Confessions of a Junk-0-holic...
 

I just ate Mcdonalds...a big mac with extra cheese and a root beer, yes fries were involved in this love fest too...:o

I'm ASHAMED!

Not really it was good, I could have really done without but I was shopping and...I really don't have excuses, it was there easy to grab to eat and now I don't need to worry about dinner lol.

So here it is ladies and gents...The confession booth of things you shouldn't have ate and are ashame to tell people you did; but you know you eventually will...SO LET IT ALL OUT HERE!


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I am preheating my oven right now for a frozen pizza. I am sick, and food prep makes my brains hurt... I'm way under on my cals for the day anyway...

MiZTaCCen- Taco Bell is my weakness and I don't even know why. The food is not good and is SO high in calories. I watched the 4 year old cheeseburger video and that cured me from ALL McDonalds food.

I <3 McDonalds. I always will. Alcohol lasts for 40 years, and I drink plenty of that, so obviously I'm not going to be upset by a 4 year old cheeseburger :)

I try not to be ashamed of things when I eat. If I'm eating something, I'm going to own it. And if I'm not enjoying something that I'm eating, I just stop eating it.

Of course, that was a huge mental barrier to get over. HUGE.

LMAO Stella! That is awesome.

I had the EXACT same thing yesterday! Tomorrow is a new day, live and learn ;)

I had a bunch of candy left from xmas today. My teeth hurt now.

I ate a whole bag of sour cream and onion lays chips last night. Needless to say, I feel like crap today. I don't know why I do it, either.

I am glad to know I'm not the only one who struggles with this!

I have been to a few Overeaters Anonymous meetings and my favorite part is listening and sharing confessions. I am one of those who had a hard time putting it down even when I wasn't enjoying it. like Stella mentioned, HUGE mental barrier. I would sit there listening to myself (in my head) say things like "why are you eating this? it tastes like crap and is terrible for you! Why aren't you listening to me!?". I mean I would literally be screaming at myself from the inside. I have gotten a lot better but of course I will always have my moments.

These blasted 7-layer bars that my boyfriend's parents sent home with me! They are freaking delicious. I can usually skip the salty stuff and the fried stuff, but I LOVE sweets.

My birthday is on Friday, my husband and I bought a mini cake and I'm going to eat a small piece of that... Oh and I had pizza on Sunday.. oh and steak last night. LOL.. I'm gonna be paying for all this food in workouts though!

Let's just say I'm glad (and also terribly BUMMED) that mint M&M season is over.

Oooo and Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark...I managed to keep it to one bag this year (and not all at once).

Of all the treats that paraded across my desk this holiday season, the Enstrom's peppermint chocolate bark got me. Oh. My. GOD.

I don't know if this counts since I didn't eat it but I'm craving checkers chili cheese fries. Sometimes even thinking bout it makes me feel guilty lol.

You see Wendy's gave me food Poisoning...so I no longer eat there. I once had this fat hairy man make my burger at KFC, his body was sweaty and greasy and I watched him make it. Lets just say I no longer eat there. Tim Horton's I worked at for years so of course I refuse to eat there. Tacobell is just gross I can't even enjoy the fattening greasy meal so I don't eat there...all thats left in the world is Macdonalds until I see something disgusting going on haha.

Also I don't count pizza as bad...it has all the food groups in it. HAHA

Watch Supersize Me. That turned me off to mcdonalds for good.

I watched it and I think I stopped eating MCD for about 1 week and I was right back on it lol.

Lately I've been good with avoiding MCD thank goodness!

Haha... I watched Supersize Me and when it was finished all I wanted to do was go get some fries and a cheeseburger.

I ate a McChicken and fries on Monday. The Monday before that I ate a cheeseburger and fries. Today I ate a slice of pizza and some fries. Yesterday I ate fries. God, seriously, anyone would think I'm not watching what I eat at all - clearly I have to do some serious recon on where my calories are actually coming from.

That won't work, I either have to get sick from it or actually see something disgusting while my food is being made. Oh and I don't eat burger king because when I was in grade 10, everyday for lunch we had it. (figures back then I couldn't gain a pound...so I could do that haha)

Oh yeah. I had a few squares of this in my office as my "treat" for the end of the day. One square isn't bad. Until one day at work majorly sucked...

