To eat a packet of biscuits a day?

Are you buying seven packets of biscuits and seven Mars bars or other chocolate with the weekly food shop? Or going out daily to get it?

I think biscuits should be relatively easy to cut out - just don't buy them.

Chocolate (my downfall) is harder as it's so easy to pick up when refuelling the car or buying a paper.

Like others, as someone who absolutely loves chocolate (even when it's crappy chocolate that doesn't taste good any more), even though I'm slim & very fit, I recognise it's not good for me. In my 40s, I see the effect on my mood & metabolism. I have recently cut out all milk chocolate & had only 78% or 85% dark chocolate & this worked much better, and I ate more healthily (I'd often go to the gym, eat no breakfast, then have chocolate instead).

Then I had a stressful & emotionally challenging week. Didn't eat properly & was straight back to eating excessive amounts of chocolate. I feel rubbish now so back I go again to the attempt to stop.

In my case it's linked with stress & emotional issues - simply, chocolate makes me feel good. If you can identify why you crave it so much, it's easier to find ways to limit or reduce it.

It’s bad for you even if you’re not gaining weight. The recommended intake of added sugar is around 30g per day. That’s because the human body isn’t good at processing much beyond that. The excess gets turned into fat in the liver and messes with your metabolism. In the long run, excess sugar consumption is related to diabetes, heart disease, dementia, cancer, kidney damage, high blood pressure, accelerated skin aging and the list goes on.

I love sugar too, so I understand wanting to eat a lot of it. People like Robert Lustig convinced me to limit my sugar consumption significantly. It’s so bad for you, even if you can’t see the effects immediately. Eating like that for a day isn’t the end of the world, but constant overconsumption is unhealthy. I still eat biscuits and chocolate though, just smaller portions!

That’s going to be quite a lot of calories with no real nutritional benefits.

To still be underweight, that likely means you’re not eating much other food either so it’s likely you’re lacking in things your body needs, or possibly there’s a health issue.

Do what you want, but I wouldn’t continue if I was you. Weight is only one part of health.

I see what you mean and can’t speak for the OP but unfortunately it doesn’t work that way with me. I’d subconsciously see it as I hadn’t eaten a proper packet of biscuits so I’d eat quite a few which is what I did in my office.

It might work for some people but most likely if you have a binge eating habit -which this is - it won’t work completely although possibly it may well reduce the amount of biscuits you consume, not sure 🤔 can’t remember exactly how many I used to eat.

This.
Diabetes & high cholesterol, increased risk of CVD etc.

You may be feeling 'healthy' now, but this poor diet WILL catch up with you eventually. Better to knock this on the head now.

Have a look at Dr Mark Hyman's The Sugar Solution. It is very enlightening and explains the addictive nature of sugar and the health consequences of excessive sugar consumption really well.

More accessible and 'bite sized' are the short videos of Dr Becky Gillaspy on YouTube. For instance:

I don’t know why some people are saying you’re slim so it’s ok , it’s absolutely ridiculous.

even when I was size 6-8 and working my way through entire cakes and having daily pastries, sugary coffee and sweets that it wasn’t healthy. I offset a lot of it through walking loads but even then it wasn’t great.

We really need to improve the health education in this country, so people stop equating being slim with being healthy.

I’m definitely not the model for healthy eating but at least I can recognise when something is unhealthy.

OP do not listen to the trash advice that it’s ok to consume excessive amounts of sugar if you’re slim.

Isn't a packet a packet psychologically?

If you're slim, then I don't really see the issue.

Diabetes and heart disease affects skinny people too. Slim =/= healthy.

Why the whole packet in one go? It’s would make me sick. I love biscuits and cake but one piece at a time.
Have you tried just taking a few out and then putting the packet well out of reach till tomorrow.
You know it’s not healthy for your body.
you are addicted to sugar.

Same here I don't buy them in.
If I recieve box of biscuits for Christmas I give them away to my neighbour who is quite grateful.

I could easily eat a packet of biscuits a day! Especially if tea dunking was involved.
If you're slim, then I don't really see the issue. Maybe you could try and have more high energy food that's a bit more nutritious. Nuts, granola, avocado toast, yoghurt, crudites w hummus etc?
But there's no point in feeling bad about it. I eat a lot of sugar and know I should cut down but it's very addictive. I drink coca cola which is the worst!
Just make sure you visit the dentist regularly.

The problem is if it’s someone like me and presumably OP - they’d just work their way through the individual biscuit packing. So it’s better they just don’t buy biscuits at all or at least not as frequently.

My office used to have these and I’d sneak away to a meeting room to do work and munch through them 😆but I deliberately didn’t buy them for my home because then I couldn’t get away from them. Plus I’m less shy about bingeing at home lol

You can get scales that measure your internal/visceral fat these days. Mine is 2.1 and overall body fat is 18.4%. Just because you eat biscuits doesn't mean you have visceral fat but yes, being thin doesn't mean you don't.
The scales are only about £25 and have been an eye opener for muscle mass (mines very high which I didn't expect), bone mass and body water amongst a lot of others. Really easy to see if anything obvious is hugely wrong or low. Annoyingly all I can see if my weight and fat going down and water levels rising!

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I would try to change your eating habits and reduce your sugar intake now, to avoid problems down the line when you're older. Could you start by cutting down to every other day, or weekends only? It's also generally true that the less you have, the less you crave. I used to have a real sweet tooth but found I could no longer get away with it once I hit perimenopause. I cut back a lot and felt much better for it.

Kick the habit now before early/mid forties when all that sugar will go straight to your belly, not to mention your teeth! Also more seriously look at the link between diet/gut microbiome and mental health. Can you join a Biscuits Anonymous group? :)

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What type of biscuits, OP?

Which is the key question, obviously…

I'm really not one of those MN "massive salad" eaters but that's a lot of sugar to be eating everyday - I would be worried about diabetes personally, it can affect anyone and can cause permanent damage.

Given your age over 40 I'd try to reduce this a bit just because of the sugar intake and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Or now if you're an ethnic minority as the risk of developing T2 diabetes is the same from age 35 in that case to a white person from age 40.

I sympathise as I have a terrible sweet tooth, I'm 30 and always been a healthy weight too. But I'm BAME so I'm giving myself until age 35 to eat what I want and then I know I'm going to have to look to become a bit more sensible!

I'm having a thing for biscuits atm too OP. I've got some weird health thing going on and if I eat much of anything I feel very sick. It thankfully doesn't happen so much with biscuits so I enjoy tea and a few without the fear. I've been losing weight for a while so I feel weirdly enabled to eat whichever I like! Bloods back tomorrow and CT coming up, so it might herald the end of the Spring of Biscuits for me.

As most have said it’s not healthy and I say this with no judgment but as someone who has done the same many times but nowadays I just don’t buy biscuits not as I know the whole packet will go in one day!

it’s still unhealthy if you’re slim and as @Mnetcurious said it’s still potentially harmful to your organs.

a lot of slimmer people don’t realise they have a high amount of visceral fat which I understand is the kind of fat around your organs.

I’m kind of the opposite I look a bit chubby (short, size 10-12) but it’s my subcutaneous (external) fat that’s the most, I actually have a healthy level of visceral fat - although I’m at the border of it going into unhealthy so I’m still on a weight loss journey despite my waist being a healthy size too.

BMI really isn’t fit for purpose as a catch all for determining health . And scale weight and BMI are just two indicators of health but not the be all and end all.

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The borders biscuits from amazon are expensive but good as they are packs of two. So would actually be cheaper per packet and less harmful.