General chatter - 3 Things you gave up in pursuit of a healthier life

Okay, I see the three things we refused to give up. How about the things we ARE willing to give up? I'll start.

1. Anything made with high fructose corn syrup
2. Wheat
3. Milk - Only do soy now.

1. Sugar
2. Snacks
3. Seconds

1. CANDY :(
2. CAKE :(
3. PIE :(


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1. Fast Food
2. Heavily processed "convenience" foods (except for the occasional can of soup - but I have to be able to pronounce every single ingredient)
3. Artificial sweeteners.

1) Anything fried
2) HFCS and refined white sugar
3) Belt busting portions

1. Fast Food
2. Pop
3. Red Meat

Hm. This is a toughie for me because to me "giving up" indicates that you're sacrifice something you want ... and as I mentioned in the other thread I haven't really *given up* anything I've wanted - I just have to work harder to fit some of them into my calorie plan. :)

OTOH, there are things I've happily kicked to the curb because they're bad for me and I don't miss them at all:

1 - HFCS - I never really thought about how bad it was for me until I started eating healthy. It's hard sometimes to find things w/out, but I work really hard to make sure I eat as little of it as is humanly possible.

2 - Processed foods - I don't think I'll ever entirely give up processed foods because the convenience factor of some thing is just too high, but as with the above - I eat as little processed food as I possibly can.

3 - Large Portions - as a general concept I have entirely 100% given up ordering or buying a "large" of anything. When we go out to eat I order a small or even a kids size if I can. I'll ask for an appetizer size or a 1/2 an entree at restaurants. If I'm really really craving something, I'll buy the smallest size snack bag or candy bar I can, vs. how I used to buy a King Sized Snickers, for example.

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1. fast food
2. refined white sugar
3. large portions

1. HFCS
2. Trans Fats
3. Artificial sweeteners

What's more important is what is not on this list. I did not give up chocolate, wine, or anything else that I truly enjoy.

1. Eating whatever I want all the time, without a second thought.
2. Sitting on my a$$ and finding excuses not to exercise.
3. Wishing that I was slimmer, instead of doing something about it.

1. I was willing to give up baking, which I love, but I love being an athlete a lot more.

2. Alcohol -- except for special occasions

3. Eating at restaurants more than once every couple of weeks

These are all things some people never had to give up to lose weight; I have trouble controlling myself in an environment that features any one of these things.

1. Animal products
2. Eating out at Indian restaurants on a regular basis
3. Cable TV (as other things took priority, I started watching less and less tv until it didn't make sense to pay nearly $100/month for cable)

1) White flour
2) Sugar
3) Full fat dairy

1. eating without thinking/planning
2. convenience/premade food
3. foods with no real nutritional benefits (even if they have no/low calories like diet drinks, pickles, sf jello, skinny cow etc)

At the risk of sounding like so many others:
1. Highly processed foods (especially carbs)
2. Fast food - fried foods
3. "Free food" - anything left in the break room at work (donuts, muffins, and the like)

1. Fast food (typical fast food, I still eat stuff like healthy choices at Chipotle or 6" veggie subs from Subway)
2. Sugary soda
3. Packaged baked goods

Don't miss any of those things at all.

-full fat dairy
-chocolate bars
-now I only bake for special occasions

alcohol and soda
excuses for not working out
eating anything i want whenever i want

1. HFCS/Sugar
2. Enriched white flour
3. Fast Food (never was a really big issue for me anyway), going out for lunch. I still do it occasionally, but not every day like in the past.

1. Dessert (for the most part)
2. Sitting on my *** all day
3. Making excuses for my weight

cookies

white rice

hard cider

my all or nothing attitude
my love for being lazy
ridiculous portion sizes

1. Eating whatever I want all the time, without a second thought.
2. Sitting on my a$$ and finding excuses not to exercise.
3. Wishing that I was slimmer, instead of doing something about it.

May I use yours? I was trying to come up with my own three, but these just about sum up my plan.

How about the things we ARE willing to give up?