I refuse to watch that movie. For a few reasons:

1) I love McDonald's...I don't have it every day, maybe once every 4 months or so, so I'm not guilty about it.

2) Of course if you eat the same thing every day for however long he did you're going to be obese and have various health problems. He would have been the same if he ate KFC, Burger King, Wendy's, etc. McDonald's gets such a bad wrap and its really, by far, not the worst fast food out there.

3) I'm with Rainbow. If I watched it, I'd probably just want fries. Heck, this conversation has me wanting fries...

It was sort of like when I was a smoker- all those anti-smoking commercials kicked in my craving and I would be outside with a cig right after I watched one.

I don't eat fast food and have very strong feelings about the food quality, but I do get that...

oh this thread was MADE for me! pizza is my ultimate junk craving but honestly, i got worried for a while because i seemed to be just addicted to junk. Now i limit it to one eve a week, if ive had a good week, then ill indulge for the eve and not feel guilty. It helps me stick to plan the rest of the week and prevents random binges.

McDonalds is my weakness, I dont think I could ever give it up lol gotta have a cheeseburger every now and again!

I have a junk food problem. I LOVE SWEETS. Cookies, candy, cake. Any of it. I also have a control problem. I don't want just a few pieces of candy. I want A LOT of candy. Only eating a small bag of M & Ms, say, doesn't do it for me. Darn volume eating...

It's totally a mental thing i have to work on.

Um, honestly...here it goes: This kid had a kiwi margarita with dinner. Blended with sugar. It was SOOO good. But I shouldn't have. And the thing was huge. But it was half off margarita night! And my dad bought it...

oi vey.

Oh me too! There's this restaurant really near me that has the best cheese fries with bacon. I haven't caved but multiple times in the past 2 weeks or so, I've freely considered them and then quickly scolded myself saying that's not acceptable anymore.

But I want them. :dizzy:

oh man..where do I begin? While my mother was here over break I had Cheesecake Factory (a pasta at that!) half a piece of carrot cake, Mexican (2 enchiladas beans and rice! wouldn't have been so bad if not for all the sour cream I used and cheese!), I had a small piece of dessert every night and had five guys TWICE! TWICE! And yes I ate all the fries.

I am SO BLESSED that I did not shoot up 5lbs immediately. After being back on plan for 3 days I am officially back down to where I started and even a pound below it so I am OH SO HAPPY and relieved.

I think working out helped out my metabolism and also I still kept my calories in check and ate 4 meals a day...just the other 3 were VERY small. =)

I'm just going to confess now. After my margarita last night, I found out my older sister would be coming into town. It's terrifying because I know she's going to want junk food and we'll be going out to eat.

Bad time to start on weight loss, eh?

I went to NOLA for the Sugar Bowl...(we lost...sigh), and I was prepared mentally to eat off plan. Jambalaya, beer, a hot dog....but I didn't go crazy as I expected I would! And after all of that, Christmas and New year's...I've only gained a pound....so happy with that. Back on clean eating today..woohoo!

Even if Triscuit is technically 'healthy', I know I shouldn't have eaten... over the course of sixteen hours... 15 servings of it. :( I guess that replaces a full 24 hours of meals I've effectively skipped while sitting in my room, mechanically eating Triscuit. I hate my binging behaviors so much.

Pick healthier places to eat then? If you got to a resturant eat only half of the meal, and save the other half for a lunch or something. When it comes to vegging out on the couch, instead of chips eat rice cakes or something. I don't know sometimes I like the "healthier" food then the junk food. Just remember how crappy your going to feel when you stuff yourself with a whole bag of chips and what not. It usually helps me...I hate being bloated...It makes me a very unhappy person.

Thanks! Sometimes I dwell on the issue and not on the solutions! I totally appreciate the ideas and it makes me feel better. There are ways to manage my weight loss, even when my sister is here or I'm out with the girls. :)

The point of the movie is to set a precedent that some people really are that naive, and some people just don't think that mcdonalds is that bad. And they don't think it's that bad to eat it every day, and he proved that it is bad to. He highlighted a problem about general ignorance about the fast food industry.

