The Bikini Boot Camp Diaries, Day 33 - Oh my gosh, I'm sooo full, and your chance to WIN!
Oh my gosh.
I'm so full.
Even though I'm (usually) sticking to the super-healthy Bikini Boot Camp Six-Week Menu, I must confess that sometimes I may be eating way too much.
I may be eating so much that after some meals, I emit a series of sighs. I have to undo my pants. And all I can think about is napping.
I know I’m not the only one. So why do we eat so much, even when we're trying our hardest to be on our best behaviour?
In his new book, The End of Overeating: Taking control of the insatiable North American appetite, Dr. David A. Kessler cracks the code of overeating by explaining how our bodies and minds are changed when we consume foods that contain sugar, fat and salt. He says that food manufactures create products by manipulating these ingredients to stimulate our appetites, setting in motion a cycle of desire and consumption that ends with a culture of overeaters.
The book seeks to explain why it's so difficult to resist certain foods and why it's so easy to overindulge.
For a chance to WIN a copy of The End of Overeating, just Subscribe To This Blog and post a reply telling us about the food you're most likely to binge on. Maybe you set out to have just a few chips and end up emptying the bag every time. Perhaps you serve yourself a slice of pizza one minute, and the next minute, you discover that half the pizza is gone. (This happens to me all the time.)
You have until Friday, June 12 to let us know. I'll announce the winner here on Saturday, June 13.
Tags: Bikini Boot Camp, contest, Dr. David A. Kessler, menu, Taking control of the insatiable North American appetite, The End of Overeating, win
June 5th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Oreo cookies! What is in those things that makes you just want to devour a dozen or more? They taste so good with a big cup of tea
June 5th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I binge on chocolate. Sometimes ice cream....but definately always chocolate.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
oops....I forgot, if I start on ginger cookies, it's really hard to stop.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
So, I finish my healthy lunch of chili chicken, and snack on some grapes, get back to my desk and cheezies are calling out to me! Not just a couple, but the whole bag. Before I know it, I am stuffed! Or was it the muffin, or the ginger cookie in my desk? :o(
June 6th, 2009 at 5:26 am
I binge on takeout - Thai food especially.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:43 am
If there is any morsel of chocolate in my home, you bet that I will be bingeing on it! Sadly one bite is never enough to satiate my hunger for chocolate.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:44 am
I am an equal opportunity binger, after all, it just wouldn't be fair to all the tasty foods out there to choose only one, *snicker* I try desperately to eat healty on a daily basis, that is until hubby goes shopping and brings home everything that isn't on the grocery list. My biggest offenders are chips, cheezies and ice cream treats. For those foods, I mostly eat them just for the taste and never mainly for hunger. I just want to get them out of the house as fast as they can, and I am usually their portal, *sigh*
June 6th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Chocolate.. dark but once I get done...I don't think it's that beneficial.
June 6th, 2009 at 10:46 am
The food I love to binge on is popcorn. I just love popcorn! Whether if it's savoury or sweet, bring it on! I love the crunch and the variety of flavours popcorn comes in: buttery, salty, dilly, all dressed, sweet and sticky or hot and spicy and so much more! Put me in front a big bowl or bag of popcorn, and I'll be licking all of my 10 fingers by the end. And the smell of freshly made popcorn is so tantalizing that it's really hard to ignore. I just gotta have me some!
June 6th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I'm with Anita. I start healthy. good breakfast,healthy lunch.... mmm,then I want fruit or yogurt and then... I think I'll grab a few almonds ( not good when the whole 1KG bag comes with me,while I check emails or sit down to read) and yikes my throat gets dry and much to my dismay a "LOT" of the bag is gone. lately it seems the 'better' I try to eat the more junk or even good food is eaten in far too abundance.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
BBQ flavoured potato chips or Bits & Bites. I can't ever leave a half empty bag. That is why I never have them in the house. I'll buy them as a treat, but do so knowing I'll have to eat the whole bag. I also don't share them very well either!!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Rice krispee squares - hmnn could eat a whole pan and want more
June 7th, 2009 at 10:32 am
M&M's. If I see a sack on sale I might buy them, put them in a candy dish, and then I can't stop myself from digging in. I can't believe it when the dish is suddenly empty. Surely I couldn't have eaten them all by myself. Fortunately I only notice them on sale a couple of times a year so the M&M splurge is not a regular occurence.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Good bread - A lovely french baguette with chunks of cheese. Warm raisin toast with melting butter. A freshly cut white loaf smothered in salmon flavoured cream cheese. I can't stop myself . . .
June 7th, 2009 at 11:27 am
potatoe chips
June 7th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I have one weakness,ice cream. I am most likely to overdo it here.
June 7th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Ice cream is my greatest weakness..
June 7th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
definitely lays sour cream n onion potato chips
June 7th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
chocolate chocolate chocolate
June 7th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
No question...chocolate!
June 7th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I have asked over and over again for someone to work with some lab technician somewhere to invent a non-fat, no calorie chocolate chip macadamia nut cookie that I could just eat without remorse or guilt, a cookie which could actually be my friend and ..... to date, no luck. If someone actually does it, he/she will be an instant millionaire - is that not incentive enough? Please, please will someone step forward? If we can actually look back to 1969 when a man walked on the moon, why has science neglected our poor souls? Still waiting ....
June 7th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Chocolate....chocolate....chocolate!!!!
June 7th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
I am most likely to binge on popcorn. I love to make a bowl and watch some TV or a movie.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Pistachios!
June 8th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Potato chips and buttered popcorn!
June 8th, 2009 at 9:29 am
I'm most likely to binge on ice cream or chocolate.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I will eat a whole batch of brownies in one sitting, or any other homemade treats, cookies etc . . .
June 8th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
my fav is strawberry pie and with the season fast approaching, my waist is in trouble!!!!!
June 8th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Mike and Ikes!
June 8th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Ice cream for sure - last summer I finally discovered Ben and Jerry's. They were my best friends for quite a few months. Yesterday I had my first taste of Cold Stone Creamery (I was in the states for a quick trip). Yummy! Oh and of course chocolate!
June 11th, 2009 at 11:57 am
I can never ever stop at one CHIP!
June 12th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Chips. I've never met a flavour I do not like
June 12th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Pasta. I can't get enough. My brain doesn't seem to shut off when I start eating pasta. I just love it.
June 13th, 2009 at 10:09 am
[... read more] to Andrea B, who has won our Day 33 contest by telling us about the food she’s most likely to binge [... read more]
June 13th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Show me a dish of pasta & I'll show you an empty plate!
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Chocolate.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Oreo cookies with vanilla icecream. What else could be better in the sumer!! I love to soften the icecream and then dip the Oreos in and munch away!!
June 27th, 2009 at 11:46 am
What is it about Oreo Cookies that everyone raves about, personally I think they are atrocious,to me they have a distinct taste of sodium bicarbonate and don't hold a candle to British and European cookies.
July 21st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Chocolate Dipped Strawberries....easy to justify!!!