I usually eat at least one piece of it every day. Often twice. Like a milky way bar or two or something like that.
Just wondering how much of a pig I am. (Hey, in my defense, I do work out a lot and I’m incredibly naturally thin.)
Hardly ever. I probably went 10 years without eating a purchased piece of candy. Now, I stock up on a small amount of Halloween candy (OK, I’ll be be eating Kit-Kats for a couple of months), in case some rat bastard child dares to walk up the scary scary path to my house.
But now, I noticed that the local Smart & Final store has Sweet and Sour Charm Suckers, so I keep a box around for old times sake.
Lately way too much. I’ve been munching on sweet things and/or cheese curls for the last 6 weeks. I will soon tire of it and go back on the straight and narrow.
Over a lifetime, an enormous amount, which is why I’ve been obese since childhood. Currently I don’t eat sweets or bread because I’m trying to get back on a low-carb diet which has worked well for me in the past, but we’ll see if I stay on the wagon or not.
I eat a couple pieces of hard candy every day, but that’s it as far as sugary things go. I don’t really like chocolate anymore, but I’ll eat some if it’s given to me (and then remember that I don’t like it). My little sister is sending me some of her Halloween candy, so I suppose I’ll be having one of those realizations in a few days.
I think I lost most of my taste for sugar when I got past my teenage years, but it took me a couple years to figure that out. Now that I’m living on my own and buy my own food, I’ve found that the thought of buying ice cream or a chocolate bar or something doesn’t seem even remotely appealing. Like I said, though, I’ll eat it if it’s there. If I could remember that I don’t like it before I eat it, that’d be great.
(I’m 23, female, and borderline obese. I’ve been eating better and getting more exercise since moving out of my parents’ house, but if I lose more than a few pounds, I’ll have to buy new pants, and I can’t afford that. ;))
I have to say that I eat a lot of sugar. But I exercise fairly often and eat lots of healthy food too so I think I’m doin’ alright.
The week after Halloween? As much as I can stuff in my mouth!
Seriously, a mini-bar of dark chocolate a day. A day without chocolate is a day wasted. An occasional Little Debbie cookie. Late at night, I HAVE to have some ice cream. I do like to bake pies, cakes and cookies, and there’s my downfall, because what I bake is 1000 times better than anything bought. So I won’t be baking again till the holidays, what with all that leftover Halloween candy around…As for chips and nuts and such, I buy limited quantities of pistachios or almonds and I buy Doritos for the family ( I don’t care for Doritos)…I frankly don’t know anyone who does NOT eat some kind of candy/junk food. If they say they live on fruits, vegetables, and low fat yogurt, they are lying…I could stand to lose about 10 lbs. myself, eat mostly healthy and try to avoid processed foods. But so what? I’m not going to get a job as an aerobics instructor, and no one cares if I’m a few pounds over the average, anyway.
About one piece of chocolate (a sixth of a regular sized bar or a piece of Halloween chocolate) and maybe a handful of low-fat potato crisps a day. I like junk food just fine, but I don’t have much problem limiting my intake of it - just a little bit every day.
I haven’t had a full-size candy bar in years, but sometimes I buy those Dove bite-size squares and eat about two of those a day–sometimes as many as four. I also buy Mike & Ike’s and have a handful of those if I get a sugar craving (which I often do), and sometimes I’ll buy a carton of frozen yogurt and have several spoonfuls of that, right out of the carton. Occasionally I get one of those big cookies at Whole Foods, but I try to make it last about three days. I’m not eating all this stuff every day, mind you, but I do eat something sweet every day, I think. I exercise a lot (14-mile bike ride today, for example), but I could still stand to lose a few pounds, and I’m sure cutting out the sugar would help, but I just CRAVE it. I don’t eat a ton; I like to go with the “everything in moderation” principle.
It has gotten to the point where I can’t function right without chocolate.
I eat about six pieces of mini Hershey’s chocolate bars and two big chocolate chip cookies a day. If I’m bored or stressed I’ll eat about 12 of them in one sitting.
Mini Hershey’s just happen to be my go to chocolate at the moment. I have four bags of them in my room right now.
I’m not fat and I workout. To balance out the sugar I get from all that chocolate I try not to eat anything else with sugar, like coffee or tea.
Well, like someone else above, I stick to a low-carb diet (for health reasons, not weight, I"m 135 pounds), But on a pre-planned day around the end of the month is my Eat Whatever The Hell I Want In Unlimited Quantities Day and it can get pretty ugly. At this time of the year, this covers my birthday, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas so I blend in nicely with all the other pigger-outers.
