What is your most embarrassing, bad eating habit -- do you clean your kid's plates, do you have to eat the last of something and can't seem to just put it/throw it away?

What is your habit, have you overcome it or what tips can you offer??

Here's mine -- I swear I've trained myself like a lab rat that the minute everyone's doors close at night and they go to bed, I start to drool over what I can snack on while I work!!!

For me it was definately sneaking around to eat, mostly chocolate cookies.
When I was at my worst and my parents would make a comment I would be too embarassed to eat "junk food" in front of them, so I would sneak around to eat, and sometimes I knew I had a two minute window or something like that and I would hoover as many cookies as possible...

Mine was like carol's , I would sneak around eating things. Also I would buy something with the kids, and eat the whole box of things( not in one sitting), or finish the last two and blame it on my husband or someone else in the house. This has stopped for more than 8 months and I will never do that again.
cheryl

back in the day when I was really out of control I could sit and eat a whole bag of potato chips.... The big bag.. Now I get angry with myself if I eat a whole medium-sized bag of a snack (like one that has 2-3 servings).

Lately my habit has been to eat out a lot because I'm so busy with school and work I don't eat on a regular pattern. I'll eat a little snack at 8am before I go to class. Then I don't ever have a snack during our break, so by the time 2pm rolls around I'm feeling famished and deside to go out to eat and of course order something fattening...

Mine would be fast food. I would be too embarrassed to order all I wanted so I would start out at Taco Bell then hit Burger King and then hit Wendy's. The way I have over come it is to not do fast food at all. I hardly ever stop for a burger anymore. I do have my weak moments but they are few and far between. I just can't have the stuff. I can't tell you the last time I was at Taco Bell. It's just not worth it. The funny thing is when I do have something now it does not taste near as good as I thought it did.

chocolate bars in the car alone, a whole bag of chips with dip after everyone went to bed. There are five of us and I was always the one who ate the extra x, y or z

When I had the typical meat, potatoes & gravy, and vegetable dinner, I would mix the veggies with the potatoes and gravy... and then add a little more gravy. Confession time... I still like it that way, but I just don't make it that often and, if I do, I don't use extra gravy.

I see myself in a lot of the previous posts, too.

Me, too! Anytime I went anywhere by myself during a "diet", I'd buy a chocolate bar (or two) to eat on the way home. Then, I'd hide the evidence deep in my purse until I could sneak it into the garbage. Yesterday, I had a big fight with myself on the way to Wal-mart. My undisciplined mind kept thinking about picking up sugary treat for myself. Then, I'd remember that I was back on-plan and couldnt have it......of course, my mind then tried to tell me that I was only on day 1 and I could always start over again tomorrow! Arggghhhhh!! (I stayed on-plan)

Hiding food. I would actually buy things I would hide from my kids! Now, it's still a struggle. I don't hide things anymore but there are foods that I'll see them snacking on (my FiberOne bars for crying out loud!) and I so want to say, those are mine...eat something else. But now, I bite my tongue. I do have a car and I do know how to get to the store, if, God forbid, we run out of something I think I need! I'm such a chump! My poor babies!

I think just the quantity I used to eat. My husband and I (he's down 80+ pounds) used to end an evening out with a stop for a box of ho-ho's or cupcakes or a package of oreos and pretty much eat the whole thing before bed. With half a gallon of milk. A batch of brownies or chocolate chip cookies never made it all the way through the day. I don't know if it's embarassing or just plain sad, but I'm really glad to not be at that place anymore.

Our teenage daughters went "cruising" last night after the ball game and when I got up this morning there was a package of Oreos on the kitchen counter. I don't even want one - that's not what I eat anymore. And honestly, if I ate one, I might not stop until the row was gone. I'd rather eat what I need to eat and really enjoy a treat - like a bowl of homemade ice cream on the 4th of July. THAT is worth the calories and fat!

I used to take my kids to McDonald's and either order something really small for me or not order anything at all. Then, when they were playing, I would sometimes end up sneaking so much of their food that I would have to order more food. They still don't trust me to hold things for them. I also relate to hiding the food. I still do that, though, and do it without shame. We have a tight grocery budget, and I make sure that I buy some fresh fruit anyway. But, I buy some for them and some for me because theirs never lasts through the next day or two. Of course, I hid some outside the fridge one time because they were finding my hiding spots in the fridge They found it and ate most of it. I assumed they'd eaten all of it, and my husband found rotten fruit a week later. Yuck!

Secret eater here, too. My favorite was a bag of hershey's kisses, and of course I mean the whole bag. I work from home a lot of the time and had plenty of time to get rid of the evidence.

I think the most embarassing thing was to order 'to go' at a fast food place and then order two drinks so it would look like I was bringing half the food back to somebody else. After just weeks of eating better I can look back and see that that was just crazy.

secret eater...I also wait for everyone to go to bed so that I can be alone with my true loves.....FAT AND SUGAR!!!

I have also eaten on the sly on the way home....not for a long time tho....

I was at the point where if I didn't have 2 snacks lined up for the night I was panicky (really)....one wasn't enough...2 was ok ...3 was better.....

it's pretty scary...

I still have a snack at night...but I have to have it openly and it has to be sensible....like yogurt or something....

and I still feel uncomfortable about not having those snacks lined up...but it's only been a couple of weeks....