Foods that are sooo bad in small ammounts

6 sweets is a lot all at once!

I can appreciate the point he is making and I am surprised by the responses here. Most of us on here mindlessly eat small things or at least have in the past. We walk pass our coworkers candy dish and take one or two peices (there is no nutrition label available), we grab a couple of chips, we eat the last chicken nugget off our kid's plates. Then we do the same thing the next day. It adds up: the small things. We think "one piece" will not hurt. Also, for people saying he doesn't have self control, I think most of us don't or we wouldn't be on here trying to lose weight. This is why MFP is helping us, we either don't have as much self control as we would like or we overeat 'small' things as the OP is pointing out. If some of you are naturally perfect, good for you. But don't judge and be rude. We are supposed to be helping each other.

This made me think of a large amount of whiney posts on MFP where people complain that despite rigorously following diet x, y, or z or just plain calorie counting they have lost no weight and how this can only be for unfair reasons such as metabolism, illness or genetics. I always think .. no you ate too much!!! But the calories in this incredibly small random snack did make me, someone who has largely won the battle with food addiction and can have a tendency to somewhat look down on the struggling as any reformed smoker, junkie, eater, etc often does (I never warranted I was perfect or of particularly exemplary character at any point) ... It really makes you think what a fine balancing act all this is ... even if you just overate by that level a couple of times a week, let alone the odd calorie stacked takeaway its still a stone in a year (All though I do appreciate a takeaway can be fine in moderation and worked into your calories along with all other snack food - although you will make the job harder because eating lower carb/ fat food makes it easier to stick to your calorie goal)