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Does anyone have foods that they avoid like the plague because they love them SO MUCH but they're SO high cal/bad for you? Mine are poptarts, cookie dough ice cream, pancakes/waffles/french toast, muffins, cinnimon rolls. I'm sure there is more but thats all I can think of right now. :) Anyone else want to share theirs?
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Beer and brie.  Heavy sigh.
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and cream sauce of any kind.
Raisins.  They taste terrible.
oh yes, dried fruit is one of mine. I LOVE them and they're pretty high cal.
oh yes and peanut butter and jelly. I love it so much. I can eat a pb sandwhich, but with me when I add jelly it's all or nothing and I usually wind up putting a full 2 tbsp of pb on it and then jelly and it's like...woa....
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frozen burritos
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Regular Lays potato chips, Kettle Krunch Salt and Vinegar potato chips.  Oreo Ice cream sandwiches, fish and chips with lots of tartar sauce.....thinking......KFC and ribs. Oh lordy! I'm gonna cry! 
cereal as stated in other posts no one eats the recommended portion and its so easy to overeat and just has that taste that is so addictive,
Nothing is forbidden, nothing is "bad". It's just a calorie tradeoff that usually is not worth it. But sometimes it is. And sometimes I just have to throw caution and planning to the wind and have what I desire. Hasn't really caused problems yet.
cookies and cake for me...Once I eat one, I know that I will want more....

Everything I thought I had to avoid I found a low-cal substitute for.

No PB?  Try the PB 100 calorie snack cookies.

No Ice Cream?  Try Del Monte Real Fruit, no fat popsicles. (at 50 cals each, you can have two!)

It's just finding a suitable alternative.

Not really... I still eat everything I like in moderation or I just make a healthier version of it. I don't eliminate any foods other than those that contain HFCS or artificial sweeteners.
ananything in which i dont know the cal count for

I was just talking with my roommate about this, earlier today!  Some foods that I lose all self-control over:

  • Sun Chips
  • Homemade chex mix, peanut brittle, oatmeal cookies
  • Rice Krispy treats (although now I don't eat them because the marshamallows aren't vegetarian), and Rice Krispy Peanutbutter/Butterscotch Bars
  • Ice cream
  • Dried pineapple rings from Trader Joe's

I know there are more, but those are the big ones that stick out in my mind right now!

And usually I eat them anyway.  :-P

lots of people have said they do substitutions for things they love but are so high in calories but sometimes it's  just flat hard.  my difficult foods are:

 * Coldstone Strawberry Blonde

* any cookie dough or homemade cookies

* dried mangos from Costco

* Strawberry milkshake Whoppers (where's the substitute here?)

* cheddar cheese off the block (mmmmmmmm)

* doughnuts

* movie popcorn

just use normal popcorn, no salt or butter. you can buy the kernels by the pounds
Ice-cream is a big one, especially the chocolate swirl kind but even vanilla with lots of chocolate topping or strawberry topping is addictive. Then there's that milo cereal that's advertised as "full of energy". I loved it so much Cry
I avoid whatever falls under the "junk food" category. I'm able to push aside my cravings so it really doesn't bother me to not have a bite of that twix bar... or that hot fudge sundae with nuts... or the large cherry slush I love Oh'so much... ooo or or umm the super nachos with carnitas and extra sour cream from Cucas.

I think about it but it doesn't phase me. *bites apple*

I am a cheese aholic, but unfortunatly I'm sensitive to cow dairy, so usually I use goat milk cheese sparingly and latley I use a gratter and only put .5-1.5oz

When I was young I used to LOVE PB and also Bacon, but I brainwashed myself into not liking them, now I only use them on occasion and sparingly. 

Blizzards from Dairy Queen and soft serve ice cream and shakes, I am scared come summer I will give in to temptation like I did last year eating them all the time..

I really like bacon but dont give into to temptation often, same with steak, I love them rare RARE same with prime rib but that is pretty much a NO NO.

I love big baked sweet potatoes with sugar and cinnamon and I will eat tehm without but DAMN I miss the extras.

I can take or leave most cheese, I eat Mozzarella for my diet but I LOVE soft cheeses like brie.

I love the trail mix I make with all kinds of nuts and dried fruit but I save it for when I workout cause I eat too much of it otherwise.  I am going to start having some when I am too low on my calories before bed though.

Pie at places like Shari's, I love to have it coffee with lots of milk and sugar.

Rice Krispy treats cause I want the whole pan

it isn't that I can't have these things in moderation, it is that once I start eating them I WANT A LOT of them.

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