Hope you ladies don't mind me joining in here, I'm over in the 20's threads but I am 29 sooo I figure I am almost to my 30's =)
A few things I haven't given up...
1. Bread, I eat about a slice every 2 days and it's totally fine. As long as it is whole wheat!
2. At the end of every four weeks, I eat out at Cheeseburger in paradise. I get a regular (no cheese etc) turkey burger and an order of fries. Sue me. I know fries are bad for you but I LOVE LOVE them. I work out 5x a week for an hour a day...I can eat fries once every 4 weeks. The rest of those four weeks all I do is push myself imagining those fries at the end LOL
3. Chocolate. A recent study was done that says women who work out doing strength training and drink skim milk afterwards lose more weight and gain more lean muscle than women who drink protein shakes. With that said, IT WORKS! I lost WAY more weight in the past week than previous weeks. I have added to my skim milk, LIGHT Hershey choc syrup. I just squeeze a VERY VERY VERY little bit in it, it's about 15 calories and no sugar and honestly it tastes great. I hate milk so it gives it a bit of flavor =)
Luckily, I don't like cheese and I don't like soda, so I'm strictly a water girl so I never had to give those things up. Those are pretty easy for me...I do find it weird though that now I'll see something cheesy and want it just because I know I can't have it! Haha
I have a weekly 'treat' of a medium peanut butter frozen yogurt from a local shop. It is SOOOOO GOOOD and only 100 cals per serving. There's about 2 1/2 serving in a medium which is REALLY good calorie wise. I could easily work it into my plan in a smaller size more often than once a week but its kinda pricey, and its just so damn good that I consider it to be 'treat worthy'. I use it as a motivator to keep with my workouts and stay on plan because I only allow myself to have it if I do those things. If I miss more than one workout per week (I'm working out every day) then no yogurt.
Its lot better than getting a peanut buster/hot fudge parfait from DQ like I used to.
So I have to either have pizza or mexican once a week. I don't have both in one week but I refuse to give up those two. Including the margaritas. I refuse to give up wine too but I don't have it every night like I would like to.
Very late to the discussion but it's an interesting topic.
I grew up on low-fat dairy products so actually prefer low fat cottage cheese and skim milk (the fully leaded varieties just taste nasty to me).
That being said, I opt not to give up:
1. Regular Miracle Whip (the low fat/non fat stuff is gross)
2. Chocolate (I've always preferred dark but this is a situation where moderation has not always been my watchword).
3. Cheese
4. Ketchup (yes, I know, bad bad bad but some foods just need a small amount of ketchup!)
I'm 28, almost 29, so I hope you don't mind me jumping in.
I've given up Oreo cookies, McDonald's, chips, Starbucks, video games (except for a couple of puzzle games on the computer), Buffalo Wild Wings, almost everything fried... and a lot of other things. I don't mind it either. It was stuff I didn't particularly enjoy anyway, or they were things I'd totally GORGE myself on, like the Oreos. I could sit and eat half the bag, easily.
What I flat. out. REFUSE to give up is my 5 Guys. 5 Guys Burgers and Fries are delicious. I stick to 1 small cheeseburger w/ mayo, tomato, lettuce and pickles and a few fries. I get them about once a month.
I have to still have 1 breakfast burrito from McDonald's at least once every few weeks, I love those things for some God awful reason. I also remain faithful to my Grande 1% triple shot pumpkin spice latte, though I have cut back to 1 Starbucks trip a week...pretty good since I work in a store that has a kiosk not 10 feet away.
Iīm like most as I havenīt given up anything. I just donīt eat the "bad things" as often and in large quantities...
Iīm ok with most fat free/low fat products, rarely eat junk food anymore, but the one thing I have to eat almost everyday is bread, I absolutely LOVE it. I usually go for the whole grain, and limit consumption to 1 slice per day tops... I also have ice cream once in a while, and drink alcohol about once a month...
This I can do long term, if I start cutting things completely thatīs when I fail...
I'm definitely not a fan of messed about with food. If I want a chocolate dessert it's because that's what I want. I don't want a superlight whip that has passed a cocoa bean in the street and has no smoothness to the texture or anything. I don't mind naturally low in fat things like edam cheese instead of cheddar, but I don't like low fat cheddar. I don't think there is a single thing in the Weight Watchers range I didn't find revolting - curries that are dry, desserts which taste of low fat spread and water or skimmed milk stuck on cardboard (I think that was meant to be a cheesecake).
I don't deliberately cut anything out at the moment, but there's a lot of stuff I just don't really eat any more and I don't miss it much. There's lots of stuff that I don't see the point in if you can't trough a packet of it - why eat Ben and Jerry's in a tiny little bowl, it's got to be a whole carton and a spoon and a weepy movie or nothing at all, so in that sense I suppose I've given it up.
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