Diet Hang-Ups. What's yours??

[SwoleCat]

What is the biggest dietary interference/hang-up that you experience either daily/every few days/weekly, etc.

Mine is my wife buying all kinds of fun food for our 5 year old that is definitely NOT good for me.

(Our son eats healthy, but he of course has some treats, as he's a kid!)

~SC~

[hung-solo]

i would have to say, home cooking (grandmother) traditional southern cooking. you know loaded with fats and carbs..mmmm! hard to pass up

[craneboy]

working out of town alot, hard to find good food living in hotels

[Aboot]

It's the frequent eating. Honestly, instead of the 6-7 meals I eat in a day I would much prefer to eat 2-3 meals a day. However, maintaining 250 lbs+ on 2 meals a day ain't going to work.

[SwoleCat]

i would have to say, home cooking (grandmother) traditional southern cooking. you know loaded with fats and carbs..mmmm! hard to pass up

Yeah, that too!!!!!!!

~SC~

[Boost n Juice]

Weekends for me...I'll go somewhere expecting to stay 1 hour and end up staying for 5 hours, or after that 1st hour go somewhere else other than home afterwards...

[Boost n Juice]

Oh and alcohol on the weekends, too...I use to drink 7 days a week (**** college!) now I'm down to just weekends. When I drink, I just get vodka on the rocks, which has no carbs/sugar, but still very high in calories and alcohol in general doesn't mix well with lifting...

[need2Bbig]

There is this sandwich i treat myself to once in a blue moon i know its bad but it tastes soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. its actually called a FAT BITCH consists of:

french fries at the bottom
next a layer of cheesesteak
followed by a layer of mozz sticks
topped off with chicken fingers
w/ optional ketchup and mayo
(i skip out on the mayo to avoid the extra fat )

one bite and you can feel you arteries clog

-dre

[Hypertrophy]

Constant preparation of food!!!!!!!!!!! I just get tired of grilling and cooking foods all the time.

[angelxterminator]

1 was the alcohol, but i've cleaned up my act though, so thats out. Now its when i go home. My fathers side of the family is all italian, and dammmmmnnn they make some good food. Everytime i come home they make sh*t they think is good, but they have no concept of proper diet. All i see is:
Eggplant parmasean
Chicken cutlets parm
getti and meatballs
sausage and peppers (home made sausage too, good sh*t)
bracioli
canolis
and my nemesis....
my grand pops lobster and shrimp fettucini alfredo

[JKali]

Roomates eating crap is the biggest problem. One of my roomates eats stovetop stuffing and ice cream all the time. I tell you what, that stuff smells so good when I'm grilling up chicken and steaming veggies. Holidays are also tough. In general it's hard when visiting family because they always want to eat everything that's really good (but really bad for the diet).

[angelxterminator]

Roomates eating crap is the biggest problem. One of my roomates eats stovetop stuffing and ice cream all the time. I tell you what, that stuff smells so good when I'm grilling up chicken and steaming veggies. Holidays are also tough. In general it's hard when visiting family because they always want to eat everything that's really good (but really bad for the diet).

i'm with you on that one, but whenver i go home i just stuff myself full of all italian cheesy nastiness anyway. You gotta do it now and then
I just make sure i get my "50g" protein per meal

[Boost n Juice]

i'm with you on that one, but whenver i go home i just stuff myself full of all italian cheesy nastiness anyway. You gotta do it now and then
I just make sure i get my "50g" protein per meal

That's what I tell myself, 500g fat/ 500g carb is fine as long as I have 50 of pro!

[SwoleCat]

There is this sandwich i treat myself to once in a blue moon i know its bad but it tastes soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. its actually called a FAT BITCH consists of:

french fries at the bottom
next a layer of cheesesteak
followed by a layer of mozz sticks
topped off with chicken fingers
w/ optional ketchup and mayo
(i skip out on the mayo to avoid the extra fat )

one bite and you can feel you arteries clog

-dre

Fat Bitch is the appropriate term for that! My stomach hurts!

~SC~

[JKali]

i just stuff myself full of all italian cheesy nastiness anyway. You gotta do it now and then

LOL, my roommates do this too in more ways than one living in NY.

Seriously though, I visit the rents and it's like my mom becomes betty F*ckin crocker! Pies and baked goods galore...there's only so much one person can resist.

[fritz2435]

The all-you-can-eat cafs in college........ LOL Thank god I'm bulking!!!!

[fritz2435]

ive been known to make ice cream/peanut butter/whipped cream wraps with LC tortillas...

Hey, at least they're low carb!

[JKali]

i completely agree....i practice mad willpower when i eat at my college caf...

other than that, natty peanut butter. i can rip through half a jar without blinking an eye

peanut butter and jelly/peanut butter and apple butter on low carb tortillas can get out of control...
ive been known to make ice cream/peanut butter/whipped cream wraps with LC tortillas...

Oh man, throw some nutella and fluff in there and you'd really have something good.

[Juggernaut]

Peanut butter samiches..........I swear if there's peanut butter and bread in the house I'll eat one in a heartbeat! I have no willpower against those **** things at all........now I'm depressed and there's only one thing....make that two things that will pull me out of this funk......one being a peanut butter samich the other I can't mention cause we have youngun's on the board. Hahahahah

[Kärnfysikern]

Now when living with my sister and her husband the biggest hangup is the imense load of crap food they consume. When the evening hunger sets in its SO hard not to stuff myself.

It was much easier when I had my own apartment and no crap food what so ever at home. I ALWAYS clean out my place completely of anything that might taste good before I start a diet lol. I need totaly isolation from crap food when cutting.

also always prepearing food is a pain in the ass. I hate cooking. Both when bulking and cutting but especialy when cutting cause atleast when bulking I know the food will taste great.

