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Alright, first off get rid of any of the stuff you have. Lock it away...what have you. Out of sight, out of mind. Put it somewhere where it's a real effort to get to.

This will make you think twice before getting it.

If it's gotten rid of completely and you really want something, walk to go get it. If you don't want to work for it, then you don't really want it that bad.

If you do finally get something and you feel it might not be the best choice, imagine it hanging off of your body.

These tricks will help train your mind.

As for healthy alternatives, what do you like to eat?

What junk do you like to eat?

Well, no, I think the first thing is to understand that a PARENT telling their anywhere near average-weighted child that they will get fat is THEIR problem, not YOURS. For them to be concerned with your health is one thing, to be concerned with how you look is a completely different situation.


Anyone knows that eating junk food every day isn't very healthy, but it isn't necessarily because of what is in it, but how it was altered to be in it.

A cocoa bean is not unhealthy, but an average chocolate bar has almost no actual cocoa-derived ingredients in it (getting worse now, since the plants are all dying off so they are cutting back on using it even more), it is mostly loaded with highly processed white sugar and milk products. If you have a piece of a high quality dark chocolate bar with less processed other ingredients, even daily, that is not going to have the same effect on your health as a Hershey or Cadbury.
(donuts will be bad for you no matter what, they are fried in oil razz )


In the end you have 2 options, give up anything that tastes sweet, or replace it with something delicious and more health-conscious.



As far as fries go, you can make those yourself in the oven, pretty much the exact same, but significantly less oil. There are recipes online, but essentially you cut up a potato into fry-shapes, put a tablespoon or so of oil with them, stir it up, and add seasonings. Oil and salt aren't bad for you unless you use too much, so simply controlling how much of it is in them will help.
Oh, and Yam/Sweet Potato fries are great too, and they have different vitamins and stuff.
That would be the easiest one to replace IMO, since it is a quick task and there are even instructions available for mass producing and then freezing them so you have them ready when you have a craving and have want to choose between homemade and packaged. When homemade takes the same amount of time as packaged, it is easier to make that choice smile

I reccommend having a break from all sugary things including fruit, lots of sauce, juice etc. for atleast a week, then eat the fruit. My mother and I went on this no sugar thing. Where we only allowed ourselves a certain amount of fructose daily. We also used alternative sweetners when we were craving (though you need to wait until you haven't had suger for a while otherwise it'll taste bland) We kind of went back to heaps of suger but are planning to go back, as we were healthier and felt great without suger.

But finding healthy alternatives to foods you like help. If I'm badly craving a cinnamon donut, then I might just settle for some buttered toast with cinnamon sprinkled on top. (You might add a small amount of sugar or sweetener).

Today I wanted those mexicana corn chips. I could easily eat the whole bag. Instead I got a roll, put some lettuce on it, and some finely chopped capsicum and sweet chilli sauce that gave it a nice mexican flavour, just like the corn chips.

And if your not really hungry but just craving, try and do something productive. Go for a walk or a bike ride or something to take your mind off it. Have a drink of water to fill your stomach. Personally I sometimes find that I'm not hungry, but just want to chew on something nice. Sugar free gum could help with that, unfortunately for me, I have braces and the gum would take forever for me to get out sweatdrop

i think salad can replace chips, like chips are the same size and can also be placed into a bowl to munch on lol.

Also you can make fruit smoothies with no added sugar to replace your sugar snack.

I think its better to ween yourself off of a bad diet rather than just jump into something new, like same with quitting cigarettes or videogames or bad habits or anything you need to replace it with a good habit, while slowly reducing the amount of it til you can go on without it.