Snack Cabinet of Evil

Posted on October 16, 2014

I need to keep checking in each night! I didn't yesterday and wasn't going to today but that is a slippery slope to not holding myself accountable eating wise. Speaking of which I've had some eating mishaps. It's the darn free snacks at work! We have a whole cabinet of delicous treats. Fruit snacks and peanut butter bars... Chocolate and honey roasted peanuts... It's madness I tell you! There's also a skittle dispensing machine that is my downfall everytime. And let me say this. I realize that having a cabinet with snack options is not in itself evil. Maybe that's an unfair word and I apologize whole heartedly to the poor snack cabinet. I see normal people who can come and eat 1 little peanut butter bar, or two skittles, or 1 lil mini bite of chocolate and walk away happy and satisfied. Yay snack cabinet of awesome they think. I on the other hand, partake in one little sample of skittles and i'm off the tracks and following it up with 2 peanut butter bars, some fruit snacks, and 8 pieces of chocolate. This isn't healthy and it's not very respectful to the other people I share this snack cabinet at the office with. I'm sure there's some sort of chocolate per person limit that I'm shattering. So I've taken a stand and named the Evil Snack Cabinet my nemesis. I will not be lured in with those deliously enticing peanut butter bars. I will not be tempted by mini chocolate treats of yummy. Because I know my limits and my self control is only intact when I say no altogether. Give a little and all of a sudden it's 20 minutes later and I'm surrounded by wrappers!

I'm gonna continue with my little rant of food pitfalls and follow it up with the fact that tomorrow is free donut day at work. I swear to goodness on the weekends I'm a saint and eat so stinking well and then I get to work, I'm stressed out, sleepy, and surrounded by free sources of sugar everywhere! I'm going to say no to the donuts. I'm 100% confident about that. They aren't as devious as the Evil Snack Cabinet. I can just avoid the kitchen for the first couple hours and they'll be gobbled up. But I just wanted to point out that while I need to learn self control the amount of temptations around my office is just silliness.

I had all sorts of other things I was going to write on here about the cooking experiments I will be attempting over the next few days, but this ended up being a longer stranger post than I had anticipated so I'll save the cooking plans for tomorrows entry.

Still getting my 10k steps a day and have contacted a gym that's only 5 minutes from me and found out they have all sorts of great classes and some legitmate trainers that sound wonderful. I wanted to make sure I waited till next week to join since that will be the 4 week mark for my knee but I am getting so antsy for some real exercise and to start doing some real work on getting more fit!

Hope everyones dietbet is going well and you are doing better at fighting off temptation than me! : )

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Sara B.

10/16/2014 9:54AM

See that's what I need is a snack cabinet limit/gatekeeper that will shame me away when I go off the deep end!

"I have to learn how to deal with it in a healthy way instead of obsessing over the snacks which is what I usually do." This exactly summerdresses!!! How do we figure out how to do that lol. They days I do good I'm super proud but it's still this huge act of will power. Hopefully it will get easier the longer we stick with it : )

Kasi G.

10/16/2014 9:18AM

Oh man, we have a snack cabinet at work too! Luckily there is a one item a day limit, and they do have some healthier options, but it's sooo hard to resist the pull of Twix when I open it. So I try to just not open it. Good luck resisting! :)

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summerdresses

10/16/2014 5:06AM

You described me so perfectly! I have the same dilemma at work. I work at a doctors office and the patients are always bringing in homemade cookies, cakes or all kind of various 'evil' treats. It is difficult to avoid them because well, sugar and homemade stuff is just delicious. I have the same problem as you too, if I have one I will have 10. I'm off to the races. So I just have to abstain all together. So far so good but it isn't easy! Every day is a new temptation! But this is how it is in the real world. I have to learn how to deal with it in a healthy way instead of obsessing over the snacks which is what I usually do.

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