort foods before Atkins and it kept prescrining and I kept resisting until I caved and poof my cheat free was no more. so make you another won you can and do use when you are away from home or not online so you can have one avail all the time.