“Food” of choice - well, let’s just say I go for the much maligned and under-appreciated convenience store cuisine!
hm, my form of junk food is salty/vinegary … so I tend to like to nosh on stuff like pickled ginger, pickles, occasionally pumpkin seeds or some other nut.
I have an organized snack midmorning and midafternoon. Normally it is a single serve cup of humus and veggies, or the humus and a single serve packet of pita chips. Sometimes it will be 2 half eggs as deviled eggs.
Sugar free since 05/01/09. I have no control over it, at all, and it’s finally sunk into my head that I’m never gonna be “normal” like other people are.
Life’s better without it 
That said – before I gave it up, I probably had already eaten two people’s fair share.
I have an incredibly sweet tooth, and rarely does a day go by without me eating some sort of junk food, usually chocolate or candy of some sort. I love desserts too, and dinner just seem complete to me unless it ends with something sweet, whether it be ice cream, sorbet, apple pie, or whatever.
For much of my life (i’m 40 now) i was so active that it really didn’t matter; i stayed pretty lean no matter what i ate. In my 30s, though, that started to change. I ate just as much crap, but since much of my life is spent sitting reading or typing, and i began to do less and less exercise (down to none at all), it began to show.
Over the past six months, though, i’ve really gotten back into exercise and started to eat less junk food. I still eat a bit of it every day, but i don’t go through large amounts in a single sitting like i used to do. I weighed 207 pounds back in March, and i’m now down around 184 (6’ tall).
A few things really help, for me:
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Pat of my exercise regime is running (about 4 miles, 3-4 times a week). I usually run in the late afternoon, and if i’m going to have a decent run, i can’t eat anything for a good couple of hours beforehand. Previously, much of my junk-food snacking was done after lunch, so my running routine has cut down on that quite a bit.
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Chips! Chips are the bane of my existence. I love them, and if i open a bag while i’m reading or watching TV, i can mindlessly plow through 5 ounces without stopping. We haven’t had a bag of chips in the house for months, and that really helps.
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Restraint in the grocery store. For me, once the stuff is in the house, it’s going to get eaten, and probably quickly. I find that if i go grocery shopping after i eat (and so i’m not hungry), i can more easily resist throwing chocolate or candy in my cart.
As i said, i still rarely go a day without eating something sweet. Lately, it’s been little meringues from Trader Joe’s. But i’m more careful about how much of it i eat, and i don’t tend to bnige like i used to.
Practically none. Around this time of year when there are bowls of leftover Halloween candy in the office kitchen, I might take one or two mini-Twix or KitKats in as many days. Other than that, it never even occurs to me. We don’t keep candy in the house (except for the kids’ Halloween loot, which we ration).
I’ve just never been a candy person.
A couple times a year my family comes to visit me at the office and we go out to lunch, and they’ll bring me some candy to keep in the jar on my desk. Even having it there, I never think to eat it. One of my co-workers usually takes a piece every time she comes in to ask me something, and she usually empties it singlehandedly.
Before I started on my new eating lifestyle, I could down half a bag of candy in one sitting. After starting, I went down to one piece a week. Now, I find other alternatives. I didn’t even raid the kids Halloween candy this year!
We went to the store on Sunday to check out the after-Halloween candy sales. Nothing looked good. We picked up some mini bags of Skittles, because they’re great for our daughter to keep in her diabetic bag to treat low blood glucose. But that was it. I didn’t even like the sugar-free offerings. I ended up with a box of Special K bars.
I’ve been eating way too much candy lately - probably at least 2 pieces of chocolate a day. All through my pregnancy, I haven’t had any junk food cravings until now, in my 38th week. It stinks, because your weight gain is supposed to slow a bit now; I’m trying to make sure mine does, but not as successfully as I’d like.
Well, it’s the day after the all-you-can-eat-candy-fest. Chocolate? Kit-Kats? Peanut Butter Cups? No limits! So I wake up with a chocolate induced migraine headache like someone stomped on my head while I was asleep. 
Frankly, I deserve it and have learned my lesson until next Halloween.
Normally, I might have 1-2 squares of 70% dark chocolate (20g) in the evening after dinner. Of course that was before pregnancy - over the past 9 months I have developed an incredible sweet tooth, which seems to need sating at every meal and often in between. I’m hoping to get back to my lower carb diet once this baby’s out (any day now!) though - fingers crossed it’s the hormones which are causing the need for sugar…
I have an insatiable sweet tooth, but as for most junk food, meh. Chips, Cheez-Doodles and the like have no appeal for me. I love candy but don’t eat it much. I tend to go more for things like brownies, cake, ice cream, cookie dough- the real good stuff. I could eat it until I explode, but I don’t. For what it’s worth, I exercise a lot and eat fairly healthy except for the sugar, so I’m at the thinner end of normal.