Eating sweet food...

ETanny said:
I weigh and keep track of everything I eat and I normally leave myself enough calories on an evening for something sweet.
I find if I deny myself then when I crave I just stuff my face so for me, this keeps me focused and on track.
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Marry me. Wait. Wat.

If everybody just took responsibility for what they put in their face lots of problems would just disappear :o

Regardless of your income (before people say eating healthily is expensive) managing calories and weight management takes £0.
 
As long as you count the calories you can have a sweet thing here and there. Just don't go crazy. More cals in than you use and the waistline will come to say hello.
 
BennyC said:
Marry me. Wait. Wat.

If everybody just took responsibility for what they put in their face lots of problems would just disappear :o

Regardless of your income (before people say eating healthily is expensive) managing calories and weight management takes £0.
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I never used to be like that. It was also the reason I was once knocking on nearly 20st. I'm now 10st. It took a lot of hard work to get into the right head space to change my life.

As far as expense, I would say my 'better' lifestyle is a bit more expensive but I do eat a lot more fruit and veggies now than I did few years ago.
 
Its very rare I eat something sweet these days.

I am lucky if I can manage one sweet thing a week, I have also cut down to 1 sugar in coffee.

Am not sure what it is but about 12 months ago I just found an intense dislike to sweet stuff. I have drank coffee with 2 sugars for over 30 years.

I don't give a fig about my diet its just one of them, I disliked sprouts as a kid but love them now, I loved sugar as a kid but not keen now.

Time changes taste I suppose.:confused:
 
Participant said:
Gustov has some points about healthy eating, but should probably expend more energy getting his own house in order rather than getting 'pretty angry at the fatties stuffing their faces all day'.

Myself, I get pretty exasperated at people that turn down jobs when they think they're too good for everything, then suddenly they realise they've been unemployed for 18 months :D.
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Wow - how petulant of you to bring up my employment status in a thread with no relevance to it.

Just got a new job paying me £10,000 more than my previous one so yea, do one.

Anyway, nice to see the general consensus is everything in moderation or who gives a fudge as long as you're burning it off.
 
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Not sure if it's learned or just a natural desire for it, but yes. Used to have something sweet daily; I find I like to eat in a savoury > sweet pattern.

Started cutting down the sugar in an effort to lose weight recently and it actually seems to be doing the trick. Means I'm drinking less tea (two sugars) and eating less chocolate (so far as self control permits).

I was looking into the Keto diet where you cut out carbs completely but put the idea on hold for Christmas. No point changing gear on your whole metabolism only to blow it out of the water and start again, give me that Yule Log dammit. :P
 
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V F said:
Temptation and old habits can be an evil thing. How many people have said how the hell did I get here?
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I had a 14 item fried breakfast today. So yeah, old habits. OK, granted, I was working a 14 hour shift and that 14 item fried breakfast cost me £1.62 because buying some food at pretty much cost price is a perk at work and it was very tasty and not all of it was actually fried (toast, beans) but I know that sort of diet is how I got to be obese. People who say "how the hell did I get here?" in that context are fooling themselves.

I did 75 pushups instead of my usual 50 (I'm working my way back up to 100/day as an initial goal), but I also know that doesn't offset the difference between that breakfast and a healthy one.

Of course, knowing things and implementing them are very different things.

On the plus side, the only time I eat sweet food now is when I need food and have no time to eat other than sneaking into a fire escape for 30s to shove a chocolate bar down my neck. That's one change I have really nailed down in my eating habits. I don't even like sweet food now. It seems weird that I used to have 5 sugars in my tea.
 
JCBeastie said:
Not sure if it's learned or just a natural desire for it, but yes. Used to have something sweet daily; I find I like to eat in a savoury > sweet pattern.

Started cutting down the sugar in an effort to lose weight recently and it actually seems to be doing the trick. Means I'm drinking less tea (two sugars) and eating less chocolate (so far as self control permits).

I was looking into the Keto diet where you cut out carbs completely but put the idea on hold for Christmas. No point changing gear on your whole metabolism only to blow it out of the water and start again, give me that Yule Log dammit. :P
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Just count calories & track macros, rather than removing a food group from your diet entirely. Long term it's very difficult to sustain and completely unsociable, particularly over the festive period.

A reduction in sugar won't be responsible for weight loss, calories/energy will :)

Do the above and you can still eat what you enjoy but in a controlled manner.
 
I'm a binger.

Generally speaking I stick to the rule of thumb and only eat things that "grow by themselves" - meat, veg, rice, beans etc. However, I do have the occasional blowout where the gloves are off and I'll eat anything and everything.

I have an enormous appetite and quite regularly disgust people with the amount I eat. One recent binge was the Co-Op £5 frozen meal deal all consumed in one sitting for lunch.

2 Chicken chargrills
14 Chicken dippers
8 Fish fingers
450g bag of Alphabites
500g bag of peas
 
There's nothing wrong with having a sweet treat if you're healthy and active. Just hit your Macros - Carbs/Fats/Protein - get plenty of Veg and some Fruit and then you're fine to have treats. Honestly half of these guys who eat "clean" just develop eating disorders or end up falling off the wagon and going on massive binges which are more damaging than if they were to eat sensibly and incorporate treats into their diet.
 
Mmm Jaffa Cakes. Haven't touched them in years due to so little jelly and the base becoming quite hard than the usual softness from so many years ago. There used to be so much jelly in them. Very little and so dry the last I remember.
 
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