Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))

tincanonastring wrote: »

Alatariel75 wrote: »

girldownsouth wrote: »

I bought some snickerdoodle cookies today, I was really disappointed. I thought they were going to have snickers ingredients in, like caramel, chocolate and nuts all gooey and nice. Now I have most of a box of cookies I'm not interested in.

I was so upset when I actually tried a Snickerdoodle! Such a great name for such a boring cookie!!

Then you're not making them right/buying the right brand. Good snickerdoodles are soft and shortbready and buttery and cinnamony and everything that is good in this world.

Agreed!!

berlynnwall wrote: »

Confession: I think most diet sodas are Gross - yes, capital G. I would much rather mostly exclude soda than ever drink Diet Pepsi or Coke.

Growing up we only ever had diet soda in the house. Literally. My sister and I do not drink soda at all ever now, nothing carbonated at all, for decades. Also, the first time I ever tasted regular soda with sugar in it, I was about 11 years old and it tasted so gross to me I spit it all over the sidewalk.......

tincanonastring wrote: »

quiksylver296 wrote: »

Confession: I hate when I find somebody interesting in a thread that I might want to send a FR, but when I go to their page they haven't filled anything out or have it completely locked. How can I know if I want to FR you?!? It makes me sad.

My details are quite boring, actually. Even if they were public (I don't think they are), I would get far more FRs from dazzlingly witty forum posts. You guys are dazzled, right? Guys?

Yup!!

rejectedprincesssupportgroup wrote: »

I'd love to ride bikes for exercise, but I don't know how! I never learned how to ride a bike and I feel like I'm too old to learn now lol

I never learned either, my father was convinced I would kill myself so I never had a bike!

I had a really busy week and just saw there are 25+ pages and 650 new comments....I am gonna be here a while!

I keep a big drawer of candy in my room. My kids know where it is, and dip into it from time to time, but I have it in my room so they do not mindlessly eat it. What happens then is they see it, and want to pick at it out of habit and then I eat at it in 'competition' so I get some. This way we each only dip into it when we really want to.

I wear my worse bras and clothes in general to work. I do not really care what I look like at work (for the most part, as long as I am clean)....so I do not want to 'waste' good clothes there. I see people talking bra size and I wear an H cup, and those are not cheap, so I do not want to stretch out a good bra wearing it daily to work. So, my oldest bra is my work bra, my second oldest is for when I am running errands and my newest few are for everything else. They get passed down the line as they get stretched out and I buy new ones.

Speaking of which, I have TONS of clothes that I have never worn, even with tags still on them. I buy new clothes at a normal rate, but will buy six pairs of pants, and only wear two of them for months at a time. I do laundry 2-3 times per week, so rarely break into anything new.

I am still dying for some chocolate, bugs me almost daily. I have bought chocolate I want to eat on Easter after dinner already.

I bought some of that cookie butter, I have not tried it yet, but it is there.....thanks for the suggestion guys lol

My hair is super dry, after reading all the comments about shampooing too often I wonder if that is why....but I do not feel as clean without washing my hair....what to do, what to do....

I want to hear more about the 3 puddings for guests as well, but never thought to ask! I hope she shares!

I do not shave. Pretty much at all. Once or twice a summer I MIGHT shave my underarms, but only because I swim a lot and for some reason will get an odor if I have too much hair there, but only if I have been swimming a lot. You cannot even tell I do not shave my legs, when I tell people that, they are always in disbelief. I am Italian, and have almost no body hair at all, it is actually kinda weird.

OK, now it is 3am and I NEED SLEEP.....last time I do not look at the thread for a week....ugh

In my quest to find a creative way of eating a can of tuna, I added it to a bowl of instant noodles. So far so good. Yesterday...I left out the noodles. So this "recipe" is now: can of tuna, hot water, ginger, pepper, garlic, masala. I can't tell if I really think it's quite tasty, or have such crap food habits that I think anything is tasty, really, and i'm just pleased with this one as it nicely contributes to macros.

I stopped by the offices we're refurbishing with and organization I volunteer with late last night to pick up some stuff, and saw we left chocolate rolls at our little construction site...on Friday morning - and I felt rather proud of myself for not grabbing at least one.

