So...what HAVE you stopped eating?

I haven't really given up anything, but won't keep things like chips, wine, and soda.if I have chips in the house, I can't stop until the bag is gone and I noticed that even if I buy th 8 ounce cans of soda that won't kill my diet, I start to crave other foods. And wine, I drank way to much of it, and love the feeling of not drinking has on my body. I also giving up all alcohol for a month to lose a little extra weight before my half next weekend. I may actually extend it for a while longer.

Doritos. Cheap "ice cream". Bologna and hotdogs. Microwaveable dinners. Noticing a trend? It's not that I'm counting each calorie, but since I'm paying more attention I just don't really feel an interest in eating those things. The psychological barriers of unnatural food science, large subsidies for HFCS, and the realization I can eat 2-3 times as much real food has swung the scales.

Ironically, I like pure corn syrup. I can't make my peanut brittle without it!

I've cut back on a lot of salty things. I loooove salty foods, but all that sodium really isn't good for me. No more eating a whole block of ramen in a sitting, no more mounds of goldfish or cheezits or saltines or what have you. I can still eat a bit of those things, but MFP has really made it sink in just how much salt I've consumed!

I've banned anything that gets passed thru a window. As a single guy, I used to eat two or three meals from drive-thrus. I still enjoy the fast food type staples like burgers and fries but I reserve those for meals out with family and friends.

For me, in the beginning, I had to give up certain foods completely, because I had not learned to control them in moderation, and to lose weight at the time, I had to go really anal.
So I haven't had a glazed donut in over a year. That is probably the last hold out of foods that give me a food-gasm and I will want more.

Brownies are a close second, but I have had them on occasion in the past few months. I couldn't bake a whole pan at home, or I would eat the whole pan in 2-3 days, but I can have one at a party now, and not go crazy with it.

Sandwiches had to go away for awhile. As did real Pizza,like stuffed crust Pizza Hut.
I have a sensitivity to grains, especially wheat, so my body needed to get away from them altogether for quite some time.
I can have small amounts now, and get away with it, but have to still watch the wheat.
My body just feels so much better without it.

I did learn to make some grain free pizzas and sandwiches that fill that void.

Rice was hard to restrict to a half a cup, and so that went away for many months. I can do ok with it now, occasionally.

That said, since introducing those foods back into my diet, I have pretty much been maintaining my weight, and not losing any significant weight.

When I get my head completely back into losing mode again, I will most likely have to cut those foods out again. But at least I know that I can maintain my weight with those foods in moderation.

Nothing, in fact I probably eat more junk than I used to, just got better at fitting things in to my calorie goal

Pasta. A lot of calories for too little of a serving and it doesn't fill me up.

Cheap chocolate bars. If I'm going to spend calories on chocolate, it has to be quality.

Soda. I've switched to the occasional diet soda. I prefer to eat my calories and not drink them.

Cheese (cut wayyy back)
Chips
Cut way back on bread
Chocolate
Pop

I had Kraft Mac and Cheese for the first time in over a year. But one cup has 400 calories!! I could have easily scarfed down that much in the past, but now I just had 1/2 cup. It was good, but I could spend those cals on so many other things.

Nope. I haven't given up anything. Just used moderation.

Yep This...... If it fits it is fair game... :drinker: