CHEESE-AHOLICS ANONOMOUS (CA)

whatupskinnyjeans
whatupskinnyjeans Posts: 229 Member
edited September 27 in Motivation and Support
Hey fellow cheese lovers! I hope im not the only cheese addict... anyway im looking for support as i try to curb my cheese eating. i dont no how extreme i am but i eat cheese with everything!!!(well almost everything that i will go with:laugh: ) 1/3 -1/2 of my calories come from dairy products!!
i would love to form some kind of mini support group like AA or OA

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  • godroxmysox
    godroxmysox Posts: 1,491 Member
    My name is Ashley & I too am a cheese-aholic =\
  • godroxmysox
    godroxmysox Posts: 1,491 Member
    I've been able to cut down quite a bit, but still crave it almost always =)
  • Iceprincessk25
    Iceprincessk25 Posts: 1,888 Member
    I LOVE cheese as well. I'm doing the Southbeach diet so as long as its low fat I can eat whatever I want. :bigsmile:
  • libby328
    libby328 Posts: 287 Member
    Hi my name is Libby and I am also addicted to cheese and all things cheese, i think i could manage to put cheese on everything i eat (seriously with few exceptions) You are not alone :) its an addiction I am not ashamed to admit
  • nofeardiver
    nofeardiver Posts: 18
    I know i was the same way, i use to get blocks of it and just eat it... What i did was slowly cut it out here and there, like off of my sub way sandwhich, and then off my salad... Dont get me wrong i still enjoy cheese but in moderation... Limiting is the best way to do and do it over time or you will just right back to eating it... Good luck...
  • Losingitin2011
    Losingitin2011 Posts: 572 Member
    I'm Anne, and I'm a Cheese-Aholic. I loooooove cheese, especially swiss cheese. I try to cut down on it, but it's SO good! I can't drink milk, so I get a lot of my dairy through cheese and yogurt. :-S
  • alisons7598
    alisons7598 Posts: 162 Member
    I'm a cheese addict too:) I can't/won't give it up so I have started using lower fat cheese, lower calorie cheese ect so it doesn't rack up my calories. I use the Kraft fat free cheese at least once a day, lol.
  • Anolte76
    Anolte76 Posts: 105
    I love cheese and been able to be successful while still eating it almost everyday. I found fat free cheese slices in both cheddar and swiss that I use on my sandwiches. I also use the Kraft fat free shredded cheese in a lot of recipes. After my workouts I will eat reduced fat string cheese. I just had to find some alternates because I can not give up cheese.
  • therobinator
    therobinator Posts: 832 Member
    Cheese is the best.....my old MFP profile pic even showed me wearing a cheese head in a self-designed Halloween costume called "Velveeta - the Goddess of Cheese." No lie.
  • AggieCass09
    AggieCass09 Posts: 1,867 Member
    I <3 Cheese and i'm not sorry!
  • Atlantique
    Atlantique Posts: 2,484 Member
    I never met a dairy product I didn't like. :laugh:

    I still have a lot of dairy in my diet and I honestly don't think it's a problem at all. I get reduced fat cheese, skim milk and fat free yogurt and it all fits into my plan. Fat free cheese doesn't have any flavor to it, so I avoid it.
  • brendi_lynn
    brendi_lynn Posts: 19
    I LOVE CHEESE! I AM A CHEESE-AHOLIC. but let me tell you. i got my tongue pierced and i couldnt have dairy for two weeks. within the first week and a half, i dropped 11 lbs. THATS HOW MUCH I EAT CHEESE! i eat cheese like people eat chips. or, with a block of cheese i'll eat it like an apple.

    O.o
  • julieeemarcus
    julieeemarcus Posts: 1
    i am also a cheese-aholic! there is no way i could ever cut cheese out of my diet. everything in moderation!
  • heathersmilez
    heathersmilez Posts: 2,579 Member
    Ok I don't belong here in this thread but couldn’t resist EWWWWWWWWWWWW CHEESE IS GROSS! It's like.... not even food, some sort of congealed gooieness.

    Ah well, it’s better to hate cheese than vegetables right.

    Enjoy your solidified bacteria!*

    *Ok that was mean, I'm just joshing with ya'll k?
  • ckncj
    ckncj Posts: 183 Member
    I am a cheese addict from California. My fiance is a cheese addict - originally from Wisconsin. This is an uphill battle for us.