The reason why he chose mcdonalds is because its probably the first major fast food chain and it has restaurants all over the world and is very familiar. He didnt choose it because he thought it had the worst food.

Anyways, if you watch it, he decided to do it because of two obese teenage girls sued mcdonalds for making them fat. He wanted to point out that yes, eating mcdonalds food is very bad for you. Its not a documentary bashing mcdonalds per say, it is a criticism on the food industry as a whole, specifically the fast food industry, and how they market towards children, how they encourage poor nutrition for their profit and gain, and how the attitudes regarding fast food are skewing our perception of food and nutrition in general. Its the same as back in the 1960s when tobacco was being shown as psychologically and physically addicting.

Its not a documentary saying how bad mcdonalds is. It is a documentary about what people are doing to themselves by eating fast food and being sedentary.

He doesn't condemn eating fast food, he condemns the industry. It would be fine if people ate it once a month, but they don't, and many side effects of eating a lot of fast food go unnoticed by the general public. Many people who eat it every day already have a slew of health problems so they don't know what the food is doing to them, and by Spurlock doing this, he goes from being a very healthy guy to very unhealthy, and all of his health problems are directly caused by the food. He's not saying "don't ever eat mcdonalds". Hes saying that there needs to be a change.

Its honestly a great documentary, and he also talks about lunch services in schools and the choices kids make. Its documentaries like this that helped push legislation in California and other states that require restaurants to have nutrition information available with their menus. To overhaul school lunch programs. And to offer healthier options.

How about this... When you eat a fast food burger, the meat may contain animal byproducts. I watched a show about where meat for fast food restaurants come from and I was truly disgusted. On factory farms, many times calves die and the ranchers have this service (I forget what it is called) that picks up the dead calves on the side of the road. They take these corpses and grind them up, along with other dead cows they picked up, and sell it as ground beef to fast food restaurants. Many times, the calves aren't even dead yet when they're left on the side of the road. So when you eat a fast food burger, you could be eating meat from several different animals.

And this: don't open if you are squeamish.

http://www.fooducate.com/blog/2009/0...ike-substance/

I'm not a vegetarian and I'm not a vegan, I just think people need to know where their food comes from, specifically their meat.

I ate whatever the **** I wanted for ten days in Germany. WHATEVER THE **** I WANTED.

Here's a sample of a typical day in hog heaven

Brunch:
-3-4 fresh bread rolls
-about 5-7 tbsp Nutella
-5-7 tbsp cream cheese veggie spread
-half a wheel of Brie cheese
-fried egg
-maybe 5-7 tbsp of sun dried tomatoes in oil

Snacks between brunch and dinner:
-French fries with mayonnaise
-Absinth and wine, sipped throughout the day
-A piece of cake and a cappuccino plus the little biscuit that comes with it

Dinner:
-A whole flammkuchen (thin crispy pizza)
-Half a giant salad drowned in creamy dressing
-Beer

After dinner:
-1 caipirinha
-3 beers
-Half a bottle of mead (honey wine)
-A huge plate of pasta in rich cream sauce with grated cheese

What great points! I think the documentary is VERY informative. Ya can't help everyone, but the documentary does a good job at showing facts and statistics etc.

If I'm getting healthy I like knowing about every study and that affects me! I'm so glad that just about every restaurant I go in now has the nutritional information on it! Def helps making eating out a healthy choice!

I had 3 slices of pizza last night, started only with one. Then we watched a movie and I caved. It was a boring movie imo, the new alice in wonderland.

Fast food is something I never really mess with. I did for a bit eating taco bell when I was a raft guide and that was the beginning of the end of me being in decent shape.

Occasionally I'll have sheetz or subways but I try to stick towards the lighter meats and condiments.

MCD's just isn't worth it. I hate giving money to chaings, but I'm lucky that I'm surrounded by a bunch of small restaurants in a small area. We're getting kazu sushi tomorrow... which I'm not sure how that is calorie wise. I don't care, I'll never be able to give up sushi.

goshh, everyone was talking about the mint chocolate combo so much I decided to help myself to 2 large scoops of mint chocolate ice cream..mmmmmm