What foods do you think made you fat?

Very clearly, 4th grade...back in the day, "Pick-a-balloon Hot Fudge Sundae" at SS Kresgees. They suspended a string above the soda fountain, and you got to pop one balloon upon ordering. That would reveal how much $$ you got discounted from the price of one Sundae. I went almost every single day. Alone. No supervision. Ice cream=comfort food=save $$=thrill.

Portion control was a nemisis too, I spent lots of time alone, if I wanted more, I just ate it, developing really bad habits.

Today, butter and cheese call my name. The last 7 months is just the beginning of my re-programming...I got this.

Ice cream and butter.

I got fat from eating big portions of otherwise healthy food!

This is the reason why alot of people are here, I remember my Mum giving me huge dinners and I would try eat them but never really finished them it was ok when I was young as I was always active, once I moved out I would eat big meals and not do much then bang your get fat.

to OP I agree there are bad foods, they are foods that do not occur in nature. For me it is not the food but the amount that I ate, and like you crunchy salty items

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.

I quite agree with you!

Fast food. Though I just tapered off in the past few years, I used to eat it constantly.

Liquid calories: Soda, of course, but mostly creamer for coffee...I mean, I drank it all the time, all day, loaded (like half of the cup) with liquid flavored creamer.

This thread makes me want to eat. Can't read about all the junk food and yummy homemade foods.

for me it was white rice, soda, & McDonalds. I ate more white rice than I ever did when I got married. I would also drink so much regular soda, then turn to diet soda for a few years but now I drink mostly water or teas (unsweetened).

Buffalo chicken wings. Discovered them and ate about 6 each night as a snack. What a huge mistake that was. Had no idea they contained so many calories or so much fat. I gained about 15 pounds in a few months.

For me this food would be peanut butter!

Not bad for you at all, but for me I used to just eat huge amounts of it. Now I rarely eat it. I had a peanut butter protein bar recently, it was all right. I didn't lose control or anything LOL.

all of them.

Discovering baking, eating lovely warm fresh cake, biscuits, bread etc whilst on Maternity leave.

Pasta & bread.

My main downfall always has been and always will be carbs!

When I was a teenager and got fat for the first time, it was two things. First, we moved to this wretched state and I got no exercise anymore.

Second, I was off the parental dietary leash. My mother, bless her good intentions, was a bit too strict about what we could and couldn't eat, while allowing us from time to time to have treat foods. So we had a taste for treats but rare access to them, a horrible combination.

Anyway, as soon as I could have all the foods I was forbidden or that were rationed by my parents, I disposed of a ridiculous amount of my first income at the convenience store on giant bags of Doritos, chocolate syrup to go in milk, and well, just about chocolate everything else, plus assorted candies with various dyes and artificial flavoring. I was in pigout heaven and even though I knew that stuff wasn't good for me, it never even occurred to me until I was twenty pounds overweight that it could make me fat.

Every time I've gotten fat since has been on foods like that, and McDonalds. They're high fat, high salt, high sugar, high chocolate foods. It wasn't the taste I was after, because I know enough about how all of our foods are made that eating really grosses me out when I stop to think about it, but the chemical reaction in my (very ADHD) brain always kept me going back for more. I wanted that calm, happy feeling, and those foods always gave me that.

 

Pasta, take aways and chocolate/sweets - most definitely! I mean, they would be fine in moderation or in small quantities but my problem is that I would never know when to stop and would tons at a time . That is what made me fat, large quantities of unhealthy food.