What's your dietary Achilles' Heel?

where is the all of the above option

oh wait, only one lol

I guess it *was* alcohol, but I've had 2 drinks in the last ten weeks. (Returning to old ways shortly.)

voted 'only one?' tbh. i eat a lot of meat and i also drink a lot of alcohol. i partake in all the rest, but i don't think it's excessive or unhealthy. i use salt when i cook but i never add salt to food prepared at a restaurant (exception, fried eggs at the diner.)

bread should have been an option

That's where I was heading with the processed white flour option.

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Pizza and booze basically covers all of these, right?

this seems relevant given everytime i read wmc talking about southern food i think of the fat/salt/smoke/caloriessssss

salt is up there but booze is king

I'm voting meat, though the real answer for me is "only one?" It would take a major health catastrophe for me to give up the steers and the pigs.

also is yr answer to this question the one that is most appealing

i really do try to eat all meat in moderation but there are wildly divergent opinions on what moderation is

tend to think not eating a good intake of fruit/vegetables is more unhelpful than a moderate excess concentrated in any particular category, so long as that isn't a bottle of vodka or a lb of chocolate a day

Beer and cheese

basically all of these except processed/refined white flour

i think i could count out sugar, processed flour, and portion control

mountain dew, so sugar i guess. i don't really eat candy or desserts or anything tho

portion control and alcohol

voted other, for "going a whole day without eating a vegetable"

whaddaya got?

Easy, EtOH.

Say, shouldn't that be Achillean Heel?

sugar
processed/refined white flour
lack of portion control

in order of next-day regret: alcohol, processed/refined white flour, sugar, lack of portion control

Alcohol. If I drink enough, I'll eat anything and everything.

^ yeah :(

plus drink more

Truth^^

Meat, today was a double BBQ day.

if carbs are bad, then carbs. have cut down on meat to "only" one meal a day. got a massive sweet tooth but i basically don't have desserts or sugary snacks any more. would eat all the rice pasta bread potatoes - crisps/chips especially, could polish off a whole tin of pringles given the chance.

Salt and flour, usually. I am reasonably healthy but love making bread, pizza, roti, etc and eat way more salt than i probably should.

alcohol, easily, then salt.

Desserts, so sugar I guess.

Alcohol. If I drink enough, I'll eat anything and everything.

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^ yeah :(

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voted portion control, though a lot is alcohol induced portion control - 4 shots of bourbon -> eating an entire pint of haagen dazs salted caramel gelato

My mouth

All of these tbh plus the not eating enough fruit/veg thing, but I guess sugar is my archnemesis bcz I cannot seem to give up the mindless empty diabetes-inducing calories of a nice cold Coke

I've always had a sweet tooth but now I wd generally choose a salty, fatty starter over dessert - just can't seem to shake the idea that carbonated sugar-water will be refreshing and medicinal (a cure for all the brain-fogs of the day)

I have an amazingly sweet tooth. But I also have an amazingly savoury tooth, too.

I just really like tasty food.

So there needs to be an option that says simply 'food'.

Lack of portion control. I feel always eat way less/way more than I am supposed to, I wish I was more constant.

Sugar, definitely. Also 'other: snacking'

I tried quitting sugar recently. Lasted from November through mid April.The problem was that about a month after I cut out sugar, I got ravenous for white flour and my alcohol consumption increased immensely. It was pretty depressing, because I felt really great in that first month, but when those cravings hit, if was essentially over. I just had another problem to deal with. Eventually, I stopped drinking alcohol because we had a family health crisis and I couldn't get drink at night in case I had to drive to the hospital, so I was just like "fuck it. Pass the m&Ms."

It's crisps.

salt and booze. pretty good on refined carbs. portion control sometimes an issue in the evening, just generally feel so hungry.

I've been realizing lately that I'm an emotional eater too. Like, I eat out of boredom and stress and depression, even when my stomach its full.

^Which is a direct outgrowth of being a former emotional smoker, no doubt.

I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but I do drink loads of coke, and I'm fairly sure the fatty savoury foods I eat have craploads of sugar in them too, despite not being 'sweet'. So I've still got sugar covered.

I've been realizing lately that I'm an emotional eater too. Like, I eat out of boredom and stress and depression, even when my stomach its full.

when my health problems flare up i seek solace in food. i don't eat loads or whatever, i just tend to rely on food to provide an interesting experience if i can't go out or do other things as a result of health.

I'm not sure you can have more than one "achilles' heel"

but yeah all of these, with alcohol way in front of the others

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

xp you could have two, depending on how many hands your mother needed to use to hold you when dipping you into rivers

recently it's been cheez-its

Cool Ranch forever

alcohol > processed/refined white flour > fat > meat > salt

alcohol calories aren't contributing anything I need, except alcohol

I spend more time thinking about managing my meat intake, but if I break down, cutting out some of the junk carbs and dairy fat would probably improve my diet more

Cool ranchin' by sound

where to vote for "i have all of these 'food weaknesses' and also fuck you"?
other?

but if i'm ranking based on refusal to give up vs health benefits, alcohol salt meat

where's coffee? my real answer is probably coffee.

Coffee not so much the nutritional wasteland as the sugar you put in it, no?

i don't put sugar in it

I eat it all. It makes me strong.

Then drink as much coffee as your sanity can tolerate!

iirc 4-5 cups of coffee per day correlates with longer living.

and even if it doesn't at least you are awake for more of your life hours

well fine then
alternating coffee with moderate booze and plenty of water IS a sustainable lifestyle choice and i'm sticking to it

water is totally key. in fact, my achilles heel may be not drinking enough water, especially in conjunction with booze & coffee.

wiiiiiiiiiiiiine

― veryupsetmom (harbl), vrijdag 10 mei 2013 4:05 (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Coffee's not so bad for hydration, as it turns out caffeine isn't really a diuretic, and unsweetened black coffee has a relatively low osmolality of about 37 mOsm/kg, well below the isotonic range of 275-295 mOsm/kg.

Beer and wine, OTOH are pretty bad for hydration, at ~1000 mOsm/kg and ~2500 mOsm/kg respectively. As are soft drinks (Mountain Dew clocks in at 805 mOsm/kg).

cheese, cheese, and moar cheese

good at avoiding junk food, but yeah. beer/wine/mixed drinks, plus a love of bread and cheese, and then there's my massive sweet tooth.

and black coffee

Another vote for beer and cheese

also i am currently drunk and grilling meat.

and about to open a bottle of wine now that i'm done with the vodka drinks.

i am convinced that diet coke is actually meant to make you crave bad food (maybe they've done some sort of research?). i've lost 38 pounds in the last year and I only fall off the wagon when i start drinking D.C. again. an evil potion

and yet i crave it more than anything!

xp IG:

Gain weight by “going diet?” Artificial sweeteners and the neurobiology of sugar cravings

yeah i stay away from diet coke. the people i know who drink it don't just drink it sometimes, they drink it multiple times per day. i dated someone who never wanted to go to cafes because they didn't serve diet coke.

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As an infant, I was dipped in a vat of kale smoothie (with added omega-3) by my mother. She had to get her fingers in it, but she managed to cover all of me, including my heel. Therefore I have no dietary Achillean heel.

i had a diet coke phase. you really do become obsessed.

voted processed/refined white flour but it needn't be processed/refined for me to eat six fucking tons of it in a sitting; it just needs to have some cheese next to it. "weed" also a key response here.

goldfish crackers by the fist.

alcohol calories aren't contributing anything I need, except alcohol

pretty big except

Thanks for the thread link, Sanpaku, and others for their responses. Trying one Diet Coke a week, so far so good...

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