Damnit! I'm sick of shooting myself in the foot like this. My achilles heal, what I think kills all of my progress is m&m's and peanutbutter. It is the only snack food I eat but I've been having it once a day lately. Basically you take a butter knife, scoop some peanut butter and and then pick up one m&m at a time and dip it into the peanut butter. Damn it's good, and I'm pissed. I eat this so much. Of course it doesn't help that the last time I was at Costco, I bought 52 oz of m&m's and 6 pounds of peanut butter :bang: :bang:

I have to stop. And I will stop today. no more. This is my challenge. No more m&m's and peanutbutter for 1 month. Today's not even day 1 because I've already eaten it today. :bang: Today is day 0. And for 31 days, no m&m's and peanut butter.

If anyone else has one particular food they can't seem to kick, join me. Give up that food for one month.

Day 0

Okay, yesterday was day 1 of no m&m's and peanut butter. This thread totally worked. I was really craving it last night, but then I thought about how I pledged to no one on the internet that I wouldn't do it and I didn't.

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good job GH

I was going to try to join your challenge, but I don't have a real achilles heel lately - but know I'm watching and supporting :D

thanks. I wonder how much fat I'll lose strictly from this challenge.

I mean, I bet I would eat several thousand calores of peanutbutter and m&m's in one week.

1 cup (http://nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c21Pr.html) of m&m's is 1024 calories. Holy Crap!

1 cup (http://nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c218Q.html) of peanut butter is 1517 calories. Oh my lord. I've never really thought about this before.

I would say a good estimate is that I would eat about 3 cups of m&m's and 1.5 cups of peanut butter a week. 5347 calories!!
1.5 pounds of fat/week for my peanut butter and m&m's habit.

And I've been maintaining weight for awhile now, hovering at 180. So by doing dropping this food and replacing it with some low calorie substitute, I'd be cutting a pound a week.

Day 2 and now day 3 are done. I feel a little tighter already.

that's an amazing amount of calories to cut out

the only problem with this challenge is that it's making me want to try M&Ms and PB!

yeah this seems to be a side effect of the thread. And I'm really sorry about that. I came up with this snack when I was like 12. And have been eating it on and off all this time. Lately in the last few years I pretty much cut out every other snack but this one, so it has seen increased action. It really is quite good. If people want to try it, make it a once a week kind of thing, I think sugar, fat, and salt mixed together is just about the worst combination for body fat management.

i'll join you in your painful endeavor. i'm going to give up candy, cookies, cake, and trail mix for a month. right now, it's finals week and i've been really bad... one month to cut my sugar addiction. this is going to be a long month =(

goodluck spongimp! be sure to replace those foods with some other low calorie food so you don't get too hungry. instead of eating m&m's and PB at night I've been eating a hard boiled egg.

gravityhomer, thanks for starting this challenge! because i joined, i have seriously resisted so many tempting treats. i don't really get addicted to savory things, so things look good so far! i admit i did have a piece of see's candy today, but i was buying a gift for a friend and the cashier kept waving it in front of my face. at least it seemed that way.

No problem. I guess I wrapped up day 6 today. I really like this. I feel like I am no longer a slave to the m&m's and PB. And resisting that treat causes me to choose healthier options more often all the time.

I've survived 8 days so far. Viva La no m&m's and PB!!!!!!!!!

What happens if the particular food you can't seem to kick IS cold turkey? With mayo and cranberry sauce on Wonder bread. Yum.

huh, never thought of that. :confused:

I imagine all life would stop instantaneously and every molecule in your body would explode at the speed of light. Total protonic reversal.

10 days and I actually haven't had any peanut butter at all. Had some m&m's at the movies, but not together.

Had some m&m's at the movies, but not together.
You ate the M's seperate from one another?

I need to get the friggin peanut butter out of my house.... I don't care for M&M's but a spoon of peanut butter...... ARGH!!!!

Today would be day 1 for me - assuming I can pretend there's a monster in our pantry when I get home and avoid the can.

I meant, I ate m&m's but without peanut butter.

I'm such an idiot, that I bought the largest bottle of PB I've ever seen when I was costco. Actually I bought 2 of them. But the stuff never goes bad, i could spackle with it if it comes to that.

Think of something to replace the peanut butter with.

14 days. I am kicking this challenge's ass. Ha ha!

Ok, I'm in. I won't drink any diet sodas, or sodas for that matter, for a month. Let me add Ice cream treats to that also.

Phillydude try Wonderbread light it has 40 calories a slice and I think only 8 carbs.

Ok, I'm in. I won't drink any diet sodas, or sodas for that matter, for a month. Let me add Ice cream treats to that also.

Good luck, pete5, You can do it!

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Good luck, pete5, You can do it!

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Thanks, I will start tomorrow.

After a day, I'm doing good. I made it through, but I had some cravings for some Snapple.

Fight the urge!!!

15 days

I'm going to add jam to my list also. I can eat that stuff like it's yogurt.

So far, so good.

i'm at 24 days. last night I wanted a treat so I just had a few m&m's, kept the PB in the fridge though. still going.

3 more days!

wow the end of my challenge came and went and I didn't even realize. I think I ended going about 45 days without my favorite snack, I had some right before I started my current renewed fitness challenge 2 weeks ago. But I certainly kicked the habit, when I had some 2 weeks ago, I didn't even want them. I was just doing it because I was about to embark on a really healthy kick. But I may have went blah on the whole snack now. Huh, it's kind of sad. But better for me.

edit: D'Oh! scratch that. stupid math, I don't know what I was thinking. It seems I only went 27 days. And I fell short. Oh well, but I have a whole new focus, so it's no big whup.

Done.