What's the one thing you refuse to give up?

I don't exclude any one item. I will never denounce bacon. I eat it like every day.

I won't give anything up that I love. I'm a firm believer in "everything in moderation"...besides my friends and family wouldn't want me to...I'd be such a raging b*tch that they'd probably want to stab me in the throat and watch me slowly bleed to death. Yeah I'm that bad.

For me, it's Half and Half in my coffee.

How funny... A few months ago I would have said French Vanilla Creamer in my coffee. But, after noticing the effect of the artificial sugar on the rest of my nutritional day (basically it was setting me up to crave sweets all day long) - I decided to let it go. I switched to half and half which has no sugar and about half as many calories.

For me using half and half has been a very positive change and wasn't hard to get used to. It is a lot easier for me to walk past the candy bowls in the office all day when I'm not starting my day with sugar!

When I ate fast food and fat food...I didn't eat it because it tasted good. Frankly, I ate it so fast, I didn't notice the taste. I hardly chewed and really had no need for teeth I swallowed so big and fast. I never savored anything at all. I ate to fill the void in my heart, not the one in my mouth where the taste buds are.

In high anxiety times, I ate food to keep my throat from closing up...feeling like I was being strangled, the food pushed open my throat and gave me a sense of relief.

It's so weird to contemplate giving up anything that I used to eat because what I used to eat was never in a catagory of like or dislike, love or hate...It was easy, fast, cheap, abundant, thoughtless, a means to an end.

The more I ate, the safer I felt. The more weight I gained, the more my food fell out of love with me, not the other way around...my food was killing me with a vengence - that's HATE. It hated me. My body hated IT...I was just along for the ride.

Now, everything I eat is healthy and I'm really TASTING food for the first time, savoring its texture, temperature, taste.

The only food I'm not giving up....is food for thought. I want to remember my relationship with food and its relationship with me.

I gave up soda, but I REFUSE to give up chocolate.

I refuse to give anything up. My family and boyfriend have made comments about me cutting out pasta and cupcakes (I bake A LOT) but I haven't cut them out, just cut down. I eat everything in moderation and make better choices these days, but I haven't cut anything out.

This.

I haven't given up anything. I just eat the things I really really love in moderation. If I gave up those things I would just want them more.

coffee

I drink 3-4 cups black everyday

Weekend Beers with the wife, I love real ales and just don't want to not live life without a few beers on a weekend.

wine and cheese whiz!

Let me start off by saying this: I have a 6 & 4yr old. I drop them off at 6:30am every morning, come to work at 7am, pick up the 4yr old during my lunch, drive him to my mom's (babysitter), pick up lunch, eat at the office, work till 4pm, pick up the 4yr old, get home, wash dishes, do a quick clean up of the house, leave to pick up my 6yr old from an afterschool program at 5:30, get dinner, get home, change, go to the gym, home, shower, bed. By that time its about 9:30-10pm and I have to be up at 5am. So after all that, please understand me why I REFUSE to give up my energy drinks! LOL

I am tired just reading that...

Half and Half in my coffee. I just use Land O Lakes fat free now! yum

half and half in my coffee! I do measure it, but I have to have my coffee that creamy color or I feel sorry for myself drinking it black. I gave up greek honey yogurt so I could keep my half and half in my coffee.

A great big AMEN to that!

I refuse to give anything up. My family and boyfriend have made comments about me cutting out pasta and cupcakes (I bake A LOT) but I haven't cut them out, just cut down. I eat everything in moderation and make better choices these days, but I haven't cut anything out.

I agree 100% with your philosophy... I am looking to make life changes, so I do not believe that it will work long term. If I cut things out completely. I would feel deprived and probably go crazy & binge on them. I am all about changing my white breads to wheat or whatever, but I don't think it's realistic to set out saying I am not going to ever have... say chocolate again... so that too... makes me think ok, dark choc. mini's here and there.... everything in moderation... this way you don't have to stress about how "your diet" fits in with lifestyles of everyone around you... and at restaurants... etc. Ultimately I look at it... as... you eat it, you work it off!!!