Is changing your eating habits similar to quitting smoking, or breaking any other habit? Would you care to share your tips with us?

What worked / works for you?

I am about sick of myself! I’ve gained quite a bit of weight simply because I’m not doing as much as I have in the past. I’m going to lose this weight, damnit, so, for the second time in my life, I am readjusting my eating habits again, keeping in mind that any changes I make will be lifetime changes, not temporary changes.

Having done this before I am very familiar with what needs to be done. I have a casual list in my head of what’s OK to eat and what isn’t.
Yesterday, though, Rick made orange glazed cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Oh man! Cinnamon rolls are not on my casual list of what’s OK to eat! Not at this point, anyway.
So I started doing Something Else. Anything Else, until the smell dissipated from the house. I ate a piece of celery with cream cheese, to take the edge off my hunger to help combat the desire for a SWEET CINNAMON ROLL DRIPPING WITH BUTTER AND ORANGE ICING and a HUGE glass of ICE COLD MILK!!

Then I went upstairs to deep clean the bathroom up there. I could not smell the cinnamon through the bleach.

Then I got some Diet Coke, because the caffeine helps reduce the hunger you feel.

When I saw Rick had taken all the rolls he wanted I threw a tea rag over them so I couldn’t see them.

After about an hour that battle was over, the smell was gone from the house and my hunger was under control.

Having quit smoking in March, I was struck by how similar the will power was. Just. Walk. Away. The difference is the urge to smoke lasts a few minutes. The urge to eat was a different kind of urge and it did not want to subside. But it finally did. And each day it gets easier.
So what worked, really worked for you?