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“temptation” is now shortened to “YH” for you4huo4, referring to food made available by family members, rather than the stash I built up in Bayonne home.

3temptations=key challenge4BMI

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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 —

  1. family dinner — wrong time, wrong quantity
    • Living alone in Singapore, I face only the wrong-food temptation and I have better control.
  2. office free food — wrong food, wrong time. However, I could not go take a small chunk every 10 minutes.
  3. A /distant third/ is dining out, including street food and buffet

— 3 common “flavors/genres/species/varieties” of temptation

  1. wrong time — eating when not hungry. This is THE impactful temptation in terms of weight, BMI and calories.
  2. wrong quantity — keep eating when I should stop. The 2nd impactful temptation.
  3. 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.

 

 

#1 defense after losing control: bao3shan1

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In my vernacular/jargon, Bao3shan1 (宝山) means street-by-street defense.

  • slogan: When I lose grip I don’t Give Up control. I continue to exercise self-restraint under severe pressure.
  • slogan: damage control. At this very moment, some level of self-discipline can limit the calorie impact.
  • slogan: stop the bleeding

If you never lose a battle, then you are not struggling enough and your goal is not challenging enough, or you are very harsh and depriving yourself completely.

Losing control doesn’t always happen in a big binge… It could be a single chunk of creamy cake. It could be small as an egg tart but at the wrong time. Out of a thousand (healthy) adults, each will lose control and give in to food temptation once a while. What can we do? Avoiding temptation is always better, but we will face the temptation some day. Therefore, My strategy is mostly on damage-control. Here’s a vivid illustration of damage control —

On History channel, I watched a documentary about Second World War U-boat bunkers (https://www.historynet.com/frances-u-boat-bunkers-survived-the-war-and-thrive-today.htm). Huge Tallboy bombs were able to penetrate one layer but not another layer of the K3 bunker. This Tallboy vs K3 story parallels the bao3shan1 battle.

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## self-control levels@indulgence foods

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“Indulgence” foods are not equally unhealthy or equally addictive. Among the indulgence foods, subconsciously I assign a category on each. Looks like most of these foods are western.

— hard2resist, extreme temptation, esp. when offered free
brownie, chocolate cakes, cheesecake, birthday cakes — often available at huge quantity.
fancy bakery including pastry and cookies
ice cream

— hard2resist but ez2manage as portion control is easy, or for other reasons
Indian dessert
froyo
chocolate — easier portion control
onion rings — not so widely accessible

— ez2resist —
nuts
butter, cream cheese
croissant – butter-heavy
Singapore desserts
fancy pizza
fried chicken with skin

========Here are some delicious foods that aren’t so harmful:
avocado
milk-shake, yogurt drink
most non-fried fish
air-fried chips
edamame
roasted sweet potato
Old Beijing yogurt