How do people stop themselves from eating a whole sweet?!

[Zkuq]

firebush03 said:

Zkuq said:

Unless you buy a lot of sweets, to me it sounds like your problem isn't the sweets, it's being so obsessive about losing all the energy you've gained. Of course if you feel like things are getting out of hand, this could be incorrect assessment, but it doesn't sound to be the case.

It’s an occasional thing, but whenever it happens, it’s just a major inconvenience because then I have bring my whole study set up to either the treadmill or the stationary bike, destroy my tendons for massive exercise routine, and… yeah. Honestly the bigger harm is probably in all the exercise I do to compensate lol but it sure is a strong motivator when I tell myself “If you want to taste this treat, just know you’re running the risk of several hours of exercise… do you really want to do this?”.

One option would be to put a limit, e.g. X calories in Y time (in general or for sweets only, whichever works the best for you), and force yourself to burn those calories only for the part that exceeds the limit you've set. It would give some leeway while still keeping your habits in check - unless you fear you'd be prone to raising the limit too eagerly.

To be clear, I don't think I can help you much with not eating the whole sweet though, for several reasons.