What food do you avoid as its not worth the calories and/or fat content

Maple syrup. Good god that has a lot of calories, and im not going to just eat 1/4 cup. I eat everything, but i can't really make restraunts work as well as id like them to, so i just don't eat out too much. No biggie.

I've switched to sugar & fat free pudding & jello,
and diet soda/pop.
Empty calories.
But when I make pudding at home (tapioca from scratch!!) it's with cream, sugar, etc.

I've totally cut out a lot of what I called the "mindless" eating. Like at work around the coffee pot -- oh, cookies you say? sure I'll have a couple with my coffee. But the thing is, I don't really like the cookies. I mean, they're okay but they are not a fabulous chocolate brownie or a decadent chocolate truffle. They're just ordinary cookies. So why did I eat them? because they were there. Now I stay away from the coffee pot altogether. I don't need that coffee either because I had some at home before I left in the morning, and I hate black coffee so in order to drink it I have to add calories.

Nope, water is it now in the afternoon, or sometimes a diet coke.

Also, I've given up bread, pasta, and the huge bowls of rice I used to eat. Now I have a small amount of rice with whatever I'm putting on it. The rice doesn't really have much taste anyway, so I'd rather use those calories for the stuff on top.

I've also given up my after-dinner glass of wine. Occasionally I'll have a glass with my dinner, but when I'd have it after dinner I also had to have something salty and crunchy to go along with it. And the problem with "salty and crunchy" is that most things in that category have lots of calories. And eating that after dinner was just a habit because you know I wasn't truly hungry, not so soon after eating dinner.

Bread. I love the stuff, but when I could easy eat 8 to 10 slices a day in sandwiches (nothing nutritious on them either, Marmite or something) it's not worth it

I've cut right back on rice and pasta - only have it with a meal if I've had a low calorie breakfast and lunch to make way for it

Full sugar soft drinks. Not worth the calories when I'm on 1500 a day, and the sugar content is incredible in them.

Breakfast meats. If I was having a cook breakfast, I'd have 3 eggs, maybe 6 slices of bacon and 2 sausages. The bacon and sausages alone would be around 1000 cals, so when I do have it I've worked myself down to 3 eggs and 3 bacon. Not as good, but eh.

Biscuits. 80-100 calories for one biscuit? Not bad. But if I open a packet of chocolate biscuits, or shortbread, I'll go the entire thing given the chance. Not worth having to see an open packet in the cupboard and choose not to eat it, every single time.

Foods I don't like. Otherwise everything is pretty much fair game

Any oils or anything with oil in it (pesto). Way to calorie-dense!

Fruit juice and most of those chocolately puddings they sell in supermarkets in the refrigerated bit. I used to eat them every night but they're 200 calories and not even very nice.

Potato Chips. I can't just eat one. I'm usually not satified until 1/2 the bag is in my belly.

The thing about rice and bread is, even when it's enriched, the nutritional value per calorie is utter crap. Might as well have a candybar. At least potatos have potassium, B6, and C as well as other vitamins.

Not sure what is left after you make them into french fries, though. Certainly they're no good as chips.

A bit off topic, but if I am going to go over calories, if it isn't especially nutritious, I'm for sure having something involving chocolate instead. Or at least slapping some PB&J on it.

kristen6350 wrote: »

Potato Chips. I can't just eat one. I'm usually not satified until 1/2 the bag is in my belly.

Yes, I forgot to add potato chips to my list. Remember the old Lays (I think) commercial -- "Bet you can't eat just one"... Well as Kristen said, that's me too. Not just one or two or even twenty. More like one of those huge bags over two days. ugh. So they just don't come into my house.

I have always replaced water with soda, even when I was little. Luckily for me I was never an overweight kid, but metabolism obviously slows down and I gained a tonne of weight. So I avoid drinking soda now and just stick to water, I also don't eat takeaway and I don't eat chips/fries at all. It's nice not spending money on takeaway, you save so much.

I'd say the extra 200-300 calories from eating 2-3 servings of ice cream several times a week for the past 20 years, on top of the sandwich bread from 2-3 sandwiches I'd regularly have between meals, both had just as much to do with my slow and steady weight gain as anything else. Sandwich bread has been the biggest "rarely worth it" for me and I have cut it out almost entirely. Ice cream, on the other hand, I've found that I'm actually satisfied with half of a serving (40 or so grams) and can easily fit that amount in almost every day.

white flour products like bread and pasta. substituted for whole grains

I haven't necessarily eliminated anything because that isn't sustainable for me, for life; just while trying to lose weight but if I don't have these foods occasionally, then I know that I'll binge twice as bad; when I reach my goal weight because I'd eventually bring those foods, back into my life; so I have to keep them in & instead learn how to moderate, my intake; of them.