Behavior Modification

Habits, good and bad, are formed by repetition. Eating habits are no exception. If you are in the habit of snacking when you watch TV, you were reinforcing that habit until finally it became a part of you. Other habits are formed in the same way. Some of these habits could be: eating while reading, eating the minute you come in the house, eating when the kids come in from school, or eating while cooking dinner.

We also find that certain moods such as anger, boredom, loneliness, happiness, nervousness cause us to eat even if we are not hungry. The list is endless. Habits are hard to break. We must not only break old habits, but we must make our goal to form new ones in the same manner through repetition. Make some daily commitments. Work to meet these commitments each day whether you feel like it or not.

Resisting temptation is difficult. However, if you succeed in resisting the first time, it becomes easier to resist the next time.  In a way, eating is like an addiction to cigarettes… there’s two parts to the addiction, one is the physical addition (the habit of eating) and the other is the chemical dependency which would be like the hunger or cravings.  R&D Diet Cookie can take care of the hunger and cravings but you still have to work on the habit of eating.

Try substituting another activity for between meal snacking. If you are in the habit of going straight to the kitchen and eating every time you walk in the house, try to change this habit by going to another room of the house when you come home. Better yet, eat an R&D Diet Cookie on your way home.  It will take away away your hunger so you can break the habit of automatically eating when you get home.  

When you are tempted to eat, try to use one of the following substitute activities:

FIRST... eat an R&D Diet Cookie and then:
Take a walk
Take a long bath
Call a friend
Get out of the house
Write a letter
Read a book

Or busy yourself with a hobby such as:

Painting
Floral arranging
Ceramics
Wood working
Gardening
Genealogical research
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