what food/drink will you not give up for 'diet' or a more healthy version?

This morning I went to get a drink from the fridge, and I see mom bought a bottle of V8. I love V8, but, she didn't realize she bought the sodium free kind. I seriously felt nauseated after I took a good chug of it. I don't know if being on a empty stomach made it worse. I can't understand how it could taste so horrible ;_; (I may give it one more try on a full stomach, if I can muster up the courage).

I also still eat the instant oatmeal packages. I've tried the reduced sugar one and it tastes bad too (not just that it isn't as sweet, but it has an odd chemically taste to it or something). So now I mix one with a regular package for a happy medium.

what else..

salt free butter/margarine - yuck, no taste

fat free cottage cheese - *barf* I'll stick to 2%

so how about you?

ha, oreos!

reduced fat/sugar-free oreos?????? WHAT IS THAT!

I've never been huge on soda but I will never give up my occaisonaly Dr. Pepper <3

It took me awhile but I did get used to the low sodium v8.

I also won't give up on my obsession with garlic bread. I'll cut back a lot but I will never be able to rid myself of garlic bread.

Generally - with exceptions of half-fat dairy, though I can't eat that any more for more than one reason -  I find that "diet" anything tends to be tasteless in comparison. I know most people I know would rather have a little of the real thing than a lot of something trying to be. Low-salt I don't mind, though. I find too much salt actually ruins a flavour for me.

I just can't drink diet soda. Hate it. I envy the people who practically live on it! Also, I tried Splenda in my coffee, and it's just not the same. I love Splenda in everything else including my oatmeal. I am missing mac n cheese and pizza dearly, but I'm doing good sticking to my diet, and I'm not too hungry.

Maybe it's cuz I'm from WI....but I CANNOT do fat free cheese. I just can't. I have TRIED and it doesn't work. I thought that I could use the fat free in cooking and then only use the good stuff when you needed good cheese, but even if it's mixed with a ton of stuff, I can still taste it. It's just not natural! hahahaha

fat free cottage cheese is ok......BUT you HAVE to get an expensive kind for it to work. If you go even to the run of the mill brand that most ppl will buy, it sux!

mmm i love low sodium V8....usually have it as one of my "snacks". but ummmm yah i dont like skim milk... i rather have 1%.... more flavor...  skim milk cheese taste horrible and dosnt melt well either..... real cheese is the only cheese...

The only things I've given up for good are trans fats and high fructose corn syrup.  Everything else is fine, in moderation and appropriate portions.  I'm doing this for life, not just for now, so I make sure my choices are things I can live with forever.  I can't imagine living without chocolate or pizza once in a while.

also agree with the fat free cheese.  i haven't tasted platic, but i imagine it tastes like fat-free cheese (not cottage or cream cheese, but hard cheese, yuck!).  i hate fat-free ice cream.  i'd rather have a little bit of the real thing.  you end up having less, btu it's SO good, and all-natural.  and chocolate...  mm...

SUGAR in baked good

Even though it's processed, splenda is more disgusting =[

Original Post by vicki8seekers:

Maybe it's cuz I'm from WI....but I CANNOT do fat free cheese. I just can't. I have TRIED and it doesn't work. I thought that I could use the fat free in cooking and then only use the good stuff when you needed good cheese, but even if it's mixed with a ton of stuff, I can still taste it. It's just not natural! hahahaha

 It has nothing to do with you being from WI, fat free cheese is awful!!! I could live on cheese if it were a balanced diet. hahaha

Actually, come to think of it, I don't think there's anything that I won't give up. I've already given up so much just to inch past all these plateaus.. I think what I've given up is pleasure from food by now... I kind of envy my former self who was losing lots of weight and could eat whatever as long as I was in the right calorie range.

Well, I do have a grilled chicken sandwich from fast food places sometimes, but I guess there's not a diet version of that anyway

Having switched to SF and FF, adapting well - this is a tough question.  The excecption has been a store I go to occasionally that has an asian corner that makes their own foods (like a deli makes their own).  They have boiled (not fried :D) pot stickers and this is less a calorie issue and more a blood sugar issue as afterwards it bring on the hunger but I really love them so I work through it when I happen to be at this store.

Regarding fat free cheese ~

I was ready to give up on the American slices when I tried them but for some reason they taste so much better melted in an omelet than unmelted.

I am a health food fanatic but when it comes to pizza and desert...

I like my pizza dripping with cheese and my desert loaded with creamy sugary chocolately goodness.

Some things just should not change they just should happen less frequently I guess.

Long live frosting!

Hello- Dorritos- Especially Cool Ranch! What's up with the Baked ones that taste like cardboard!!!

WINE!!!!!!!!,     dark chocolate.  I don't really give up eating anything =just eat small servings.

I'm not able to drink pop very often, because I have an acid stomach.  So when I indulge, I want to have a REAL Mountain Dew, not a diet one.

It's not really a weight loss issue, but I refuse to give up coffee. I only drink the real thing in the morning but I enjoy it sooo much. Although I generally pay attention to studies, I ignore any of them that say coffee is bad. I assume there will be another soon that shows it's good...and luckily, so far that's been the case.

Unfortunately, I tried full fat mozzerella cheese for the first time recently. OMG it's wonderful! I'm not going back but must practice MODERATION.

Oh yes, I totally agree with the fat-free cheese.  I'm okay with reduced fat cheese, but the fat-free stuff is just bad.  I can do fat-free milk and fat-free yogurt, but not fat-free sour cream or cheese.  Blech!

I also refuse to use artificial sweetener in place of sugar.  I actually don't eat alot of foods that have refined sugars in them, so when I do occasionally bake something, I go for the real sugar.  And I always use real sugar in my coffee.

Otherwise, I agree with the others who have said everything else in moderation is okay with me. :)

i'm standing strong here and i'm not giving up anything. i'm not going to eat AS MUCH of it, and i'm not going to have a brownie and a bowl of pasta in the same day, and i'm not eating those things everyday- but i'm not doing it. In 10 years since i was 15, i've starved myself, barfed, binged, no carbed it, phenphened it, all carbed it, you name it, i'm done with it. I'm making better choices, and i'm not giving up wine and cheese binges unless someone cuts out my palate, :) but everything in moderation. I measure, and cook alot so i've gotten better at "eyeballing" at restaurants, my servings are way more appropriate, and i stay within my calories during the day, and i'm steadily loosing weight- plus being (a little) bad feels pretty good! :)

I agree with kappharmd! I'm exactly on the same page with the history of eating problems, and it really is the best to eat less of what you want :)