What's the one thing you refuse to give up?

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  • arl29
    arl29 Posts: 55 Member
    Diet Pop! I know it has 0 calories but I drink a lot of it, every day. I tried to give it up for a few days and I was an evil person. I seriously wanted to run people over with my cart at the grocery store. :ohwell:
  • clean115
    clean115 Posts: 59
    I don't exclude any one item. I will never denounce bacon. I eat it like every day.
  • MzzAisha
    MzzAisha Posts: 39 Member
    I refuse to give anything up. My family and boyfriend have made comments about me cutting out pasta and cupcakes (I bake A LOT) but I haven't cut them out, just cut down. I eat everything in moderation and make better choices these days, but I haven't cut anything out.

    What she said.
  • Michele7091
    Michele7091 Posts: 256 Member
    I won't give anything up that I love. I'm a firm believer in "everything in moderation"...besides my friends and family wouldn't want me to...I'd be such a raging b*tch that they'd probably want to stab me in the throat and watch me slowly bleed to death. Yeah I'm that bad.
  • Yellerie
    Yellerie Posts: 221 Member
    I don't give anything up. I just use moderation and portion control. If I can fit it in, and need a scoop of ice cream, I have it. It's a lifestyle change for me, not a deprivation thing. If I like it, I will have it!

    Exactly
  • AZKristi
    AZKristi Posts: 1,801 Member
    For me, it's Half and Half in my coffee.

    How funny... A few months ago I would have said French Vanilla Creamer in my coffee. But, after noticing the effect of the artificial sugar on the rest of my nutritional day (basically it was setting me up to crave sweets all day long) - I decided to let it go. I switched to half and half which has no sugar and about half as many calories.

    For me using half and half has been a very positive change and wasn't hard to get used to. It is a lot easier for me to walk past the candy bowls in the office all day when I'm not starting my day with sugar!
  • criscricket
    criscricket Posts: 69 Member
    1/2 and 1/2 in my coffee, I do not count it.

    Every once in awhile after a great work out I get an everything bagel with lox cream cheese (YUM) I count the calories.

    And an occasional glass of wine, which I count

    and popcorn at the movies, which I also count.
  • hollyberry2012
    hollyberry2012 Posts: 239 Member
    When I ate fast food and fat food...I didn't eat it because it tasted good. Frankly, I ate it so fast, I didn't notice the taste. I hardly chewed and really had no need for teeth I swallowed so big and fast. I never savored anything at all. I ate to fill the void in my heart, not the one in my mouth where the taste buds are.

    In high anxiety times, I ate food to keep my throat from closing up...feeling like I was being strangled, the food pushed open my throat and gave me a sense of relief.

    It's so weird to contemplate giving up anything that I used to eat because what I used to eat was never in a catagory of like or dislike, love or hate...It was easy, fast, cheap, abundant, thoughtless, a means to an end.

    The more I ate, the safer I felt. The more weight I gained, the more my food fell out of love with me, not the other way around...my food was killing me with a vengence - that's HATE. It hated me. My body hated IT...I was just along for the ride.

    Now, everything I eat is healthy and I'm really TASTING food for the first time, savoring its texture, temperature, taste.

    The only food I'm not giving up....is food for thought. I want to remember my relationship with food and its relationship with me.
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    Alcohol. I found this whipped cream flavored vodka for $8 at the liquor store a few weeks ago, and it tastes awesome with grapefruit juice. Other things I may skip, like creamer in my coffee or dessert, but if I have a stressful day, and just want my drink at the end, I have it, and I enjoy every single empty, useless calorie of it.
  • Pfauxmeh
    Pfauxmeh Posts: 259
    I gave up soda, but I REFUSE to give up chocolate.
  • RachNRoll
    RachNRoll Posts: 192 Member
    coffee (even though I drink it black, no sugar) and pasta even if I cook it simple with little (olive oil or coconut oil...

    and some day off...to keep my sanity
  • Krissy_b777
    Krissy_b777 Posts: 87
    I refuse to give anything up. My family and boyfriend have made comments about me cutting out pasta and cupcakes (I bake A LOT) but I haven't cut them out, just cut down. I eat everything in moderation and make better choices these days, but I haven't cut anything out.


    This.
  • Krister0506
    Krister0506 Posts: 16
    Pepsi. But in my defense I have went from drinking 6 cans, yes 6, to drinking a can and a half. So dont judge me as so many do. I just cant do it. And no diet pepsi is not an option. 31 years of pepsi is hard to break.

