Cutting out Chips, Soda, Chocolate..All Junk food!

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  • turkeyhunter60
    turkeyhunter60 Posts: 319 Member
    I lLOVE sweets, and other junk food, but have tried rela hard to just back way down. I don't drink regular Coke anymore. I am eating three reasonably meals with snacks in between, like apples, protein bars, oatmeal, carrot stick, small oranges, etc. Good luck. I still eat cake at family gatherings, just a smaller piece. I can still stick a sheet full of cookies in the oven, but share them with coworkers, instead of eating them all! I wish you all of the luck, strength, and courage in the world. It's tough, but the benefits are good.
  • laurencal
    laurencal Posts: 3 Member
    Frozen grapes are a great dessert alternative! I love ice cream and sugary cereals, so it's hard for me to completely cut those out. But I noticed when I snack on frozen grapes, I crave those bad foods less.
  • casscette
    casscette Posts: 1
    I did this for two weeks and fell hard when I allowed myself to have some. I think if you're going cold turkey, you gotta go for however long it takes for you to stop craving junk before you dip back in. Good luck!
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
    Hello everyone!
    I really want to cut out Chips, soda's, chocolate, and everything called Junk! I wanted to ask if any of you have any advice or if any of you had success with this?? Thanks y'all! :heart:


    I forgot to add! ( Ill be eating some of what the above on saturday's but also in moderation. )

    I cannot eat moderate chocolate or chips, lol! Thats why I thought discipline will be good for me.

    I eat chips--organic blue potato chips--on my heavier exercise days. I eat lightly sweetened chocolate (I make it myself with unsweetened baker's chocolate and glucose instead of sucrose--don't ask why unless you want to be bored with bio-chem). I also eat that on my heavier exercise days. I need the extra calories on those days. When you eat more nourishing food, you are satisfied with a LOT less. I do not eat sucrose nor do I eat wheat (again, the bio-chemistry is important to me) and it leaves a lot more room in my diet for more nourishing fare. I find that the more well-nourished I am, the less I am inclined to binge on anything. But cutting out sucrose is important because sucrose (and specifically, the fructose portion of it) has an "anti-satiety" effect. Chocolate, as long as it is lightly glucose-sweetened, is non-addictive AND it is actually GOOD for you, believe it or not. It is one of the few food substances that actually helps your body to repair damaged DNA. Green tea has similar benefits. :smile:

    p.s. I can't think of a healthy substitute for soda. Best to just cut it out. The phosphoric acid that it contains is bad for the teeth and bones anyway. I drink a LOT of water with a squeeze of organic lemon in it (and because it is organic, you can throw the peel right in your glass of water where it takes up the d-limonine--which is good for knocking off stray bacteria and viruses in the body).
  • WINDYBEE45
    WINDYBEE45 Posts: 2
    I really believe that moderation is the key. keep up the good work.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    No chocolate??? :sick: Can't live without it!! :bigsmile: Moderation. moderation. :happy:
  • 37434958
    37434958 Posts: 457 Member
    Lol Christianwife SO TRUE! <3
  • jennifermarie16144
    jennifermarie16144 Posts: 33
    I am a coke a holic! I love my soda, especially in the morning, but I know how bad it is for me. So, instead of eliminating it all together, I cut back from 4 to 1 a day. Giving it up all together is only asking for failure. Best of luck!
  • taalcorn
    taalcorn Posts: 6
    Like others have previously posted, try not to keep these items in the house. If you want to snack, then try fresh fruit or vegetables to munch on. I like to keep carrots, and apples available all the time. Nothing beats apple slices and peanut butter for a delicious quick snack. If you like flavor in your drinks you can do what I did. I purchased several flavors of the MIO water flavors. They have 0 calories, and there is a lot of variety. For the purists out there, I know they have sucralose as a sweetener, but it is much better than all the sugar you get in soda. I was a junk food binger for years, and now I am trying to eat healthier.
  • MayaSPapaya
    MayaSPapaya Posts: 735 Member
    I don't believe in cutting stuff like that out, maybe it's just me, but if I did that I would only end up bingeing on them later.
    My problem was I would eat those things in much larger quantities than their serving sizes. Now, I measure out or take out the serving size and allow myself to enjoy it.
    Moderation is key.
  • ajhugz
    ajhugz Posts: 452 Member
    Hello everyone!
    I really want to cut out Chips, soda's, chocolate, and everything called Junk! I wanted to ask if any of you have any advice or if any of you had success with this?? Thanks y'all! :heart:


    I forgot to add! ( Ill be eating some of what the above on saturday's but also in moderation. )

    I cannot eat moderate chocolate or chips, lol! Thats why I thought discipline will be good for me.

    I have cut out soda minus an occasional root beer which wasn't my soda of choice to start with lol. I never tell myself I can't have something because it takes an emotional toll on me in the grocery store or at home when someone else has it. I say I can have it but I don't want it and I remind myself why I don't want it. I tried giving up chips but I don't really want to. I eat more tortilla chips than any other kind. WHen i have doritos, I try to have them with a meal and not as a snack. When its a snack I fill up on the chips but with the meal I can eat 1 serving and not crave more. I switched from milk chocolate to dark chocolate. Its different but I don't eat it as much and it still gives me chocolate. Milk chocolate hurts my tooth and dark chocolate doesn't. I don't know why, I just accept it. You can learn to eat in moderation if you want to. Start by consciously eating less than you used to and gradually eat less and less. You'll be happier and maintain eating less of your favorite junk food. Be realistic, can you be happy forever eating no junk food at all? I can't so 'm learning how to still have it, just not enough to keep me fat. :-)
  • Ge0rgiana
    Ge0rgiana Posts: 1,649 Member
    I'm offended that you listed "chocolate" as junk food. :noway:
  • sallydurkin
    sallydurkin Posts: 211 Member
    I have given them up for many months now, 6+ months I did indulge in the summer but before that I had given them up for about 6 months prior to that. My husband has been free from them for over a year. I have no cravings sure sometimes I want it but it nothing compared to the "NEED" the "HAVE TO HAVE" "ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT" craving I use to have before I stopped haveing any, I tried moderation, kudos to those who could do it but I had no self control. Totally cutting it out worked for me, and we've decided we'e enjoyed the benefits so much that this is our lifestyle change, why do we need it? We've gone through a whole calander year done everyone's birthday found alternatives for celebrations why do we need it, is what we are now thinking. Good luck in what you try. I believe everyone is different and what works for some may or may not work for others, for us this worked and loved it.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,032 Member
    If one can completely cut out a food, one can learn how to moderate. It's a habitual thing. First rule of moderation (say with a bag of chips):
    Don't eat out of the bag.

    Take some out of the bag and put it in a bowl or holder.

    Next: Don't go back and refill. You learn habits by following them.

