What have you given up entirely (or mostly?)

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10/11/12 1:00 P

Mostly given up bread (except for sandwich thins) & pasta. I'll have it every once it a while, but not often since both are so calorie dense & I have a hard time controlling my portion sizes.

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10/11/12 12:10 P

soda

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10/11/12 12:00 P

diet coke---replace with sparkling mineral water and lemon.

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10/11/12 11:45 A

Bacon...Gosh I love it..and it hasn't been easy..sometimes I cheat and have a bite!

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10/11/12 11:44 A

Pizza. A couple months ago, when I hit a milestone, I ordered a small pizza from my favourite restaurant. I ate one piece and the taste of salt and grease was a huge disappointment, and didn't feel like a treat at all. I threw the rest of it in the garbage. Never thought I'd see the day.

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10/11/12 11:41 A

snacking, because usually very high in calories

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10/11/12 11:16 A

Fast food of any kind

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10/11/12 11:03 A

coffee, drank it all day,literally all day. now only 1 cup with breakfast. love my keurig keeps me from making a whole pot.

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10/11/12 10:49 A

whole milk

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10/11/12 9:38 A

Junk food, especially sweets. I take healthy snacks with me so I won't be tempted--it's hard where I work--every day there are cinnamon buns, cakes, cookies, danish, etc.

Edited by: DOBBIEDOG at: 10/11/2012 (09:39)

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10/11/12 8:32 A

poultry

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10/11/12 12:18 A

I have only had 2 cans of Mountain Dew since starting SP in July! This is down from an average of 6 per day, and I've been feeling so much better!

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10/11/12 12:04 A

potato chips...cannot handle them in moderation

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10/9/12 9:02 A

carbonated drinks
began baking more with honey or bananas than sugar!! :)

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10/9/12 2:44 A

I've completely given up really salty foods like canned soups, just-add-water type dinners, ramen, and frozen foods. I'd pretty much already given up fast food like Carls Jr, although I would go to places like Chipotle or Panera. I don't really go to those places anymore either. I did look up the sodium content of some foods at the places I did like to go to so this way, if I'm out and need food, I can get something and make a smart choice, but I just don't go very much.

Other than that, I haven't really given anything else up. I'm not eating as much candy or as much bread or fried foods, but I can usually work those things in if I really want them.

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10/8/12 8:34 P

Wine and beer.....for now. In time I will enjoy in moderation. Right now I'd rather spend my calories elsewhere.

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10/8/12 5:27 P

Sugar

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10/8/12 5:17 P

Hi:I am trying to give up soda in my alcohol and use cold water.I am also trying to give up chips too.

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4/5/12 5:34 P

Coffee and energy drinks. I stopped drinking them so I could drink more water. At first I had trouble because of caffeine withdrawal, but I started drinking tea 1-3 times a week, and now it's been 6 weeks since I've had coffee and 11 weeks since I've had an energy drink.

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4/5/12 5:00 P

sweet tea and soda

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4/5/12 12:27 P

No more pizza as I lose all self control when I eat it! No breakfast sandwiches from Dunkin Donuts (and donuts for that matter), and no junk food.

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4/5/12 11:46 A

Caffeine. It spikes my blood sugar bad.

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4/5/12 11:38 A

Most forms of white sugar and all red meat, eggs, and anything fried.

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4/5/12 11:30 A

Years ago I gave up soda and artificial sweeteners completely and I don't miss either one

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4/5/12 9:13 A

Trying to give up unhealthy snacking. I try to pack fruit but somehow I always end up buying random snacks. Shape magazine has a great article this month on snacks and how much exercise it takes to work off one portion so I have that at my desk now to remind me to eat my fruits and veggies.

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4/5/12 8:20 A

Soda

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4/5/12 8:13 A

Meat, oddly. I did not intend to give it up. The healthier I eat, the less I want meat. It's so bizarre! However, it does help with our food bill, since beans are MUCH cheaper.

I still do eat meat (had it for lunch, actually), but I find myself wanting things like lentils, beans, and dairy for protein instead.

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4/5/12 6:49 A

junk food

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4/5/12 5:46 A

sugars, diet soda, alcohol (other than the occasional glass of wine), snacking

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4/5/12 2:32 A

Any bread made with wheat as I put on enormous amounts of weight in a very short time with wheat

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4/4/12 8:08 P

I just switched to vegan, so all meat, dairy products, and everything else that links back to animals. Before that, I had given up basically all grains and carbs...it's been a bit of a switch but so far I'm loving it!

I've also cut way back on beer. THAT was harder than meat!

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4/1/12 11:21 A

soda, energy drinks, and fast food.

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4/1/12 11:18 A

1. Soda (Entirely)
2. Desserts (Mostly)
3. Fast Food (Entirely)
4. Eating Out (Mostly)

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4/1/12 10:56 A

nothing

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4/1/12 1:10 A

pop, diet or otherwise, fast food, processed foods

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3/31/12 9:32 P

Fast food. I do miss french fries though and I will occasionally steal one from a friend if they bring them back to the office.