    I was a horrible addict to Pepsi also....I made sure to tell myself I can have one if I want, but only if I work it off :) I refused to give it up completely, but like you, I drank a lot of it daily. I do not remember the last time I actually drank a whole can in a day now!!
  • mae1020
    mae1020 Posts: 234 Member
    I haven't given up anything. I just eat the things I really really love in moderation. If I gave up those things I would just want them more.
  • sarai79
    sarai79 Posts: 90 Member
    Vodka :smokin:
  • Hopelessbird
    Hopelessbird Posts: 133
    coffee

    I drink 3-4 cups black everyday
  • surfswellrider
    surfswellrider Posts: 2 Member
    bacon
  • birdieman75
    birdieman75 Posts: 19 Member
    Weekend Beers with the wife, I love real ales and just don't want to not live life without a few beers on a weekend.
  • Tanyawhite30
    Tanyawhite30 Posts: 473
    Wine
  • Careolyn
    Careolyn Posts: 61
    wine and cheese whiz!
  • lupizzle00
    lupizzle00 Posts: 26 Member
    Let me start off by saying this: I have a 6 & 4yr old. I drop them off at 6:30am every morning, come to work at 7am, pick up the 4yr old during my lunch, drive him to my mom's (babysitter), pick up lunch, eat at the office, work till 4pm, pick up the 4yr old, get home, wash dishes, do a quick clean up of the house, leave to pick up my 6yr old from an afterschool program at 5:30, get dinner, get home, change, go to the gym, home, shower, bed. By that time its about 9:30-10pm and I have to be up at 5am. So after all that, please understand me why I REFUSE to give up my energy drinks! LOL
  • birdieman75
    birdieman75 Posts: 19 Member
    Let me start off by saying this: I have a 6 & 4yr old. I drop them off at 6:30am every morning, come to work at 7am, pick up the 4yr old during my lunch, drive him to my mom's (babysitter), pick up lunch, eat at the office, work till 4pm, pick up the 4yr old, get home, wash dishes, do a quick clean up of the house, leave to pick up my 6yr old from an afterschool program at 5:30, get dinner, get home, change, go to the gym, home, shower, bed. By that time its about 9:30-10pm and I have to be up at 5am. So after all that, please understand me why I REFUSE to give up my energy drinks! LOL

    I am tired just reading that...
  • paigemarie93
    paigemarie93 Posts: 778 Member
    Pizza & burgers. I have both atleast once a week.
  • libragj
    libragj Posts: 12
    Half and Half in my coffee. I just use Land O Lakes fat free now! yum
  • KA29
    KA29 Posts: 54
    Cheese, I LOVE LOVE cheese!! My husband teases me that I am part mouse :laugh:
    I just try healthier cheese (Kraft 2%, Laughing Cow& Baby Bell mainly) and reduced portions / healthier items to pair it with if it's a cheese spread.
  • caroleslaststand
    caroleslaststand Posts: 176 Member
    half and half in my coffee! I do measure it, but I have to have my coffee that creamy color or I feel sorry for myself drinking it black. I gave up greek honey yogurt so I could keep my half and half in my coffee.
  • NYCDutchess
    NYCDutchess Posts: 622 Member
    My one cup of coffee with creamer or with Half and Half and 3 splenda.

    Whats the point of bitter coffee? I need my coffee, not only for the caffine, for the relaxation I feel when I have it.
  • jennine611
    jennine611 Posts: 14
    A great big AMEN to that!
  • BigCat175
    BigCat175 Posts: 38 Member
    Bananas!
  • WendySue75
    WendySue75 Posts: 98 Member
    I refuse to give anything up. My family and boyfriend have made comments about me cutting out pasta and cupcakes (I bake A LOT) but I haven't cut them out, just cut down. I eat everything in moderation and make better choices these days, but I haven't cut anything out.
    I agree 100% with your philosophy... I am looking to make life changes, so I do not believe that it will work long term. If I cut things out completely. I would feel deprived and probably go crazy & binge on them. I am all about changing my white breads to wheat or whatever, but I don't think it's realistic to set out saying I am not going to ever have... say chocolate again... so that too... makes me think ok, dark choc. mini's here and there.... everything in moderation... this way you don't have to stress about how "your diet" fits in with lifestyles of everyone around you... and at restaurants... etc. Ultimately I look at it... as... you eat it, you work it off!!!
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