Now don’t go looking up this phrase on Google because it is one that I made up. I got it from the theory of gateway drugs which is the hypothesis that the use of less lethal drugs may lead to a future risk of using more dangerous hard drugs. Now since I am a recovering addict and food is my addiction I deemed it only fitting to equate the two. You see I think that there are some foods that once you eat them they are diet suicide. You feel like oh it’s ok for me to eat this one serving of chips (a blog about serving sizes will soon follow) because I have been good all week and I have the calories. So you eat it and then, it’s another serving of chips, a bag of popcorn, and maybe some other salty snack and before you know it you have blown your calories and your waist line. And you are left there wondering how this binge started. I’ll tell you how it started… With your Gateway Food. The one unhealthy food that if you eat it, it will open the flood gates for all the other unhealthy foods that you love. Hello My Name is Patrice and my gateway food is Snickers candy. (This is where you say Hi Patrice) For years Snickers have satisfied my hunger and I was happy to let it do so. But now that I am on this journey to fit hood I have found that even if I try to reward myself with a mini snickers at the end of a long hard week it just makes me want more and more and more. Then I find myself craving more chocolaty things. Things like cupcakes, chocolate cakes even Italian cream cakes, and then my cravings extend to anything that maybe considered a dessert. Now I know you are wondering how a self proclaimed burger lover has chocolate candy as her gateway food. All I have to say to that is YOU CANT PICK YOUR GATEWAY FOOD. This is something that I have realized after months of being on this journey and looking back at all the times I have tried to lose weight in the past and failed. Every time I failed at a diet that food was the culprit however the difference between those times and this one is that I am committed and I refused to fail. Soooo what is your gateway food?
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Gateway Foods
Now don’t go looking up this phrase on Google because it is one that I made up. I got it from the theory of gateway drugs which is the hypothesis that the use of less lethal drugs may lead to a future risk of using more dangerous hard drugs. Now since I am a recovering addict and food is my addiction I deemed it only fitting to equate the two. You see I think that there are some foods that once you eat them they are diet suicide. You feel like oh it’s ok for me to eat this one serving of chips (a blog about serving sizes will soon follow) because I have been good all week and I have the calories. So you eat it and then, it’s another serving of chips, a bag of popcorn, and maybe some other salty snack and before you know it you have blown your calories and your waist line. And you are left there wondering how this binge started. I’ll tell you how it started… With your Gateway Food. The one unhealthy food that if you eat it, it will open the flood gates for all the other unhealthy foods that you love. Hello My Name is Patrice and my gateway food is Snickers candy. (This is where you say Hi Patrice) For years Snickers have satisfied my hunger and I was happy to let it do so. But now that I am on this journey to fit hood I have found that even if I try to reward myself with a mini snickers at the end of a long hard week it just makes me want more and more and more. Then I find myself craving more chocolaty things. Things like cupcakes, chocolate cakes even Italian cream cakes, and then my cravings extend to anything that maybe considered a dessert. Now I know you are wondering how a self proclaimed burger lover has chocolate candy as her gateway food. All I have to say to that is YOU CANT PICK YOUR GATEWAY FOOD. This is something that I have realized after months of being on this journey and looking back at all the times I have tried to lose weight in the past and failed. Every time I failed at a diet that food was the culprit however the difference between those times and this one is that I am committed and I refused to fail. Soooo what is your gateway food?
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my gateay drug is hershey,s with almonds please help me.
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