    My clients have good experience with little to no regain in weight because they learned how to moderate the foods they absolutely like to eat.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • jcreighton48
    jcreighton48 Posts: 18 Member
    Cutting out soda for me was easily the hardest part, I tend to always be drinking something and only water got kind of old! I used Mio quite a bit, which made it a lot less boring! I know part of my success definitely came from quitting soda!
  • dheiges
    dheiges Posts: 1
    try flavored sparkling water. tastes awesome!
  • Inshape13
    Inshape13 Posts: 680 Member
    This took me a while to master with the "moderation". In the beginning I would completely eliminate all of these foods and then have a binge day by the end of the week so I decided to do diet soda every now and again like at a restaurant if I chose a drink, the chips were never really an issue and I LOVE my sweets so I found subs for those. Your body will get used to it, but plan on probably 3 weeks for it to be second nature to choose those foods and not miss the original versions.....or that is how long it took me. There are still trigger foods which I avoid like the plague, but you CAN do this and eat healthy. Best wishes and good luck!
  • CBeland2013
    CBeland2013 Posts: 23
    I cut out the junk and found really good alternatives, so that I can still get my "fix." lol. I eat nutella-banana-oatmeal cookies to still get that chocolate cookie feel. I found really good chip alternatives - pop chips, veggie chips, savory mini rice cakes, and peanut butter crackers! Yum! I also found that a sweet nut mix can be really yummy, and very filling!! Instead of soda, juice, and flavored waters - fruit infused water!! It's delish and has SO many benefits. I had already been exercising my butt off (literally!! lol), but changing that part of my diet got me to the next level in my health and in my weight loss.
  • CBeland2013
    CBeland2013 Posts: 23
    Oh! and smoothies!! Yum!!
  • beatleschic87
    beatleschic87 Posts: 260 Member
    Way to go!
    You will be seriously suprised as to how great you feel after a week or so.
    For help with cravings make sure that you get your "sweet tooth" fix from fruit. There are a lot of amazing fruits out there!
    I mash up bananas and freeze them for my version of ice cream. That being said though, I will allow myself to have a "treat" here and there just as long as it's in moderation. If I'm craving some chips, I'll take a handful and eat them but put away the rest of the bag. Allowing a treat will help you not binge.
  • oskybosky4
    oskybosky4 Posts: 62
    5 weeks ago I was having chocolate bars, crisps, biscuits, fizzy drinks every day. 4 weeks ago I started with a support group run by my local health authority, led by a dietician and a physio. I now am careful about portion sizes, eat less bread and butter, and only a couple of plain biscuits as a snack. I can have 3 meals and 3 snacks. I use the food diary on MFP every day and am always just under my calorie allowance and never hungry. Best of all I do not even want chocolate or crisps anymore. When I want a fizzy drink I have a diet drink.
    I am having difficulty to remember to drink water, a cup of tea is much more enticing in this cold weather. I am also struggling with th exercise but I am losing weight and the exercise might become more appealing when there is less of me to haul around.
  • sandobr1
    sandobr1 Posts: 319 Member
    It can be hard, I could eat chips all day everyday, or at least I used to be able too. I found for these things I like and don't want to give up all together, healthier alternatives. I found for my salty fixes roasted brussel sprouts, like seriously delicious my 7 year old now begs for them, we/I eat them several times a week. Also fried chick peas/garbonzo beans.


    Roasted Brussel sprouts:
    Get fresh, half or quarter and drizzle with olive oil, I use about 1 TBLS for about 2 cups chopped up brussel sprouts. Sprinke with salt. Roast in oven at 400 degrees, set timer for 12 minutes, shuffle/turn/mix up and roast another 10 minutes. If you need a little added flavor to start getting used to eating brusses sprouts a little butter will really make them outstanding. My 7 year old likes the blackened leaves, she calls them french fries and now I peel quite a few leaves just for her.

    Garbonzo beans
    Rinse and drain a can of garbonzo beans, in garlic and olive oil saute in pan until dried out some, they will pop and sizzle a bit, they will get slightly browned, season with paprika and salt.

    I too am in the moderation camp of course it can be hard, also you don't have to change everything all at once, focus on one item master it move onto another. Once you are losing it can be motivating to make more changes to keep losing. I also like to eat as much as possible and find by eating healthier alternatives I can eat more of them, for me more is better :smile:
  • xjckemx
    xjckemx Posts: 95 Member
    I personally wouldn't cut it out. You can eat fast food, chips, chocolate, pop, candy, etc while losing weight. Just lower the portion and don't consume it as often. I don't like cutting anything out as i would rather learn to eat the things I love but in a better way.

    Agree with this. Everything in moderation. I cannot live without chocolate or a glass wine on a Saturday. So I have them but they fit into my calories and its great. I try and eat ok during week. Life to short to deprive yourself of a little naughtiness every now and again!!
  • Luvmesumkenny
    Luvmesumkenny Posts: 779 Member
    I guess no Pop-Tart Ice cream sammiches for you.

    Never had a pop tart :P


    You have not LIVED until you have a POP TART ICE CREAM Sammich
    I suggest you go out and make one Today. Not Asking.. DO IT!
  • Sweet_Gurl_Next_Door
    Sweet_Gurl_Next_Door Posts: 735 Member
    see I told you I wasn't meaningless even though you deleted me because you thought I was.

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