What foods do you want to stay away from?

MoreLikeMe43

I think one of my biggest problems is eating at night. I will always get hungry because i'm a night owl and am up until around 12-1. But my problem is what I eat. I'll eat whatever is closest and easiest and that's normally candy,chips, and chocolate. Anyone have any tips on how I can beat these midnight munchies

This is a big one for me, too. Everyone's finally gone to bed and I finally have some uninterrupted quiet time for me...and I want to enjoy it with food. I've done okay (knock wood) by reserving some calories for the end of the day and making the snacks something like Laughing Cow Light with pretzels or crackers (counted out in the kitchen), maybe add cherry tomatoes or cucumbers...etc. Usually, a pretty little plate of something I really like is more satisfying than too much of something mindlessly eaten.

ryanna01

This is what I sometime try to do I will sometime cut up apples and munch on those but other times that just isn't what I want or I'm too lazy to go up to the kitchen ( my bedrooms in the basement )

neanderthin

JSkorna

I think one of my biggest problems is eating at night. I will always get hungry because i'm a night owl and am up until around 12-1. But my problem is what I eat. I'll eat whatever is closest and easiest and that's normally candy,chips, and chocolate. Anyone have any tips on how I can beat these midnight munchies

Don't have them in the house.

ryanna01

I think one of my biggest problems is eating at night. I will always get hungry because i'm a night owl and am up until around 12-1. But my problem is what I eat. I'll eat whatever is closest and easiest and that's normally candy,chips, and chocolate. Anyone have any tips on how I can beat these midnight munchies

If you eat anything that's closest to you... Well, put some carrots and green tea close to you!

Seriously, I can just sit there and munch on carrots all day. Similar for raw broccoli (although broccoli generally demands some sort of dip).

I just bought carrots actually so maybe I'll have to have a plate ready in case I get hungry and I can just grab them

naturallyme36

YOLO!!!!! enjoy food and enjoy life. try to only have what you need and move on. Birthdays, family functions, celebrations and friends will always be in the picture and you cannot run from any of these things or you will be miserable. Just learn to enjoy the things around you including your company and ask yourself , will I feel proud of myself when im finished with this? and take it from there. Fit food into your life, not the other way around. Hope this makes since to you.

herblackwings39

Eggs, fish, peas, and cottage cheese.

RoadsterGirlie

I have cut very few things out completely. However, I do not eat french fries, fast food in general, or sugar soda at all. They have no nutritional value, and I don't really want those things, so what's the point.

I might have a diet coke once a week.

RoadsterGirlie

Oh, and I have cut tomatoes out of my diet since I was born. I hate tomatoes. Yuck!!!

magerum

What foods do you want to stay away from?

poison mushrooms
blowfish
salmonella undercooked chickens

Good list

FedoraNinja

I can't eat Chex Mix in moderation. Like, it's just not something I've ever successfully done. I've gorged myself to sickness on that stuff in the past.

Since I don't feel particularly deprived by not having it, I simply choose not to buy any. There's no nutritionally redeeming qualities about Chex Mix anyway. :noway:

Otherwise, I haven't cut any foods out. You have to get used to measuring portions and only bringing the appropriate amount with you out of the kitchen. Don't ever bring the whole bag of chips or box of cookies or whatever.

JaimeLaRae

Ugh! I am a night eater too! The worst part is that it's usually after I've already gone to bed & wake up in the kitchen eating flour tortillas or white bread with margarine. :grumble: I also need to just make sure these things aren't in the house. Otherwise, I try to avoid fast food of any sort, processed foods, and sweets. I do enjoy cooking so when I have the time, it's not difficult to prepare a healthy meal for us. Good luck! Jaime

YoshiZelda

None.

taso42

undercooked/overcooked food
food that has fallen on a dirty floor
spoiled food
yucky food

AmyRhubarb

Cilantro - can't stand the stuff.

Mr_Excitement

Basically anything that tastes good or gives you any degree of pleasure should be nixed. Losing weight is an exercise in self-denial. You have to hate yourself enough that you enjoy denying yourself things.

Just kidding. Cut out the processed crap and soda. Diet soda is fine. Wine, beer, etc. should be a once-a-week thing, if that.

metacognition

It depends on your goals.

I avoid or reduce my intake of nitrates (processed lunch meat), simple sugars (except fruit), white flours, corn syrup, hydrogenated oil, butter, fatty meat, and red meat.

Of course I eat all of the above things, I just limit them.

