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bgdavis -> RE: Vikes water cooler thread (2/9/2016 11:58:59 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Todd M
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ORIGINAL: Duane Sampson
I found the key was not cold turkey, but doing both. Worked for me. Well over 13 months and home-free after 38 years of smoking. Thanks.
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ORIGINAL: eagleflorida
The cigs thing to me is mind over matter. Will power alone is the best means of quitting. Trying to cut down and sucking on vapor shit is a copout to me. Does everyone have the necessary will power? Obviously not by the huge number who don't accomplish their goal. But I've said it for years, IMO if a person wants to quit badly enough, that should be all that's required. Some folks
And here's my struggle right now. I am prepared to 'lock myself in' and purge my system. Of nicotine, pop, and junk food.
But most say take it in manageable steps...you're setting yourself up to fail etc...
I'm for sure giving up regular pop. Feel ready to 'crumple the pack' and willing to give up chips, chocolate, and candy in favor of healthier options...
I'm not saying 180...but I think I am going to try 145.
Cutting out pop is a great place to start. I used to drink regular pop (pepsi/coke, mt. dew, etc) all the time, and my weight kept climbing a few pounds every year. I finally decided I had to do something about the continuous weight gain and started by giving up pop and switched to water. It was hard at first, but mostly due to the lack of caffeine. After about a week, my body had adjusted. It was weird too, since before I used to find it hard to drink more than a small glass of water here and there during a day, but after giving up pop, it was like I couldn't get enough water, and it just ran through me like...water. There's something about the combination of sugared pop and caffeine that makes your body get all out of whack, and it took a bit of time to readjust to drinking water.
Within a month, I had begun to notice a drastic change in my weight. Instead of slowly creeping up by maybe a pound over the month, I'd lost almost 10 pounds. I did try to cut out most sources of simple sugars (junk food, sweets as well as breads and pasta) and that helped too. It's really hard to cut out all the simple sugars since breads and pastas seem to be everywhere and very hard to avoid, especially if you grab fast food. However, that's one of the next logical steps if you're really serious about losing weight. I personally struggle to do that, but at least by cutting sugar pop out of my diet I have been able to maintain my weight now.
Here's another thing to try - cutting down on portion sizes and not doing second helpings. Over the last few years, my weight had begun to climb again, even without sugar pop and trying to cutback on sweets. The difference turned out to be our eating habits with a toddler in the house. I often ended up eating extra portions when he didn't finish stuff off. Once I realized that may be the source of the extra calories, I stopped doing it, and instead I started focusing on how much I was eating at each meal. Over the last 9 months, I have managed to lose the extra weight I'd put on, just by reducing my portion sizes, and skipping second helpings, etc.
It will take mental discipline to stick to it. However, I found that once I started it became steadily easier to do it day by day. If you do have an off day, don't give up. It's actually not that hard to get back on track for the diet by making the effort.
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