what are your trigger foods and how to avoid binging on them

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  • maz2469
    maz2469 Posts: 67 Member
    i'm loving fish pates at the mo - tuna / mackrel... on brown toast with butter of course!

    Otherwise french bread, cheese, pizza, sweets, wine, cookies, chips (french fried) are all too easy to consume! I love food a lot but I'm finding my self satisfied more easily now. we brought a couple of big sweet bags back from eurodisney 3 weeks ago which are awfully morish - i'm thinking if we eat them now, they'll no longer be in the house, but at 30 kcals a pop it's quite easy to over indulge, although the fact they've lasted this long is an achievement in itself (for us!)!

    Frozen grapes have been a fantastic solution to my sweet tooth cravings by night :)
  • chooriyah
    chooriyah Posts: 469 Member
    Potato chips/crisps. if I take the bag into the living room, it's all over, I'll finish the whole bag. The only way I can eat them is to count out a serving, put it in a bowl and stash away the remainder. Even then it's touch and go.
  • ChantalFiset
    ChantalFiset Posts: 32 Member
    For me it was chips, once I open a bag, no matter how big it is, I just can't stop. So I've decided to stop for good and it's been 3 years I haven't touched one.

    I have stopped drinking soda at the same time, and the only exception used to be when I had trouble with digestion, I used to drink a few sips of ginger ale, Since I have started using MFP, I haven't needed it cause I eat a lot better now.

    Since I have started using MFP, I haven't had fries... the last trigger food for me... 7 weeks today! But if I ever get a big craving, I will have 4-5 fries, just to say I have satisfied my craving.
  • davert123
    davert123 Posts: 1,568 Member
    My trigger is anything with refined sugar it - the solution to anything like this is very simple - don't eat any of it at all (not just a little bit)
  • Mveler
    Mveler Posts: 274 Member
    Chips! Chocolate.
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    you know those foods that once you start eating you just can't stop ? :) I'm a self proclaimed peanut butter addict. it's soo hard to stop once I open a jar up, it's so yummy. what are yours?

    Scarily high in calories, too. One jar has 1800 calories! But I do like the taste. Something nice about spooning peanut butter into my mouth.
  • Spokez70
    Spokez70 Posts: 548 Member
    Chips and salsa- my wife and I ate lunch at Chili's a couple weeks ago and when we ordered they said it would be cheaper if we got the special which came with an appetizer so we got the chips and salsa thinking we would just have a few chips each. The food was so slow we ended up demolishing the entire order of chips and the waitress tried to give us more. Better to just completely avoid them because eating 'a few' is not an option.
  • RawVeganFlirt
    RawVeganFlirt Posts: 189 Member
    anything high fat really, nuts / nut butter / vegan ice cream / fried food / dark chocolate. you name it...
  • sweetbeckymarie
    sweetbeckymarie Posts: 144
    I don't buy them, sadly. I just cleared out my food supply of anything I eat without control. Cottage cheese, frozen yogurt/ice cream, nuts, cereal, jars of peanut butter, big bags of pretzels, etc. I threw them away and have decided to buy individual portions. I also think I may buy cereal and pre bag it into proper portions..it's far to easy to munch right out of the box! At target and whole foods they carry individual packets of justin's peanut butter which is amazing and walmart carries ind. of pb and co peanut butter. It costs more to buy individual packets of things but if I have no self control then I know it's what I need to do.
  • trophywife24
    trophywife24 Posts: 1,472 Member
    Anything sugary.... which includes fruit. I'm a total s-l-u-t for sugar. I indulge here and there but it's just another thing for me to track and watch.
  • RiverMelSong
    RiverMelSong Posts: 456 Member
    White wine and cheese.. :(
  • Ghkffb56
    Ghkffb56 Posts: 263 Member
    oh ummm gee!!! ^^
    Cookies and Cookies and Cookies and more Cookies and Cookies and cookies >.> I dont eat them... i can never just have ONE! cookies are sewious >.>!!! but when i do! i EAT THEM ALL >:D

    ANYTHING pumpkin!! pumpkin pie and pumpkin pie ice cream ! good thing its like a 3 month thing for pumpkins ^^

    French bread! from safeway! omg!!!!! .. <3!
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    I don't have any particular food that makes me *want* to binge. For me, it's more of a psychological frame of mind. Food days at work make me want to binge because there are so many yummy things and it's all free. :laugh:
  • Alexandrareczska
    Alexandrareczska Posts: 10
    Peanut butter anything specially ice cream i can eat the whole big conteiner by myself :( but i found the way to stop .. i put pictures of fit bodies i would like to have on the fridge and all over the house and as my screen savers and that keeeps me going and not cheathing
  • sin485
    sin485 Posts: 125 Member
    you know those foods that once you start eating you just can't stop ? :) I'm a self proclaimed peanut butter addict. it's soo hard to stop once I open a jar up, it's so yummy. what are yours?

    biscuits!
  • rachelw16
    rachelw16 Posts: 90
    Peanut butter, salted mixed nuts, and cereal. Currently trying to teach myself moderation with all three
  • mariieexo
    mariieexo Posts: 24
    i'm the same way, i can eat one serving of pb with an apple or toast but give me a spoon and the jar and i could just eat the whole thing. wah!
  • MogwaisGrandma
    MogwaisGrandma Posts: 195 Member
    White bread, you know the lovely, squishy, soft stuff? I cant have it anywhere near me especially if there's marmite in the house!

