Are there any foods that are banned in your head?

tbullucks2006

Even though I know I can have what I want in moderation, I have just banned some foods in my head all together. It's so weird because I seriously don't deprive myself of anything. However there are some foods that I heard along the way that were really bad so I don't touch them. For instance - pasta. I love love love pasta. With dieting though, I feel like i have committed a sin eating it. Even when I am not dieting I avoid Alfredo sauce because somewhere I've heard it's one of the worst things in life you can eat. I also no longer eat bagels for breakfast because I heard they are just empty calories for breakfast. The weird thing is that I eat all other kinds of crap foods just fine. Does anyone else do this or am I just crazy? Well I know I'm crazy but does anyone else do this????

singingflutelady

I have no banned foods except ones that trigger my illness

healthygreek

My only banned foods are foods I don't like.
Portion control is the key to losing.

Whitezombiegirl

No banned ones but definitely ones that are not enough bang for thier buck, calorie wise. Some things are so high in calories that i have a few options if i want them
1. Go over cals and accept it
2. Go over cals and make up through cutting back over the week or adding exercise. (or bit of both)
3. Stay within cals but cut way back on other food that day
4. Stay within cals and have a very tiny amount.

I havent had a good old cheese and onion pasty ( cheese, onion, mashed potato in flakey pastry case) in 18 months. Its about 800 cals for one! Not worth it imo.

oolou

No food has been banned in my head. I am actively abstaining from particular food that is both calorie dense and which I have trouble moderating, but if offered it outside my home, I would likely accept. For example, doughnuts. So, no doughnuts in my cupboard, but ... not banned per se.

vespiquenn

Nope, no banned foods here. I like eating too much to think of banning anything.

smiles4jo

I started this diet on January 6 and haven’t had fast food in all of 2016. So far, I’m down 50 lbs.

I know I could easily work my calories to include fast food. And I know it’s not great food health-wise, but I’ve certainly eaten worse since starting on this diet, so it’s not like I have the perfect diet. And I certainly don’t think any food is evil, by itself.

My issue is just that fast food is a slippery slope that has tripped me up in the past. It starts off with ordering the happy meal which fits perfectly in my calories and, before I know it, I’m at the Big Mac with large fries.

So, I’ve just chosen not to have fast food. There may come a time when I will have it again, but for now, I'm okay with this choice.

brilliantwords

I allow myself moderation of whatever I want as well, at least, this is the logic I follow so that I can maintain my loss so far, and HAVE so far for 7 years. This will allow a realistic approach for life. (IIFYM/If It Fits Your Macros).

However, my subconscious/guilt about pizza is something that still happens regardless. I have no idea why, I wish it didn't happen. It also happens with things like Kraft Dinner (prepackaged, crappy macros), even if it does in fact fit into my daily goal. Yet I'm totally fine logging some other crappy things.

Like I said, I logically know the difference from my personal experience with my own weight loss, so not sure why.

leejoyce31

oolou wrote: »

No food has been banned in my head. I am actively abstaining from particular food that is both calorie dense and which I have trouble moderating, but if offered it outside my home, I would likely accept. For example, doughnuts. So, no doughnuts in my cupboard, but ... not banned per se.

I am an abstainer because I am a horrible moderator. I haven't had a snickers bar in years because I would eat 6 at a time... Yes, 6 regular sized snicker bars. But I don't miss them at all. Once I decide to abstain, I move on. I can list several "treats" that are on my abstinence list but I won't bore anyone with the list.

AlabasterVerve

Turkey as a replacement for beef (ground, hamburgers, hotdogs, bacon etc.), brown rice, whole wheat whatever, quinoa, flax seeds, low fat, low sugar... the list goes on. Any "healthy" food or food products like that I shy away from. I fell for all of that healthy-this-healthy-that nonsense hook, line and sinker and feel foolish now eating any of that stuff.

Mentali

Sometimes I do struggle with those perceptions you're talking about - feeling guilty over eating something that seems unhealthy, even if you know it's not. It's not rational or rooted in facts, because I do eat unhealthier things but some things stick in my head, like burgers. Burgers are not bad! I know they're not bad! But every once in a while I have to remind myself that a burger is a fine meal because somewhere along the line my brain associated burgers with unhealthy. Logic usually prevails though

ashliedelgado

I don't buy any junk food at all, but that's because I have teenagers who have inhaled it before I can get it out of the car lol. Seriously, they will crumble oreos up in a bowl and eat them like cereal.

MiamiSeoul

I also eat what I want but I also find certain foods, like gateway drugs for some, a slope I choose not to scale. I didn't have a slice of pizza last night at my son's program because I'm not sure I could have stopped at one - although I had lots of room in my calorie allowance. Same holds true for cigarettes - can't have just one, so I don't indulge.

oolou

In addition, I don't think you're crazy. I think we are given so much information about food and diets and what is considered healthy by some and then opposite advice by others that at some point we take on opinions about food which may not necessarily be true, but which have been repeated and reinforced so often by others who have particular angles to work, that it's there in our heads.

Lazz5k

i dont think you're crazy. i have banned foods in my head too but they really make no sense. I.E. Baked potatoes, too many carbs! ; but then i'll order french fries with my steak. Like i said, it makes no sense! it's just in my head.

jeebieheebies

Store-bought muffins, and chocolate shell sauce, and battered deep-fried stuff! I don't love anything with that deep-fried batter so it isn't worth it to just munch on onion rings or whatever because they're there. Muffins because again, don't LOVE them, and also because I can make them at home and have em be way healthier and a smaller size, and they're like 600 calories at the store. And chocolate shell because my aunt used to talk about how junky it was and it just stuck with me and now I have a "health aversion" to it, all the time, not just when being health-conscious!


And not sure why @AlabasterVerve you think quinoa or flax seeds are unhealthy/gimmicky, or why you regret eating them. They are both very nutritious, and flax seeds aren't any higher in calorie than any other seed or nut. They're also both tasty and really versatile. You can look up the nutrition of them specifically if you want to be educated instead of just blindly following fads like you say you used to. No need to feel foolish!

richardgavel

Close to banned because it usually isn't worth the calories are fast food and pizza (though I make my own burgers and fries and pizza with better ingredients cooking and portions).

chunky_pinup

Only what I'm allergic to.

malibu927

Nope. If I ban something, that'll only make me want to binge eat it at some point. Now there are things I have cut out (fries from most fast food places, regular soda) to save calories, but I'm not missing them at all.

kgirlhart

The only banned foods for me are foods that I don't like. I don't care how "good for you" something is, if I don't like it I won't eat it. And even though I used to think that I could never eat certain foods in moderation, I have learned that I can eat them in moderation, so I do.

aloranger7708

I don't ban any foods, HOWEVER, there are some foods with such a high calorie amount that I can't justify eating it. Not worth it IMO