What are YOUR trigger foods?

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  • Chocolate, cookies, PIZZA. Anything with sugar.

    Why does Pizza Hut have to put ads on TV this early?
  • Quote: Trigger foods typically have nothing to do with hunger. They are foods that "trigger" you to eat more than you should. For me, it could set off a full-fledged binge, and for others, they may just eat too much of that particular food if there is more than one serving available even if they are not actually hungry.
    Aha! Thank you.

    Honestly, I'll tend to eat almost any food if there's more than one serving available.
  • peanut butter, pizza, hummous!
  • For me, trigger foods are foods that I can't stop eating. Sugar has that effect on me, when I take a bite of something with sugar (cookies, candy) I immediately (while I'm still chewing) want another bite. It's hard to explain, it's like I want to keep the sweet taste in my mouth, so I want to keep cramming food in. If I want to eat something sweet, it has to be in a "controlled" situtation. If someone came in my office and offered me a single cookie, I might eat it. If someone came in my office and offered me a full opened box of cookies, I would recoil from it like it was a poisonous snake - because that's what it would be to me.

    I have never in my life been able to open a box of cookies, take out two cookies, close the box and eat only those 2 cookies. I would eat them, and go back and get two more and two more and two more.

    I try to avoid any food that I know will be hard for me to stop eating. My trigger foods are: junk chocolate candy (like M&Ms or hershey's kisses, I've eaten entire bags at one sitting), cookies (any kind, packaged or home made), pretzels, tortilla chips (at a Mexican restaurant, I can't have one because I literally can't stop eating them - I have to push the basket as far away from me as possible), donuts, birthday cake (I'll scrape the leftover icing off the serving plate if no one is watching), ice cream - no way I could ever scoop out a 1/2 cup serving and stop if there was an open tub I had free access to, cold cereal (like Kashi Go Lean Crunch or Frosted Mini Wheats), and pizza (I think it's the crust that sets me off).

    Since it's easier for me to say "no" to the first bite, that's what I do. It is nearly impossible for me to say "no" to the second bite. Once I start, I have a very very hard time stopping.

    I don't completely deny myself treats, but I am very careful in how I eat them. No packages or big containers for the house, definitely no ice cream. Sometimes at work, I get a single biscotti for my coffee. When I go out with friends, I split a dessert. I may buy single serving squares of dark chocolate (1 at a time).

    I hate eating out of my control, I hate how it makes me feel. I don't want to feel bad so I try not to put myself in that position.
  • Cheese Fries, and like another lady said small foods, anything easy to pop into the mouth, chocolates, nuts, popcorn, little smokies, if it is small I can eat it all day.
  • Cookies... That's pretty much the only thing, and ONLY homemade cookies.
  • Chocolate, cake with icing, nuts. I can go a long time with just a portion of cheese but have found it a trigger food sometimes