    Ha ha me too. When there is none in the house I am fine. Once a loaf hits the kitchen I go mad with it. Toast with scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, poached eggs. Toast with marmite, jam or marmalade. Sandwiches with ANYTHING I can put in it. Soup and bread. You get the picture. I no longer keep butter/spread in the house and it helps discourage me buying bread.

    Also Malteasers. They are the Pringles of the confectionery world. An open box is an empty box!
  • pwittek10
    pwittek10 Posts: 723 Member
    CAKE!
  • fitnhealthy21
    fitnhealthy21 Posts: 96
    Pizza :( I can't just eat one piece!!
  • LeenaRuns
    LeenaRuns Posts: 1,309 Member
    All of the above! Well, pretty much.

    Chips, peanut M&Ms, peanut butter, nutella...I think those are the worst for me.

    ETA: I don't have a solution, so I'm defintiely open to suggestions!
  • angelique_redhead
    angelique_redhead Posts: 782 Member
    Trisket especially the rosemary flavored. I have to count out a serving, put the box back and then LEAVE IT ALONE!
  • torrini
    torrini Posts: 78 Member
    It used to be crisps but now it's candy :I And I guess I should also say diet coke because even if it doesn't have any calories, it makes me crave a ton of unhealthy stuff.
  • anaboneana
    anaboneana Posts: 195 Member
    anything sweet.. especially candy, chocolate, cookies, cupcakes, etc.

    i don't keep them around... if i reallyyyyyy really want something, i force myself to get off my butt to go out and get it (most of the time my laziness wins that battle, so i end up staying at home and taking a nap instead of wasting my time/money at the store). also, fruit. i've noticed that if i don't eat a certain amount of fruit, i start really craving sweets. (sugar/carbs? i guess.. dunno.)
  • Ayola83
    Ayola83 Posts: 5
    My trigger foods:

    Ravioli, especially the Chef Boyardee brand, was definitely a trigger food. I'd eat the whole can by myself. If it wasn't for the fact that other people were living in my house, I'd eat another if I could. Due to cutting off wheat and pasta, I no longer eat it.

    Cereal with almond milk was my "crack." Before I started on MFP, I'd eat a 3-cup bowl of cereal and would finish it, then get another one! There were days that I'd finish a box all on my own in one day (my brother and sister HATED that). The favorites? Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Froot Loops, and Golden Grahams. Special mention: Honey Nut Cheerios! I no longer eat this either, but I consume the milk with a banana (or two if possible).

    A lot of the foods that I used to eat were wheat based: crackers, cookies, cake, bread, cereal, etc. I couldn't get enough! Now I no longer eat these foods (or if I do, I stop at a cup or a serving, but thankfully it hasn't been often since I started).
  • sannsk
    sannsk Posts: 203 Member
    My mom's lasagna :blushing: I could finish the whole oven dish (4-persons). God, that lasagna is good :-D I avoid it now, it's easier now that I don't live at my mom's anymore :)
    Mac & Cheese and Spaghetti are also treacherous :)
    oh, and soup! Could eat the whole pot!
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Chips and dip.
  • deadgirl81
    deadgirl81 Posts: 412 Member
    Probably just easier to say everything for me I think, especially at the moment.

    Pepsi is my downfall at the moment though - if I have a rum & coke/pepsi, it has to be full fat - just doesnt taste right with diet drinks (Then again maybe I should add rum to my trigger food - once I start I don't want to stop :smile: )
  • szonjakun
    szonjakun Posts: 94 Member
    For me it's mainly chocolate, so I try to avoid having it at home. And ice cream is the same. I just can't stop and put it back to the freezer. (=___=;;)
    Every time I go shopping I usually spend about a good 5-10 minutes looking at the chocolates, cookies and so, but most of the time I get home without buying any of them.
  • Off10h8ed
    Off10h8ed Posts: 282 Member
    Pastry...

    I can't even buy donuts because if I do, that is all I will eat... until they are completely gone...
    I have been donut and sweet roll free since I have started this journey.
    I figured once I get much closer to goal, I will re-introduce them but only purchase one at a time.
    No dozens at a time for me anymore...

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