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3/31/12 2:45 P

Soda. I haven't had soda in over a year. I drink water and occasionally juice or a sports drink. But mostly water. Nothing is more refreshing than ice cold water.

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3/31/12 2:39 P

Cokes;-)

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3/31/12 12:59 P

soda, fried foods, doughnuts

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3/31/12 12:48 P

There's nothing that I've given up entirely-- because any food can fit into a healthy diet as long as it's not all the time!

But I've almost 100% given up fast food. It is just so addicting to me, I know that if I caved in and got Taco Bell or something, the next day I'd crave it again. So I have fast food maybe 1x a month, or less. It's just too dangerous of water to tread for me!

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3/31/12 11:28 A

fried foods - the hardest were french fries from the diner.

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3/31/12 11:24 A

chewing gum, fast food, white breads, salt shaker, full milk and cream, soy products, oranges (GERD), vegetarian fake meat.. Too much lentils also make chaos with my stomach...
Then again there is a reason to my success- phased stuff out now over a decade not 20 day craving claims..
When my stomach flares up I am watching for relapses- not just because it popular to be a is healthy right lemming....

Edited by: REDSHOES2011 at: 3/31/2012 (11:28)

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3/31/12 10:21 A

nothing! I eat ALL foods in moderation!

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3/31/12 5:41 A

Hope.


I haven't lost any weight for 6 weeks now

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3/29/12 6:28 P

Mostly given up: pop (I have some ginger ale every now and again), anything deep fried (though I'm good for a helping of fried pickles or hush puppies about once a year), nut butters (this is a cheat; I just don't like them), chips, ranch dressing (something I gave up years ago),

Completely given up: pizza, which I didn't realize until recently. I hadn't had it in about six months and had a slice; from the first bite, all I could think was "this is disgusting!" I kept thinking it was going to get better, but it didn't. That was my last slice.

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3/29/12 5:13 P

pizza, soda, and bored-eating..very tough to break these habits, but it'll be well worth it!

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3/29/12 5:06 P

Sugars, starch, soda, coffee, and most processed foods. I have a hard time recognizing myself from a month or so ago!

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3/29/12 4:54 P

I gave up soda in October. For lent I have given up sweets...candy, cake, cookies, jello, pudding, anything with sugar other than fruit. On Easter I am giving myself 5 mins and then back to no sweets for awhile.

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3/29/12 4:30 P

Alcohol
Fried foods
Chips
Soda and diet soda

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3/29/12 4:15 P

alchohol (not that i drank to a great extent - 4 - 6 coolers a month was about my rate)

pretty much anything with processed starch - baked goods, etc.

anything deep-fried

milk (still do yoghurt and a bit of cheese)

candy and other junk food

most restaurant meals (my hubbie works at a restaurant so that's a hit to my budget - used to eat at least one meal a day for free)

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3/29/12 4:11 P

cheese products...

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3/29/12 4:09 P

oil popped popcorn. I don't like air popped, doesn't have the flavor I like. I limit myself to once a week, one bowl.

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3/29/12 9:45 A

I've cut out pop completely because of not only the amount of calories but the sugar in it. I've also cut out all sweets such as cookies, cake, ice cream, cupcakes, doughnuts, etc. Those are some of my favorite foods on earth and I know I cannot eat them in moderation very well and I am trying to get "off" sugar, so I've cut them out completely for awhile. It's hard but it's working :)

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3/29/12 8:24 A

pop

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3/29/12 7:36 A

Alcohol, pasta, candy (it's a trigger food), baked goods like cookies, cake, etc., ice cream, fried foods. I only allow myself to eat each of these things occasionally.

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3/29/12 5:48 A

Smoking! 10 months ciggie free thanks to my e-cig, after 25 years of smoking a pack a day. Couldn't believe how easy it was with one of these little beauties

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3/29/12 12:00 A

Smoking! 6 months smoke free and going strong!

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3/4/12 12:11 P

Diet Pepsi almost

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3/3/12 10:13 P

fast food, it has become very easy to pass it up these days

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3/3/12 9:20 P

Refined sugar. It is not my friend. I feel so much better when I leave the stuff alone. Food cravings go away, more energy, joints feel good, thinking is clear, I could go on and on. I just leave it alone for the most part. Every once in a while I will have a bite of my husband's dessert in a restaurant, but we keep it out of the house. I never want to go back to those days of eating 1/2 gal. of ice cream while mindlessly watching tv. Gives me the creeps to think about it.

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3/3/12 9:16 P

french fries! man was that a tough one.. but sweet potato fries are still in! :)

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3/3/12 5:25 P

oil popped popcorn with salt and butter. I only allow myself to have a little once or twice a week. I used to eat it almost every day.

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3/3/12 3:52 P

For me I have cut down the number of coffee's I drink a day. Before I started it was around 12 to 14 cups. Now no more than 3 or 4 a day.

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3/3/12 2:45 P

Potato chips and fried food... And white breads

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3/3/12 2:07 P

Battered, fried foods.

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3/3/12 12:42 A

potato chips

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3/2/12 4:01 P

The white stuff..any white bread, white pastas, sugar.

