What are your "red lines" foods and why?

I think for me it's not as much specific foods as it is going out to eat with a group, it puts my head in celebration mode, and it is far far to easy to just forget I'm trying to watch things entirely. I had gotten quite used to ordering appetizer, main dish and desert (though often bringing some home) and I have to be very mindful or I end up ordering far more than I meant to. I'm not one to eat a lot of deep fried, but still ...something like fajitas doesn't sound bad, but with all the extras and the portion size it adds up to huge.

As far as foods at home though..I have hard timer resisting home made or home baked chocolate chip cookies or brownies. If I make some I really need to make an effort to put some out of sight or give them away, because they will just keep haunting me. For cookies I've mostly thrwarted this by getting the frozen kind from trader joes. If I only bake two I can only eat two without putting in extra effort. If I go to my dad's and my sis has made him a big plate of homemade I can't seem to stop nibbling.

If get a half galllon of ice cream it gets freezerburned long before I eat it all, chips go stale, donuts who cares, but chocolate chip cookies..woowee.

Edited to add - and reading through the posts I forgot one other..milkshakes. Luckily they are a bit harder to come by at home, but every so often I get a really intense craving for them, and my house is very near both a dairy queen drive through and a baskin robbins drive through. I could even walk to the dairy queen. I used to get bigger ones, now I only get small or even kiddie if they will give it to me, but if I remember right even at DQ small is like 600 calories and insane fat. Better off getting ice cream.

Anything fried - ESPECIALLY french fries
Anything with heavy cream
Bacon
Donuts

Cannot eat just one of any of those- so just say no from the get go

taco.......... freakin......... bell...... ugh

x2!! Also, pizza (pizza + lactose intolerant= a cranky, overeater), lemon bars, and anything butterscotch, especially cook & serve pudding (love eating it warm)!

Freakin' Doritos. I use to eat the entire bag, family size. Had to cold turkey those out of my life!

Then Chinese food because growing up they were big portions for cheap and what my family could afford when we "went out", lol. So no more of those cute Chinese restaurants to send my lifestyle into a spiral!

Pasta, Bread, Pasta, Bread and did I mention Carbs in general?? Also, living in the Buffalo area we have the best wings at every bar, pizza place, even Wegmans (local grocer) does great wings!

I also had to redline fast food and take out....... cuz within a short walk from home I could hit up a Dunkin donuts, Tim horton (DD's competition from Canada!) Mighty Taco (so much better than Taco Bell!) McD's, Burger King, Arby's and Wendy's!!! Not to mention 3 diners and about a dozen pizza and wing places :grumble:

Pizza, chips, crisps, cookies, cake.mmm cake.

So I try and make a cheaper healthier version of most of these items. Never thought bean brownies could be so YUMMY!

Chocolate - The darker the better
Fruit - Silly to add this, however, sometimes I can't stop at 1 or 2 fruits per sitting...Rather, I'll eat 8 - 10 servings... : /
Nuts - Cashews, Pistachios, Walnuts, Peanuts, Almonds.....keep ALL nuts away from me otherwise there will be trouble!!

I don't know how get my portion control....under control with these foods. Except fruit....it all depends on the day or the week, to be honest....Yesterday I had 2 apples, 1 banana and 6 persimmons after dinner....but that was a good day. lol

Sweets.. Not chocolate, I have no problem with that (strangely enough) but stuff like gummy bears or those gummy cherries.. They will be the death of me I tell you!

Rice, Sweets, chips and all kinds of junk :grumble: lol

Kettle-cooked salt & vinegar chips. I could probably polish off a bag in a day without even thinking about it! lol. So yeah, I don't keep them in the house.

Kettle-cooked salt & vinegar chips. I could probably polish off a bag in a day without even thinking about it! lol. So yeah, I don't keep them in the house.

Oh definitely. I have a serious case of slug-mouth before I'm ready to put down the salt and vinegar potato chips

Ordering out at all. I am a cook by nature so I know something is wrong when I am ordering food. There is no healthy way to do it, at least in my area, and it means I need to get by butt off the couch and do some grocery shopping and major kitchen cleaning!

Let's see...what is on my NEVER BUY list..... Cookies of any kind, cereal, CHEESE, ice cream, pastries, and I'm sure there's others I'm forgetting - and since it's better that way, I won't try too hard to remember!

Absolutely wine or a beer while I'm cooking supper. Its been my treat to motivate me to cook for my family after a long day of work. It relaxes me and brings out my inner gourmet goddess. Unfortunately it also brings out my appetite and my goddess is now FAT. So its my hardest habit to stop cause I still have to cook everyday- so the craving is still there.

Chips, chips, chips and doughnuts. Especially doughnut holes from the local grocery store. I can polish off a box of those in 10 minutes. Ugh. So I don't even walk by those things in the grocery store. Too much temptation.