What foods do you think made you fat?
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I think my culprit has been cheese. I love cheese.
And potatoes.0 -
this is tough. i really think this comes down to genes and portion control. i have a girlfriend who can eat more than most men i know and i kid you not, she is stick thin. she's 5'3" and about 105lbs. my husband's best friend is about 6 feet tall, built like a bean pole with muscles, extremely active and he lives on yogurt, muesli/granola, bananas, peanut butter, bread, cheese and powerbars to no end. the guy is basically bones with muscles wrapped around them. no body fat, not an inch to pinch. i'd say that these people have won the genetic lottery.
for me, i don't think it's certain foods that make me fat. it's my tendency to overconsume them. i lose all control. i'll say to myself, "ok...just one cookie". then one cookie somehow turns into 5 cookies, plus cheetos, plus fresh sourdough bread and then i'll top it all off with pinkberry yogurt. and it happens so fast.
someone once told me "food just sits there. you don't have to touch it. you don't have to put it in your mouth. and you certainly don't have to eat it." interesting thought. problem is it just tastes so damn good.0 -
Fast food and lots of it. I would eat fast food 2 to 3 time a day. Drinking sodas and eating junk. When I look back on things that I use to eat in one day I get sick to my stomach. I can't believe I ate those things and how much I ate it.0
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Well, I was a clinically diagnosed binge eater. There were a number of "comfort foods" I would binge on. Ice cream, cereal, pretzels, chips and salsa, cookies, pizza, M&Ms, Hostess snacks, and Taco Bell were the main ones. Huge, mindless portions of everything & emotional eating
remembering how I used to sit down with all my food and plow right through it, while feeling fat and sorry for myself, just makes me so sad to think about.
Cereal and chips are still two of my favorite foods but I've learned to eat them in more moderate amounts.0 -
I know its been said a million times already but its true. Most of what I ate I ate to much of. Then the Drinking Oh the drinking. I have finally stopped drinking every day after a nearly 20 year Love affair with all things Alcohol. Instead of coming home drinking till I pass out and watching tv. I go out side ... go to the gym. Seeing the results in the mirror has been the biggest motivation to stick with it.
Breakfast
Old me: MACDONALDS!!!!!
New Me: Greek Yogurt and a Naked Smoothie
Lunch
Old me: Dominos, Macdonalds or Wendys
New Me: Whole Foods or Fresh Market for a custom made sandwich or salad with Quinoa as a side. ( as a treat i might have 1 cookie)
Dinner:
Old Me: A giant pile of Pasta or at 20oz steak with a Loaded Baked potato and a few beers with Pie or cake as desert
New me: Pasta now is whole grain and is now a side not a meal my steaks are now no larger then 12oz and if im eating a baked potato it now is a baked sweet potato with nothing on it.
Treats
Fat Free jello made with hood calorie beverage
Blue Bunny sweet freedom icecream
Fruit ( carefull if your watching sugar)
Cake or pie ( a 1/2 portion )
Moderation is key and food that taste good and is good for you is out there!0 -
Dairy, grains, alcohol, sugar.0
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food didn't make me gain weight *I* made me gain weight....i take full responsibility for my own actions not trying to shove it off onto food or other things...it was all my own doing....0
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Before I made the switch to gluten free, it was definitely all the pizzas and pastas. and lets not forget beer and alcohol.0
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Mine was just food in general. I just ate too much food. Not any one specific food. Just all of it. Too much.0
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I ordered in too many times. I was a lazy student and had the money so I thought, why not?
Of course, I regret it now, but I still enjoy the occasional take-away.
^ This and gas station food. I didn't cook before & it was much much easier than cooking0 -
Several obviously but my huge weakness used to be Kraft Macaroni and Cheese! I could eat the whole box! I have gone since
January without it and I had it a few weeks ago it doesn't taste at all as good as I remember weird how our tastes change !0 -
Potato scones, peanut butter by the jar, and crisps.0
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thai food and craft beer!0
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I've gotten to know myself better over the 2 years I've been here and frankly I don't particularly like what I've found out. For me it was gluttony. Pure and simple. Didn't matter the food. What seemed to happen is that I needed, make that wanted more of it.0
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Slushies - 7 eleven, Godavia carmel candy bars, mcdonald's carmel sundaes, chocolate melting cake, christmas sugar cookies with icing on them, ice cream with homemade chocolate fudge. diet soda and also just plain coke.
Having a few rum and diet cokes one night a week (date night) and next morning feeling crappy and then eatting crappy.
I have a very bad sweet tooth. Then top that off with lack of exercise.
Snowball effect happened and back pain and then less exercise and then eatting too much sugar and other bad carbs.
I am now feeling like I am in recovery mode...found MFP and watching everything I eat and exercising more even if my back hurts because I am overweight. I cut out soda and replaced it with lemon and water (no sugar or sub added). I am trying very hard not to give into my sweet tooth.0 -
I agree with the poster who said there are no bad foods, though I have eaten more than my fair share of cheetos in the past. Pretty much anything crunchy, salty, and umami-licious had my name on it. I could kill a large bag of doritos or a few pieces of fried chicken in a single day. Never really admitted this to myself before...
edit: forgot a word
That's not true. Potato chips and stuff like that can't be considered bad foods because a single serving of them won't ruin your entire day. I'm talking about foods that have like 90% of your DV of fat of 160%(?) or your DV of cholesterol in a single serving. There's no way that you can eat these kinds of foods, even in moderation, and still have a balanced diet.
