Weight-Loss Do you keep "panic" food availble?

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Monster2

Monster2

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How do you guys feel about having almost zero calorie binge food around, like celery, carrot sticks, or whatever to fill fast you if feel a binge coming on.
I did this in the past with pretty good results, (baby cut carrots in a bag) and I think I need to start doing it again.
 
I don't deliberately. I generally have things just because - I find it a mixed bag. I tend to have celery go bad on me. I will eat lettuce or mushrooms... of course, if I don't, then sometimes I just don't eat. So hard to say if it was that useful to me.
 
Always keep a Carb less Protein bar in my purse! its come to save my ass many a time. Travelling once we got delayed and stopped at Wendys for dinner, everyone else had burgers, they had nothing i could eat other than a side salad, plus my protein bar :D
 
Hmm... I find high calorie food to be really annoying to deal with anyways so I guess you could say that I mostly have some super low calorie food available. But... part of the change in my life is, I guess, also about learning to stop and ask myself whether I'm actually hungry, and eat slower and like... just eat enough to not be hungry. And when I genuinely feel hungry I eat something, if I'm running low on available-calories-according-to-plan I just eat like... whatever low calorie I have around, Veggies mostly. Mushrooms are nice because they are filling. Potatoes are too. Spinach, broccoli and cauliflower too.
 
Good example: tonight I ate a whole jar of pickles that really filled my for only 100 calories.
It really saved my ass!
Doesn't anyone else do this sort of thing?
 
Monster said:
Good example: tonight I ate a whole jar of pickles that really filled my for only 100 calories.
It really saved my ass!
Doesn't anyone else do this sort of thing?
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Hah, did the same with popcorn the other day :)
 
Before I knew any better, I had kept a giant bag of beef jerky and a bag of Baked Lays to control my late night hungers (I'm a night owl). I was like "o this is low in fat, high in protein and so i can eat these every day!!!"

WRONG. I got totally decimated at the weigh in that week with a +5 lbs. Now I realized it was because of water retention but it scared the hell out of me back then.

I don't keep any panic foods around any longer but make a serious effort to make sure I am reasonably full before I go to bed. I love the idea of pickles too but aren't they also ridiculously high in sodium?
 
I don't keep any of those things. If it's not there, I won't eat it. And if I want to binge, a celery stick is not going to do it anyway.

I used to buy stuff to have 'instead' of 'bad' food, but it just rots in my fridge. For me it works much better not to have anything around, and distract myself until the urge to eat is gone.
 
Unfortunately, I still live at home, and only half the people in my house are dieting at the moment, which leaves plenty of shitty food lying around the house to gorge on if I so choose.

I'm actually not much of a binge victim; I'm lucky in that.

Also, strange fact based on original post: I can't eat baby carrots.
My throat literally rejects baby carrots; I can't handle the consistency or something.
It's really strange.
 
SoCoSideshow said:
Also, strange fact based on original post: I can't eat baby carrots.
My throat literally rejects baby carrots; I can't handle the consistency or something.
It's really strange.
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Well.... for the most part "baby carrots" in the grocery store are actually baby CUT carrots! I prefer them by far to "real" baby carrots, and they are cheaper also!. To clarify, these are really just regular carrots cut into smaller bits to sort of look like baby carrots.
Not sure why your throat would reject the babies, because you have to chew any carrot up quite a bit before you swallow.
As far as stuff rotting.... you don't buy panic foods you wouldn't eat anyway! You just eat them before they go bad.
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Yes, pickles have tons of sodium. they fill you up though! it doesn't really seem to bother me that much, so I don't worry about it. I don't eat panic foods all the time, maybe once or twice a week when I'm losing weight, and I fell like a feeding frenzy is coming!
 
I think my panic "food" is water. If I am getting really hungry, I down a bottle of water before I eat anything. I do have some of those 100 calorie packs around too, they are never very satisfying but sometimes meet the need for sweet or salty without much damage.
 
Not really panic foods but for those times when I want to eat and I'm not suppose to be hungry (i.e. like right after dinner), these foods have saved me from going all out:

diet cola
decaf coffee
sultanas
a few slices of cheese
almonds

Almonds are my latest discovery. I believe it's one of the healthier nuts, same as walnuts but they are crunchier and better tasting than walnuts. I've found they do a surprisingly good job of making me feel full.
 
I'm glad you brought this thread back up again.
Popcorn is also a great panic food!
Protein bars are also very filling.
Oh.....
Ramen soup works great!
Also.... Turkey cold cut slices.
 
I'm doing the slow-carb thing, and it really helps to know that on Saturday I'm going to eat whatever I want and however much of it that I want. What's interesting is what I'm finding from it:
1) My recent cheat day started out with half a cupcake, a donut, a croissant, and a mocha latte. Lunch was an In-n-Out double-double with fries and a diet. But after being on a restricted calorie plan the other 6 days, I was so full that dinner was a glass of red. I probably ate about the same calories eating whatever I wanted as I do the other days of the week when I'm very careful, and believe me, before I started this crazy diet, I would have put away that burger and gone back for more.
2) On the "other 6 days" I mentioned above, I get hungry and struggle to stay full. BUT! I don't crave the crap I eat on Saturdays, like burgers, fries, chips, donuts, chocolate.

I guess in response to the original post: I don't keep "panic" foods around because I don't panic - I actually keep a list of things I want to eat on my cheat day, because when I know I'm going to eat it soon, I can just look forward to it.
 
I don't know if you all of have tried this but I find that kettle corn popcorn works really well for my late night cravings(I am notorious for this as well!)
 
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