Shock Opener — 95 to 99% of the time when I feel the temptation, there is no homeostatic hunger… See fullness^availability: hunger
In my analysis since my teenage years, Temptation is the eve-growing focus for many years and there’s no easy solution. I have identified two common scenarios of recurring temptations —
- family dinner — wrong time, wrong quantity
- Living alone in Singapore, I face only the wrong-food temptation and I have better control.
- office free food — wrong food, wrong time. However, I could not go take a small chunk every 10 minutes.
- A /distant third/ is dining out, including street food and buffet
— 3 common “flavors/genres/species/varieties” of temptation
- wrong time — eating when not hungry. This is THE impactful temptation in terms of weight, BMI and calories.
- wrong quantity — keep eating when I should stop. The 2nd impactful temptation.
- wrong food — high-calorie and low nutritional quality.. This is the most common meaning of “temptation”, but in my case not the most impactful temptation.
Availability i.e. WrongTime seems to be the biggest of the three. See availability=#1 temptation. When I face these temptations, how recently how much I just ate doesn’t matter. Instead, Availability is the main factor. Mental Stress is another key, but much less frequent.
Nowadays. I try to stay away from family during family dinner time, fending off the wrong-time and wrong-quantity temptations.