BREAKING THE SHACKLES!!!!

BADGIRLstl
BADGIRLstl Posts: 473 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Tell me what favorite food or guilty pleasure you gave up or controlled THAT NO LONGER HAS A CONTROL OVER YOU!!!!

For me its a list of things. I feel so good not to be a victim to it anymore!!!

1) Ding Dongs... I had no idea that these things had 19grms of fat in them

2) Pot Pies

3) Churches Chicken

4) Pork

5) PEPSI - I USED TO DRINK 5 CANS A DAY.....



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  • incircles_lp2
    incircles_lp2 Posts: 132 Member
    Processed meats
    Most canned goods
    Less candy!
    Eating out at franchises less!
  • markymarrkk
    markymarrkk Posts: 495 Member
    Doesn't it feel great to finally feel free?! I had a thing for soda as well, Chinese food, and generally ate way too much. And I used eat late almost every night....(I used to smoke pot too :( .so glad I'm done with all that ish.
  • mem50
    mem50 Posts: 1,384 Member
    The things I gave up
    Ice Cream with hot fudge and caramel.
    All you can eat restaurants.
    Snickers and Milk Duds.
    Culvers Shakes.
    Then for the things I control
    Everything!!!!!
  • grouch201
    grouch201 Posts: 404 Member
    I can't say that I've completely given it up, but pizza was a huge deal for me. Last night there was an opportunity to have some free pizza and I just thought, "Seven hundred calories for two slices just isn't worth it." Instead I worked on my taco seasoning recipe. It's getting closer to what I want it to be...I think it's time to try a different kind of chili powder.
  • ZebraGlee78
    ZebraGlee78 Posts: 83 Member
    Pepsi and Funyons
    Coke and Hot Cheetos
    Orange Soda and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
    Kiwi Strawberry Snapple and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
    A&W Cream soda and Cashews
    Hawaiian Punch and Hot Cheetos
    McDonalds Hashbrowns and Sweet Tea
    Sweet Tea period
    Panda Express Sesame Chicken
    Nachos

    Basically liquids (Coke and Tea) are my downfalls, I can live without the junk food, but I constantly crave sodas and/or tea, and with them, I like to have a contrasting food. I haven't had a soda in 1 month, 2 weeks and 14 days. I haven't had a sweet tea in 2 days.

    I've replaced these with the zero calorie water from HEB (Texas Grocery store), vegetable snacks, etc.
  • shreddin_mama
    shreddin_mama Posts: 1,076 Member
    cheesecake! the cafeteria at work has this amazing cheesecake they serve almost everyday. guess what i ate it almost everyday too! now it just makes me sick knowing how bloated i will feel after eating it.
  • aaddaammggoolleeaaffss
    aaddaammggoolleeaaffss Posts: 230
    Pepsi for sure, I used to drink tons of it especially working night shift! I haven't had one in over a month though :D
  • Audi68
    Audi68 Posts: 113 Member
    PIZZA, I could never stop until it was all gone. Now I can eat one or two slices, depending on what is on it, and walk away.
  • BADGIRLstl
    BADGIRLstl Posts: 473 Member
    Its so refreshing and rewarding to see the growth of MFP!!!!
  • BADGIRLstl
    BADGIRLstl Posts: 473 Member
    Fried Food period.... I used to think that was the only way food could be good. Boy was I wrong!!!
  • Dark_Latin_Guy
    Dark_Latin_Guy Posts: 149 Member
    Old Vienna Red Hot Ripplets, Sour Patch Kids, Imo's Veggie Deluxe Pizza. Of these I have yet to have this year 2010.
  • jimmydeanbakker
    jimmydeanbakker Posts: 333
    My vice was Ramen noodles. I use to eat Chicken and Cheese Ramen, Veggie Ramen, Ramen and Kimchi, Stir Fried Ramen, Fried Ramen, and the list goes on and on. In 2005, I went to the doctor, and he said that if I didn't leave that Ramen alone, it was going to kill me. If salt in the veins was a superpower, I would have been the strongest hero in the universe. I've been Ramen free for about five years now, and as healthy as a horse.
  • MassiveDelta
    MassiveDelta Posts: 3,271 Member

    4) Pork

    Why did you give up pork? There was no reason too. Pork is quite healthy when you get a nice cut. I had butterfly pork chops the other night seared in olive oil with and seasoned with shallots and chives and sea salt. They were about 160 cals and were absolutely amazing.
  • MassiveDelta
    MassiveDelta Posts: 3,271 Member
    My list....

    cigarettes - 4 years on Christmas day
    Fast food (burger joints) Have not even pulled my car into a lot since Jan 2010
    Pop - diet and regular

    Pizza is my downfall.. Still struggling with that. I can control it but I miss it like a long lost lover.
  • BADGIRLstl
    BADGIRLstl Posts: 473 Member

    4) Pork

    Why did you give up pork? There was no reason too. Pork is quite healthy when you get a nice cut. I had butterfly pork chops the other night seared in olive oil with and seasoned with shallots and chives and sea salt. They were about 160 cals and were absolutely amazing.

    I think in the long run it will cause health problems. I think it is super salty and out of the other meats (turkey and fish) it is the least healthiest. I have cut beef down a bit too and hopefully I can move from it as well. I don't want to just lose weight, I want to be healthy. So I have cut A LOT of the processed foods out also. I try not to eat anything in a box.....
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