What's the biggest food mistake you used to make?

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  • overzoelous
    overzoelous Posts: 161 Member
    Not meal prepping. When coming off of a 12 hour shift its so much easier to grab something fast when you're starving instead of taking 30 minutes to cook a meal. If I did decide to cook, I would stand in the kitchen and eat chips while my salmon and veggies were cooking!
  • 12_oz_Curls
    12_oz_Curls Posts: 140 Member
    .....CHEESECAKE......

    WRONG! It was your fault! Cheesecake was not the mistake! Cheesecake is never the mistake! Blame alien mind control. Lack of self control, or even the government, but NEVER BLAME CHEESECAKE!

    The only thing more awesome than cheesecake is Chuck Norris, but that's only because he invented cheesecake.
  • zombie130
    zombie130 Posts: 37
    .....CHEESECAKE......

    WRONG! It was your fault! Cheesecake was not the mistake! Cheesecake is never the mistake! Blame alien mind control. Lack of self control, or even the government, but NEVER BLAME CHEESECAKE!

    The only thing more awesome than cheesecake is Chuck Norris, but that's only because he invented cheesecake.

    hey i didnt say i blamed cheesecake haha
  • ddkphotos
    ddkphotos Posts: 304 Member
    buying into the "low-fat" is better fallacy for over 10 years... thinking that eating fat makes you fat...
    and believing the doctor who said I had IBS - for over 10 years... 2 weeks after cutting out gluten from my diet my IBS was cured!!!
    should have asked more questions rather than blindly believing...
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    No Food, Drinking coffee all day cream & sugar then eating Dinner with the Family!
  • jessilee119
    jessilee119 Posts: 444 Member
    What started this was eating more and moving less.

    The first eye opener when I started counting calories was seeing that my morning cup of coffee had as many calories as my breakfast...like :noway:
  • MatthewsModernLife
    MatthewsModernLife Posts: 10
    The biggest question for me is: What food mistake haven't I made?
  • FemWeight
    FemWeight Posts: 96
    thinking I needed to deprive myself of all foods that were "bad" and ending up binging on them after a few weeks, instead of having small portions that fit into my calorie goals in order to satisfy my cravings

    Excatly!
  • thatsleepyguy
    thatsleepyguy Posts: 3 Member
    Going too hard on a "diet" by reducing calorie intake to around 800 or fewer a day, then giving up after a week or so because it was just so tough mentally.

    I'm so glad I learned that health isn't some sprint you can just do once or twice and never touch again.
  • bfergusonii
    bfergusonii Posts: 208 Member
    My cycle of failure before MFP:

    Don't eat carbs
    Now in ketosis
    Crave ice cream
    Eat ice cream
    No longer in ketosis
    FAILURE
    Start over
    Don't eat carbs

    Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
  • FitChickBritt
    FitChickBritt Posts: 161 Member
    When I first started trying to lose weight, but wasn't counting calories, I used to go to subway and get a 6" tuna and 2 chocolate chip cookies for my side because I thought Subway was always healthy.
  • GrammyPeachy
    GrammyPeachy Posts: 1,723 Member
    Flavored creamer and Ocean Spray cran-raspberry juice. I was drinking waaaaaaaaaay too much of both.
  • sportyredhead01
    sportyredhead01 Posts: 482 Member
    Too much of this.
    A bottle to a bottle and a half a night, every night.

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  • vicabra
    vicabra Posts: 56 Member
    Mine would be portion sizes and just going crazy on weekends (which I still am having difficult with).

    This.
  • spirit095
    spirit095 Posts: 1,017 Member
    Before weight loss - eating too much high calorie foods and not paying attention to the portions

    During weight loss - sometimes eating below 1200 calories. I had headaches, hunger pangs, and was moody. I can't even think about eating that little anymore tbh.
  • paulawatkins1974
    paulawatkins1974 Posts: 720 Member
    Ordering the salad on the restaurant menu when I really wanted the steak. Then, going home and eating everything I touched because I didn't fill the craving.

    THEN learning that the steak was the lower calorie option with the better macros when I started counting calories. That one really pissed me off.

    This. :angry:
    Yup. So many times this...
  • Funkenstein7
    Funkenstein7 Posts: 32
    A burgizza! Washed down with a bottle of vodka :drinker: :laugh:
  • icrushit
    icrushit Posts: 773 Member
    Slippage through snacking. Snacking persistently most of the day was not a problem when the snacks were healthy and somewhat controlled, but the weight piled on slowly and steadily when those healthy snacks became chocolate biscuits/ ice creams/ etc.

