[kykaree]

I'm a chocolate girl. I can walk right on by Macdonalds (in fact the last time I had Macdonalds was April 2005!!!), can forgo pizza (because I have yet to meet an English pizza worth breaking the diet for), and can even shun wine (most of it makes me break out in red blotches - it's the preservatives), but I just can't live without chocolate.

I order three blocks of 70% cocoa once a month, and that's my ration. I have been at home for two weeks with a nasty virus, and the chocolate remains intact, that's how I figured out just how sick I was!!!!

[LovesBassets]

Peanut butter.

Peanuts. Peanut butter cookies. Peanut M&Ms. And cheesecake, which (alarmingly) is just about the only thing I can cook/bake with any real skill/success. Oh, and anything that comes in a container labeled "Ben & Jerry's."

Also (weirdly) commericals for pizza on TV. Papa Gino's, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, etc. I usually have to change the channel! And oddly I had a somewhat crazed response to the french fries shown on a McDonald's commerical yesterday. But it IS that-time-of-the-month so I blame the hormones.

Back to the peanut thing: my trainer says it seems peanut butter is the biggest trigger food for A LOT of her clients. She thinks there's something in the pesticides used on peanut fields that has an addictive quality. Interesting thought. And rather scary!

[Mel]

I buy natural, organic peanut butter and have the same problem. I doubt it's the pesticides which are my trigger.

Peanut butter...straight up or mixed with anything.

Mel

[Glory87]

Originally Posted by LovesBassets

Back to the peanut thing: my trainer says it seems peanut butter is the biggest trigger food for A LOT of her clients. She thinks there's something in the pesticides used on peanut fields that has an addictive quality. Interesting thought. And rather scary!

Interesting. It is my personal theory that dieting/exercising women (like your trainer's clients) trigger on peanut butter because it's what a body might crave if it wasn't getting enough healthy fats to really satisfy the body. If it were just pesticides on vegetable fields, a lot more people might trigger on lettuce! I've never heard anyone complain of a romaine binge before.

[LovesBassets]

Originally Posted by Glory87

I've never heard anyone complain of a romaine binge before.

Hee, hee....hilarious!

[Ashley103]

A romaine binge!! Boy, did that ever make me laugh.

Licorice is my downfall. I can eat the entire 1-pound package of Twizzlers in one day. My control mechanism is to buy just one of the small individual serving packages of Nibs and then savor every bite.