Anyone else feel guily eating something fried?

rikkejanell2014

Even when you're still under goal? I had 800 cals left and i was tired. So i went to Chick-fil-A and got the fried chicken
Sandwich which was 440 cals. Idk why i feel guilty but i do. Anyone else?

jcraig10

Nope. I went to chik fil a today also...opted for the 8 count nugget though. If it fits in your goal and you don't overdo it and eat it every meal every day, don't feel bad about it!

CafeRacer808

Nope. I had chicken karaage (Japanese fried chicken) for lunch today and I loved every second of it.

try2again

I can't each much in the way of fried food because I don't digest it very well, but I love a good fried chicken sandwich once in a while! Never even occurred to me to feel guilty about it, and you shouldn't either. In fact, as long as you had the calories, you should have had fries, too.

pebble4321

Nope. My breakfast on the weekend was a chive pancake with fried chicken, fried egg and chilli sauce. I enjoyed every bit of it, but that is not my everyday breakfast.

Fried stuff is going to be higher in cals that roast or grilled but if you have the calories left in your daily goal AND you have eaten a variety of other foods that give you good nutrition, then you are good to go.
If all you'd had for breakfast was a donut and then you filled the rest of your calories with fried chicken then you would not be getting much nutrition for the day. Which wouldn't be the end of the world if it was one day, but if this happened every day it wouldn't be great.

As to why you feel guilty... no doubt it's because many of us grew up hearing "fat is bad", "fat makes you fat" whereas in reality, fat is just one component of what we eat and as long as you have a good balance across different macros (which will be different for different people) and are getting enough nutrition to keep you healthy then there is no problem with one meal being higher in fat.

dragon_girl26

Nope, though if I eat too much of it, it kinda makes me feel like crap. I don't eat a lot of fried foods to begin with (except for the past few days), and they settle very heavily in my stomach.
If something fits in my calorie goal and I want it, though, guilt doesn't even enter my mind. I save the guilt for things that really matter, like forgetting someone's birthday.

Chef_Barbell

Food never makes me feel guilty. It's just food. Log it and move on.

bbell1985

Under goal? No. I don't feel guilty. I feel a little upset mostly that it's not very much food for high calories and that I probably can't have dessert anymore.

JeromeBarry1

Does stir-fried count? Every dinner I had for most of a year was stir-fried. I lost a lot of weight doing that. This morning I had a slice of fried bacon on an egg sandwich. Protein is good. I poured the fat into a jar for my daughter to make soap.

CafeRacer808

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

Does stir-fried count? Every dinner I had for most of a year was stir-fried. I lost a lot of weight doing that. This morning I had a slice of fried bacon on an egg sandwich. Protein is good. I poured the fat into a jar for my daughter to make soap.

I make soap from time to time, but I never thought to use bacon fat. I usually save it for cooking, but saponifying it is a great idea!

rileysowner

rikkejanell2014 wrote: »

Even when you're still under goal? I had 800 cals left and i was tired. So i went to Chick-fil-A and got the fried chicken
Sandwich which was 440 cals. Idk why i feel guilty but i do. Anyone else?

Nope.

Chef_Barbell

CafeRacer808 wrote: »

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

Does stir-fried count? Every dinner I had for most of a year was stir-fried. I lost a lot of weight doing that. This morning I had a slice of fried bacon on an egg sandwich. Protein is good. I poured the fat into a jar for my daughter to make soap.

I make soap from time to time, but I never thought to use bacon fat. I usually save it for cooking, but saponifying it is a great idea!

Only if I can eat the soap. :laugh:

ETA- Does that make it part of a clean diet?

CafeRacer808

Chef_Barbell wrote: »

CafeRacer808 wrote: »

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

Does stir-fried count? Every dinner I had for most of a year was stir-fried. I lost a lot of weight doing that. This morning I had a slice of fried bacon on an egg sandwich. Protein is good. I poured the fat into a jar for my daughter to make soap.

I make soap from time to time, but I never thought to use bacon fat. I usually save it for cooking, but saponifying it is a great idea!

Only if I can eat the soap. :laugh:

ETA- Does that make it part of a clean diet?

I don't know if it's part of a clean diet, but eating soap will certainly clean you out!

leanjogreen18

When it comes to food I no longer feel guilty about anything.

caitlinhicken

I know how you feel, and it sucks. It took me while to feel "ok" with eating something "bad" just because I felt like it, or because I was tired or not in the mood to cook. You should never feel guilt when it comes to food, it makes it more and more difficult to have a healthy relationship with your diet and way of living.

Chunkahlunkah

No, I don't feelt guilty after eating any foods. Well, some guilt when I eat meat from animals that were factory farmed. I'm a broke grad student now, so have started buying that kind more.

I think it's helpful to introspect on why you feel guilty. Getting to the root can heal it or help you learn from it.

NoNameJustMe

leanjogreen18 wrote: »

When it comes to food I no longer feel guilty about anything.

Same here.

rikkejanell2014

Chunkahlunkah wrote: »

No, I don't feelt guilty after eating any foods. Well, some guilt when I eat meat from animals that were factory farmed. I'm a broke grad student now, so have started buying that kind more.

I think it's helpful to introspect on why you feel guilty. Getting to the root can heal it or help you learn from it.

Because ive worked so hard and my weight loss. Just scared of falling back onto my old ways.

sgt1372

No guilt because I have sworn off any fried foods whether over/under cals or not. If it's fried, I just won't touch it.

Sedu1906

Guilty

Lounmoun

The only way I would feel guilty over eating a food is if I stole it or it was an endangered species.
I eat fried foods less often because of the added calories but I still eat them sometimes.

canadianlbs

rikkejanell2014 wrote: »

Idk why i feel guilty but i do.

rikkejanell2014 wrote: »

Because ive worked so hard and my weight loss. Just scared of falling back onto my old ways.

that's my experience of guilt, 90% of the time. with most of it, when i take it apart a little i realise that it's actually fear. no 'good' or 'bad' to it either way, just an expectation conditioned by unconscious experience.

'i did something and now i'll be punished for it.'

point people are making is that you probably won't be. and it's very very useful to separate fear from 'good' and 'bad' value judgements, if you ask me. understand you're afraid but don't let it become about you and whether you're right or wrong.

lks802

Nope. I used to. I used to feel guilty if I ate anything that tasted really good and it was healthy.

It took me a long time to break the mentality that "fat is bad". Clean eating has changed my view. Now I don't care if I eat something fried.

dbkyser

I eat lots of Stir Fry and Hibachi Chicken, don't feel bad.. Yum Yum sauce on the other hand, maybe a little.

MelanieCN77

Not guilty, and I'd only 'feel' a certain way if I blew through my calories in a stupid way that meant I'd be hungry later with no allowance left.

goldthistime

I don't feel even a tiny bit guilty about my own stir fries in olive or avocado oils, but I do feel a bit guilty about deep fried food I get when I'm out. I have no idea what I'm getting. Is there saturated fats? Trans fats? It's not like I can tell from taste.

KusiQuyllur2015

I do. Especially eating pasta. Maybe I should just enjoy it, if I'm under calories...