Your favourite carbohydrate crave

I've just polished off a 200 g bag of Bassett's Dessert Allsorts. As I did last night and the one before. Never mind the rights or wrongs....what's your weakness ?

Crisps...... I'm getting married in two weeks and am desparately trying to keep off crisps so I can get into my posh frock! I want a large bag of M&S crisps soooooo badly.... :lol:

I just love custard cream biscuits!! dipped in my tea.....heaven.

I had to chuckle at your admission, Bill , to buying your 'Sweethearts' in bulk.You may have something there. At the supermarket check-out, my serried ranks of multi-coloured bags of sweets sit at odds with the fresh veg and other healthy foods. And it prompts the same irritating comments every time.

at the time of writing I would say pitta breads but often in the past it wd have to be chips or baked potatoes

chocolate angel delight seems to be my weekness.... i eat an entire mixes worth in each sitting (more than half a pint of the stuff).

but carbs wise i think my worst thing is jacket potato and mashed potato.... can'tget enough of them.

before christmas at work i was living off jacket potatoes cooked in bonfires almost daily- a joy of working outdoors i guess.

amazingly ive lost sooo much weight. ive gone form a size 14 to a fairly small size 10 in 6 months.

i think thats down to my very physical job and poor diet tho, i could be eating a lot more healthily than i am at times.

but yay at the slimness!

Doughnuts, can easily eat three or four in a day during the winter. :oops:

Pasta and jacket potatoes, I've cut down to every other day but that is hard.


I'm very lucky in some ways though as my metabolism is odd and I don't put on much weight from it.

In the summer though, I can go two days without eating anything :roll:

I love eating cherry bakewell tarts. But not just one.... the whole packet!!! Once i start i can't stop. Same with jam doughnuts.

Funny you said Angel delight!! I ate a whole half pint pack to myself the other day. Why why why do i need to eat such stodgy stuff?? :twisted:

Pringles for me at the moment and good old Tescos had BOGOF so I had loads of the things, they even reduce them when the tubes get squashed and being able to see the place from the front of the house isnt helping (has become my second home). Reduced to clear is fantastic the crisps sweets and chocs that get reduced is wonderful. I have a safe that I keep all my stash in (stops hubby helping himself as he has no control unlike me, ha ha ha). Potatoes are so bad too this time of the year, after dishing up the sunday lunch I even clean the spoon that's been used to dish up the mash, hubby thinks I'm totally mad. Other than those 2 I really am just eating my way through the dark days with what ever I lay my mitts on that's edible.

Hi Clive

I think it has to be the Texas barbecue flavour! I ate a tube and a half of these yesterday, felt very guilty and had to tell my boyfriend that we had mice.

I have devised an alternative route home from work. Why? Because it's like a Tom & Jerry cartoon if my nose catches the sweet aroma of a Percy Ingles glazed doughnut.

I'm lobbying my local MP to have them upgraded to a Class B substance.

These foods are partly what's making so many of you feel so awful.

We all know what we SHOULD eat......

I saw my doctor once and told her I can't stop eating rubbish, she said to me when you feel like eating have an apple instead....

Just doesn't have the same appeal somehow!

Linda, please. I seek not to trivialise something with which we are all familiar.
And I write as someone who has considerable respect for you and your stance on our shared problems- and also as the person who started this thread.
In my mind I merely thought that a little humour and common awareness were a positive coping tool.
Perhaps I have been frivolous. But for me, happiness helps.

clive

I think I can see what you are getting at here. You are welcome to see me as humourless, but what I saw when I looked at this topic today after all the posts it's drawn, is people sharing an addictive habit and giving it an air of legitimacy. I've had all kinds of people tell me that a little of what you fancy does you good, that it's OK to have these things, that it's no big deal. I probably would have gone along with this a few years ago had I not been forced to confront what it had been doing to my body, and start finding out the facts about sugar, depression, insulin, serotonin, etc.

Sugar, white flour, and other highly processed foods have little to no nutritional value and are sometimes called antinutrients, because their overall effect on the body is negative. They play a large part in many illnesses, sometimes put into a masterclass called Syndrome X, which ranges a gamut from heart disease and type II diabetes to mental illnesses. All you have to do to become prone to these things is eat a "normal" diet. I've seen my neighbour disgnosed with diabetes recently and most people would say that the way she's eaten all her life is fairly healthy. However, a person does not develop the types of illnesses she has from eating healthy food. The misconception is in what is defined as healthy.

Everyone is certainly free to make their own choices about what they eat. I just can't find any humour in the way I used to abuse my body -- I knew it but felt helpless about it -- and it strikes a chord when I see people discussing the issue. It isn't funny that eating sugar as a comfort food led me to having insulin and blood sugar problems, and was probably a factor in two and a half years of depression too. It isn't funny when I see it happening to other people. This is the last I'll say here on the topic because I've said a lot in Nutrition Info. I'm not wanting to criticise, but I would just ask those who have posted here to consider the implications of eating these foods, and what your body may be telling you by craving them.

Just a side note on interesting food intakes. I bought a food dehydrator recently, so interesting for me would be making jerky, pemmican, and dried veg and coconut at the moment. I eat whole foods mostly consisting of protein, veg, and healthy fats. Before I changed my diet I was suicidal; what I was eating was helping to kill me. Eating the way I do now has stopped sugar cravings, given me more energy, a clear head, and no more worries about developing diabetes myself.

It's a shame I had to get so deeply depressed before I learned these things. Health is often something we take for granted until it fails us. I now see taking care of myself as one of the most important gifts I can give to myself and the people I care about. It doesn't take much willpower when you consider what the alternatives are.

Linda.

you are all lightweights... 8) Too many too list in one sitting :lol:

I'll tell you what's really revolting.. I saw my dd eating jaffa cakes one day. First she nibble off the sponge... then she picked off the chocolate.... finally she ate the 'orangy bit'. I expressed my disgust... then when alone another day tried it myself. The big advantage is that they last longer. To quote dd... "none of that full moon, half moon, crescent moon, no moon business!"

I still haven't let on that I have tried it LOL

:lol:

You wanna be careful Siddy or the food police will be after you!

I feel sooo much better!!? I thought i wasnt normal to eat a whole packet of revels (kingsize bag) in one go!?!? :lol: List too long to say!?!? But mostly its potatos, especially cheese and bacon potato pie.
I do understand what linda's trying to say in the respect of looking after our bodies but infortuately i have an ingraded philosopy that is life too short to be worrying about things like that so i just eat what my body craves. Bad habit i know!?!