Before MFP...name a bad food habit you'd like to admit...
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I used to eat a fourth meal at 11:00 pm. I called it a snack, but if you counted the calories it was a meal. I would also supplement a combo meal at Wendy's with another dollar burger.0
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pizza...I could devour pizza...oooh and my very favorite...Neapolitan ice cream left to slightly melt in my bowl, then stirred and eaten w/ 1/2 a bag or deli style really salty, crunchy chips...and coca cola!0
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NO portion control AT ALL with Pizza...oh, and diving into (almost literally) a bag of salt and vinegar kettle style chips (again with ZERO portion control).
I still really can't handle those foods well with portion control so I've kind of stayed away for the most part. I have been at kid events where pizza was only food and I didn't know about it ahead of time (or I would have eaten at home in advance) and I was good about just having one piece...BUT, when I make pizza for kids at home, I just don't even touch it. I don't love it THAT much to lose control with it.
My taste buds have REALLY become aware of salt now. I cannot stand things salty. But, again, still do NOT really trust myself with these foods!
The worst thing about going crazytown on salt and vinegar chips in the past...was that I used to literally eat so much at one sitting that my tongue would get really sore from the vinegar/salt...SICK!!!!0 -
Ohhh... Wings from Syberg's and beer. The never ending bucket of both... Yummo...0
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Energy Drinks! 3 or 4 a day, I probably had over 1200 calories a day just in energy drinks. I still have one ever now and then, but like one every few weeks, but I plan for it. Also lots of processed foods and take out because it was more convenient.0
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Well! my life is one big food habit LOL for about four years, me and my fella would finish work at about midnight, eat a kebab in bed watching TV and then each eat a 250g bar of chocolate, within 15 minutes we would be asleep! Mentioning this is pretty disgusting! The room would stink of kebab breath in the morning
Very often I would get up on my days off and go clothes shopping, realise i hadnt had breakfast and go buy a cheeseburger happy meal :-D Then eat at the Toby Cavery with my fella for lunch ... then by midnight i would be hungry again and have either a kebab / indian / chinese take away! So basically eating fast food 3x a day LOL! Not to mention my snacks in between! Chocolate, chocolate and even more chocolate! HAHAHA come to think of it .... I'm surprised i dont weigh more0 -
Watching Biggest loser eating a Large bag of doritos dipped into French onion Dip. Mind you, the entire bag and the entire jar.0
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Watching Biggest loser eating a Large bag of doritos dipped into French onion Dip. Mind you, the entire bag and the entire jar.
lol...me too! I always ate pizza rolls during Biggest Loser!
My other Bad habit....Mac n Cheese.....the whole box for myself!0 -
Wow, this thread really took off....glad I created it. Have to say, I created it for some fun, but also for us to see how far we have come!! And it's fun to see the "I used to" and "I can't believe I did that" comments. No one says "I still do it". We are all appauled by our old eating habits. Look how far we have come!! So very proud of all of us. We rock!!
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I love soft drinks and candy. I gave up soft drinks really easy because I was drinking diet, however candy is another story. I did really well for the first 2 and a half months then all the Easter candy started filling the shelves and my addiction to Starburst jellybeans resurfaced. I also have a passion for gummy bears and things like Bottlecaps, Smarties and Sweet Tarts. YUM.0
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The question should be, what habit did i have that WASN'T bad! At my highest (296) I would hit the McD's drive through and get a few of those dollar burritos for breakfast or go to Jack in the box and get TWO of those ultimate breakfast sandwhiches. At lunch Id go through drive thru @ McD's again and get either a large big mac meal or large dbl qrtr pounder meal with a SIDE of 10 piece nuggets. At dinner I'd come home and wait for hubby to get in, and while waiting on him I'd munch some chips or icecream. Then we'd go back out for dinner (usually around 9 or 10 pm), drive thru again. If we stayed home and ate then it was something fast, two boxes of hamburger helper split between the two of us, or two frozen pizzas....not to mention we were well stocked with tons of snack cakes, chips, dips, cream cheese (in case we ran out of dip) hi-c, and soda. It was truly disgusting the amount of food I ate and how yucky I felt afterward.....0
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Lets see..
McDonalds cinnamon melts
Checkers fries with a banana shake
a whole bag of these white cheddar puffs at a time
Subway cookies
Dominos pizza with cheddar cheese topping
I ~think~ these were the most popular ones I ate on a regular basis0 -
Well...I will add mine on:)
I used to drink Turtle Mocha's from Caribou coffee....some days I would have two! (Medium sized!)
When I would eat donuts-I would eat a cinnamon roll plus a chocolate covered donut and couldn't have those without Coke! Talk about sugar overload!
King Size candy bars.....oops!
Fritos and bean dip-I could eat the bag!0 -
I had loads - have realised that I had double portions of almost everything I ate. My major vice I had at this time of year was Creme Eggs (are they just UK sweets?) - I could easily eat 6 in one go and had been known to eat a box of 12 in one day. Makes me feel ill thinking about it now.0
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I'm not a snacker or a sweets person but when I get really hungry I can't control my portions. And the food choices I made were just horrible. My typical day went like this:
Breakfast - Sausage, egg & cheese on an everything bagel (God I miss everything bagels...haven't had one since December)
Lunch - a slice of pizza and a 12" cheese steak with fried onions & mushrooms
Dinner - Outback bloomin onion, cup of potato soup, 2 loaves of bread (with butter), cheeseburger with loaded baked potato
Yea...I had a lot of days that looked exactly like that. Or I would eat an entire 16" pizza with sausage, ground beef, pepperoni, and onion....or go to On The Border and eat 2-3 baskets of chips with queso, a chicken quesadilla, and then an order of fajitas.