DisneyAddictRW

I try not to "take away" anything . However I personally struggle with sweets. I find I keep it as a special treat or avoid it. I hope once I'm better at self control and making better choices it will be easier to allow sweets. I become a monster once I get my fingers on them so I stay away.

heywithers

I stay away from soda, fruit juice, noodles, anything bread related really except maybe a piece of toast in the morning, potatoes (very rarely), candy, pizza, burgers, hot dogs, chips, butter, alcohol

I was losing weight pretty steadily but now it has stopped it seems :frown:

The cravings get worse and worse every day and I feel like I am just going to lose it one day and eat all the food lol so yeah for some people moderation probably works best because there is less restriction but I am trying for faster results.

likitisplit

Okra is pretty nasty. Fuzzy on the outside and slimy on the inside.

ryanna01

Oh, and I have cut tomatoes out of my diet since I was born. I hate tomatoes. Yuck!!!

I hate tomatoes too :P

toimisaki

I really agree! I won't tell anyone else what to avoid, but I know that for me, I feel 100% better and look better too, when I stick with real food. No crap.
Whatever you decide to avoid...replace it with a healthy alternative!

It isn't really a will power issue at all, processed foods zap my energy and make me want to overeat. Good food makes me feel so much better. Lately I have cut out breads too, and replaced them with brown rice and oats. Not because they are bad, especially my beloved whole grain...but they trigger cravings in me somehow.

MFP helps me to keep track of calories and moderate all the GOOD foods I am eating. I go fairly high calorie, lots of nuts, avocado, coconut oil, veggies, fruit, eggs, tofu, etc etc. If I go too low calorie I lose control, and I want to keep my metabolism burning. If I go too high I won't lose. But it is really easy to keep the balance with a healthy diet. At 52 years old, losing weight this easily and feeling this good is a huge reward and incentive.

My MFP ticker is in kilos, but actually I have lost 30 pounds so far and it's FUN!

Good luck!!

Nicolee_2014

All in moderation but I try to stay away from white bread, white rice etc. It makes me feel bloated, never noticed until I started cutting it out.

jenilla1

...since I'm on a diet now...

Stop dieting. Diets are temporary. This needs to be a permanent lifestyle change. Don't eliminate your favorite foods. Just make sure you eat within your calorie goals and that you make healthy choices most of the time. :flowerforyou:

Thena81

i avoid all fried foods. no fast foods. ,except Subway if u count it lol > no potatoes, no rice nothing with white bleached flour, bacon, restaurant made/frozen pizza, let's see.. uhm.. anything horrible really

89nunu

I stay away from everything without a point. So I wouldn't eat anything that doesn't do anything for me. My food needs to be either full of nutrients or I have to love it. For example I don't like but also don't mind cottage cheese and cream (i know I'm weird), cottage cheese is good so I eat it cream isn't so I don't. Also crisps and chocolate, both very yummy and 'bad' I can live without crisps, so I do. I can't live without chocolate so I eat some pretty much every day (in moderation of course)

Staying away from certain foods because other people (as long as it's not your doctor) say so is not a good idea, eat what you can't live without and stay away from things that you don't care about and that doesn't do anything for you

The key is to really listen to yourself! Don't eat things because you think you should like it. Like cream on cake for example. I ate that for years... Until I noticed I like the cake better without (and it's less calories that way, so win win)

Jan3D

Brush your teeth after every meal and that toothpaste taste doesn't go with crap food. Get yourself some really good high cocoa chocolate and treat yourself to a small piece every night. Savor it.

Oishii

I only want to stay away from meat because I haven't eat it regularly since I became vegetarian when I was eleven. Since then, I added fish back in.

Unfortunately, as a pregnant woman, I have to keep away from anything that risks listeriosis, salmonella etc (soft cheese, raw eggs). Also, having just found out I probably have gestational diabetes, there will be a long list of foods to try to keep away from soon too.

tameejean

I think one of my biggest problems is eating at night. I will always get hungry because i'm a night owl and am up until around 12-1. But my problem is what I eat. I'll eat whatever is closest and easiest and that's normally candy,chips, and chocolate. Anyone have any tips on how I can beat these midnight munchies

My husband works the graveyard shift and I've had this same problem. What helps is a (roughly) 12 hour fast. My first "meal" of the day (pre-workout snack) is at 7:00 AM, so I stop eating at 7:00 PM. Sometimes I might be slightly over/under on the "fast" but I try to come close. Anyway, this has helped me to not "night binge" immensely. HTH!