What's your food devil?

Do you have a food devil? If so, what is it, and how do you deal with it in order to manage your weight (and your sanity)?

My answer:

Anything salty or sweet is my devil. In the bad old days, I would eat a family-size bag of potato chips and half a gallon of ice cream every single day (in addition to enormous meals). After my band surgery, I dealt with it by banning those foods from my house. Since I live out in the country, it's time (and gas) consuming to drive somewhere to buy junk food on a whim, and as long as I didn't even walk down the snacks aisle or ice cream isle at Wal-Mart, I did well with that.

Now, I have a mild hypertension problem, so avoiding the salty stuff is super important (especially since my mom had hypertension, TIA's, and 2 strokes). And since my sleeve surgery, i dump when I eat sweets. And let me tell you, that sure takes the temptation out of sweets!

Jean.

Sounds like you are doing great Jean. I always enjoy your posts. For me, it's anything chocolate and just about any kind of baked good- bread, cake, cookies et... I have had issues with weight regain over the last year or so. Unfortunatly I don't live in the country. I don't buy the stuff at the grocery store but there is a mobile mart in my development that has a nice selection of junk- and wine too. It's very tempting. Lately my good and bad days have balanced each other out and I am not gaining. I have thought about putting my picture up at the store with a do not sell to sign lol.

Bread, pasta, rice, potatoes.  I'm still getting off of yesterday's high from the wheat bagel (which I planned)- SERIOUS!  I suppose it is like a hit of heroine.  I want more once I have a hit.  Last night I almost got some water boiling for cheese stuffed ravioli - WTF was I thinking? NOT!

So mostly what I do is avoid large doses of carbs like yesterday. And I've had lots of treatment, experience doing, read lots of books and try to stay proactive.  There are times when my emotional state gets the best of me and I'd rather stuff myself/use food as an anesthetic even though in my heart of hearts I know better I take the zombie state where forgetting is safe - it is a primitive response.  Plus I love food and my body is truly not  forgiving in terms of carb and calorie consumption.  You know I  used one of those weight/age/height/activity level calculators to compute how many calories I'd need to be my weight and how many calories to maintain much lower weights and if that is right, I feel so damned cheated because I consume much less calories and should be "normal sized" .

Agh , we have to make choices the rest of our lifetime.  Hopefully we are learning, hopefully we are doing more to get the results we want and need rather than the opposite. .. . .and working with the bodies we've got.

Happy Friday

Same here!  I was staying on track fairly well, than I went out with
DH for anniversary dinner.  I ate white bread for the first time in
3.5 years and couldn't/didn't stop.  I ate a whole loaf, than a whole
bake potato......24 hours later I haven't stopped.  In 24 hours I ate
more calories/carbs than in any one week this year. 

Yep, Heroine!  I've set myself back at least one whole month,
IF I can stop this.

I'm curious why you had band removed and getting the sleeve?  Im considering both and want to make the right choice.

 Cake, cookies, baked sweet stuff, candy, ice cream.

So, before my surgery I dug deep within myself  and found the strength and courage to make a list of foods that I would abstain from.  One day at a time, one encounter at a time, those are not my food.

Three years, six months and I have not had a bite of them.

I am in Europe where there is a pastry shop on every corner and I have sat with my husband while he samples and devours everything he sees.  Not one bite for me.
I know what the slippery slope is and for me, I know that I bite would put me into a bad place where 1 becomes two, becomes a dzon and then I am buying and hiding the double-stuffed Oreos.

One is one too many, because one more is never enough.

Love the last part of your post- one is one to many because one more is never enough.  Reminds me of an AA slogan- one is too many and 1000 is never enough.

 I am a very open minded person. I don't discriminate in any way. I love salty, sweet, savoury, tart, chewy, crispy, crunchy, smooth, creamy.

Your basic omnivore!

 ICE CREAM   My solution is portion control and sharing. After a hot afternoon visit to the dog park, which is most months in Fl, we all go to McDonalds for a soft serve, which I knew was 3 WW points, but I now know is 170 calories. The dogs finish theirs in 5 seconds. I end up sharing mine as well. By the time I get home, my ice cream fix is taken care of. Since I also work, this is 3 times a week, and seems to be working out well.