Fave prelogging food and do you still eat it?

bernadettenz

What were your favourite calorie laden foods before you started logging?

Do you still eat them?

I still regularly eat KFC but now I just eat drumsticks as they are only 120 calories each. I also eat French fries at least once a week.

Some foods I just don't eat anymore. Not because I've banned them or anything, but they just aren't worth the calories anymore. Like a big stack of toasted cheese sandwich or Chinese takeaway.

RelCanonical

I will usually still include most items, just in smaller portions.

More importantly, however, I'm so glad that someone else refers to the sandwiches as "toasted cheese". I got teased in college for calling them that.

cwolfman13

Pizza...and I eat it most Friday nights for family pizza night. I pretty much eat anything that I previously ate, I just have better nutrition overall.

angmarie28

Chips, I can down a bag of chips like its nothing, so i just dont buy them, or i buy small bags, or ones i dont like, lol

Lattes, still love them, but I buy them maybe 1-2 times a month now instead of 1 to 3 a week, and I get them sugar free quite often now

Coffee creamer, used to consume so much of that stuff, now I drink my coffee black 90% of the time, I add 2tbsp occasionally, mainly this time of year when pumpkin spice and peppermint mocha are out.

magpie0829

Chocolate milkshakes. And yes I still eat them because there is no way on this earth that I could not. I didn't eliminate anything when I started counting calories. Instead I just limit how often I have treats or I have just cut my portions down.

kimny72

Ice cream and pizza! Yes I still eat them, but I'm way more wary of portion size. They used to be mindlessly overeaten, now they are prelogged and planned for.

shadow2soul

Ice Cream, Pizza, cheesecake...

I still eat them. Just not as often as I used to.

JeromeBarry1

Some "before" food I do not, and some I do. Among the things I do continue to enjoy are ice cream, pizza, and a Christmas fruit cake. Last year I found my mother's recipe for banana pudding. That was a nice find 30 years after she died.

quiksylver296

Ice cream and chocolate. Yes, yes, yes. A world without ice cream and chocolate is not worth living in.

Seffell

Totally! I just ate a whole bag of Maltesers (about 450cal) which I prelogged yesterday. Yesterday I had a trifle for desert and the day before that a victoria sponge. I have pizza when I find the calories and I consider pizza healthy. I eat dessert everyday after dinner.

I eat most things I used to eat before I started logging almost 3 years ago. Just not all the time and not too much at a time. I WANT to eat more of it and more often but I want to be slim more.

Like you OP I no longer eat anything which isn't worth the calories. There are so many things which I used to eat just because it was there... Now only the most tasty food!

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Edit: I wanted to add that yesterday I really wanted Maltesers for some reason. In the past I would just get a bag. Now I can just prelog it for the next day, still have it, but don't gain weight. Win-win!

Leannep2201

I still eat most things I used to eat, but like others have said, either in smaller portions, or planned for and pre-logged.

I had a heap of calories left over the other day, so I had a bowl of ice cream and caramel sauce.

Chocolate features regularly in my diary, because chocolate!

Lillymoo01

I still eat many of the foods I used to but have played around with recipes to make them more calorie friendly and more nutritious. For example tacos and spaghetti bolognese - I just add black beans, and various vegetables to the sauce and while the others still get taco shells or pasta I serve mine on a bed of spiralised zucchini. I still go for homemade pizza but use a wholewheat pita bread base with less cheese and add things like mushrooms, spinach and kale. I'll also only eat half with a serve of salad instead of a whole pizza. If I am having a roast I'll have less roast potato in exchange for brussel sprouts, cauliflower, zucchini and broccoli. Things served with rice will be served with cauliflower rice instead.

If I haven't adapted recipes I have reduced portions. If I go out for coffee with my husband I'll share a piece of cake with him instead of having a full slice for myself. If I go out for a meal I'll leave half the fries on the plate.

All things said and done I am eating a much greater variety of foods than I ever have. What I have added is far greater than foods I no longer eat (or eat much of).

bernadettenz

Oh I should have said in the original post that I'm down 16 kgs from when I started about six years ago.

