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"&amp;quot;How long does it take to change a habit?&amp;quot;&amp;#8212;that&amp;#39;s what I put into the Google bar today, wondering how long it&amp;#39;d take before I really don&amp;#39;t crave frozen yogurt or ice cream for dessert. Remember my 30-day challenge to give up the fro yo I was eating on a nightly basis? I was shocked when I checked the calendar today&amp;#8212;I&amp;#39;m just one week away from the finish line and I haven&amp;#39;t cheated once. The first week, I couldn&amp;#39;t stop thinking about it. I&amp;#39;d walk by the shop and look in, drooling over the cones, wondering what flavors they had, and I could practically taste the carob chips melting over the almond butter and chocolate swirl. But I just kept walking. Somewhere between week 1 and today, I&amp;#39;ve *almost *forgotten about it altogether. Almost. Sure, I&amp;#39;ve had moments of temptation (like at the airport on Tuesday when my flight was delayed for about 4 hours) but in general, I do not obsess over having it&amp;#8212;or not being able to have it&amp;#8212;like I did in the beginning. I think part of the reason for this is that I didn&amp;#39;t cut dessert out of my life, I just replaced it with a more portion-controlled sweet snack, and I don&amp;#39;t have the same exact dessert every night so that I don&amp;#39;t develop yet another food addiction. One of my favorite nighttime desserts lately has been a biscotti from Starbucks (random, I know, but just 150 calories) with a side of fruit&amp;#8212;I&amp;#39;m on a strawberries and Fuji apple kick.\nAnyway, my google search today led me to an excerpt from a book called Eat More, Weigh Less. Sounds like my kind of book! And here&amp;#39;s the passage I found really interesting:\n*&amp;quot;If you change from whole milk to skim milk, the skim milk may taste too watery at first, but after a few weeks it tastes just fine. If you then drink whole milk, it may taste like cream, too rich, because your palate has adjusted to the skim milk. However, if you always drink some whole milk and some skim milk, then your palate never has a chance to make that shift, so the skim milk will always taste too watery... Comprehensive changes can be stressful at first, exactly because they disrupt your old patterns and habits. In the long run, though, it&amp;#39;s easier to maintain adherence to big changes precisely because they take you out of your old habits and help you form new ones.&amp;quot;*I think this is so true, at least in my experience. When I cut diet soda out of my diet, I didn&amp;#39;t limit it to one or two a week&amp;#8212;I quit cold-turkey and switched to flavored seltzer. Now, I honestly cannot drink diet coke&amp;#8212;unless I&amp;#39;m having a rare craving for a piece of chocolate and a diet coke (the two things just go together for me), nothing about the taste appeals to me any longer. And when it comes to my frozen yogurt hiatus, I definitely think the same applies: I know I can&amp;#39;t have it once or twice a week because that would just make me want to have it all the time. I wish I could have everything in moderation, but I know that ice cream is a trigger food for me: If I don&amp;#39;t stay away, I&amp;#39;m going to want it every single night.\nWhat do you guys think about all of this? Do you find it&amp;#39;s easier to give something up completely or to eat it in moderation? What works for you? And is there anything that you really *can&amp;#39;t *have just a little bit of?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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