    There is so much fat in cheese - and the calories add up quicker than it fills me up, unfortunately. Although incredibly hard, I am trying to limit my cheese to low moisture/part skim mozzarella. It's not the same as sharp cheddar or Monterey Jack, but it's still cheese.
  • malabaugh
    malabaugh Posts: 130 Member
    I love cheese and refusing to buy anything artificially fat free/light, with the exception of Laughing Cow. Hard parmesan is pretty low cal and great on pasta and goat cheese is naturally pretty light too and oh-so-yummy! Spinach, goat cheese, and fresh roasted beets. mmmmm. ok, now I want that.
  • Losingitin2011
    Losingitin2011 Posts: 572 Member
    I live in Oregon, so I eat Tillamook cheese. They don't do but one type of low fat cheese, and it's only around 20 calories difference per serving! Not worth it to me. I do eat the laughing cow wedges... nom nom nom nom
  • maserati185
    maserati185 Posts: 263 Member
    Cheese is one of the many things I eat plenty of - because you can only eat so much of it before feeling full. Same with meats, nuts, veggies. I was a serious milk dinker, but changed to unsweetened vanilla almond milk for less sugars and more calcium. I'm more afraid of breads and sugar than cheese! Maybe I'm just not a true addict. I dunno.
  • nikki_zav
    nikki_zav Posts: 320 Member
    My name is Nikki and I consider cheese it's own food group. This makes me a cheese addict. You had me at goat.... haha.

    The diet I'm currently on has NO dairy in it, so I have not had cheese, yogurt, milk or anything diary since Saturday :( This is willpower. So cheers to all our fellow cheese lovers :)
  • Kityngirl
    Kityngirl Posts: 14,304 Member
    Mmmmmmcheese. I've definitely cut down, but the only type I will eat a low fat variety of is the sliced for sandwiches kind. :laugh:
  • fatboypup
    fatboypup Posts: 1,873 Member
    ill only eat fat free cheese ...... ok sometimes i have real chesse on salads but if i make my own its FF
  • BrandNewMia
    BrandNewMia Posts: 461
    I looooove cheese and I am currently fighting the temptation to eat a bunch of babybel wheels right now... It's so high in sodium, I really have to watch how much cheese I get. I enjoy it still, in moderation, though I wish there was a LOT more of it in my food diary!

    One thing I have been telling myself - I want to reach my goal more than I want to binge on cheese. I miss it - oh how I miss it - but I will survive :happy:
  • FryingPanda
    FryingPanda Posts: 99 Member
    I am also a cheese-junkie, but luckily I am training for a 1/2 marathon and on running days I tend to have lots of exercise calories and a lot of fats that I can eat, so I get to enjoy 3 ozs of cheese 4 times a week.

    So I guess if you are really a cheese-a-holic, start training for a 1/2 marathon! :happy:
  • sarahs440
    sarahs440 Posts: 405
    when I saw the sodium content in cheese, it made me an instant recovered cheeasaholic. I am now addicted to keeping my sodium low. Lol.
  • legacysh
    legacysh Posts: 464
    Hi My name is Stephanie and I am an Obsessive Cheese Compulsive Fanatic. I belong to the Venissemo Cheese Club in San Diego. I throw cheese parties and I have 1 drawer in my fridgerator dedicated to cheese.

    I will not give up my cheese!!!!!!!

    I have however, learned to build my diet around my love of cheese as it is a good source of calcium, protien and vitamin D and I need all of those things in my diet since I don't drink milk at all!

    I started learning to love the leaner varieties of cheese and I do tend to buy the 2% cheeses and cook with those most of the time. I have converted my dear husband into a 2% cheese lover. But every now and then, I must go by the cheese store and get the really good stuff and make it my meal. I sacrifice the high calorie crackers for the very best cheeses.

    I no longer grate cheddar cheese over my microwave popcorn, that is my true concession in my cheese war!
  • Missjulesdid
    Missjulesdid Posts: 1,444 Member
    I love cheese too.. my perfect dessert is a hunk of cold apple pie and a nice 3 ounce chunk of extra sharp cheddar cheese. Since pie is off the menu, I like to treat myself to some apples cooked in cinnamon and only ONE ounce of extra sharp cheddar.

    I also use a low fat mozzarella. I buy it in a block and shred it very fine so I use less than when I buy the thick shred in a bag.

    Cheese really does fill me up and satisfies my craving BUT I'm not loving all the saturated fat and sodium in it... so even if I wasn't watching the calories, I'd still take it easy on the cheese for health reasons.
  • DebRives
    DebRives Posts: 221 Member
    I'm from California and I love cheese, regular, not unleaded! :noway: I would give up alcohol before cheese....mmmm, wine and cheese.... :heart: ... I'm sorry, what was I saying?

    Oh yes, I love cheese! I don't have a sweet tooth but rather a cheese tooth. ( I totally just made that up!:happy: )


    "What a friend we have in cheeses....."
  • whatupskinnyjeans
    whatupskinnyjeans Posts: 229 Member
    Wow!!! Thanks for all the responses (well minus the cheese hater- but we r bound to have those too!) I would love for us to support eachother maybe once a week n share!! (recipes successes and whatever!) I am not ashamed but being a cheese addict although some of my relatives give me serious grief about it. I can't wait till I reach my goal weight and one of them will ask how I did it and I'll oh so casually say well I made sure to eat cheese every day! So if u want to have our ca meeting - let's pick a day that works for us all and a time !! I'm thinking Sundays at 8:30 pm est for half hour! We can start this week or next week! Xoxo :) See ya then
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