    Even though they were only small portions at any given time, they all added up, and in my case to about 35lbs over 2 years. Well, that's a little unfair, but in conjunction with my persistent evening and sporadic nighttime munching, it added up steadily.

    I think snacking can be good, but for me it can be a little insidious, as with all those 100/ 130 calories here and there, it can be difficult to nail down if you're not eating too much I found.

    Thankfully, making the conscious choice not to eat after 8pm each night (unless out with friends/ its a cinema night), seemed to sort out the evening time grazing and the nighttime raids, and will in all likelihood retain that embargo even when I reach my weight loss goal :)
  • Snip8241
    Snip8241 Posts: 767 Member
    Not paying attention to portions.
    Eliminating foods, grazing all day, going some days not eating at all.

    Now that I log my food and meet my macros I am in control and my diet is balanced.
  • PrizePopple
    PrizePopple Posts: 3,133 Member
    Portions. Especially portions of cheese.

    Also binge eating at night. I'd skip breakfast, have something small for lunch, normal dinner, and then as soon as the kids were in bed I was like cow out to pasture in the kitchen. :embarassed:
  • slickmickey
    slickmickey Posts: 113 Member
    eat the whole pizza. and i worked at a pizzeria so i would do that 2-3 times a week. granted it was a 12 inch pie, but no one needs to eat the whole thing...
  • JLHNU212
    JLHNU212 Posts: 169 Member
    thinking I needed to deprive myself of all foods that were "bad" and ending up binging on them after a few weeks, instead of having small portions that fit into my calorie goals in order to satisfy my cravings

    This was definitely the dowfall of every "diet" I ever tried. Everything in moderation is much more realistic for me!

    Mostly though, just being in complete denial about portion sizes and thinking I had to keep up with Hubby at the dinner table.

    I would like to categorize these as "used to make" but sometimes out of pure jealousy, I feel like I can still keep up with the hubby when he eats (because he can eat whatever he wants and however much he wants and he has been the EXACT same weight the past 13 years we have been together)... Those are the nights I go to bed with an angry tummy!
  • grantwashere
    grantwashere Posts: 171 Member
    thinking I needed to deprive myself of all foods that were "bad" and ending up binging on them after a few weeks, instead of having small portions that fit into my calorie goals in order to satisfy my cravings

    Yup! ^^^THIS^^^ Now, life is gooooooooood.........
  • BigLifter10
    BigLifter10 Posts: 1,153 Member
    Thinking that age had nothing to do with it. I could eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted at 35 and over (35 is when I first realized I couldn't keep doing that). My body doesn't go through things like it did at 20. No brainer, right? I held tight though...figured it wouldn't happen to me. Yeah, sure. I used to love eating whole pizzas and sodas with no real effects that I could see. If I did that now....oy.....there is no whole pizza and 2 liters of Coke or Pepsi anymore - not even on a cheat meal. (:sad: )
  • SpikeTailTurtle
    SpikeTailTurtle Posts: 60
    Milk and alcohol.
    I could literally drink a gallon and a half of milk a week by myself without trying. I just love the stuff. So instead of eating food I was drinking obscene amounts of milk not realizing the calories in it.
  • W8G0
    W8G0 Posts: 30 Member
    Eating for reasons other than the fact I was hungry:

    Eating because I was bored.
    Eating while watching TV.
  • _Tink_
    _Tink_ Posts: 3,845 Member
    I don't make food mistakes. I eat what I want in moderation. If I want to eat more, I burn more calories. Feel like drinking my calories? No guilt. I'll make up for it when I work out. I eat healthy foods most of the time, and sometimes I eat unhealthy foods. I'm okay with that.
  • genki90
    genki90 Posts: 94 Member
    Using "low fat" products and not realizing that the slowly digested fat was simply being replaced with quickly digested sugar.

    Oh, and eating lots of these:
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    :love: :love: :love:
    I can eat that if it's too much for you!
  • ambitiousclaire
    ambitiousclaire Posts: 72 Member
    Went all day without eating and when I did the first meal I would eat was "Wing Stop" or junk food.

    And never would drink water.
  • beccaboo46
    beccaboo46 Posts: 8 Member
    Portions.

    Too much food overall--
    now I control my portions, eat way more veggies, cut sugary drinks and processed food, and go outside to get active!! That **** works!

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