Valentine Sweets

[Miranda]

I'm like you, if it's there it just keeps calling to me and I just keep picking at it. I decided a long time ago that it's better in the trash than on my hips. Don't feel guilty about it. There are times when I just want a little something, a piece of chocolate or some treat, so if I'm craving a candy bar, I throw half (or whatever I don't want) away on the way out of the store because it takes care of mindless eating, and I get just what I wanted and not a morsel more.

Usually I just avoid it don't keep it around, but with a gift, as in your case, giving it away is an excellent idea unless you are going to keep eating it, and then I say either lock it in the trunk of your car, take it to the office/gym NOW, or toss. And when you toss, make sure you open it, dump it and toss the cat's litter on top.

BAWHAAA!

The cat litter I had never done. DH is allergic to kitties, but I would love to have one (have a dog). I try dumping the coffee grinds on it. But, I know exactly what you mean. I sickly have been tempted to dig something out of the trash in my past dieting days. One of my GFs says to imagine maggots are crawling on the food.

I do know exactly what you are saying about throwing half the candy bar away. The "eat half" concept is how I dropped my 40#s I carried for many years as I re-found the love for riding. It is a really hard concept if you were raised to not waste food. Resturants are the worst at portions.

On the pieces of chocolate I did eat, if once I bit into it and it was a filling I didn't like, I didn't finish it. I asked mysel "is this REALLY worth it (calories) if I don't even like it?". I try to re-gift it to one of the fm if it's a flavor they like. If not, I pitched the other half.

[Tuckervill]

I so love those marshmallow circus peanuts! (I know, right?) I was on a long drive recently and I had a craving, so I stopped and got a small bag from a gas station. I had a dog with me, so I took a bite of a peanut, gave him a bite, and threw the last third out the window! lol. So in effect, I only ate a third of the bag.

My dogs really really love me.

Karen

[Aggie_Ama]

[Luckily DH stopped to buy me a Symphony Bar (my favorite) but the store only had almond (I hate). So he settled for a normal size Dove bar, ate the whole thing with little remorse since it was a normal size. The Symphony Bars are huge, like 800 calories.

If I were to get a large box of chocolates to the company breakroom to fatten everyone else up it would go! No use making myself be the only miserable and guilty party, share the love.

[bmccasland]

I find the office "vultures" cure left-over food problems very easily - especially if it's sweets. My esteemed colleagues are always willing to help out with these sorts of problems.

The vulture reference comes from - well, I work in Enviromental Branch, and what else would you call the circling behavior, standing around, rocking back and forth, while one is cutting cake, pie, deer sausage.....?

[Tuckervill]

I wouldn't have a bit of guilt from throwing away something that would otherwise be perfectly fine to eat, except it would be bad for me. I've thrown away lots of halves of birthday cakes, brownies, etc., that we had for special occasions. The guilt of not taking care of my body would be much worse!

Karen

[Miranda]

The guilt of not taking care of my body would be much worse!

Oh, I know that guilt. It usually comes at the end of a "bad eating day" I'll call it when you feel sick because: 1) you over-ate and/or had things you knew were not the best choices--physical sickness, 2) mental sickness-- because have 'eating-regret'... sorta like buyer's remorse.

My official gym weigh in showed me very close to my goal weight... so my will power just got a much needed happy kick in the butt!

[ny biker]

Do you still have any of the clothes that you wore before you started losing weight? If so, go put on a pair of the old pants, hold out the waistband to see how huge they now are on you, take a picture of it, and carry the picture around with you as a will-power boost.