What has been / is your biggest food pitfall?

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  • Verity1111
    Verity1111 Posts: 3,309 Member
    If I eat out I fall off the band wagon for a long time, especially if I eat too much pizza at once.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    Trail mix. I can eat 6000 calories worth in an evening. I love that stuff so much.
  • P05T5CRIPT
    P05T5CRIPT Posts: 285 Member
    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 :smile:
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  • healthywannabe15
    healthywannabe15 Posts: 17
    My biggest food pitfall is any type of carbs. Breads, cakes, cookies, noodles ect. I've been really working on it though!
  • Corjogo
    Corjogo Posts: 201 Member
    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:
  • MED2012COLORADO
    MED2012COLORADO Posts: 238
    CHEESE.. Yep a whole block of cheese, i would hold it like a candy bar! :huh:
  • CGBUN
    CGBUN Posts: 8
    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?
  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    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?
  • CGBUN
    CGBUN Posts: 8
    and dang, it doesn't take much pizza at all to blow your calorie count!
  • amberlykay1014
    amberlykay1014 Posts: 608 Member
    Beer & Wine... leads to ..chips.. and cheese.. and then more late night snacking...
  • KJ14
    KJ14 Posts: 287
    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.
  • xXMichigan_DJXx
    xXMichigan_DJXx Posts: 1
    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!
  • lucypaige_
    lucypaige_ Posts: 87
    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.
  • turquoise3
    turquoise3 Posts: 79 Member
    Cheese. But i just switch to the lower fat/healthier options/smaller portions.
  • ljoynes
    ljoynes Posts: 8 Member
    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.
  • Jkc9059
    Jkc9059 Posts: 151 Member
    Had a great garden this year and with that came homemade salsa!!! Not too bad but the chips are killing me!!!
  • mrsfickle
    mrsfickle Posts: 34 Member
    Late night eating, holidays, and fast food!
  • IslandDreamer64
    IslandDreamer64 Posts: 258 Member
    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.
  • elliemae207
    elliemae207 Posts: 45
    Corn chips, potato chips, banana chips... no matter how they name 'em chips!! Boohoo! :frown:
  • TrashyAbercrombie
    TrashyAbercrombie Posts: 51 Member
    Cheetos... I cannot be in the vicinity of a bag of cheetos without nomming down the whole bag. Especially the jalapeno ones. :I
  • bertabird
    bertabird Posts: 52
    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!
  • notyouraveragetalia
    notyouraveragetalia Posts: 223 Member
    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:
  • Jennifer_Lynn_1982
    Jennifer_Lynn_1982 Posts: 567 Member
    One of my favorite snacks is a tablespoon of peanut butter...now I just use a measuring spoon and stick to 1 :)
  • bertabird
    bertabird Posts: 52
    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)
  • _SABOTEUR_
    _SABOTEUR_ Posts: 6,833 Member
    Takeaway food. Chinese, Pizza, Indian, even Kebabs. I love it all!

    In fact this post is just giving me cravings... :/
  • Alexdur85
    Alexdur85 Posts: 255 Member
    Nutella... People ask me what I eat it with. I'm like "My fingers, duh!".
  • rebeccap13
    rebeccap13 Posts: 754 Member
    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.
  • Nickle526
    Nickle526 Posts: 239 Member
    Peanut butter sandwiches, yummmmmmmm...
  • Rachielous
    Rachielous Posts: 80 Member
    -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 suck
  • bananabrownie
    bananabrownie Posts: 32
    Any packaged brand of cookie with the word cream in it
    Bread
    Pasta
    Jack Daniel's
    Nutella
    Cheerios
    Bananas
    Olives

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