What is your worst healthy eating " crime"?

Should have added feeling this good could never be sinful in anyone's terms!

At one point in my life crisps were good for me. My body told me this while I was breast-feeding my youngest daughter. I craved the salty fattiness of crisps. Once She was weaned I no longer wanted to eats crisps. Anyhow, because of that experience, I simply refuse to believe that eating crisps is necessarily a bad thing.

Likewise custard creams. That is what eldest daughter demanded, so to speak, in her milk. I have hardly touched those biscuits since then (they'd be soft by now anyhow ).

Ladies, I have to share this for those lovers of Haagen Dazs (and who isn't?!). I have just this minute scoffed one of their new ice cream on sticks salted caramel flavour. Absolute bliss. I did try for raspberry and mango but they were sold out. All from a magazine ad, I might add. Pack of three. One down. Mmmmmm.......

I am guilty of so many eating sins, according to the food police, whom I ignore, that it would be difficult to choose a worst.

Thanks to this thread I have bought and eaten my first pack of marmite crisps. Delicious and as my usual "crime" is sugar I will be buying more.

I love salt and proper butter. I've stopped buying crisps as I need to lose weight - if I buy a six-pack I simply can't resist them and demolish them in around two days.

It has to be cheese and biscuits, or a bowl of special k, plain, with sliced banana. Or plain yogurt Greek one drizzled with honey

Cheese and onion crisp sandwiches or chip butties with chips from the chip shop (or both }

Hot, buttered crumpets, preferably with enough butter that it runs down my chin ? (I'm saving myself by fasting twice a week...)

Yes, it's ridiculous that some slimming organisation label foods as 'sins' ?

Wonder how many on here would say that they wish they weighed the same as they did when first going on 'diets'?

I prefer to stick to low carb but nothing is off the menu if I really want it. Luckily for me I rarely 'crave' foods that I know should only be eaten in moderation so I don't pile on pounds.

But I have seen what the mantra 'everything in moderation' means to some who quote it and the word 'moderation' seems to have been misinterpreted ?

I think we all need to get away from thinking that eating certain foods is a 'crime'. In my late teens I had an eating disorder (these weren't even heard of in the 70s). I read a great book called 'Fat is a feminist Issue' and it changed my thinking on eating and loving my body as it is.

Recently I have read 'The Beauty Myth' by Naomi Kline. Although it was written in 1990 it is even more relevant today. She writes about how women are encouraged to believe that there is always something 'wrong' with the way they look.

I'm not having a 'go' at anyone on here but really feel that this idea that food is a 'sin' and we should all feel 'guilty' about eating certain things only fuels womens' unhealthy attitude to food. Susie Orbach discusses all this in her book.

There's nothing wrong with us looking after our bodies and health but I really cringe when words like 'sin' etc are used around food.

I've recommended these books to my daughter who also has an eating disorder and to anyone else. I think every woman should read them.

Rant over.

Try the sable ones if you love grapes. Available in Sainsbury's and Aldi's. They're lovely.

Starbursts, more starbursts, even more starbursts with a few more thrown in for good health

I like a little food with my salt.

Crisps, cheese and mint Aero.

I stick to my diet ridgidly, then i top it up with a chunk of cheese, or a lovely big toffee meringue cake front Sainsbury's, or maybe......... do you get my drift.
Am now looking for a self hypnosis tape. Had one years ago which really worked, can't find it , so am searching the internet for another one!

Well said Kim19 - couldn't have put it better

I'm with Penstemmon 100 per cent. I indulge in whatever I want to eat BUT the quantities of these indulgences is FAR less than it used to be. Fact is my three stones plus has stayed off for a couple of years now with no cravings or feelings of deprivation whatsoever. This is neither clever or boastful. I've just seen and felt the effects of overweight and am doing my best to live whatever lifespan I have left (hate 'life's too short') as comfortably and healthily as I can on a daily basis. So far so good and, apart from my husband dying, life has been/is being pretty good. Must add it is enhanced by enjoying much of the natter, wit and information gleaned right here on GN. Thanks to you all.

Where to start? Crusty bread, buttered (Anchor) of course and cheese, spread with mustard, plus tomatos, or chutney, or cucumber; toast and maramalade, crumpets with butter and/or cheese: toasted teacake with butter, melted cheese on toast or ryvita, with a poached egg on top - scrumptious; crisps. Morrisons frozen lemon tart occassionally as a dessert, or a dark chocolate mini magnum;
Chocolate - I go through phases of craving something and always have whatever it is in the house to have one a day, then go off it. Currently it is a dark choc mini magnum!

What I make no apologies for because they are healthy: nuts, fruit, salad, etc and a bowl of bran flake cereal with a banana or soft fruit, in the evening.

Of course not all of the above every day, just one or two.

I am a bit overweight - BMI 27, which gives me a bit of extra padding in case I fall over, but stay about the same, because if it goes up I drop all the extras for three days to get back to my normal weight. It does not work to drop them for longer to lose that extra half stone, as I cannot keep it up. We do need some pleasures in life!

I recently had a tummy bug and ate practically nothing for 4 weeks. I lost 5 kg, but my trousers were still tight. It's crept back on, so I'm done sinning now, as one of my DS is getting married in a couple of weeks.

No more sweets, crisps or alcohol for a start.....

And WHAT is wrong, shameful or "criminal " in any of that Inishowen??
Good food as nature intended.
The "health police" frankly make me sick.

Crusty bread with rich Irish butter. Add to that a chunk of cheddar cheese and I'm in heaven.

W11 - aren't you virtuous - sure you don't do anything naughty?
We eat home-made food every day - often home grown vegetables. always at least 5 veges per meal... have pudding - but they are stewed fruit with yogurt. But surely just a little bit of what you fancy can't do you any harm! [BTW am a bit overweight, since menopause, so try to keep the weight down - no biscuits or cake unless it is a celebration ]

Not guilty of any crimes. We need a bit of everything all posters have mentioned for a proper balanced diet, even fat on meat and strawberry jam. I eat them all in moderation and it works for me. Must rush... its time for my sugarless cup of tea and 1 choccy bic.

Occasional WHOLE large tub of Hagendas Pralines and Cream icecream. Trifle, cream cakes.....
But I'm not overweight!