I have no questions about how I got to where I was. I'm just surprised I wasn't even bigger than I had gotten.
*Edit...I left out the beer and drunk food. Weekends consisted of a 6 pack of beer each night and then late night food of 2 double cheeseburgers and a 10 piece nugget from McDonalds. I was actually in a beer club where the goal is to drink as much beer as possible...the bar was right next to a 24 hour McDonalds. Total loss there.0 -
Wow reading through this thread, I was shocked at how many folks did the same things I did. Portion control was the worst. One box, can, bag of anything was one portion to my mind. I'd justify it because, afterall it was a box of wheat thins, they're healthy!
One of my worst habits, was getting a loaf of Artisan Bread, then sitting at the computer and tearing off big hunks of it, dipping it in hummus or softened butter, and eating the entire loaf in about 1/2 an hour. Again, justifing myself as eating healthy because it was "Artisan" bread, not that crappy Wonderbread, and Hummus is good for you, and Real butter doesn't have all the fake artificial chemical garbage in it.
It'd be bloated and miserable, stomach pulled tight, but feel rightous because it was "all natural" foods. It's just scary to think about what I packed away and rationalized.0 -
Well, before I started working on myself, I used to binge. A lot. I'm talking severe emotional binging. When bad things happened (or even if I was just having a sad day) I would grab a large bag of chips, a liter of soda, a bag of cookies, maybe even those stouffers french bread pizzas and eat the entire thing. I'm talking easily a few thousand calories within a 30 min period. I would be sobbing the entire time, knowing that it wasn't helping but it was something that made me feel better for like .5 seconds. Then of course I'd feel horrible afterword, which would grate on me, which would then lead to another binge...etc. I'm now working on that part of me and I don't binge as nearly as often as I had. I still have my episodes but it's a work in progress and I'm getting better.
However, that doesn't mean I don't have trigger foods now. I recently, without realizing it, ate an entire jar of nutella. As soon as I realized how much I ate and how many calories it was, my a** was right on that eliptical. Haha! oh well, no ones perfect. :blushing:0 -
eating as much as my 6'5 200 lb husband ... at every meal0
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I would get Cookie dough ice cream from edys and eat half the container in one sitting, mostly at night.:noway:
The other addiction I had were dora posicle, the slow melt kind. I started eating them at night watching tv after I quit smoking. It took me a year to quit that habit!:embarassed:
And the one other thing9 and I am really embarrassed about this one) is that I would eat Nutella by the spoonfuls! sometimes half a glass in one sitting. I know those habits are the reason I gained all of this weight!!! I can't believe I did those things to my Body!!!
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I love soft drinks and candy. I gave up soft drinks really easy because I was drinking diet, however candy is another story. I did really well for the first 2 and a half months then all the Easter candy started filling the shelves and my addiction to Starburst jellybeans resurfaced. I also have a passion for gummy bears and things like Bottlecaps, Smarties and Sweet Tarts. YUM.
Starburst Jelly beans!! I sooo love them. I refuse to buy them now I could eat a whole bag at one time!0 -
However, that doesn't mean I don't have trigger foods now. I recently, without realizing it, ate an entire jar of nutella. As soon as I realized how much I ate and how many calories it was, my a** was right on that eliptical. Haha! oh well, no ones perfect. :blushing:
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Haha the other day I caught myself sneaking a finger full of nutella, and I haven't done it since.
Nutella is to blame for my weight gain.... well and me shoving it in my mouth LOL0 -
Candy = breakfast, lunch, dinner and both snacks. I would live on hershey kisses and ice cream.0
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Cheesecake!! LOVE cheesecake!!
I bake them and honestly could sit down with a cheesecake (not a slice- the whole thing) and a fork and be the happiest camper around. And there are so many different kinds...I haven't met one I didn't like. Never really did eat a whole one, but have eaten 2-3 slices at one time. I shudder to think of the fat/calorie content!0 -
Eat take out about 3 times on the weekend... still do it. Still trying to kick it :0)0
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My weakness is ice cream and it doesn't help that I can literally walk to Dairy Queen!!! My family and I counted the steps one day it's was about 100 steps from our front door to Dairy Queen...soo good! LOL
I couldn't handle being only 100 paces from all the Crunch Coat I could handle... so good on a DQ banana split blizzard- how I miss those0 -
Cheesecake!! LOVE cheesecake!!
I bake them and honestly could sit down with a cheesecake (not a slice- the whole thing) and a fork and be the happiest camper around. And there are so many different kinds...I haven't met one I didn't like. Never really did eat a whole one, but have eaten 2-3 slices at one time. I shudder to think of the fat/calorie content!
I have :blushing:0 -
Order a pizza. Eat at least half of it, but not the crust edges. Then when you have place full of crust edges left over, get out some peanut butter and eat them with peanut butter spread on.0
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Wow! This thread has really taken off. I guess it is along the lines of taking a picture of yourself and really looking at it!
None of us are perfect, and all have trigger foods. It is how we handle those triggers that has changed. I won't say I still don't want (and sometimes eat) McDonalds, but I get a Happy Meal instead of a value meal.
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Lets see..
McDonalds cinnamon melts
Checkers fries with a banana shake
a whole bag of these white cheddar puffs at a time
Subway cookies
Dominos pizza with cheddar cheese topping
I ~think~ these were the most popular ones I ate on a regular basis
Oh my gosshhhh, I could eat checkers fries for days!0
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