You have to consider the chasm between what "they" call a serving and what you consider a serving.
I used to have a few slices of bread with peanut butter as a snack. Four slices of bread plus 1/2 cup of peanut butter works out to 1000 calories give or take. That was a snack. Between meals. And back then it never would have occurred to me that it was part of the problem.
These days, instead of limiting myself to single tablespoon doses of peanut butter like some kind of masochist, I've written off the food completely.
once you pop...
yeah, serving sizes matter, and there are way fewer chips/oz of chicken/pastries in a recommended serving than your mouth would like to believe.0 -
Fast food 2x a day (literally, sometimes 3x) and soda! I'm sure no exercise at all played a big role too.0
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I used to drink a lot of White Zinfandel and me and the hubby ate a lot of Mexican food. What were we thinking?! :drinker: :blushing:0
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Food in general made me fat! But as far as overindulgence goes I would say alcohol and french fries...those are my favs.0
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There's no such thing as bad food, just people who eat badly!!
Uhh, Mcdonalds and energy drinks. If a drink can burn off the outer coating of a penny, you should be scared. If the same drink can't do anything to a hamburger, run away from both.0 -
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Several obviously but my huge weakness used to be Kraft Macaroni and Cheese! I could eat the whole box! I have gone since
January without it and I had it a few weeks ago it doesn't taste at all as good as I remember weird how our tastes change !
UGH, macaroni and cheese.. one of my favorite weaknesses. I used to be able to eat a whole box as well! I won't completely give it up because it's my favorite thing in the world, so I have switched to buying single serving whole grain macaroni and cheese cups.0 -
yes *kitten*!!!! That's what I say. All those damn commercials that everyone is happy because they have a Big Mac Value meal or any of the advertising that includes foods that make you fat and miserable. There is no disclaimer or warning that says- you will only be happy if you only eat this once every six months and eat healthy all the other times...
Eating became my crutch.. but on to the question
hamburgers, ff, cokes, chips, pastries, hostess ding dongs, little debbie snacks, fried chicken, mashed potatoes.0 -
Every thing. I loved everything that was pit in front of me. and enjoyed it all until it was gone.0
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Chocolate. Far far far far too much chocolate. Red wine. Matching my husband's portion sizes.
That combined with a sudden massive drop in activity levels.
I have upped the exercise levels, drastically cut down the chocolate and wine, and am not dishing out two equal plates for dinner any more...he's 6 inches taller than me and pretty much solid muscle...I should not be eating the same amount as him, lol.
I hope it works...0 -
Mine was never *what* I was eating, but the amount of it. I don't deprive myself of anything that I used to eat in bulk, I just make sure that I don't eat that amount of it lol!0
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CHINESE BUFFETS and pizza! Can't stop eating the stuff...0
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Looking back, I probably would've had more success answering the question, "Which foods DIDN'T make me fat?". :laugh:
Probably my main culprits were fast food & soda.0 -
Of course the foods alone didn't "make me fat," but there definitely were some hidden calories/fats in things I was eating that I didn't know about. The biggest one would probably be olive oil. Now, I love EVOO and still consume it pretty regularly. But in the past I was cooking with it, and that was before I realized that the fats in olive oil turn "bad" when heated past a certain point. So, even though I was cooking homemade curries and pans of veggies, the olive oil was really making me gain weight last summer. When I stopped cooking with it and instead used it more like a dressing (though sparingly) AFTER cooking my food, I saw a huge difference. My face suddenly slimmed down and some pesky pounds came off. I guess I was never actually overweight by a doctor's standards, but I definitely had plenty of extra fat (and still do; working on it). Here's one article I found about the negative effects of cooking with olive oil, but there are plenty more: http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/why-olive-oil-is-bad-for-your-stir-fry-580576.html
Other than that, it was the usual things: I was a nanny for the past year, so I got talked in to eating fast-food by the kid too much. Like Chik-fil-A, her favorite place to eat. I don't like ANY of their food. I'd be sitting there eating these soggy waffle fries just because I was so hungry (I worked 12 hour shifts with no break), only to not be satisfied nutritionally and to be fatter. Fast food is the devil! Sometimes I would opt for McDonald's salads, which I think taste pretty good, but I'm lactose-intolerant and the salads (except chicken) are ready-made and they can't leave off the cheese. And then if you get crispy chicken and use dressing . . . you're kidding yourself. Although I will say the salad at least didn't leave me feeling as sick as one of their cheeseburgers would.
The other thing that "made me fat" is bread. I love to cook meals for my friends/little brother, who lives with me. Now, sometimes the meals I would make weren't low-calorie/fat, but if I just had a small portion, I could work it into my daily intake without going over the limit. The problem, though, is always bread. If I make a couple loaves of French bread with garlic and olive oil for everyone to munch on before/during the meal, I end up eating like half of a loaf to myself. Needless to say, I haven't purchased bread in months.0 -
Crisps. I've never eaten a lot of fast food and other bad stuff, but I looove crisps. I'd have 3-4 big bags a week, which is just really not good. Now I only buy one bag on saturdays
I never got to the point of being really fat, but over the last 3 years I've been steadily gaining weight, and can't fit into my old jeans anymore. This summer I started not eating crisps and sweets during the week, being a bit more active, and seeing good results already. Yeey 
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