What's the biggest food mistake you used to make?

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  • kethry70
    kethry70 Posts: 404 Member
    thinking I needed to deprive myself of all foods that were "bad" and ending up binging on them after a few weeks, instead of having small portions that fit into my calorie goals in order to satisfy my cravings

    That.
    But also general lack of activity, lack of education of what portion sizes really look like, and a long time of eating too many carbs and sugars (I have PCOS and IR)
  • Zerodette
    Zerodette Posts: 200 Member
    Portion sizes. I'd eat an entire sleeve of crackers as a snack when the serving size is 5 crackers!

    Thinking I could eat whatever I wanted as long as I was going to the gym-- not realizing that one trip to the brewpub contained the calories I'd burn in four or five workouts.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    Light margarine in baked goods.

    Don't judge me, that's how I was raised. I only learned the joys of butter in the past year or so.
  • ShibaEars
    ShibaEars Posts: 3,928 Member
    Eating nothing but packaged foods - Thinsations, Michelina's microwave meals, etc. Yes, they may have kept me under my calorie goal, but it's not healthy to eat only that. I had little to no fruit & veggies in my diet.
  • denise31992
    denise31992 Posts: 51 Member
    Never eating any type of breakfast. Having some type of junk food as a snack. Not drinking enough water if any at all. Sometimes even forgetting to eat because I was too busy, then eating super high calorie meals at the end of the day. Also, living off empty calories all my way through college like Ramen :p
  • becs3578
    becs3578 Posts: 836 Member
    Portion sizes... and pretending if nobody else saw me eat it.. it didn't count!
  • squishprincess
    squishprincess Posts: 371 Member
    eating dairy. never again.
    having WAY too many chips & salsa (salsa was healthy right? not so much the whole bag of chips...)
    a lot of crackers with peanut butter
    not eating for long periods of time, then binging.
    oh. and frappes and taco bell and mcdonalds almost every day....
  • leomcdee
    leomcdee Posts: 60 Member
    Binge eating sweet foods - biscuits, cake, chocolate, ice cream. I'd comfort eat after a bad day, and reward myself after a good day - I basically used anything as an excuse to eat. I could eat an entire packet of oreos in one sitting. It makes me feel sick to think how I treated my body. Even though I still *have* to have something sweet every evening ;)

    Also: fast food. We were having three takeouts a week!
  • brandonrf
    brandonrf Posts: 37 Member
    At times I will buy a pack of wal-mart no bake cookies and eat the entire package. Or a few thanksgivings ago I ate two entire pumpkin pies on a visit to my inlaws. I went bought two more pies to replace what i had ate so they had pie while we there. Very embarrassing. Just didn't know when to stop when it came to certain deserts.

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