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What has been / is your biggest food pitfall?
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If I eat out I fall off the band wagon for a long time, especially if I eat too much pizza at once.0
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Trail mix. I can eat 6000 calories worth in an evening. I love that stuff so much.0
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Totally off topic here but I friggen' love your ticker!!! That is awesome!!!Crisps - especially Tayto, I could eat 12 bags in one sitting! They are my achilles heel, so much so, that I have cut them out from my lifestyle altogether, haven't had a single crisp in nearly 5 months.....and don't miss them one bit
LOL Thank you! Loved it myself when i found the pic, thought I had to use it as my ticker!0 -
My biggest food pitfall is any type of carbs. Breads, cakes, cookies, noodles ect. I've been really working on it though!0
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Gosh, I wish I had only one. First it was ice cream...and it is again. For whatever reason, right now I am craving hummus..and eating it also. But by far the BIGGEST pitfall is family leftovers! I love to cook and whenever I try something new (and it's not too well accepted) I just can't throw it away - so I generally end up eating it (over a few days).:embarassed:0
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CHEESE.. Yep a whole block of cheese, i would hold it like a candy bar! :huh:0
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office snackies are awfully tough to resist; I find that tracking everything through the day keeps me in line with them. However, I've been at this a month and I'm really getting tired of snacking on fruits and veggies! carrots, radishes, sugar snaps, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, I've been through it all. anyone got any ideas?0
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Brownies and ice cream used to be my pitfall, but these days, Cereal has been. I can go HAM on a box of cereal,don't matter the kind. Well, except maybe raisin bran...who eats raisin bran anyway?0
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and dang, it doesn't take much pizza at all to blow your calorie count!0
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Beer & Wine... leads to ..chips.. and cheese.. and then more late night snacking...0
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Chocolate. I love chocolate. I avoid it at work by not taking any change with me - can't get anything out of the vending machines without pocket change. At the grocery stores I have to walk around with blinders on, which isn't always easy. I try to give myself one day a week where I allow myself a chocolate bar. that way I'm not depriving myself completely and end up binging on the stuff.0
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Late night eating, Gas station cappucinos, and mindless nomming during video games...
This is my second time thru MFP. The first time I lost over 80 pounds. 280-197 in a year. I gained 40 back in a year by just going back to old habits. (see above)
Working on getting back into it with my wife and friends. We did great last time, I know we can do it again!0 -
Mine's got to be biscuits. They're at work, home, friend's houses, everywhere! I'm ok if I don't eat them but once I have one. . . Coca-cola has to be my other one but that's hardly ever in the house so it isn't as bad as the biscuits.0
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Cheese. But i just switch to the lower fat/healthier options/smaller portions.0
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Potato chips, chocolate & Boredom. I don't deny myself with the chips & the chocolate. I will buy a small individual size bag of chips or with chocolate a fun size bar but then I have to count it in my food diary. Boredom will make me eat so I try to keep busy & doing things. Since I have been working with a trainer this last 2 weeks that's been easier for me.0
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Had a great garden this year and with that came homemade salsa!!! Not too bad but the chips are killing me!!!0
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Late night eating, holidays, and fast food!0
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Cheese and cereal. I generally don't buy them, but occasionally I have a moment of weakness and they jump into my shopping cart at the grocery store. I just know they're only going to last a day or two, I just can NOT control my portions. So basically I just try really hard to not buy them in the first place.0
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Corn chips, potato chips, banana chips... no matter how they name 'em chips!! Boohoo! :frown:0
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Cheetos... I cannot be in the vicinity of a bag of cheetos without nomming down the whole bag. Especially the jalapeno ones. :I0
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Pastries, cake, cookies, bars, pie, banana bread, any kind of baked goodies. Before I decided to change my life and joined MFP I was eating crackers, Cheetos (with that nacho cheese in a cup for dipping!), chips, candy, chocolate, granola bars, donuts, pastries. If it was fattening, sweet, or had any kind of chewy gooey goodness, my lips were on it and I actually had danishes on my *kitten* to prove it! ;o)
I also am a pizza junkie. I need my pizza fix at least once a month.
But as for the goodies and Cheetos, I haven't touched a granola bar, donut, pastry, or Cheeto since April.
I pick my battles. And I also grab a low cal cheese stick or South Beach bar to curb the craves. Pizza, there are substitutes, and although I enjoy the substitutes, I gotta have REAL cheesy gooey pizza at least once a month.
My chocolate fixes are always cured with a chocolate peanut butter protein shake that I make myself. It is the bomb!0 -
For me its less about the actual item than it is not listening to my body. I can overeat unhealthy or healthy items equally, if I get in that moment where I've gone too long without eating and feel as though I need to eat everything in sight. It also comes down to preperation, beacuse I'm not the best at winging it.
But one thing that sticks out abover the rest: cereal. I can't control myself. I love it so much, and my boyfriend will eat a whole box in a sitting. I just have to pretend its not there :brokenheart:0 -
One of my favorite snacks is a tablespoon of peanut butter...now I just use a measuring spoon and stick to 1 0
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Late night eating, Gas station cappucinos, and mindless nomming during video games...
This is my second time thru MFP. The first time I lost over 80 pounds. 280-197 in a year. I gained 40 back in a year by just going back to old habits. (see above)
Working on getting back into it with my wife and friends. We did great last time, I know we can do it again!
I am so happy for your loss, but so sad it came back! Keep going! You did it before, you can do it again! ;o)0 -
Takeaway food. Chinese, Pizza, Indian, even Kebabs. I love it all!
In fact this post is just giving me cravings...
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Nutella... People ask me what I eat it with. I'm like "My fingers, duh!".0
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Bread and cheese typically... in the form of grilled cheese of course. Chocolate is sometimes a bad one as well as salty munching snacks like chips. I just don't buy them for right now or buy the individual size packs. Seems to help.0
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Peanut butter sandwiches, yummmmmmmm...0
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-Sugar in my coffee
-Thursday's in my office - It's bring a treat day
-Chocolate digestives - you dunk one, you dunk them all
-Any chinese food
-Rice (although I now replace with brocolli as it soaks up sauce and it's yum!)
-Chocolate, Dairy Milk is my favourite, small bars suck0 -
Any packaged brand of cookie with the word cream in it
Bread
Pasta
Jack Daniel's
Nutella
Cheerios
Bananas
Olives0
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