Little Chocolate Ba$tard$

The Coffee Shop
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Here’s my dilemma:
I have the mental strength and concentration to be able to swim 1 hr straight staring at the bottom of the pool and flabby old people doing aquarobics without any problems.

I can go out for a solo 4-5 hr bike ride without so much as speaking to another soul with only me, my bike and the great outdoors for company.

I can run for 2 hours or more by myself without stopping with only the sound of my feet hitting the ground and my breathing to crack the silence.

I get up at wee hours of the morning and or I am on the trainer late into the night if needed. I do this for 10-18 hours a week. Then repeat.

Yet when it comes to food I am mentally as weak as a kitten. Now, I know this is my weakness, and I admitt and address it by not buying junk food. I can walk through any supermarket or convenience store and not buy anything made by Mars, Hostess, little Debbie etc… Given the choice I do not drive through any restaraunts nor do I pick up the phone and dial for pizza.

Yet if someone at work or my wife happens to bring said junk to the house and or office I will spend half the day or night waging war with myself until I ultimately break down and take a bite of whatever offensive (yet delicious) food is tempting me. It’s like the scene from Animal House with the passed out girl and the angel and devil doing battle over the kids moral soul, yet my devil always wins.

I have explained my weakness (like superman and kryptonite) to my wife, to which she responds just cause I’m on a diet doesn’t mean she/the kids are and if I don’t want to eat just don’t eat it. Yeah, right. So this morning she comes to the office to help out and low and behold she brings, for her she says, a cup of the pre-packed Krispy Kreme donut holes. Then doesn’t eat a single one of them and then goes and gets ready to leave this afternoon. I tell her to take them or pitch them, to which she responds that she will be in tomorrow and they will keep and she will eat them then.

Yet here I am with 2 hours to go until closing and those chocolate bastards are sitting on the shelf mocking me, calling my name and laughing at me every time I try to go to the back office/break area. Problem is that is where the water cooler and fridge are and they are positioned between me and some nice cool hydration, so I dare not venture back there. Part of me wants to in a fast dash run back there and toss them in the garbage, but then I would be up the creek tomorrow morning when she comes in. Plus they are in a sealed container and they will still be calling me and referencing George Costanza who infamously said the eclaire was ‘on’ the garbage but not in the garbage.

At least ranting about my problem has got me 20 minutes closer to the end of the day and that is 20 minutes that I have not been tempted! Maybe I’ll put a rubber band around my wrist and whenever I walk by them snap it!

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Eat the damn donut already. Life is short and you work out 10-18 hours a week. Eat it…go on.

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You’d make a great AA sponsor.
Thanks for the support!

The 13th step…indulgence!

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OK, how about this. You are giving the donut holes power over you. You are making them forbidden which gives them even more power. Eat the little bastards and assume control. In fact, eat 4-5 of them because that only equals one real donut. Only in this way will you assume control of your food.

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18 hours X 500 calories per hour = 9000 calories burned per week. Do you know how many chocolate coated things you would have to eat to be positively caloric. About a zillion. Go ahead, eat the cookie.

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10-12 years ago when I weighed 230 instead of 185-190 I was in serious weight loss mode. I’ve managed to lose (and more importantly, keep off) 40+ lbs. I made the following deal with myself - I could eat any item of food I wanted, but based on what it was I would would eat more or less of it. This turned out to be a surprisingly successful approach, since it allowed me to satisfy that part that wanted the chocolate, the sugar, etc., and then tell it to shut up and go away because I gave it what it wanted.

So go ahead and have a few.

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Actually when I first decided to try triathlon I was 185 lbs and about 23% body fat. I am 5’10". Now, just over one year later, I now weigh 163 and am about 10% body fat. Much of whatever dieting I do was like you, I still ate the things I wanted, just smaller quantities. So I still had the ice cream sundae once in a while, just the small size instead of the large.

Problem is summertime around here means my wife/kids want to eat at the local dairy isle several times a week. And what’s dairy isle without fries and onion rings and what’s that without a shake etc… I’ve been good, I just thought it was funny today that she would bring in these donut holes and leave them jsut to mess with me.

I don’t know what’s worse or more addictive. Krispy Kremes ore McGriddles!

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Ahh, go ahead and eat them. Didn’t you ever see the classic commercial for “Little Chocolate Donuts, the Donuts of Champions”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaDGs453oGI

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Eat one already
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You say that your wife will be mad at you if you throw them away. Will she also be mad if you eat them all? Either way they are gone when she arrives tomorrow.

Go back to the kitchen. Open the box and sit it in the sink. Fill it with water. If you have a garbage disposal back there, run them all down the garbage disposal. If not, toss them all into the garbage and be done with it.

Seriously. Not that hard.

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DON’T DO IT!

YOU ARE STRONGER THAN THE DONUT HOLES!

YOU ARE STRONGER THAN THE FOOD TEMPTATION!

RESIST!

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE ASSIMILATED!

LEAVE WORK NOW!

GO FOR A RUN!

THINK OF WHAT YOU WILL LOOK LIKE IN YOUR SPEEDO IF YOU SUCCUMB TO THE CHOCOLATE!

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Seriously, I understand exactly what you are saying. I too avoid having any foods in my house that cause me to obsess over them, fight to avoid them, and then, when I loose and give in to the temptation, wind up eating every last crumb or scoop or piece. I understand that it’s not about the food, it’s about self control and respecting yourself afterward. It’s even more difficult when our loved ones don’t understand.

So, ignore those other posts and know that someone on ST believes in your ability to resist those donut holes. You can do it!

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As for what to do tomorrow? I don’t know what to tell you.

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Why wouldn’t you just throw them out? If she bought them today and didn’t eat any, then she isn’t going to eat anymore tomorrow. Everyone knows that Krispy Kreme’s are only good for about an hour after you buy them. So, she’s leaving them there knowing that you will eat them eventually. Doesn’t sound like a very nice thing for a wife to do to me. If she bitches that you threw them out then tell her tough, she should have brought them home with her then.

I bet she comes in tomorrow with ANOTHER box of donuts or some other type of crappy food.

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On the contrary, I find KK donuts to have one of the best shelf lifes of all donuts.

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**On the contrary, I find KK donuts to have one of the best shelf lifes of all donuts. **

But 1 day old KK donuts pale in comparison to ones right off the icing line. They are so far different in quality that I do not view them as the same.

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I’d go flush them down the toilet. All but one; leave one floating in the bowl. :wink:

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I agree but in terms of them being eatable the next day, the KK does not deflate like a flat tire the next day. Still somewhat edible.

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Both you and I are Superman and food is our kryptonite. I understand your situation, brother. At work, there was this lady that kept a candy jar about 9 feet from my cube. Luckily, she and her candy jar are no longer with the company. Victory!

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I’d go flush them down the toilet. All but one; leave one floating in the bowl. :wink:
Actually I ate them all but one and left it floating in the bowl.

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Nice work! Way to show that food who’s boss.

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Your wife better be hot, because the stunt she pulled was evil.