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clive ghosh
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Posted by clive ghosh, 22:02 17 January 2007

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 ?
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Posted by au52, 03:49 18 January 2007

I don't think they sell them in GB, but here in America this time of year, Necco sells these little boxes of heart-shaped candy with words on them called Sweethearts...I buy them in bulk.
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Posted by Piglet, 09:16 18 January 2007

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:
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Posted by barefootlass, 11:31 18 January 2007

Tell me about it! I have to get into a normal size dress in 2 weeks and I just want to eat like a horse! Potatoes are a killer (anything stodgy really) as well as chocolate and I also have a craving for stew and dumplings!
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Posted by mayqueen, 21:58 18 January 2007

I just love custard cream biscuits!! dipped in my tea.....heaven.
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Posted by filsgreen, 15:45 19 January 2007

I don't think they sell them in GB, but here in America this time of year, Necco sells these little boxes of heart-shaped candy with words on them called Sweethearts...I buy them in bulk.


Hi au 52

we do have them in the UK. http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/gfx/lovehearts.jpg
clive ghosh
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Posted by clive ghosh, 21:55 19 January 2007

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.
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Posted by au52, 20:19 20 January 2007

Heheh, interesting filsgreen! Not the same brand as here in the US, but you can buy them by the pound here too!

And clive, don't let those comments get to you...just tell them you like variety!
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Posted by ally may, 22:23 21 January 2007

at the time of writing I would say pitta breads but often in the past it wd have to be chips or baked potatoes
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Posted by shelley, 19:17 22 January 2007

I cant leave the crisps alone,Im trying to lose weight at the moment as well! so I have now stopped buying them as I cant just have 1 packet, once I start I dont stop until they are all gone lol,Im terrible for chips as well
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Posted by anna, 23:07 22 January 2007

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.
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Posted by Beck, 20:29 23 January 2007

CHOCOLATE!!!!!!

Plus anything stodgy and/or sweet. Also cheese.

I'm weaning my 6 month old daughter at the mo, & am finding it hard to resist her leftovers!

Hate putting on weight ,but I can't resist the cravings. It's a constant battle.
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Posted by anna, 20:38 23 January 2007

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!
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Posted by Jo, 14:44 24 January 2007

Hey Anna I have the same problem. Every year when the symptoms start my stomach seems to close up and I can't force anything down. I've lost nearly a stone in 3 weeks. Yes I agree it's good to lose weight but am quite worried about what my body is going through.

The only thing that I can seem to eat at the moment is fruit pastilles. Can't get enough of them!
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Posted by Gemmzie, 20:47 24 January 2007

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:
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Posted by Dee, 22:19 24 January 2007

:lol: I also like anna like angel delight by the packet but the butterscotch one! And crisps by the bucket load especially if i get an appetite. my partner goes nuts, bless him he's cooked currys and allsorts, even got me fish and chips tonight to try get me to eat but i just couldnt. yet tomorrow i'll probably go through a few packets of crisps or angel delight if i feel peckish lol

Dee :wink:
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Posted by Bongogirl, 22:22 25 January 2007

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:
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Posted by Suzie, 18:15 26 January 2007

Mashed Potato, Cheese and Bread.... All healthy stuff!!! :shock:
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Posted by debbs, 19:32 27 January 2007

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.
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Posted by clive ghosh, 00:08 28 January 2007

Debbs is it the 'sour cream and onion' Pringles your favorite? They always seem to be missing and I'm convinced they're the most popular.
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Posted by Jo, 09:08 29 January 2007

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.
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Posted by Beck, 17:21 30 January 2007

I agree. Definitely the barbecue flavour and angel delight HAS to be BUTTERSCOTCH!!! I have a scented candle that smells just like it!
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Posted by Hostage, 21:09 1 February 2007

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.
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Posted by PurpleIvy, 08:30 2 February 2007

chocolate, cereal.....
Linda
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Posted by Linda, 09:45 2 February 2007

These foods are partly what's making so many of you feel so awful.
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Posted by PurpleIvy, 09:48 2 February 2007

Easy for you to say Linda! OK chocolate isn't so good, but nothing wrong with a good whole grain cereal.
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Posted by Suzie, 14:22 2 February 2007

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!
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Posted by Linda, 17:47 2 February 2007

I really do understand what it is like to have carb/sweet cravings that seem uncontrollable. Of course it's much easier said than done to not give in to them. However, the cravings are a very common symptom of underlying physical imbalances -- witness how many people reply to this type of topic whenever it comes up. Surely it doesn't do any good for people to list what they are doing to their bodies in this way, as if it is something slightly naughty like cheating on a diet, that is done with a wink and pleasure with every mouthful. What's more, all these posts tend to give the impression that it really is OK to do this. Indulging in the cravings may silence them short term, but it increases the severity of long-term problems.

Surely it would be better to discuss ways of dealing with the cravings and avoiding them as much as possible. There are a lot of good coping strategies around that could help people. I've learned quite a few myself, I was the queen junkie of sweets almost all of my life.

Linda.
clive ghosh
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Posted by clive ghosh, 18:09 2 February 2007

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
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Posted by anna, 20:14 2 February 2007

cant we just have some fun?

to be honest, cooking for myself only i dont have the money or the inclination to be uber healthy, i love my roast dinners and other semi healthy meals but unfortunately its a hell of alot cheaper to buy a pizza or a packet of angel delight to stock my cravings than it is to try and stem them with fruit or a salad which just goes off and wastes me large amounts of money.

i try to keep my indulgances to a minimum, but sometimes its just funny the type of things my body cries out for.

no its not normal to eat a cream egg for breakfast, but hearing that other people eat just as wierd things as i do makes me feel a hell of alot less like a freak, what with my colleages at work telling me 3 or 4 times a day how ridiculous my food intake is, because they dont have the opportunity to see the more healthy things i eat at home.

lighten up a bit... i bet you have some interesting food intakes too.
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Posted by Linda, 21:00 2 February 2007

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.

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Posted by Anonymous, 00:44 4 February 2007

Fave carbs.......

Jaffa cakes. I can polish off a packet of 12 in one sitting. One after the other.

Potatoes. In winter, I'll cook mashed potato as an evening snack.

Redbull....by the litre!
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Posted by siddy, 13:43 4 February 2007

you are all lightweights... 8) Too many too list in one sitting :lol:
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Posted by anna, 21:10 4 February 2007

also anything with oats!

oat-so-simple and flapjacks... both so yummy!

and jacket potatoes and mashed potato.
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Posted by PurpleIvy, 21:13 4 February 2007

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

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Posted by Anonymous, 23:18 4 February 2007

ah you see, I do it the other way round. I kinda bite into the chocolate and take that and the orangey bit, and then eat the sponge after!
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Posted by PurpleIvy, 07:31 5 February 2007

:lol:
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Posted by siddy, 09:18 5 February 2007

well to back up my claim...... 2 litres of cheap chocolate ice cream in one go and for Haagen Dasz the most i've eaten in one go was, one and three quarters of their large tubs! 8)
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Posted by PurpleIvy, 09:34 5 February 2007

You wanna be careful Siddy or the food police will be after you!
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Posted by siddy, 21:48 5 February 2007

I'm always one step ahead........ got a fast bike!!

There also was the time in my teens when my father had the bright idea that buying a box of 48 crisps would be cheaper (salt and vinegar) than buying them singly........ bought them Friday night... gone by sunday night!!! :shock:
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Posted by ceri, 12:53 27 February 2007

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!?!

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