Do you ever want to want to eat something "bad"?

NiqueKristan
NiqueKristan Posts: 152 Member
edited November 18 in Health and Weight Loss
Going through the "wanting to want cookies".... And other junk. Not hungry, eating healthy and I'm not craving anything, but I want to want something bad! Why? :(
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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    If you're restricting yourself too much, that can lead to you craving and then going overboard. It's best not to think of foods as "good" or "bad" and work a small treat into your calories as you can allow.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    No such thing as "bad" food. If you want a cookie and have calories left over, go for it.
  • cmcdonald525
    cmcdonald525 Posts: 140 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    If you're restricting yourself too much, that can lead to you craving and then going overboard. It's best not to think of foods as "good" or "bad" and work a small treat into your calories as you can allow.

    +1
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I wanted some ice cream today, yesterday, thursday, and wednesday so I made some fit into my calories.

    I'd be miserable if I completely cut my sweets out of my life so I don't.
  • NiqueKristan
    NiqueKristan Posts: 152 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    No such thing as "bad" food. If you want a cookie and have calories left over, go for it.
    malibu927 wrote: »
    If you're restricting yourself too much, that can lead to you craving and then going overboard. It's best not to think of foods as "good" or "bad" and work a small treat into your calories as you can allow.
    I'm not depriving myself, and if I wanted a cookie, I'd have one. I WANT to want one , as odd as that sounds.

  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    I think all food is good! Except oatmeal and kale (and not not together).. everything else welcome.
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  • Sarasmaintaining
    Sarasmaintaining Posts: 1,027 Member
    UltimateRBF wrote: »
    See, when someone says "do you want to do something bad" on a Saturday night I tend to think it's about something other than eating a cookie.
    Which isn't bad at all.

    Yeah, this thread is not at all what I was expecting.... :p
  • NiqueKristan
    NiqueKristan Posts: 152 Member
    UltimateRBF wrote: »
    See, when someone says "do you want to do something bad" on a Saturday night I tend to think it's about something other than eating a cookie.
    Which isn't bad at all.

    LOL
  • Arliah
    Arliah Posts: 266 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    If you're restricting yourself too much, that can lead to you craving and then going overboard. It's best not to think of foods as "good" or "bad" and work a small treat into your calories as you can allow.
    ^^ This.
  • Arliah
    Arliah Posts: 266 Member
    gia07 wrote: »
    I think all food is good! Except oatmeal and kale (and not not together).. everything else welcome.
    What, no oatmeal-kale pancake for you? :smile:
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    edited May 2015
    NiqueKristan wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    No such thing as "bad" food. If you want a cookie and have calories left over, go for it.
    malibu927 wrote: »
    If you're restricting yourself too much, that can lead to you craving and then going overboard. It's best not to think of foods as "good" or "bad" and work a small treat into your calories as you can allow.
    I'm not depriving myself, and if I wanted a cookie, I'd have one. I WANT to want one , as odd as that sounds.
    I guess I feel this whenever something brings over food I don't like, such as Whataburger.

    edit: I just thought of a good example- Thanksgiving. I hate Thanksgiving turkey, I hate cranberry sauce (cranberries in general tbh), and I hate pecan pie.

    I wish I enjoyed them just because there's so much of it during the holiday.
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  • krennie8
    krennie8 Posts: 301 Member
    if you're just "wanting to want something", that's all emotional, imho (which I totally get!!)
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  • macgurlnet
    macgurlnet Posts: 1,946 Member
    I'm gonna encourage you to redefine "bad."

    Bad could be a food that causes issues - has a negative effect on your health in some way.

    Bad could also be a food that you have trouble eating a reasonable portion of. For me, that's Pringles or Milano cookies. I will inhale a tube of Pringles with barely a thought. I can eat the bag of Milanos in the same way. So they're not foods I bring in my house (though I have recently picked up single-serve packs of Pringles, since I can tell myself "just one pack" and stick to that).

    Having a cookie or ice cream or pizza isn't bad. Eating nothing but those things could be.

    If you have the calories for the cookie, eat the cookie! Enjoy it. Make sure it's something you find tasty :)

    ~Lyssa
  • ObiWanJacoby_
    ObiWanJacoby_ Posts: 56 Member
    edited May 2015
    How long have you been dieting for and how much weight have you lost? When you diet for a extended period of time your bodies metabolism will slow down as it believes it's beginning to go into starvation mode. It no longer burns as many calories at rest than it did before. So introducing a re-feed day is common and recommend if you've lost a lot of weight, or having been dieting for a extended period of time. This causes us to have a heightened want and extreme cravings for food. So giving your body more carbs one day will help your body realize that what you're doing on is in fact on purpose and not because you are starving.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I don't understand wanting to want something. I either want it or I don't.
  • QuilterInVA
    QuilterInVA Posts: 672 Member
    Food is not good or bad. You need to get over that mentality. I eat no processed foods, sweets or salty foods. After the first week, I've never wanted them again (over 3 years now). When I did taste them, they tasted terrible.
  • forgtmenot
    forgtmenot Posts: 860 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    I don't understand wanting to want something. I either want it or I don't.


    this^
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  • hgycta
    hgycta Posts: 3,013 Member
    Have you cut back too much on sugar or any other nutrient? Perhaps you're deficient (I know magnesium and iron deficiencies are common which could make you crave chocolate, for instance) in something!
  • barryplumber
    barryplumber Posts: 401 Member
    There is an easy way to have these things you want it calls excersise, just burn enough extra to accommodate your cookies then enough
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    Guess I do not understand the problem. Are you perhaps concerned your taste buds have walked out on you?
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    I don't understand wanting to want something. I either want it or I don't.

    Maybe this is a humblebrag? :huh:
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    I get that way sometimes, usually with foods that I don't like. I want to drink a beer and chill, or have a small pulled pork poutine from Smoke's.
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    No such thing as "bad" food. If you want a cookie and have calories left over, go for it.

    Absolutely!!

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    macgurlnet wrote: »
    If you have the calories for the cookie, eat the cookie! Enjoy it. Make sure it's something you find tasty :)

    ~Lyssa

    One of the things that has changed for me since being here at MFP is that I think about what I'm eating much more than I used to. So if I have some extra calories to use, I want to use them on something I will really enjoy.

    Last night I thought I wanted one Anzac biscuit, but when I looked at them ... I changed my mind, they just weren't good enough for me to waste calorie on.

  • marcelo_templario
    marcelo_templario Posts: 653 Member
    If you gonna have bad food then have it for real, the way it makes you fill full, for instance, sometimes when I am craving for unhealthy food, I skip breakfast and have a huge hamburger with 2 large cups of coffee. Then I am ok, but picking here and there is not good, better to have extra calories, or an extra portion of good food like cereal or oats than an insignificant quantity of chips or cookies.
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