Thinking of eliminating cheese from my diet

43482326
43482326 Posts: 24 Member
edited November 20 in Food and Nutrition
Anyone else do this? How do you feel? I love cheese Idk how i'ma do it
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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    What is the motive to eliminate cheese?
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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Aw I saw another thread like this months back. so sad.

    No I eats it everyday.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Why?
  • 1sgs
    1sgs Posts: 45 Member
    livestrong.com/article/479643-good-cheeses-vs-bad-cheeses/
  • 43482326
    43482326 Posts: 24 Member
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    What is the motive to eliminate cheese?
    I have high cholesterol and despite eating healthy and exercising a lot the past 3 months it hasn't gone down. I'm only 20 and I'm just a little overweight. I eat a good amount of cheese and even the reduced fat ones have a good amount of bad fats so yeah.
  • ashleypetrie4
    ashleypetrie4 Posts: 119 Member
    I eliminated it for just over a year (I was vegan) and it was great! I am lactose intolerant so I tend to get bloated when I eat it anyways, but now, I eat it very rarely and in small amounts when I do. Depending on how much you eat, just cutting back to one small piece a day could help reduce bloating and intestinal inflammation.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    datniggafrancis wrote: »
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    What is the motive to eliminate cheese?
    I have high cholesterol and despite eating healthy and exercising a lot the past 3 months it hasn't gone down. I'm only 20 and I'm just a little overweight. I eat a good amount of cheese and even the reduced fat ones have a good amount of bad fats so yeah.
    Rather than eliminating it completely, why not try just limiting it (AKA, portion control)?

    Have you tried logging your foods and using MFP to not be overweight? My labs all improved when I lost weight.
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    Don't eliminate it, just eat a sensible amount of it. Weigh out a serving of it. Eat that.
  • an620
    an620 Posts: 5 Member
    Not totally eliminated but severely reduced. No particular reason other than I tend to eat cheese on things like sandwiches and tacos and when I add the extra calories it increases the calorie count.
  • 43482326
    43482326 Posts: 24 Member
    Ninkyou wrote: »
    datniggafrancis wrote: »
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    What is the motive to eliminate cheese?
    I have high cholesterol and despite eating healthy and exercising a lot the past 3 months it hasn't gone down. I'm only 20 and I'm just a little overweight. I eat a good amount of cheese and even the reduced fat ones have a good amount of bad fats so yeah.
    Rather than eliminating it completely, why not try just limiting it (AKA, portion control)?

    Have you tried logging your foods and using MFP to not be overweight? My labs all improved when I lost weight.

    I have and lost 18 pounds and I'm going to keep logging. The reason I want to limit it completely is because I wanna lower my chorestorl as soon as possible. I have to start meds and don't want to take them for too long since I'm so young
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    datniggafrancis wrote: »
    Ninkyou wrote: »
    datniggafrancis wrote: »
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    What is the motive to eliminate cheese?
    I have high cholesterol and despite eating healthy and exercising a lot the past 3 months it hasn't gone down. I'm only 20 and I'm just a little overweight. I eat a good amount of cheese and even the reduced fat ones have a good amount of bad fats so yeah.
    Rather than eliminating it completely, why not try just limiting it (AKA, portion control)?

    Have you tried logging your foods and using MFP to not be overweight? My labs all improved when I lost weight.

    I have and lost 18 pounds and I'm going to keep logging. The reason I want to limit it completely is because I wanna lower my chorestorl as soon as possible. I have to start meds and don't want to take them for too long since I'm so young

    i *doubt* one food is to blame for your high cholesterol. I would work on losing weight and meeting your macros and i bet it goes down without having to totally eliminate anything.

  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    I reduced cheese because of the high fat content and because I can't stand reduced fat hard cheese. (Non fat cottage cheese tastes fine to me.)
  • professionalHobbyist
    professionalHobbyist Posts: 1,316 Member
    It is very calorie dense if eaten alone

    It does being lots of flavor to the dance in cooking

    I like cheese.

