I am a DORK!

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Registered: 07-22-2004
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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Registered: 03-20-2003
Fri, 02-18-2005 - 2:43pm
But you stopped at two peeps and you got the healthiest option!





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Registered: 07-22-2004
Fri, 02-18-2005 - 2:46pm

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



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Registered: 03-11-2004
Fri, 02-18-2005 - 2:56pm

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

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Registered: 03-11-2004
Fri, 02-18-2005 - 2:59pm
LOL, when you said "put him to good use" i thought you meant put him to use keeping you warm, not fixing the furnace! but better get him to fix the furnace first and then think up other ways to put him to good use.
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Registered: 07-22-2004
Fri, 02-18-2005 - 3:00pm
Oh the shame!



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Fri, 02-18-2005 - 3:25pm

There must be something in the air.

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Registered: 03-15-2004
Fri, 02-18-2005 - 3:54pm

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. :)

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Registered: 07-22-2004
Fri, 02-18-2005 - 4:10pm

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 :)



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Fri, 02-18-2005 - 5:18pm

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.

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Fri, 02-18-2005 - 6:29pm

I have to ask--am I the only one who doesn't know what bon bon nests are?







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