Chocolate is good for you, ask any doctor.

a craft beer & a shot of V.O. (canadian whiskey).

WIth regard to food, if I eat poorly, I feel bad. I prefer to feel good. So on balance, it isn't that hard. I am not perfect but do OK.

Two words.
Jail sucks.

Oh wait, you were talking about food.
Well, since I'm allergic to almonds, that's not an option.

Usually, I will either just say "no", or I will indulge my impulses.
Life is too short for me to deny myself what I want.
Self-denial is a waste of my time. I don't believe in it.

The fact that you can realize and articulate your thought processes and rationalizations means you are farther down the road than most travellers. Keep going!

Whether or not my bank account is in the double digits.

Satisfaction.

I am an impulse shopper...my sister and I used to compare notes on who had the most "seen on tv" things in our house ready to be given away once we realized they were pretty useless...I stopped watching commercial tv...

But then, I got sucked into FB ads...stopped going to FB...

I rarely go to retail stores anymore but when I do, I have to go with a specific list...

I let myself go at the Dollar Tree...everything is a $1...as I walk out with six bags...

I'm an emotional eater, so this is a big deal for me. I really have to stop and figure out why I want to eat something, and this isn't easy. Many times it's an automatic impulse to stress and really not so much because I'm physically hungry.

I'm mostly with you on this topic. I don't have a lot of impulse control issues but the ones I do have are around food. It is better not to even get started.

In a way, it's easier now because I'm to the point that anything I enjoy is forbidden for health reasons, so I don't even bother to look forward to eating. Anymore, I do it to keep from sugar crashing or starving, not as a form of entertainment or comfort. My relationship with food has always been complicated, now it is just functional. Better that way.

Lucky for me, my other family members are similarly constrained for various reasons, and we're all working out with the same personal trainer too. The family that suffers together, stays together. Or something like that. At least we're not tempting each other.

A tad severe. Make the cookies, exhibit some self control, you'll be proud of yourself.

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
—Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

For me, it's an all-or-nothing prospect. It's relatively easy to give myself strict boundaries that I shan't cross; moderation is much harder because I have to be far more mindful of my indulgences. For example, I tried many years ago to significantly cut back on meat consumption but found that it was difficult to keep in mind just how often I was eating meat. Before long, I was back to eating meat nearly every day. About 16 or 17 years ago I decided to get serious and became a vegetarian, and I've stuck with it ever since.

Vanilla ice cream sprinkled with chocolate chips and smothered with peanuts or walnuts...I've tried to stop myself...but it's hopeless.

I am fortunate to have the self control that minimizes impulses. I also have no issues with addictions of any kind. I have a hunch that my higher Choline levels not only help to protect me from addictions , but may also have played a role in my attitude towards religion.

I will see this as an invite to help eat cookies and gain weight. Kate makes oatmeal cookies and I figure I can eat all I want if I eat them for breakfast, just like a bowl of oatmeal, right. Now about the invite, be sure you have milk for the cookies.

Training, experience, as in having learned what to avoid. I’ve likely no more self control than most, so just ..avoid trouble. It’s like that tiny buzz of pride after having shown some restraint, then magnifying it with larger decisions.

Also, was over-disciplined as a child, so carry an additional level of discipline as an adult, too

So your brother has no impulse control.

I hate to say this but growing up Catholic we always had to do things like no meat on Fridays. From an early age I saw this as a way of exercising ones self-control muscles. I still, occasionally put challenges before me to work this muscle.
Remember the experiment where children are left in a room with a marshmallow and told not to eat it and later they would get 2? Funny to watch videos of the kids trying to resist.

You know, you can make the cookie dough and freeze it so when you want a cookie you just pull a single ball of dough out and bake it off.

A bed too comfortable to get out of

Electric shock therapy lol.

Out of sight out of mind is the only thing that works for me. If it's in front of me I have no control..........

Wish I had that much control,I might be able to contain the diabetes which is making life very difficult.

I used to be a sweerahoolic, Nt first wife would make a lemon pound cake and I would snarf down half of it in one day. Once I developed diabetes and understood what the disease could do to me. That all changed, but regretfully. I thought, "Damn, think of all the good stuff I have to give up."For the last 35 years, the only sweets that I eat are whole fruit without any sugar.

Thanks for the tip on the almonds. That's a pretty easy way to keep a nibbler handy when on the run.