    Low fat cheese tastes like rubber with food coloring to me. So it is regular cheese just within my calorie limits
  • ImitatetheSun
    ImitatetheSun Posts: 44 Member
    datniggafrancis wrote: »
    Anyone else do this? How do you feel? I love cheese Idk how i'ma do it

    Good luck! I love cheese so much I don't think I could do it even if I was sentenced to it by a judge! That being said, I did just sort f unconsciously cut back solely to Parmesan cheese since I started MFP. It has a lot of salt, but it makes me happy when I sprinkle it on eggs and in homemade soups. :). I use Grana Padano, which has amazing flavor and packs about 5-10 g of protein per ounce.
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    Elminating cheese to me would be like ending life or at least all the good parts. Can't help you sorry!
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    There are so many kinds of cheese - how can you eliminate all cheese? Parmesan. Mozzarella. Cheddar. Gorgonzola. Brie. Colby. Asiago. Swiss. Gruyere. Feda. Bleu.

    Need I say more?
  • biggsterjackster
    biggsterjackster Posts: 419 Member
    mccindy72 wrote: »
    There are so many kinds of cheese - how can you eliminate all cheese? Parmesan. Mozzarella. Cheddar. Gorgonzola. Brie. Colby. Asiago. Swiss. Gruyere. Feda. Bleu.

    Need I say more?

    Oh, I love all the cheese you just listed. Real cheese, not this processed stuff.
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,254 Member
    edited June 2015
    Cheese is like dessert for me. Yum. I have to really limit how much I have while losing weight because of the calories, but I had some last weekend for a treat. Life would not be worth living if I could not eat cheese once in a while.
  • peterjens
    peterjens Posts: 235 Member
    If I was on Death Row, my last meal request would be an assorted cheese platter, artisan bread and fruit.
  • ChuckeeCheezit
    ChuckeeCheezit Posts: 11 Member
    ashleypetrie4 wrote: »
    I eliminated it for just over a year (I was vegan) and it was great! I am lactose intolerant so I tend to get bloated when I eat it anyways, but now, I eat it very rarely and in small amounts when I do. Depending on how much you eat, just cutting back to one small piece a day could help reduce bloating and intestinal inflammation.

    Exactly this. i am also lactose intolerant. i recently cut out all dairy and lost about an inch off my waist within 2 days while staying the same weight. it was all that bloat and inflammation from eating dairy for years.

    65% of the population shouldnt be eating cheese. if you have even a small resistance to lactose it could be affecting you more than you know.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    The population of Wisconsin and Vermont both heartily disagree with this idea.
  • emtjmac
    emtjmac Posts: 1,320 Member
    I think it's a terrible idea. Cheese is incredible.
  • 460mustang
    460mustang Posts: 196 Member
    edited June 2015
    I have high cholesterol, but I am overweight and out of shape. I know when my weight was normal and I was exercising and in good shape, my cholesterol was normal. I'm on a mission to get my weight down and I'm exercising again. So I am expecting, if I do my part, my cholesterol will be normal when I get checked again.
  • MamaBirdBoss
    MamaBirdBoss Posts: 1,516 Member
    NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
  • MamaBirdBoss
    MamaBirdBoss Posts: 1,516 Member
    Most cheese has very, very little lactose in it.
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    Nope nope nope. Cheese makes an big contribution to my protein and calcium intake. And it's delicious.
  • 68myra
    68myra Posts: 975 Member
    i have done it in the past, for various reasons. the longer you live without it, the less you miss it. I don't care at all for the "vegan cheese" sold in stores, but some people do. others will tell you they substitute "nutritional yeast". I like nutritional yeast for what it is.... but it ain't nothing like cheese. my running buddy went from vegetarian to vegan over two years ago. She didn't think she could give up cheese, but now she seriously doesn't miss it at all.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    datniggafrancis wrote: »
    Anyone else do this? How do you feel? I love cheese Idk how i'ma do it

    Have you thought about adding foods in to your diet that will help reduce your cholesterol? Having oatmeal every day with a tablespoon of ground flax seeds would help you. Maybe then you could still have a bit of cheese here and there :)
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    datniggafrancis wrote: »
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    What is the motive to eliminate cheese?
    I have high cholesterol and despite eating healthy and exercising a lot the past 3 months it hasn't gone down. I'm only 20 and I'm just a little overweight. I eat a good amount of cheese and even the reduced fat ones have a good amount of bad fats so yeah.
    You'd need to establish removing cheese affects your personal cholesterol. Nutrition guidelines are planning on reducing emphasis on avoiding cholesterol as it isn't a great predictor of blood cholesterol.
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