[Kim2884]

Honestly, I don't have anything that really gets to me...I guess I'm really lucky in that respect. I live with my fiance who is more obsessive compulsive than I am...and right now he's contest dieting, so it's even easier to avoid temptation cuz we're not even going out to eat on the weekends. There literally isn't a single unhealthy thing in our apartment.
And maybe it's just me, but I've been doing this for so long now that I don't even want the junk food anymore. I had an engagement party, and fully intended on cheating, but i didn't even have a piece of my own cake. I had a little champagne...but ultimately ended up consuming fewer calories than I normally do.

[irish bulldog]

the big cookies my mum buys when she goes shopping,there are massive ,freshly baked and have chucks of choc in them,willpower cant stop you from picking these babies up.

[OSTIE]

Peanut Butter.... who actually eats just one serving??

I cant even keep it in my house anymore..... Same is starting to happen with almonds..... Most days I get all my EFA's from flax, otherwise ill over do it.

[OSTIE]

oh yea forgot two others

1) Pasta night at the parents

2) Joinin my friends for the 3-4 drinking nights a week.

I HATE dieting, lol.

[Hugh-Hefner's-Son]

women , the things they can make u do....

[ScooterBoy]

Constant preparation of food!!!!!!!!!!! I just get tired of grilling and cooking foods all the time.

This is my biggest problem to. I'm bulking right now and all the food prep sucks.

[SMYL_GR8]

Weekends! Man, an average Friday night after 7:00 P.M. involves one decently-balanced meal followed by ALCOHOL and then maybe some pizza at 3:00 A.M.. UGH! Think about that!

[TheChosenOne]

COOKIES!!!!

[FCECC2]

pasta, pasta, pasta mama mio!! i used to go through 3lbs of that **** each week...

[capone_22]

1 was the alcohol, but i've cleaned up my act though, so thats out. Now its when i go home. My fathers side of the family is all italian, and dammmmmnnn they make some good food. Everytime i come home they make sh*t they think is good, but they have no concept of proper diet. All i see is:
Eggplant parmasean
Chicken cutlets parm
getti and meatballs
sausage and peppers (home made sausage too, good sh*t)
bracioli
canolis
and my nemesis....
my grand pops lobster and shrimp fettucini alfredo

AGREE... filipino food doesn't have a place in dieting. mmmm...CARB/FAT meals!

[xenithon]

My mom's homecooked Jewish meals! Fresh challah, chicken soup with kneidels, kreplich, gefilter fish, sabras, sweet and sticky stroodle. That and a particular chocolate mouse type dessert I was addicted to in Israel called Dani - if anyone has had it you know exactly what I mean

[diesel21]

all italian food, real italian food
i still eat it all

[rugbyking]

yea weekends are the hardest being 21 when all your friends drink religously. plus i never decide to go home and grill up some chicken. i always make the 3am stop to taco bell. at least a get steak in my burrito

[symatech]

i would have to say, home cooking (grandmother) traditional southern cooking. you know loaded with fats and carbs..mmmm! hard to pass up

Tell it brother! I can never pass up home cooking. Thanksgiving is right around the corner, my family and I all go to shreveport La and have a huge thanksgiving lunch. Its fantastic; eat until im so bloated I cant get out of the chair, take a nap, go back and eat some more. then leftovers for a few days! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday hands down. I can't wait!!!!

[BassMuscle]

Mine would have to be Sweet Mexican Bread, with milk just before bed...

**** carbs....


BassMuscle

[Panzerfaust]

Weekends as i like to get away from home, i try my best to take stuff with me in a cooler but most times often fail.

[clockworks]

Cooking is the bane of my dieting. In order to have a good diet, you gotta spent TONS of time cooking. It takes me 1.5 hours to make 2 lbs of salisbury steak (4 servings), 1.5 hours to make sauteed chicken breast (with light peanut sauce and onions, 4-5 breasts), 2 hours to make mashed yams, couple hours to make chicken salad, etc etc.

It seems like 2-3 days after I make all the food, I'm all out! And when I'm out, thats when my diet breaks down.

Also work sometimes hurts my diet. Sometimes I get on a roll coding and by the time I snap out of it, I realized I should have eaten 3 hours ago.

[cb25]

haha...great thread SC.

here's mine, in no particular order

-mexican food...aside from being an addict...my girl is mexican, and cooks like a pro. soooo good.

- starbucks...this is the big one. i'm a complete addict here. when i'm being real serious...i'll just have coffee with sweetener...but more often than not it's a mocha or latte of some sort.

- peanut butter cups. i never buy them, because i know i can't control myself. however...my mom sends me care packages still (she's still not used to me living 3000miles away) -- the last one was, and i **** you not, a box *full* of candy. mostly peanut butter and chocolate combos...she knows i won't buy it, so she always sends me that sh*t!

[Panzerfaust]

Also work sometimes hurts my diet. Sometimes I get on a roll coding and by the time I snap out of it, I realized I should have eaten 3 hours ago.

If i were you i would get a timer bro under those circumstances.

[Panzerfaust]

haha...great thread SC.

here's mine, in no particular order

-mexican food...aside from being an addict...my girl is mexican, and cooks like a pro. soooo good.

- starbucks...this is the big one. i'm a complete addict here. when i'm being real serious...i'll just have coffee with sweetener...but more often than not it's a mocha or latte of some sort.

- peanut butter cups. i never buy them, because i know i can't control myself. however...my mom sends me care packages still (she's still not used to me living 3000miles away) -- the last one was, and i **** you not, a box *full* of candy. mostly peanut butter and chocolate combos...she knows i won't buy it, so she always sends me that sh*t!

*Screams INTERVENTION *