“Red light foods”

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  • sorchaedwards1991
    sorchaedwards1991 Posts: 19 Member
    Wine. I always promise myself I will only have one glass....but that nearly always ends up being at least a bottle. Then my willpower vanishes and I get a kebab on the way home. I wish I could be that person who can have just "one drink"
  • marysabetournay
    marysabetournay Posts: 69 Member
    milk chocolate is my biggest weakness...NEVER have it in the house...i can limit the dark chocolate (72%) intake so i go with that instead..I have 1-2 small pieces after supper!
  • ZoneFive
    ZoneFive Posts: 570 Member
    edited November 2017
    Peanut butter. Jif creamy owns my soul.

    Right now I'm in full batten-down-the-hatches mode over Bahlsen's Contessa Sugar-Glaze Lebkuchen. It's only in the markets around Christmastime and even then in only a very few stores, but by golly I will drive miles for those things. There are just seven in a package and thank God for that. Having said all that, I do have a package in the house now. My husband knows where they are (I don't) and I can have one for dessert every day for a week. They are SO worth the calories.
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    The mother of one of the car pool kids gave me a loaf of pumpkin bread this morning. Pumpkin bread and banana bread are not foods I binged on, but I would usually have a couple of large slices a day. I am rationalizing that since I don't know how to track it then I won't have any; hopefully my will power will prevail. I am almost certain it will; if it doesn't, I will only have one small weighed slice and find an entry to use. It can't be today because I already have a milestone reward for today and I am not going to celebrate a milestone by going over.
  • ladyhusker39
    ladyhusker39 Posts: 1,406 Member
    jayemes wrote: »
    I was doing well losing weight until I bought my once-a-year bag of Candy Corns. One handful and suddenly I was eating all the things I could find.Total tailspin. Who knew it was such a trigger food for me? When I was younger I used to eat tons of sugar but these days not so much. Everything else I can moderate (except maybe Oreos) but freaking Candy Corns......

    My mother in law brought me a bag after Halloween since she knows I like them and after she left I threw those orange monsters right in the garbage. No more.

    Sometimes it's the craziest things that set us off. I remember last spring I was doing really well not eating candy so after Easter I picked up a bag of Starburst jelly beans on clearance. I figured I hadn't really even craved candy for months and this would be good because it wasn't chocolate.

    I ate the entire bag in 2 days. I was shocked. They weren't even the fancy high-end jelly beans. WTF!
  • beaglady
    beaglady Posts: 1,362 Member
    Mine is anything crunchy that comes in a multi-serving bag. If I don't weigh out a single serving and hide the rest of the bag, I'll eat way too much. This can be potato chips, crackers, granola or pretty much any other crunchy food. I enjoy chewing crunchy foods in front of the tv at night, and don't do well at making myself stop.
  • H_Ock12
    H_Ock12 Posts: 1,152 Member
    Oreos....when I buy them, I just plan to eat the entire pack with a half gallon of milk and call it a day.
  • RunStart34
    RunStart34 Posts: 164 Member
    Pizza or Soda. These are my addiction and things i can't just have a bit of. I had to eliminated them complete at the beginning of my lifestyle change. I can now have pizza in moderation but soda on the other hand til this day becomes a addiction so I avoid it completely.
  • KailaLaFlor
    KailaLaFlor Posts: 20 Member
    edited November 2017
    I'm not big on snacks or sugar, my problem is leftovers. Like if I'm out and I buy some Chinese or a sub or whatever, I have no problem eating just half, but if I take the leftovers with me, I can't resist eating them as soon as I get home. Even my kid's and husband's leftovers are irresistible to me in the fridge.
  • thegeans
    thegeans Posts: 42 Member
    KailaLaFlor wrote: »
    I'm not big on snacks or sugar, my problem is leftovers. Like if I'm out and I buy some Chinese or a sub or whatever, I have no problem eating just half, but if I take the leftovers with me, I can't resist eating them as soon as I get home. Even my kid's and husband's leftovers are irresistible to me in the fridge.

    Yes! There's something about food you didn't cook yourself....sometimes I can't even make it the car ride home from the restaurant without cracking open the box.
  • maura_tasi
    maura_tasi Posts: 196 Member
    KailaLaFlor wrote: »
    I'm not big on snacks or sugar, my problem is leftovers. Like if I'm out and I buy some Chinese or a sub or whatever, I have no problem eating just half, but if I take the leftovers with me, I can't resist eating them as soon as I get home. Even my kid's and husband's leftovers are irresistible to me in the fridge.

    This! I'll be stuffed at the restaurant and think hey, I'll have lunch for tomorrow now but as soon as I get home it's like I never had dinner and I eat my leftovers as soon as I walk through the door :neutral:
  • laurelinoracle
    laurelinoracle Posts: 2 Member
    Nachos and salsa con queso, and Haagen Daz White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle ice cream are my weaknesses. If I have them in the house, I will, without question and very little remorse, eat them in their entirety. I've managed to go six months without nachos, but I have slipped up with ice cream recently and didn't regret it until my stomach kicked me for my poor choices. :anguished: I've found that it's all a balancing act with eating them in moderation, and that I really need to work on my self-control if I'm going to be any good at that balancing act.
  • sassysmom35
    sassysmom35 Posts: 130 Member
    Pizza and soda. I allow myself some soda and can moderate it pretty well and fit it into my calories but pizza? No. I have zero self control. I will eat the whole thing even though it makes me feel terrible. It used to be my go to binge food and so I am very weak to it even now
  • ttreit
    ttreit Posts: 59 Member
    edited November 2017
    NU-FREAKING-TELLA - I love hazelnuts way too much and chocolate and hazelnuts is some sort of witchcraft.