Not completely as of yet, but I'm trying:

1) Pop
2) Seconds/Large Portions
3) Fast Food = fried yucky stuff :P

1. Fast Food
2. Sparks (alcoholic malt-beverage...found out they are 7pts :o )
3. My trips to Publix bakery

1) cable tv--due to cost but also the dreaded lifetime movie diease (watch the first 5 min of ONE and 4 hours LATER; you are still watching!) even tho they are all the same and soo cheesy!:D

2) sloth:o

3) mindless eating (whole bags of chips while watching movies-see above):devil:

3. Cable TV (as other things took priority, I started watching less and less tv until it didn't make sense to pay nearly $100/month for cable)

You know, I hadn't thought about this, but we got rid of our TV about the same time I started trying to lose. I wonder how much harder it would've been if we still had the TV and Cable?

1. HFCS and processed sugary foods.
Okay, I think it's almost impossible to eliminate these completely from your diet (especially the latter), but I am willing to WAAAAY reduce my consumption.

2. Orange juice
Yes, it is a healthy beverage, but it's too sugary for me and it sends my blood sugar on an upward spike.

3. Bread, 90% of the time I want to have it.

I'm similar to PhotoChick as in I haven't truly given up anything. But there are things I have lost interest in due to health reasons.

I guess my 3 are..

1. Eating out every day
2. Huge servings of ColdStone icecream
3. Starbucks

Can you tell we went out a lot? :rolleyes:

May I use yours? I was trying to come up with my own three, but these just about sum up my plan.

Anytime!:D

Those were the first things that came to my mind, because I haven't really given up anything food-wise. I just make better choices now.

Smoking, drinking, and caffeine.

#1 ~ :smoking:

#2 ~ ex-wife ;)

#3 ~ exchanged my recliner/:judge: JUDY after work for the TM and dog walks

1. Diet Coke, except once in a while
2. Sleeping in, except a *little* bit on the weekend
3. Fast food more than once a week, and I'm aiming for a lot less than that

1. Fast food
2. Chocolate
3. Soft drink

Have made some GREAT replacements and my taste buds really love me now.

1. Fast Food
2. Diet Coke Addiction
3. Late Night Eating

I gave up
1) large portions
2) empty calorie foods
3) stubbornness of NOT eating fruits (now I do eat fruits)

I gave up
Feeling sorry for myself because medications put a ton of weight on me

Feeling like giving up because each time I have to get back on the meads I gain weight. Happened again and I put on about 30 pounds that I had just lost this year.

Letting others make me feel bad because I am not losing weight as fast as they think I should. 1 pound a week isn't fast enough for most people so they keep telling me I am not trying very hard.

AWESOME QUESTION!

3 things I gave up to be healthier,
1. My favorite diner, BLT's, mayo, cottage fries, and cheese burgers
2. I gave up some free time to go work out!
3. Sprite

Apple Cheeks - Great answers!
lizziep - "my all or nothing attitude" THAT IS SO TRUE, the "I'll start tomorrow" crap is a big one for most of us!

1.) Pop - although I'm not really a big pop drinker, I cut it out all together. Any little bit helps, right?
2.) Yummy, yummy, grease-loaded food. My favorite - gyros and pizza (not together of course! hehe
3.) Binging - Before I wouldn't be able to eat just one of anything. I'd sneak a bite here and there until the whole thing was gone. My boyfriend and I have decided to lose weight together - knowing that I'll let him down if I binge makes it a lot easier to pass up a second and third helping.

1) Smoking
2) Eating whatever I felt like eating whenever I felt like it
3) I stopped focusing on being angry all the time - especially over things I couldn't do a thing about

regular ice cream
overeating/binging
sourdough bread - This, by far, is the hardest for me. I'm like a junkie - I can't even walk by it in the store. I guess I am a recovering bread addict.

Junk food/processed food (except for the occasional treat).
Aspartame
White bread.

White Bread
Sugar
binging

Sweetners - except ocassional crystal lite
Anything "diet" - these are usually not even remotely heatlhy
Jiff peanut butter - i only eat the real deal now...and it's so much better!