This really good cranberry pecan bread from the local bakery. I haven't bought one since June because, well, it only lasts a day.

Chocolate. I think I have it under control because I won't eat just any chocolate. We buy Belgian chocolate a couple of times a year. We will each pick 1 out of the box and split them. I won't binge because they are too expensive.

Now for the other stuff.

CHEESE - I love just about any type of cheese.

I love good crackers, too.

However, I'm also the type to stand around the appetizer plate and scarf broccoli and cauliflower. I don't get that at home.

ANYTHING delicious and unhealthy I'm actually not particularly fond of plain chocolate, but I do love chocolate w/peanut butter (peanut butter cups, peanut butter M&Ms, etc.). I also love Little Debbie snack cakes, candy bars, anything white chocolate, cheesecake, loaded cheese fries, Doritos (especially cool ranch), sugar cookies, anything with lots of melted cheese (pizza, quesedillas, etc.)...I've got the WORST of both worlds in that I adore both fats and sweets. Eating ANYTHING off my plan can trigger a binge for me

Carbs....with a capital C...biscuits, pasta, bread....yum. And peanut butter.

Binging isn't my problem so much as portion control, so I don't really have a lot of foods that I consider trigger food. There isn't much that I feel I can't eat in moderation. But trail mix proved to be a problem earlier this year. I picked up two different kinds from Trader Joe's; both were 140 calories per 1/4 cup serving. I've gotten other foods that I need to eat in 1/4 cup servings (cinnamon almonds, for example) and been fine. But I could not stop eating the trail mix. I went through the first bag (somewhere around 1600 calories) in two days. I was horrified ; it was the first time I had really lost control like that since I started counting calories. I'm still embarrassed and appalled by it. I ended up throwing out the second bag when it became clear I was going to go through it just as fast. I now refer to it as the Trail Mix Incident and have been afraid to buy any since then.

I do have some Chex Mix in the house and I've told myself that if I don't limit myself to the serving stated on the package, I'm going to have to toss it too. So far, that threat has been keeping me in line.

I also don't keep chocolate in the house because, after The Trail Mix Incident, I'm afraid it would have the same effect.

May I add one more thing?


!NUTS!

I loooovvvvve nuts. That is probably my biggest downfall. I really have to watch those. I love roasted pecans and walnuts in a salad. I love almonds (Trader Joe's has the best tasting ones).


Peanuts - not really a nut. I love those. Being southern, I love boiled peanuts. Whenever I go back to FLA, I will stop at road side stands and buy them by the pounds. Fortunately, we can't get them canned out here on the west coast. I'd be buying them!

funny thing, i used to binge on chocolate, but now that i switched to dark chocolate, i no longer want more than a serving...

i find that binging is easier to control once you've made a switch to more homemade goods. I can't seem to crave things that i don't make myself... wonder why...

funny thing, i used to binge on chocolate, but now that i switched to dark chocolate, i no longer want more than a serving...

i find that binging is easier to control once you've made a switch to more homemade goods. I can't seem to crave things that i don't make myself... wonder why...

White bread, peanuts, cake, french fries...

Stupid moment ahead: What's a trigger food? Is that a food that seems to make you hungrier instead of satisfied? Or is it a food that seems to set off a chain of binge eating?

For me, if I eat rice, pasta, or bread I get really hungry in about an hour. Does that mean they are my trigger foods? The hunger goes away if I eat something protein-y.

Wow, I'm clueless!

Julie

I'm not a binger, but there are certain foods that I almost always eat too much of.

A few are:

-Certain candies (Reese's PB cups, M&Ms, Hershey's Kisses, Smarties, Sweettarts, Red hots or Fireballs, Mounds, Hershey's Miniatures except for Special Dark).
-White cake
-Homemade mashed potatoes
-Pizza
-Cashews

I still eat these foods, but I portion them and save the junky foods for the treat meal day. Although the last time I had candy was on Halloween and I've only had white cake once this year.

An open packet of biscuits (english cookies...), at the moment Mince Pies too!

It used to be fries.. but I seem to have a hold on those, and crisps (chips) I don't eat crisps very often at all, maybe about once a month if that!