What is the one thing you gave up to lose weight (if any)?

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  • patentguru
    patentguru Posts: 312 Member
    Most- high glycemic foods- especially flour, starch (except sweet potatoes), sugar, syrups-I just feel like crap after eating any of them. When I have a sugar craving I eat some honey, usually with a protein such as zero fat greek yogurt.
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    Cereal has been one of my personal downfalls, too. Especally kid's cereals, the high-sugar ones. I could eat almost a box a day! I've since cut that out, but it's really hard sometimes!
  • pbrazina
    pbrazina Posts: 10
    Sugar as well as artificial sweeteners... No more Sweet and Low or anything (if it can be helped) with artificial sweeteners like Crystal Light. :(

    I do use agave and Stevia to sweeten things.
  • SarahCW1979
    SarahCW1979 Posts: 572 Member
    Well it wasnt fast food, I have 'issues' with who prepares my food and where so I never ate that anyway, never ate from street stands either. All Ive done is cut down my portion sizes. I didnt want to give anything up!!
  • Gemalar
    Gemalar Posts: 301 Member
    Ive cute back on my two loves.....red wine and skittles. I haven't cut them out totally because I only want them more then end up on a massive pig out and wake up on a sugar low n hungover lol......everything in moderation I say:happy:
  • RadioactivePirate
    RadioactivePirate Posts: 212
    I gave up my time.

    I used to have tons of free time to just lounge around, knit, watch tv, read, whatever. Now I go to the gym. I can't make plans on MWF because those are my gym evenings, and my plans on Saturday often start with telling someone "Well I'm going to the gym first, so it'll have to be a little later." And then there's all the time spent cooking, logging, planning everything.

    And I gave up being able to just decide what I want when I get hungry. Now it's all planned and cooked ahead.
  • JayStu
    JayStu Posts: 332 Member
    I gave up soda except when I use it as mix
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Cottage cheese
  • SorrowsTengo
    SorrowsTengo Posts: 18 Member
    I gave up a life.....for a new one...one without fast food, greese, sweets, bread or pop......and I'm happy in doing so and much healthier....
  • 504Crystal
    504Crystal Posts: 26 Member
    Fast food for the most part (maybe once a month) and I don't drink soda at all anymore. Only when I'm having a migraine and I need a rush of caffeine to take my meds with and I'll have one of those really small cans.
  • xilka
    xilka Posts: 308 Member
    Second helpings and cocktails.
  • gogoyubarino
    gogoyubarino Posts: 104 Member
    I gave up my self-loathing and negative mindset.
  • BobbieLee1959
    BobbieLee1959 Posts: 605 Member
    Stopped pop and sitting on the sofa...:)
  • mohanj
    mohanj Posts: 381 Member
    Rice.
  • surromom2010
    surromom2010 Posts: 457 Member
    non sugar free monsters/energy drinks. I'll drink a sugarfree one once in a while, but for the most part I stopped high caffeine beverages as a whole.
  • peanutbutterpretzels
    peanutbutterpretzels Posts: 122
    - energy drinks
    - white bread
    - whole milk (for the most part)
    - sandwiches with peanut butter and nutella
    - enchiladas ;(
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    eating too much
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    EXCUSES
  • terracotti
    terracotti Posts: 101 Member
    I no longer drink coke and other carbonated drinks. good news, they make me wanna throw up now.
  • ActiveGuy81
    ActiveGuy81 Posts: 705 Member
    For me, I am a big tv and movie person. When I get off work, I work out. But I would use the excuse of I will workout after X show and then get comfortable and not workout. So the saying A body in motion stays in motion and a body at rest stays at rest is true. I just had to discipline myself to workout first and I can always watch the show later.

    Pizza is my main food weakness that I really fight to give up.
  • angiechimpanzee
    angiechimpanzee Posts: 536 Member
    I've stopped buying oreo cakesters, packaged cookies/cakes, chocolate bars/candy. The only time I'll eat those things are like once in a blue moon, or if I go to a party or something, or if someone offers me one and I have enough calories to spare. but they're definitely no longer part of my regular diet anymore (i used to eat *kitten* like that EVERY DAY)

    I don't even touch cold cereals anymore. They never fill me & are full of sugar and are way too easy to overeat. If I have cereal I just stick to flavored oatmeal. I also never get french fries anymore with fast food meals. When I do go out for fast food (which again has become super rare), I have just the burger/sandwich and nothing else.

    Also I stay away from white bread/grains. When I do eat grains, I want them to be whole.

    I don't even see it as "giving up" anything. I just don't want most of that stuff anymore. It doesn't benefit me. If I do have chocolate/dessert type things, that's like a "treat". But other things I simply no longer care for.
  • Hitem20
    Hitem20 Posts: 121
    Fried chicken wings and beer
  • bethygirlie
    bethygirlie Posts: 311 Member
    diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and a unhappy life.
  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    ice cream (because i just cant eat that stuff in moderation). and all liquid calories besides protein shakes and milk occassionally.
  • pullipgirl
    pullipgirl Posts: 767 Member
    I gave up soft drinks except I still drink ginger ale in November, it is the only thing that works getting rid of the nagging cough
  • dmclaughlin123
    dmclaughlin123 Posts: 4
    Gave up the idea I was supposed to eat three meals a day with a desert or something sweet in the evening. I also had a milk addiction. Now it's one meal at lunch (low cal),two smaller meals, couple of healthy snacks. And milk is basiclly out of my diet now. Water drinker.
  • lady_arlia
    lady_arlia Posts: 3 Member
    Meat, eggs, and almost all dairy. I didn't even have to watch what I was eating for the first 22lbs I lost, it just came off.
  • elisha8685
    elisha8685 Posts: 20
    BBBBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR.... Didn't quite give it up, just cut down on it a whole bunch! The sugar calories in the delicious high gravity beers will add fluff weight quickly.

    Unfortunately, Fat Tire gave me a Flat Tire :(
  • elisha8685
    elisha8685 Posts: 20
    Hah! My wife has forbidden me from Ice Cream, I ate a $7.00 Tub of Blue Bell in three days.... By accident :D
  • pholbert
    pholbert Posts: 575 Member
    nothing.. I still eat everything I used to in moderation.
    THIS^

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