In general, I seem to have no bar for food. Nothing is disgusting, nothing is too old, too greasy, too anything. Everyone said those chocolate rolls were a greasy mess on Friday - I thought they were great. I wish sometimes I could be a picky eater, and have something in front of me and just not want it, even beyond the issue of eating when not hungry. I grew up in a (post-Soviet) home that was extremely strict about throwing away or turning up one's nose at anything. I recognize it's a good principle, but I'm sure it also contributes to my food issues these days. It also, well, makes me feel unfeminine. I sometimes feel like some strange blob next to women who can delicately put aside this or that.

Just a note on throwing out food, because it came up earlier: western countries throw away between a third and half of all our food. It's the leftovers on your plate and that stuff you left in the fridge until it got mouldy. But it's mostly the stuff that got thrown out at the end of the big conference, and by the bakery at the end of the day and the supermarket at the end of the week. And by factories and even farms. So it's wasteful and consumerist, yes, but it's also systemic and waaaay bigger than your half-jar of peanut butter that you don't want in the house anymore. Is it wasteful to throw it away? A little. But if what it requires for you to change the way you eat in the long run - to cooking more, to portion control, to fresh ingredients, to genuinely less waste - is to throw out that jar now? I say go for it.

If I feel like my measurements are getting bigger I'll pull out my corsets and wear them as tight as I can without pain for a day or two until I feel like it prevented the extra growth.
I'll even sleep in it if I'm really worried.
Note: due to my scoliosis discovery I don't sleep in them anymore.

arditarose wrote: »

sigh...When I found that I couldn't eat peanut butter in moderation, and had to get it out of my apartment ASAP, I not only threw it away-I drowned the jar in water first so I wouldn't be tempted...

I can't believe I shared that.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

mziegler01 wrote: »

Confession 3: I really really miss beer...I wish I saved up more calories for my nightly beer. My husband home-brews so we always have such good beer on tap at home, but I rarely get to drink it without cheating. ='(

I know the feeling! However a few months in it gets easier and you'll be able to fit it in. Depends on what he brews it even gets better as it has had time to condition. :-) I know: I homebrew as well.

My confession for today: I can't say screw it and take a break for even one day. I had a co-worker over cooked corned beef and cabbage with potatoes, etc. I pre logged everything and guessed my cooked portions besti could and made sure to log more than I thought I had, keeping to my goals: this way when I hang out on Tuesday when I hang out with buds I won't feel guilty about taking a break from living as it's just one day.

Now I'm sitting here at 4am planning the rest of my meals for Tuesday so that I can for it all in and know I will still log, driving myself nuts trying to guess my portions.

I keep saying I do great all week, I've surpassed my goal and will have these "Screw It Sundays" where I just don't log as I eat out a meal or two... nope. Can't stop, must log.

mziegler01 wrote: »

Confession 1: I don't eat healthy! There I said it. I have a friend who dropped 100 pounds last year and I'm very proud of him. I assumed he was eating healthy and exercising. Nope. He confided in me that he still eats like *kitten*, but just...less of it. I was so amazed that one could do this. I had always thought to lose weight it was salads and bland baked chicken and brussles sprouts for life, but then I decided I could try to lose weight if I could do it that way. I'd tried the healthy eating approach before and always fell off the wagon. Now I still eat my favorite foods, but in small portions and drink water instead of calorie-costing drinks. I've lost eight in the month or so I've been on this track. It's awesome.

My god, are you me? I came here to say exactly this! Thank God I'm not the only one. My food today consisted of Fruit Loops and pizza. Stayed within calories, and that's all I'm focusing on right now. Literally all I'm focusing on. Don't care about macros or any of that noise. So, I guess my confession is, I'm not doing this for health. For me, it's all about the way I look.

I missed lunch today and just ate a bowl of choc orange ice cream to get my calories over 1000 for the day so I could complete my diary, which was pointless because it is calculated on my last check in, from which I'm about 2.5kg up due to days of eating crap. I think I just needed to see a significantly lower number on the 5 week projection to give me a bit of a boost.