    EDIT: I once ate an entire jar with a spoon in one sitting.
  • Cherimoose
    Cherimoose Posts: 5,208 Member
    Swedish Fish and Reese's peanut butter cups should have a surgeon general's warning on them. :+1:
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    Cherimoose wrote: »
    Swedish Fish and Reese's peanut butter cups should have a surgeon general's warning on them. :+1:

    I agree hardcore on the reese's. My grandma, such a sweet woman, gets me 2 HUGE bags every halloween of the pumpkins. When I was 8 I would eat them with no abhor, but at 20 it's not so great to have around. I give them to my friends to share every single year so I don't hurt her feelings. That way they still get enjoyed and I feel happy making my friends happy!
  • 93pear93
    93pear93 Posts: 48 Member
    ice creams, they are so good! :D
    If you really can not resist something, dont worry eat it once a week, train hard, keep your kcal nothing bad is gonna happen
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  • RunawayCurves
    RunawayCurves Posts: 688 Member
    Grains and anything with processed sugar.
  • ashliedelgado
    ashliedelgado Posts: 814 Member
    Breakfast cereal. It doesn't even have to be sugary delicious breakfast cereal. Growing up, we only got cereal on Saturday mornings, and it was a to-do. My dad grabbed a giant bowl, dumped a whole box in it, and grabbed 3 spoons. One for my sister, one for him, and one for me and we would sit and watch cartoons and eat out of a giant cereal bowl. Disgusting, I know. But in my head now you have to eat cereal in a trough. I can have it in the house for the kids, but I can't eat it myself. If I have one bowl, it's a BIG bowl, and 20 minutes later I'm after another BIG BOWL and an hour later I know I'm not hungry and I am blowing my calories for the day but I'm going for that 3rd bowl because if I haven't eaten the whole box, I haven't had enough cereal yet.
  • tess5036
    tess5036 Posts: 942 Member
    Homemade chocolate brownies
  • JoLightensUp
    JoLightensUp Posts: 140 Member
    tess5036 wrote: »
    Homemade chocolate brownies

    Mmmmmmmmmmm. Why am I reading this thread?? lol
  • moogie_fit
    moogie_fit Posts: 280 Member
    Lizakabibbis wrote: »
    popcorn. I'm obsessed with it. I follow KETO so it's not an option....but if I eat it I can make myself sick.

    Why would you promote bulimia..
  • grinning_chick
    grinning_chick Posts: 765 Member
    edited November 2017
    *Basket of puppies* cream cheese frosting. Homemade, even. :cry:

    I cannot touch the stuff, not even 5 grams, without it setting off eating anything/everything about a half hour later that I only emerge from 3-7K calories later. Cream cheese by itself? Fine. Confectioners sugar on its own/in other stuff? No problem. Combined? BingeTown™.

    Cuz it's powerful, yeah! Powdahed Sugahhhhhh!!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Krz-dyD-UQ
  • ghudson92
    ghudson92 Posts: 2,061 Member
    jgnatca wrote: »
    Isn't a vegetarian gummy a raisin?

    No. Raisins are the devil. Vegetarian gummies are made with pectin (a plant protein) instead of gelatine. Even when I was a meat eater gelatine freaked me out. I know you were joking, but I really hate raisins!
  • cryonic_273
    cryonic_273 Posts: 81 Member
    Chocolate, Tortila chips.
  • KailaLaFlor
    KailaLaFlor Posts: 20 Member

    thegeans wrote: »

    Yes! There's something about food you didn't cook yourself....sometimes I can't even make it the car ride home from the restaurant without cracking open the box.

    I'm guilty of that too. My husband even jokes about it when we're out that the leftovers probably won't even make it home.
  • KailaLaFlor
    KailaLaFlor Posts: 20 Member
    maura_tasi wrote: »

    This! I'll be stuffed at the restaurant and think hey, I'll have lunch for tomorrow now but as soon as I get home it's like I never had dinner and I eat my leftovers as soon as I walk through the door :neutral:

    I don't think I've EVER successfully saved leftovers for the next day. But I still tell myself that lie at the restaurant, and I still believe it.
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    Dang - I just got reminded of another - raisins and nuts. I would get half a handful of each as a healthy snack while cooking or doing something in or near the kitchen. That would be fine but before I know it I have made 6 or 8 trips into the pantry for a handful each time. And the handfuls get bigger and sometimes I use a small tumbler. Worse, I would often sprinkle a few chocolate chips in if I used a tumbler.
  • kimcalica
    kimcalica Posts: 525 Member
    Ice cream! Candy! Doughnuts and cake! Ribeye! Buttercream frosting! Cookies! Pancakes and soda!

    Like many people here, I don’t keep bad things in the house. (Except on holidays)

    I have a problem with discipline only at certain times.. usually in the evenings, so I do my shopping early in the day, and I actually eat pretty much the same kind of stuff on the regular so my shopping list is usually pretty repetitive.

    If something is in the house, I’ll eat it till it’s gone (weirdly in my head I justify it as “I’m getting it out of the house”)

    Generally if my family wants that kind of stuff, we make it an outing. At least that way we don’t get a dozen doughnuts or a few different pints of ice cream (we all like different kinds) because guess who will eat all the leftovers? (This gal!)

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