Potato Chip addiction - HELPPPPP

There is a thread in the recipe section where someone is sharing a recipe for roasted green beans and says they taste like french fries so maybe give that a try.

I've been doing so good eating healthy and watching my portions but the last few days I can't seem to get away from CHIPS!! Any suggestions on a good replacement/alternative that helps these cravings?

I had a huge obsession with them too. Plain salted ones, I'd walk up the street just to buy a bag of them whenever I felt like it.

I just had to cut them out completely for a while. Like a few months or so. Now I can eat them sometimes, but I don't crave them like I used to. Now I think more about how crap and bloated they make me feel after consuming, rather than how they taste.

I've been doing so good eating healthy and watching my portions but the last few days I can't seem to get away from CHIPS!! Any suggestions on a good replacement/alternative that helps these cravings?

Have you been going all low sodium? Because your body needs sodium and it'll send you all sorts of messages like 'buyyy chiiips, buyy chiiiiiiiiiiiiips!' if you don't get enough from elsewhere.

Eat your salt. Do not fear it. And just think how wonderful your brain must be to somehow work out what's wrong with you and then flash pictures of a way to get it before your eyes. That's a pretty impressive brain, that is!

I use to like salt and vinegar flavoured chips, now I eat salt and vinegar rice cakes and can't stand chips anymore. Maybe try the same.

Chips - or crisps as we call them in the UK - are my one treat. I eat the lower calorie versions, but I feel like I am NOT ON A DIET if I can eat them. We have baked ones that taste just as good as the fried versions. As long as you don't binge on them, I dont see a problem.

I agree with other people. If you're binging and you're out of control, treat the object of your binge just like you would treat cocaine if you were an addict. Make a clean break and get rid of it completely. No substitutes and crap like that. Because you'll be munching on kale chips and the whole time you'll be feeling deprived and thinking "This isn't as good as X brand." After a couple months "clean" then (unlike a drug addict) you can see if it has a less powerful hold on you and maybe you can reintroduce reasonable portions into your plan.

I've been doing so good eating healthy and watching my portions but the last few days I can't seem to get away from CHIPS!! Any suggestions on a good replacement/alternative that helps these cravings?

Have you been going all low sodium? Because your body needs sodium and it'll send you all sorts of messages like 'buyyy chiiips, buyy chiiiiiiiiiiiiips!' if you don't get enough from elsewhere.

Eat your salt. Do not fear it. And just think how wonderful your brain must be to somehow work out what's wrong with you and then flash pictures of a way to get it before your eyes. That's a pretty impressive brain, that is!

OP is not afraid of salt, she is afraid of mindlessly eating a bag of chips.....

yeah somehow I managed to work that out.

she's having a fixation. You know, when you can't stop thinking about something you really want to eat.

Why is she having the fixation? probably lack of sodium. Your body does this. it tries to get you to eat things that you lack.

I bought the nori seaweed mini sheets (20 sheets 60 calories) and my daughter actually likes them also. They satisfy that crunchy and salty snack need.

I want some chips now.......with a nice dip.......or cheese.......I'm hungry. I have no chips, therefore, I cannot eat them.

I love potato chips too. And instead of cutting them out completely, I just buy the reduce fat/ sodium chips. More importantly though, I immediately open the bag and divide it out into individual portions in snack bags so that I don't over indulge. Eating smaller controled portions doesn't make me feel as guilty about enjoying some every now and then!

Fellow Potato Chip Addict:

I have tried roasted chickpeas and they don't scratch the itch

If there is a Trader Joe's near you they have Sea Salt and Pepper rice crisps that are sort of a cross between a cracker (but not crumbly) and a potato chip. They are pretty good are 38 pieces in a serving.

I also go to the individual snack sized microwave popcorn bags and use the Pop Secrets seasoning in the shaker.

If you seek the satisfying crunch- Costco and Trader Joe's have these sticky rice rolls that are about 45 calories each and are very crunchy.

I have tried PopChips and PopCorners and they are good but pretty close to Potato Chips but you feel a little better about your choice.

Hello - Chocolate addict here married to a chip addict. My husband has just started his weight loss journey. The food thing is overwhelming for him and I have been logging and weighing food for 4 years now, so I am meal planning. I give him a certain amount of "snack" calories per day that he is in charge of....he uses a big chunk of them on the mini rice cakes - they are flavoured like chips (bbq, ketchup, sour cream and onion, sea salt and vinegar) and a single serving is 90 cals (I think for 20g - which is a nice sized little bowl). Here's the thing - he has a double serving - so 180 cals and it totally and completely satisfies any chip craving he has. He also says he can't eat more than that becasue by the end of the bowl he starts to get that rice cake "dry mouth". And, if he ever did totally go on a binge - the whole bag is around 500 cals - which is much better than a whole bag of chips. Good luck.

well i enjoy the special k cracker chips sea salt flavor ones. they are 30 chips for 110 calories. and like i said, i like how they taste.

On Pinterest there are simple recipes for chick peas ...sweet and savoury nibbles, or make yourself kale crisps (kale, olive oil, seasonings, cook about 10-15 minutes at 180, not bad, or go for carrot sticks, celery, beet root chips etc x hope this helps