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I don't know about Trader Joe's bags of nuts but trail mixes usually contain
quite a bit of sugar. Could it be sugar that's triggering you and not the
nuts?

You might want to try adding some nuts to plain yogurt. Fewer nuts, not so
boring yogurt.

Put them in a single serving dish or container.  Never allow multiple
servings to be within arms reach.

Things like this also typically happen when you're not doing anything
productive.  Maybe productive isn't the right word but I mean things
like sitting in front of a TV or computer.  Try finding something that
keeps you less stationary and you might not keep returning to the bowl.

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Cookies, cookies and cookies.  I make a batch of Applesauce Bran & Flax
Muffins (with Fiber One) every week and keep them in the freezer.  When I
crave something sweet, I pop one into the microwave to warm, and then eat it
very slowly.

I just don't buy the nuts, other than walnuts that I keep on hand for
cooking and salads.  I keep those in the freezer, so the aren't readily
accessible.  Like you, I would down an entire can of peanuts if I had it
sitting near me.  Instead, if I desire something crunchy just for munching
on, I have 1/4 to 1/2 cup Fiber One cereal, dry, with a cup of tea.  That
stuff takes a long time to eat, but it's very filling.  Occasionally I do
crave salty, so I'll have a mini bag of the reduced fat microwave popcorn.

Actually, I find I don't have many cravings when I eat a well balanced diet
of a variety of foods for 3 meals and two snacks a day.  I guess my body is
getting the nourishment it desires.  I find it's even easy to pass up the
dessert table when eating at a buffet now.

itzme
195/176.5/145

Ruffles With Ridges!  That's about the only thing where having a few doesn't
work and never did.  I'll eat the whole bag.  I don't buy them anymore.  My
husband, a big snacker, keeps his snacks hidden in his office.  I have no
idea what he has back there.  He's not overweight.

LW
Re-Start - 7/5/06 - 170lbs
Today - 156 lbs
Goal - 130 lbs
Height: 5'6" Age: 61
Don't worry about what people think,
they don't do it very often.
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My triggers at various levels are: wheat, fake candy with sugar
alcohols,
peanuts or cashews, and Fritos.

For wheat there isn't any negotiation.  I have outright addictive
behavior
and if I try anything other than avoidance I'm screwed.  I also get an
assortment of ill effect from indigestion on from exposure.  Doesn't
matter that I like wheat or want wheat, it is important for me to view
it
as poison and avoid it.  Any sort of "nothing is forbidden" plan that
allows me to eat my favorite foods would be a disaster for me.  I have
no choice but avoidance and so I have taken an attitude that wheat is
poisonous therefore bad.  The good news - After 4+ years of fastidious
avoidance I've gotten to the point where a bowl of cream-of-whatever
soup that has a little flour in it only causes mild indigestion, scalp
sweating and so on now.

For fake candy with sugar alcohols, my approach is also mental.  I
understand that fake candy is candy and that candy is fattening.
Being "sugar free" doesn't magically convert it from bad to good.  If
I'm going to cheat, screw that fake stuff.  And candy is cheating for
me.

For peanuts or cashews, Ive tested other types of beans and nuts and
discovered there are types I can eat without problems.  I can have
beans
and other types of peas.  Bizzarely I can have a bit of peanut butter
as
long as I get a spoon of it, close the cover, put the jar away, close
the
door, all before tasting the peanut butter.  Still, I try not to do
that more
than weekly.  I've also tested types of nuts other than cashews and
most
aren't a problem for me.  There's a container of filberts in my desk
now
for when I need to work nights and have a snack.

For Fritos I keep reminding myself they are junk food, that they are
fattening, that they are poisonous.  That mental approach can work
for months on end.  I almost wish I'd get ill effects like wheat from
corn ...

Nuts are quite bad for me too.  I wouldn't exactly say a trigger food but
it's so easy to overdo them.  I only buy them for treats now.  Finding out
there were 48 calories in a walnut was a big enough shock!!