Foods You Refuse to Guve Up!

you can have all of those things just in moderation! last night I had a McDonald's ice cream cone. i take my kids to mcdonald's for ice cream every friday if they've had good grades. I'm so stringent the rest of the week, why not reward myself with an ice cream too? best of all they're only 170 calories.

i'd say whatever you don't want to give up is ok to keep but maybe pick one day a week to have it and use portion control. that way you get your fix without blowing your diet out of the water.

I love your post!

I have fast food once a week (and today's the day!!! Yay!!!). I refuse to take anything off the table, I would have given up by now if I had to do that to have success. So I still eat things that taste good, I am just more aware of how much tasty stuff I can eat. I (luckily) also love my veggies so I can have a small portion of tasty food with a big portion of yummy veggies and easily stay within my calories. That is the key to my "lifestyle" change. Consuming cans of powder and living off of seeds and nuts would not fit my life and would never be maintainable. I also say "screw" the ratios... I could never make them work out right! LOL

I haven't given up anything, just watch it now. But I will NEVER give up regular pasta. Wheat pasta is just nasty, no matter what anyone says.

Definitely bacon, dairy and red meat. I can cut down, but they will NEVER be completely out of my diet.

I am very lucky, I legitimately prefer brown rice to white rice, high fiber whole wheat bread to white bread and so on. It took some time, but now I can't stand white rice or white bread.

The only naughty things that have stayed consistently in my diet are white sugar and processed meats, though, now I eat a lot of turkey hot dogs and things like that.

I adore dark chocolate, hate the candy bars at the checkout lane, just too sweet. So, I guess for that I'm lucky, most of the time I honestly prefer the healthier option as the tastier option. I love popcorn, don't care about chips anymore.

I've gotten really picky about food I like. I'll eat icecream, but it has to be amazing icecream, not just the normal grocery store fare. Bakery items have to be real homemade treats, not anything with a chemical aftertaste.

When I was pregnant I had to cut back drastically on salt in an effort to curb high blood pressure due to preeclampsia. Since then my sense of taste has been very sharp and made a lot of foods I used to enjoy not even tolerable.

My "never again" list is very short, bordering on non-existant. However, I very rarely (knowingly) eat restaurant entrees that have more than a day's worth of sodium in them!
That being said, I refuse to give up Asian-style buffets, especially the sushi bar and the MTO grill! </Homer Simpson-style drool> At my worst I don't think I've even gone more than 5-6 times a year, that's especially hard since the 2nd best one in the entire metro area is 1.5 miles from my house! I think I've gone maybe twice in the past year, both times before joing MFP. Next time I go, it'll be a 'quick-add' entry for probably 3000 cals! :tongue
The same goes for Golden Corral buffet! I haven't been since they added the chocolate fountain and cotton candy machine. Dammit, now I gotta go find a 'food porn' thread to reign myself in! :laugh:

*Edit to add missing words

pie

Nuts!

I had to give up peanut butter while I try to lose weight. But I gotta have some kind of nuts. At least I can have a little bit of them in moderation.

Cheesecake