Poll: Absence makes the waist grow smaller?

Cleopatra_Nik
on 7/31/12 6:10 am - Baltimore, MD

So what foods are absolutely not allowed in your "orbit"?

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Cleopatra_Nik
on 7/31/12 6:11 am - Baltimore, MD

RNY on 01/08/08

In intervals it's peanut butter (but I keep going back!).

Otherwise,

-Potato chips, pretzels, pita chips, tortilla chips...are you sensing a pattern here????

Conversely I can be around sweets infinitely and not be bothered at all.

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ColleenA
on 7/31/12 9:15 pm - NC

RNY on 10/26/10

I'm right there with you Nik, peanut butter has been really hard for me to give up. I find myself going back frequently, I'm in the grips of an pb addiction! Sweets don't bother me at all, but I have to leave the room if there are any starchy carbs around. Gravy and anything was a big comfort food for me and to this day it drives me a bit batty when I have it around....

april89love
on 7/31/12 6:14 am - NC

RNY on 03/16/11

Cake. I can't have cake in the house.

Sandy

HW 225, SW 219, GW 140, CW 124

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Oxford Comma Hag
on 7/31/12 6:17 am

RNY on 09/12/11

You said it, Nik: chips et al are purely the devil for me. I cannot keep Cheeze Its especially because the little suckers call to me: a siren song of carbyness, if you will.

We keep ice cream in the house at DH's request, and it doesn't faze me.

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 7/31/12 6:17 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

The only things I cannot/will not eat are onion rings (because they make me feel like I am dying, and then I vomit with a painful intensity) and citrus fruit other than mandarin oranges (the membrane around the segments gives me cramping and gas from hell).

There are lots of things I will eat very occasionally but not have in the house. Cookies top the list. No cookies in my house except RF Nilla Wafers (which are sort of pretend cookies). My momlives two streets over and she keeps my Girl Scout cookies in her freezer so I can have one or two when I am there. I also don't buy chips of any kind for the house (but occasionally buy pretzels).

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

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Neen L.
on 7/31/12 6:24 am - Arlington, VA

RNY on 04/28/04

Cold cereal (except for the corn flakes I keep around for breading meat). It was what I binged on like crazy as a teenager. Ugh, so many memories of soothing my emotional wounds with buckets of cereal.

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happy_baker
on 7/31/12 9:27 am

RNY on 02/15/12

Omg. Pre-op, it was definitely not unheard of for me to dump a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch into a mixing bowl and go to town. Cereal, especially sugary cereal, was one of my very favorite things.

(I originally tyed "half a box" and then deleted the 'half' because...come on, who am I kidding?)

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KittenLove
on 7/31/12 6:33 am - Around Knoxville, TN

RNY on 09/02/08

Granola

Frosted Mini Wheats

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hedrider
on 7/31/12 6:38 am - Midlothian, TX

RNY on 03/29/10

Sugar. Period. None.

Starchy carbs - pastas, cereals, breads. Although occasionally I have an asteroid break through the orbit and send me spinning wildly out of control. Not so often anymore, not since I've put my foot down and started kicking my own ass.

NSA oatmeal raisin cookies - banned. I stare longingly at them every grocery shopping trip, but at 120 cals a cookie combined with the fact that I will have eaten 3 of them before even getting home... yeah, banned. BANNED.

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