Angry; How often do you do this to yourself??..

about the chocolate, it might be worth investigating whether it's the chocolate itself making you sick, or the milk powder in it. You can get chocolate without milk in it - Lindt dark chocolate is one example - but you tend to have to hunt around and read the labels carefully.

I didn't know that there were two sizes of swedish fish...I just know they're filled with sugar and delicious :(

I was wondering about that with the chocolate..or if it's caffeine that I have to stay away from. Are you affected by that at all? I though about using cocoa powder in different recipes too, but again..the caffeine content.

broomhilda-I have to agree. My mouth waters every time I pass the restaurant billboards advertising how their onion is the best in town.

And then there is popeye's...

I just don't want to end up in the hospital...which I am wonder, have any of you ever 'cheated' so to speak so much that you had to go to the hospital or is it generally that illegal foods make the night/next day a designated sick period?

LOL, I did enjoy this!!! I can’t keep away from peanuts, seafood with lots of garlic and ohh, and the graceful chocolate and a good old Pork roast. I pay for it every time and vow, “NEVER AGAIN!!!” BUT never is a long time!!! We are only human and we all want to eat something real nice once in a while, and yes we pay for it.

Sad but true!

You guys are pretty brave for eating the salads and peanuts...
I wonder if the apples would be all right if you just took the skin off and chewed them really well?
Baked apples with cinnamon and honey though...thank god those are safe foods.

As for the oranges, I miss them so much!!!! Clementines are the BEST. I'm going to have to try really hard come this Christmas to stay away from those. Have to decline graaaah.

Arby's though...I wonder why? Is if the fat content of the meat and/or sesame seeds?? I always figured plain meat on plain bread would be okay. Then again, it is fast food...

I think chinese and blowpops are my worst downfalls right now. Everytime I say it's the last time and then end up ordering orange or sesame chicken or eating 'just one more' lollipop. I really should practice some willpower god...I feel funky right now because of it.

OMG! I totally forgot it is Candy Corn season!
I have been eating shelled sunflower seeds and loving them. I chew them well and don't seem to have a problem. It must be the salt that I want...

One thing that I've been doing to help with cravings, especially around the holidays, is to do some cooking and baking on my own, but only making things that don't hurt me! I used to make a yummy double choclate-orange fudge cake around Christmas, but that has since fallen by the way side. Now I make carrot cakes, banana bread, and other things that are semi-healthy, but more important they usually don't cause GI distress. It is a trial and error thing, but the good thing about the holidays is that if you make something that you don't want around the house, take it into work...people are more than happy get rid of something for you. Of course, I don't take my failed experiments in to work, but I don't have too many of those.

Now if I could only find some caramels or mini-Butterfingers that don't end up making me regret eating them...candy is so hard to resist.