Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

tomterm8

I no longer eat puddings... have given up flapjacks... gave up cola and all fizzy drinks except vile diet lemonade...

I am even on the verge of giving up crisps.

*sigh* life is just not as fun as it used to be.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

gave up cola and all fizzy drinks except vile diet lemonade...

I swear by Pepsi Max (sugar free)... you can currently get 8 330ml cans for £2 (Tesco and Asda).... and it's possible to chase these "half price" deals round the major supermarkets and always pick them up at this price. I think 25p/can is doable.

It isn't easy/fair is it that food contains so many calories (except the stuff that's no fun to eat).

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I no longer eat puddings... have given up flapjacks... gave up cola and all fizzy drinks except vile diet lemonade...

I am even on the verge of giving up crisps.

*sigh* life is just not as fun as it used to be.

I eat puddings some times I just onY eat three spoon fuls . Or budget it in elsewhere. I cannot have fizzy drinks on these pills, but don't really like them much anyway (phew). I am not a fan of crisps apart from on really rare occasions, when nothing else will do but carb crunch in the mouth. I like the new baked ones called pops or something.....we had some of those at Christmas. They are the kind of thing that I just don't buy because they are 'addictive'. It's hard to open a packet of crisps and have, say three. It's easier not to open a packet of crisps. It's easier still just not to have them in the house.

We have a 'naughty cupboard' (actually its a drawer now) in which things like packets of biscuits for guests or sweet toothed parents or husbands are kept. I keep stuff for visiting kids in there and for husbands, and indeed for me occasionally. Only....we don't have any prune d'agen in there ATM. (My favourite naughty thing). What we do have is a small taster box or two of small taster boxes from hotel chocolate, because dh gets me hormonal chocolate once a month...just in case . Hotel chocolate say their chocolates 'average' seventy or ninty calories (cannot remember which) so I budget them at a round hundred.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I swear by Pepsi Max (sugar free)... you can currently get 8 330ml cans for £2 (Tesco and Asda).... and it's possible to chase these "half price" deals round the major supermarkets and always pick them up at this price. I think 25p/can is doable.

It isn't easy/fair is it that food contains so many calories (except the stuff that's no fun to eat).

There is a theory that the no sugar soft drinks are contributory to obesity in other ways. I do notice that they encourage a sweet tooth when I used to have them. I have a friend who is a doctor :eek: who refuses to buy any one a diet soft drink but will buy them a 'full fat' one or fruit juice. He is convinced of their link with several health nasties.

(We have them in the cupboard usually as mixers nonetheless)

lemonjelly

tomterm8 wrote: »

I no longer eat puddings... have given up flapjacks... gave up cola and all fizzy drinks except vile diet lemonade...

I am even on the verge of giving up crisps.

*sigh* life is just not as fun as it used to be.

I don't eat puddings per se.
Never been a big one for soft drinks/fizzy pop. Even as a child I always loved milk. That or tea is my preference.

I have a salad box or salad sandwiches for lunch, spoilt by a packet of crisps (I do love crisps, especially McCoys!) & I'll have something like a couple of penguins or similar.

I have started to find that when preparing a meal I fill the plate, which means that in the evening I'll have a big/full dinner & don't fancy pudding straight after. However I frequently fancy pudding a couple of hours after (ie supper!:o).

My problem isn't so much what I eat (it isn't great, but not horrendous either. I may slip into bad habits for a week, but then have a reasonably healthy regime for 3 weeks) it is that I do less physically. I used to walk an hour a day minimum, frequently more. Don't even get close nowadays.:(

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I eat puddings some times I just onY eat three spoon fuls .

The trouble is .... there's a limit to how many desserts can be made that size.

lostinrates wrote: »

I am not a fan of crisps apart from on really rare occasions, when nothing else will do but carb crunch in the mouth. I like the new baked ones called pops or something.....we had some of those at Christmas.

I will admit to buying 6-packs of Walkers Tomato Sauce crisps on the few (2-3) times I am in Asda each year.

lostinrates wrote: »

They are the kind of thing that I just don't buy because they are 'addictive'.

That's why I only buy them as a conscious treat purchase..... given completely free rein I'd be happy to munch 2-3 packets a day.

lostinrates wrote: »

It's hard to open a packet of crisps and have, say three. It's easier not to open a packet of crisps. It's easier still just not to have them in the house.

Yep

lostinrates wrote: »

We have a 'naughty cupboard' (actually its a drawer now) in which things like packets of biscuits for guests or sweet toothed parents or husbands are kept. I keep stuff for visiting kids in there and for husbands, and indeed for me occasionally. Only....we don't have any prune d'agen in there ATM. (My favourite naughty thing). What we do have is a small taster box or two of small taster boxes from hotel chocolate, because dh gets me hormonal chocolate once a month...just in case . Hotel chocolate say their chocolates 'average' seventy or ninty calories (cannot remember which) so I budget them at a round hundred.

I have a naughty cupboard .... and it's all for ME ME ME!
As I stocked up yesterday, it now contains:
1 double pack of Tesco Jaffa Cakes. 1 packet of Lidl chocolate raisins. 1 bag of Lidl peanut/caramel/chocolate bars (like treat-size Marathons).... and 1 mini cheesecake (there were 3, but I had one yesterday and one today).

I've never had any hotel chocolate stuff.

prune d'agen - never heard of it.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

There is a theory that the no sugar soft drinks are contributory to obesity in other ways. I do notice that they encourage a sweet tooth when I used to have them. I have a friend who is a doctor :eek: who refuses to buy any one a diet soft drink but will buy them a 'full fat' one or fruit juice. He is convinced of their link with several health nasties.

(We have them in the cupboard usually as mixers nonetheless)

I used to have a Coke addiction. As I see it, I can have a diet cola + something chocolatey for the same calories ....

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

The trouble is .... there's a limit to how many desserts can be made that size.

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I don't make them that size, I just don't eat them all.

PasturesNew

I've got food overload at the moment.... to be used up before they go off/sprout. I've got some baby potatoes (probably make a potato salad) and a 1Kg bag of carrots (will probably grate those to go with the potato salad). With those two .... that then means I need to boil some eggs and make pasta .... and eat potato salad, carrots, boiled eggs and pasta/mayo for 2-3 days to get through it all.

tomterm8

The problem with diet cola is that it triggers me into wanting full cola. It's best to simply not drink it at all (when I gave up cola I lost a lot of weight with just that change).

I will have to give up crisps soon, it's not a case of eating three and then polising off the pack. I eat the pack and then just want more.