To eat a packet of biscuits a day?

[Havett]

I’m not fat, probably slightly underweight. I eat lots of fruit and veg and a healthy ish diet. I just can’t cut out biscuits or chocolate! I often eat a packet a day and then a Mars bar or bit of chocolate too. How bad is this? I’m late 30s

It’s not great but I emphathise. I’ve been buying the Lidl multipacks of cream biscuits, the individual packs inside contain 6 custard creams of various flavours.

I can stop at one and it still feels like I’ve eaten a whole packet, so it minimises the damage.

I only eat biscuits when I’m actually hungry and cba to cook/shop. No freezer.

Nothing wrong with a few biscuits but a whole pack every day is too much imo!

What do you actually eat in a day? Perhaps your meals are lacking?

Well, on the one hand my gran scoffed a packet of custard creams a day (and smoked like a chimney and drank rum like a pirate), lived to 98 and the worst health problem she had was a bad ankle.

But on the other hand it really is an awful lot of sugar. I think we underestimate how addictive sugar really is, when I decided to lose weight a couple of years ago cutting sugar was the hardest part. It actually made me really cross and unpleasant to be around for a while! I do think for the sake of your future health you should try and cut down a bit.

It might catch up with you in your 40s so I'd try and cut back. Similar to dh and his cholesterol is now high.

That really is a gross amount of junk. I say this as someone who loves biscuits too but a packet, a whole packet with chocolate on top is just gross and greedy.

What kind? Depending on what biscuits they are a packet is easy to eat (Jaffa cakes or fig rolls) McVities chocolate digestives or hobnobs is quite an achievement 😁

Really you know the answer dont you? Long term not good. How about some home made flapjacks? Vegan cake for treats .The amount of sugar is alarming .Also by constantly snacking like this , your teeth can be damaged too.I feel sympathy as I am a "salad dodger" according to my Son ! Due to a recent health scare I cannot eat Chocolate ,and have had to be careful with my diet. Sugar is addictive thats the problem.A couple od squares of dark chocolate will be better too,

Yes it's too much sugar. Even if you don't need to lose weight too much sugar is bad for you and leaves you vulnerable to Diabetes. Get your extra calories from something healthy like protein in the form of eggs, cheese, yogurt or peanut butter, nuts etc.

You will almost certainly get diabetes.

Well, that's daft & inaccurate. 🙄

I'm currently half way through Ultra Processed People by Chris van Tulken. It's really making me think.

Same. Worse as I can’t eat much for medical reasons, so it interferes with eating what I actually need to. No idea how to quit though as tried hypnosis and it didn’t work.

if They are not organic maybe try to get some organic ones.

😄 I buy Doves Farm organic wholemeal digestives and pretend they’re good for me!

That must be way too much sugar if you do it every day.

I rarely buy biscuits but if I do I can easily eat a packet over a day, so no judgment here!

Would make me feel very sluggish, right enough so definitely not something I would do on a regular basis even if I wasn’t watching my weight.

A packet of biscuits is nothing!

However, a shed load of sugar dill bite you 9n tje bum later in life. Maybe increase your fat and protein intake do you feel fuller for longer. Fill out a food diary and tske a perk with your GP to see why you're craving biccies. Apart from the yumminess.

I'm currently half way through Ultra Processed People by Chris van Tulken. It's really making me think.

I’m still to listen that but I have it on my audible library.

I actually love baking so I let myself bake now and again as a trade off for not ordering biscuits and cakes etc with my weekly food delivery. And I enjoy tweaking recipes to make them more healthy or at least less unhealthy! 😆

From my understanding of UPFs, cake or cookies baked from scratch are classed as “normal” processed foods while packaged store bought ones are UPFs.

Pretty bad

There's such a thing as skinny fat you know

It’s not great OP.

What is the rest of your diet like? If your actual meals are healthy and you’re getting the fat, protein and nutrients you need, then it’s not awful. If the biscuits are replacing a nutritious meal then you could be storing up health problems for later on.

I used to do this OP. Before peri meno🥲make the most of it.
I used to get regular cholesterol tests and when it started going up I thought I’d better cut back. I ate LOADS though. Crisp, choc, cakes, pasties, chips, pizzas. Very underweight, those were the days 🤣🫢

Well eating a whole pack of biscuits will not make you gain weight unless the calories are too much for the energy you burn! Health problems will manefist later potentially.

Very similar diet and it's finally caught up with me in my 40s. I'm not pre diabetic and need to put on another 1.5 stone to be overweight but I have awful redskin, constant cravings, feel very low energy physically and don't eat any actual non processed foods. Could be symptoms of something else but more likely to be linked to diet.

My mum and grandma were type 2 diabetes in their 50s and were not in the overweight category. Obviously anecdotal but still making me think about the sugar and highly refined carbs I eat in high volumes daily

Make your own biscuits - then at least you'll know what's in them and they won't be upf.
there's another current thread that has a biscuit recipe in it.

When I bake (rarely) I usually reduce the sugar content a lot - but seeing the amount of fat and sugar that goes in can be very sobering.----

If you are not overweight then you clearly need the calories but you could be eating a big meal with lots of nutritional benefits and then some biscuits and chocolate for enjoyment.

and a healthy ish diet.

😆

No OP, you really don’t

Well good for you, OP! Jealous. I'd do this too and even more. Love sweet stuff. But I'm not 'normally' slim, I have to work hard to stay skinny. And love to be thin more than I love biscuits. If I could scoff chocolate without getting fat - I'd do it in a heartbeat. Health doesn't concern me.

If I could scoff chocolate without getting fat - I'd do it in a heartbeat. Health doesn't concern me.

You wouldn't say that if you'd lost your leg or sight because of uncontrolled diabetes, or you couldn't have life-saving surgery because you'd destroyed your kidneys with a bad diet.