I am a DORK!
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| Fri, 02-18-2005 - 1:53pm |
So I had everything planned for my eating today, going out tonight etc... I varied my lunch routine a little feeling like I needed a little more. I had a salad FF dressing and instead of having a fruit cup I had a grilled chicken breast I thought it would tide me over better.
So I go to the drug store. Walk down the aisle to pay, I see the Easter candy, one HUGE weakness of mine. I pick up my all time favorite. Look at the package, the picture, Bon Bon Nests, coconut, green and chewy with jellybeans in the middle. I smell yes SMELL the package. I read it. 8 grams of fat. I sigh and move on. Here come the Peeps. I look at that package, 130 calories for 4 glorious sugary yellow bunnies. No fat. I snatch them up. I allocated 2pts for my snack this afternoon. I rush back to work open the package and hand two bunnies to someone else and ingest the other two. YUMMY! One point down the drain. I had my graonla bar which would have been a much better choice. It would have been better in so many way. I ate about 1/4 of that and pitched the rest. I want to have more room to move at dinner.
I am going to work out between picking up the man and work, so that will help. However I really noticed something. There are going to be foods I just CAN NOT have, Easter candy is going to be one of them. It is a trigger food I could imagine myself sitting down and ingesting the the entire box of bon bon nests.
This can be tough on some days.




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True, but it was tough. I gave them to a girl who weighs 90#s and could eat an entire horse and would still be 90#s. BITCH! Oops sorry.
For those of you who are blessed that way, spread the wealth? ;)
The man! Yea! I am excited. THe heat is out at the house. I will put him to good use. I told him to pack tools LOL
it sounds like you did great with the easter candy! just 2 peeps, and you fit them into an otherwise healthy menu.
if it helps you resist peeps, read here about how the gelatin in marshmellows (and marshmellow peeps) is made... http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_103.html
There must be something in the air.
If you're a dork having two peeps, then I don't even know what the heck to call myself... *grin* I intended to have a little dark chocolate with lunch and ended up eating WAY more than I planned. Boy, it was good though. :) I could probably snarf my way through the bon-bon nests with you.
I'm the same way... there are just certain foods where it's better than I don't have any. Usually, I have more control with chocolate but I think the stresses of the house and work just got to me and I caved. I started to feel bad about it, but decided that I'm not going to feel bad. It's not the end of the world and I work out like a demon. I have to keep reminding myself what I so often repeat to my clients... sometimes life gets in the way and there are more important things. Today, apparently, chocolate was more important. :)
Great advise.
:)
It's tough sometimes. Real tough. I want to beat myself up, but I have to look at the things that actually MEANT something I went for something healthier than I would have, I didn't eat the entire package and I wrote it down. In my old world if I didn't write it down I didn't count it LOL.
So I navigated my way around it and owned it.
Now tomorrow night during my cheat meal? NO guilt. It's my night. One night, one meal a week.
I have been good an portioning off everything and setting it aside since I know I don't need half of what is on my plate. So that is better than what I used to do when I started WW, I would eat everything I got in that meal. Even now I write it down. Just to remember what works and what doesn't.
You ladies help me so much. Thanks :)
It sounds like you are as meticulous as I am about portions, points (calories in my case) and I have to tell you... sometimes we just need to let go. I think it becomes a downer emotionally when our nutrition is micromanaged to the point where it requires a mountain of effort to determine the consequences of two peeps. :) In all honesty, sometimes I get so tired of being so careful and exact that my will just lapses big time. But usually, when that happens, I give myself a day or two with no limits and I find that getting back on the horse again is not a problem.
Try not to be upset with yourself and recognize that it's incredibly understandable when you get tired of counting points or when you just plain don't wanna. :) I used to get so upset with myself being getting tired of it, but that's when I remind myself that I'm a person and not a robot. I have rational and irrational feelings and desires and there is nothing wrong with me if I don't particularly care how many calories are in my dinner or if I want chocolate for lunch... For a rigid Type A, this is big stuff. :) This whole relaxing-not-being-hard-on-myself is a work in progress and I so relate to others who struggle with it as well.
I have to ask--am I the only one who doesn't know what bon bon nests are?
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