Pizza (or, Things I'll Never Give Up)

Alcohol. Crown Reserve, specifically.

FRENCH FRIES!!! Oh God, I'll NEVER give up some good, crispy French fries. Ever. Not ever.

I won't give anything up. I might eat smaller portion or eat things less frequently. This is a lifestyle change. I'm not going to give up pizza, fast food, chips, candy, holiday treats for the rest of my life. I'm going to incorporate a lot more fruits, veggies, lean meat and so forth in my diet. But I'm not going to say never eat Doritos again......Maybe that's not really the spirit of the post but oh we'll

Chocolate.........

I dont think we should give up anything, just moderate how much we have of it. The diet I'm doing (this time around) is the "Everything in Moderation Diet". lol, not really, thats just what I'm calling my lifestyle change, I'm eating what I enjoy and not going overboard, I am subbing some things for more healthy alternatives, like whole wheat and leaner meats, for me its a lifestyle change I can live with. Dont give up the things you enjoy, thats just torture!

Give up?
Why? I am not giving up ANYTHING.
Seriously, if you want to deprive yourself of fabulous eating, go for it.
Not me - ever.
Life is to be lived:drinker:

another ditto for this ^^

I do believe that while we may wish to be slimmer/lighter than we currently are I don't believe in deprivation, its about finding a balance to suit your lifestyle. One advantage of MFP is you can have anything as everything has a calorie value which is taken from your allowance.

I won't ever give up my Sunday breakfast of a chocolate bar & while I'll not drink mid week I do like my wine & beer on an weekend. Life is for living & enjoying !! :flowerforyou:

Pizza, definitely, but like others, i havent completely cut out anything, i just have it in moderation. For the longest, longest time, i thought you had to starve yourself and eat like a mouse to lose weight. I thought that once you got on a diet it was special k and skim milk. Dry chicken breast, veggies with no butter, and water. Nothing good, at all, not while youre trying to lose. Well no wonder i could never stick to a diet! I'd be thinking how much it was gonna suck, and tell myself-ok, for this week im gonna eat whatever i want, then next week ill start on my diet. I thought i could 'get itoutof my system', but next week would come, id do the diet for three days and be miserable-and hungry-and fall off the wagon. Then id beat myself up, dread the diet even more, give myself 'three more days' or 'til saturday' to eat what i wanted, then id try again. Over and over and over.

Now, i try to eat sensibly. I follow the calorie guideline mfp set for me, but if i go over a little, its not the end of the world. Once in a while im aftually under. I consider it a marker of my improving relationship with food that i dont look at my mfp and think ooh i have 200 cals left-im not hungry really, but let me get something to eat anyway. I drink water all day, but i have a tall glass of lemonade iced tea everynight-i just add it in to my cals. Not willing to give it up-it tastes too good. When we order pizza, i have two slices and thats usually enough, but if i have three-no biggie, just log it.

Because everything is permitted in moderation, its not constantly on my mind-oh, im really craving pizza, i wish i could have it.

The only thing ppl might disagree with me on re my diet choices id, i dont monitor sodium, at all. I try to watch my fat, and my carbs, but i have craved salt my whole life, my blood pressure is ok, and im just not willing to give it up. When i was a kid, my mom would save a few individual salt and pepper packets from fast food restuarants and put them in the glove box... I used to take them out and eat one or two when we were on long car trips. Just the salt. I will always love it, tho i dont eat it raw anymore, lol.

Anyway, yeah. Everything in moderation

the two men in my life......ben & jerry!!!! the old me could knock out a pint. the new me is scooping out enough for a single serve cone.

Things I'll never give up? Good food, beer, and sex.

Give up?
Why? I am not giving up ANYTHING.
Seriously, if you want to deprive yourself of fabulous eating, go for it.
Not me - ever.
Life is to be lived:drinker:

THIS^^

I know if I cut out the foods I love the most completely, I will set my self up for failure. So, instead I limit them and use portion control. Like chips in my BIG down fall, had not had them in over a month and I sent my husband to the store yesterday to get those little bags of chips for his lunch. What does he come home with my fav kind (ruffles sour cream and onion)-CURSE him. hehe So I decided I will have one little bag, I did and to be honest they didn't even taste that good. For me this is a lifestyle change, so I gotta be able to live with it. So far it is working for me, I have lost 10.5lbs in two weeks. Ohh but the one food I could never give up..popcorn! The only things I have cut out is any drinks besides water, also no fast food (or very little-maybe once a month but I want to try to break that habit as well)

SOFT PRETZELS WITH CHEESE
HOT WINGS
JALAPENO POPPERS
DIET COKE
CHICKEN ENCHILADAS

I just won't do it... I never will lol

even if I was cutting things out completely while trying to lose weight (which I'm not, except fizzy drinks) then I would never ever ever EVER be able to cut out chocolate! I'd last about a day, perhaps two, and then probably binge on it big time. Hehe.