3 Brainy Tricks to Avoid Junk Food
It is NOT completely your fault. You want to control your junk eating, but there are so many of those factors, which I introduced you to in my last story, that work behind your complicated brain and your actions. So, one thing is clear that there’s no point going in the abysmal guilt trips what-so-ever, more so because those trips take you even farther from achieving your goals. It is like riding in the opposite direction to where you wanted to go.
Now that we know how to turn the wheels back on track, let’s get to know how we can further move towards our goal in focus. Here I am going to uncover a few simple ways to trick our complicated brains into helping us achieve our goal and stay away from the unhealthy munching.
Trick#1: Don’t Quit it, Limit it
“Dil toh baccha hai ji” as they say or the stubborn mind as we talked about as a reason in the last story, pushes you even closer to the thing that you want to quit. The reason is that your brain knows that you are asking it to “not do it at all” and that makes it anxious. A tide of emotions arises as you start imagining how difficult it is to not do it at all. And that’s why it becomes even more difficult to make it happen.
So, the way to tame your brain is to tell it that you are not quitting; you are just limiting it. You can still have it whenever you have to. You will just be controlling the frequency and proportion, that’s it.
Once you train your mind with this thought, you will automatically see that you do not have the urges as you did when you wanted to quit.
Trick#2: Don’t Skip Your Meals
Whenever we skip our meals, we tend to feel hungry later naturally. At that time, we give ourselves excuses that it isn’t a good time now to have a main meal, so we might as well compensate it with a little bit of junk food for now. But, if you did not skip your meal in the first place somehow, you would not have created another opportunity for yourself to consume junk.
Trick#3: Use Human Inherent Lazy Nature
If you have easy, instant, quick access to your junk packets, you are a lot more probable to have them when compared to the situation when you have to work harder to get them. It is because we humans have a tendency to be lazy in situations like those, and guess what? We can turn that laziness to help us achieve our goal in this case. Here are a few ways you can do that:
3.1: Stock Less
Imagine you are feeling like eating some chocolate flavor cookies, but you don’t have that particular flavor at your home right now, would you run to the market to buy and have it right away? Not always. So, you have tricked yourself into not having it at that time.
In fact, even if you had some other junk food packets, your brain would want to “reserve” them for later when you “really” feel like having them.
3.2: The Top Shelf
You could keep your junk food on a higher shelf, farther cabinet, or somewhere where it is not a super easy thing for you to snap them.
3.3: Family Packs
Buy smaller packs instead of buying family packs. If that is all you have at the moment, your brain will get content with the taste and quantity it has consumed.
3.4: Small Bowl
Sometimes we don’t get smaller packs, what works in that situation is to pour out some content from the big pack into a smaller bowl, so that you do not end up finishing the pack before you know it.
All the above tricks seem simple and that is why they are so effective. Each one of them can help us get a step closer to our goal of eating clean. I would be happiest if any/all of these tricks help you control your junk eating even a bit, so do let me know what you think about this story in the comments below.
As we say it’s all in our minds, but the thing that we do not say as often is that it is a matter of training our minds consciously. And there are always ways to make that happen.
Keep reading and following my stories for more of those ways and tricks. Until next time…