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2/28/12 3:07 P

Ground beef. I used to buy 10lb value packs, and it would last about a month with my family's eating habits. Over the past month, I've bought zero. I'll probably still have the odd hamburger now and then, but it's not a big part of the menu planning any longer. I buy much more poultry and fish these days, and the occasional beef roast. Now I buy value-pack pork loin, and trim the fat.

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2/28/12 3:00 P

potato chips and candy bars

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2/28/12 2:59 P

That "little" handful of potato chips. When I do have some, I am always astounded as to the impact on the chart of calories per food at the end of the day.

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2/28/12 2:23 P

DIET COKE!!!!! I drank Diet Coke for years and years. Finally decided the beginning of 2012 to stop and haven't looked back. Couldn't decide what else to drink (don't like tea or coffee) so I've been guzzling tons of water. Happily I believe the water has helped a lot in the success of the weight I've lost so far:-)

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2/27/12 10:32 P

Potato chips, chocolate covered pretzels, trail mix... Those are triggers for me, can't stop. I always ate healthy, so the only thing for me was to learn portion control, then the weight started to go.

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2/27/12 10:13 P

I pretty much only eat foods that have nutritional value to me..no junk or empty calories like chips, sweets, ect. I only eat whole grains and limit the amount, also stopped drinking diet soda, now Im a water drinker.

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2/27/12 10:06 P

red meat.. down to one meal a week.

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2/27/12 7:51 P

I've completely given up drinking my calories. I've cut way way back on diet sodas as well. Basically, if it's calories in a liquid form (other than some healthy things like skim milk) that aren't alcohol (hehe! but seriously, I'm in my 20s, let's be real!) I'm not drinking it. It's making a HUGE difference.

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2/27/12 7:48 P

Processed snack foods. If I want cupcakes, I make them from scratch.

It totally negates making rash decisions based on cravings because it takes so long to get from being an idea to getting in my mouth.

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2/27/12 7:43 P

Diet coke ! I gave up alcohol a few years ago and that was nothing compared to Diet Coke. Of course I didn't drink alcohol everyday. I see people with Diet Cokes and my brain just wants to knock them out and steal it !! It's rough, but it's been well over a year now !

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2/27/12 7:25 P

I have given junk food up completely, I do drink 1 or 2 diet coke a week. I have to start thinking about cutting back on artificial sweeteners. I seldom eat regular flour and have given up white bread.

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2/27/12 6:54 P

I just underwent food sensitivity testing and learned that I will be giving up ALL artificial sweeteners. Yikes! I'm only three days into it, but I'm worried that I'm going to turn to the real stuff instead of going clean without any added sweeteners (natural or artificial), which is what I really should do.

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2/27/12 4:32 P

I gave up corn a couple months ago because I can't digest it properly and I think I may have a sensitivity to it. I've also decided to give up wheat products to see if they are what is causing the bloating and stomach pain I often experience after eating. If you have sensitivity to one gluten (corn), you may have a sensitivity to other gluten (in my case, wheat) so it's worth a try. Other than those things, I've only given up fast food and soda just because they really have no place in my life and have no business being in my body.

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12/12/11 9:38 A

It has been over 6 months since I gave up totally:
- all junk food.
- desserts.
- soda.
What is more, we still buy them for kids and my wife at home, but I don't eat them. Now, that was an achievement on my part. Previously I could easily abandon all these foods, but I would not buy them so that I would not have them at home; if I had them at home, I could probably not hold myself. Now, they are in the fridge, and elsewhere in the kitchen, but I don't eat them, even when hungry. I don't use my willpower either. I just changed the way I look at them: They are no longer edible to me.

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12/12/11 8:09 A

pop and a lot of junk food

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12/12/11 7:05 A

Soda, chips, junk food. I've been doing Weight Watchers and my best weapon against food I don't need is to figure out the points value. Then I ask myself if I really want to waste x amount of points on something that has no nutritional value.

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12/12/11 6:56 A

Deep Fried Foods here too. They just make me sick, and I have no energy after I eat them.

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12/12/11 1:38 A

Bread

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12/11/11 8:06 P

It's only been a week, but I've given up candy/desserts, chips, white foods (rice, bread, fried foods).

Mostly: soda. I have a diet soda every now and again, but I'm trying to stick with just coffee (nectar from heaven) and water.

I feel "cleaner" and not weighed down by junk. It feels like my systems are running smoother. Unfortunately, I'm not sleeping as well- so that sucks.

Congratulations on your loss!!

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12/11/11 1:30 A

I have given up soda, beer, deep fried foods, substituted white rice and pasta for brown rice and whole wheat pasta, I have also given up red meat, pork, and poultry. I eat a vegetarian/vegan diet and throw some fish in there every once in a while. I feel so great. My water intake is way up, i have more energy, I sleep better, and don't feel bloated or tired after meals. Plus who knew that the meatless substitutes were just so darn good!!! :) I have lost 25 pounds since starting my new diet :)

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12/6/11 6:20 P

Over the past year I have given up on all sodas. I also use a sweetner instead of sugar.

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