Your Pantry and binge eating. Have you ever started a diet and step 1 is to throw out all the yummy food from your pantry?

1. Your Pantry and Binge Eating

2. Your Pantry and binge eating. Have you ever
started a diet and step 1 is to throw out all
the yummy food from your pantry? For
example, the Mayo Clinic Diet states to
throw out all sugary foods and drinks. This
because the author of the diet does not
want you to be tempted by these foods.

3. They know that these foods are too
tempting for you to have laying around
your home. So they say, step 1, throw
these yummy foods in the bin.

4. This clearing-out-the-pantry maneuver is
not helpful in your long term success. It
avoids the root cause of your struggle
with yummy go-to foods.

5. You should be able to follow any diet of
your choice regardless of the types of
foods around you.

6. Why removing yummy foods from your
pantry doesn’t make sense

7. First of all, others in your household may
not have a problem with yummy foods.
They will quickly get irked at your new-
found drive to stick to your diet of choice.
Others shouldn’t have to change their
diet in order for you to change your diet.

8. We live in a society that promotes yummy foods.
You will come in contact with these yummy foods
all day long. At grocery stores, at the office, and at
social events, you will find these yummy irresistible
foods. People will even bring them to your house!
Think of Christmas cookies, birthday treats, etc…
You need to be able to live comfortably with these
foods all around you without bingeing them.

9. Consider this…

10. An ex-smoker needs to be able to go to a
convenience store and resist buying a
pack of cigarettes.

11. You need to be able to have yummy food
in front of you and resist eating it.

12. Target the root cause, not your pantry

13. The correct answer to your pantry and
binge eating problem is to target the root
cause: binge eating.

14. If you have read the cornerstone articles
of this blog, you know that the root
problem is that your hunger drive is stuck
in the on position and never shuts off.
See why you binge eat for more
information.

15. Because your hunger drive won’t quit, you
find yummy foods extremely hard to
resist. You use all your willpower to resist,
but eventually, your willpower tank is
empty and you consume mass amounts
of yummy foods in your pantry.

16. To turn off your hunger drive, see my how
to stop binge eating article. Once you
have gained control of your hunger drive
again, it won’t matter what food is in your
pantry.