Very slow progress and a few gains over that time but it hasn't been an unpleasant journey.

Cahgetsfit

kebabs. one kebab is 1200 cals plus. That's some people's daily allotment (not mine, but it's more than half of mine). pity, coz I quite enjoy a good kebab.

other stuff I just eat less of, or only on occasion, or modify - like I make homemade pizza (still yummy) for example.

I tend not to buy certain things otherwise I will eat the whole packet such as crisps, granola, nutella...

Seffell

bernadettenz wrote: »

Oh I should have said in the original post that I'm down 16 kgs from when I started about six years ago.

Very slow progress and a few gains over that time but it hasn't been an unpleasant journey.

Very similar to me. I've lost 14kg since 3 years ago. Gained a few here and there and had to re-lose them. Re-losing 3kg of these 14 now. I'm 7kg from my final goal but these are vanity kgs. It's very slow but at least the situation is always under control.

bernadettenz

I just remembered another fave. Indian butter chicken with hot chips. Yummo!

I still buy this, but now I make the curry into two portions and freeze one. And I only have it about once a month.

aokoye

bernadettenz wrote: »

What were your favourite calorie laden foods before you started logging?

Do you still eat them?

I still regularly eat KFC but now I just eat drumsticks as they are only 120 calories each. I also eat French fries at least once a week.

Some foods I just don't eat anymore. Not because I've banned them or anything, but they just aren't worth the calories anymore. Like a big stack of toasted cheese sandwich or Chinese takeaway.

I don't have a specific "pre-logging food" or type of food. I pre-log almost everything that I plan on eating assuming I've anticipated it in advance. It's logistically easier for a lot of reasons. I don't have to remember at the end of the day, the chances of going over by a lot are smaller, I have a good idea of what I need to eat to not go exceedingly under, etc.

So for instance, I pre-logged the lunch that i'm eating right now (half a roasted yam, brussels sprouts, and ginger chicken) yesterday which was easy because I knew that I was going to have almost the exact same lunch today as I did yesterday. I pre-logged dinner (or what I'm planning on having for dinner) this afternoon because why not? Breakfast was not pre-logged in part because I wasn't sure if I'd be getting a bagel and my latte was a surprise "let's see how good this place's lattes are" thing. The rugalash I'm eating throughout the day also weren't pre-logged because that was also a bit of a spontaneous decision.

I'm not sure that there are any foods that I've banned outright for the sake of weight loss. There are foods I'll eat less often or that I'll eat smaller portions of, but I haven't banned anything outright because of how the calories fit.

Danp

Everything I ate before I still eat now. This was the 'lightbulb' that has seen me have some success this time where I'd failed so many times in the past.

The only difference between then and now is that now I eat like an responsible adult, where as before I'd eat like an unsupervised 6 year old

Noreenmarie1234

I still eat most things, just not all the time like I used to. I used to eat a giant cinnamon roll every day for breakfast, but now I just budget and have them occasionally.

Some things I don't still eat because they aren't worth the calories and I feel just as satisfied with lower cal versions. Some of these things for example are butter, maple syrup, salad dressings, and juice. I never drink my calories anymore like I used to.

Lillymoo01

bernadettenz wrote: »

I just remembered another fave. Indian butter chicken with hot chips. Yummo!

I still buy this, but now I make the curry into two portions and freeze one. And I only have it about once a month.

I have grown to love Indian food over the last couple of years, I just have it with cauliflower rice instead of normal rice because that way I get to fill up on more of the yumminess rather than the much blander rice.

Seffell

I just thought of something I no longer do (sadly). I used to drink about 0.5 to 1 litre of whole milk per day every day for most of my life. I should add that I've also been slim my entire life regardless. I only gained after I stopped smoking and moved to a different country 5 years ago (a western one lol).

I can not afford to do this any longer. Even if it was only 250ml of whole milk it is just not worth the cals for me. So I get by with semi-skimmed and a glass of milk is always part of a treat like cake or bisquits.