I just ate an entire box of Girl Scout cookies. Help!
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Since we're being serious: I hate oreos. Hate. Them.
And light beer is a heinous abuse of natural resources.0 -
Yes. Thought they're not even worth it anymore. They changed the recipe years ago, the cookie part is crumbly and tasteless and the cookie is half the size it used to be.ThickMcRunFast wrote: »dafuq is a peanut butter patty? Is that like some kind of communist Tagalong?
This is why you must find a girl scout troop who is still using the Little Brownie Bakers. then you can still get actual tagalongs, samoas, trefoils and do-si-dos. Otherwise your stuck with nasty imitations: peanut butter patties, caramel delights, shortbread cookies and whatever they call the do-si-dos imitations. Thin mints are thin mints regardless of who makes them (but the little brownie bakers ones are so much better).
Wait, the cookies I grew up loving still exist?
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I'll look for LBB this spring though... just in case.0 -
Girl scout cookies taste better than waffles0
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The sad thing is that this guy at work has more of them and I'm tempted to buy another box.
130 calories for 2 cookies. 7 servings in a box. That's 910 calories. How do I stop eating more?
Any cookies you enjoy that much are so good the calories you burn enjoying them leave you in a deficit.
True science. Eat away.0 -
tristen_leigh wrote: »This is silly. How do you stop? Uhhh, don't keep putting them in your mouth.
I get it but really? No one else can keep you from eating them. Soooo just don't.
Best response ever. Exactly what I was thinking.0 -
jayliospecky wrote: »Hmm. I have a similar problem with Tim Tams. I bought a package but I'm okay as long as I haven't opened it. I know there are 90 calories per cookie, but now I'm wondering how many are in a package. But I suspect there are more than 10.
is that a type of jelly bean?0 -
Aldi sells all the Girl Scout flavored cookies for $1.79, and they're good. (Don't send a pack of angry Girl Scouts after me.)
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Yes. Thought they're not even worth it anymore. They changed the recipe years ago, the cookie part is crumbly and tasteless and the cookie is half the size it used to be.ThickMcRunFast wrote: »dafuq is a peanut butter patty? Is that like some kind of communist Tagalong?
This is why you must find a girl scout troop who is still using the Little Brownie Bakers. then you can still get actual tagalongs, samoas, trefoils and do-si-dos. Otherwise your stuck with nasty imitations: peanut butter patties, caramel delights, shortbread cookies and whatever they call the do-si-dos imitations. Thin mints are thin mints regardless of who makes them (but the little brownie bakers ones are so much better).
My Grandmother was a part of the very first Girl Scouts and my family has contributed to the foundation of the Girl Scouts. My mom was a girl scout troop leader and was responsible for ordering all of our cookies.
There was once an eff up with the ordering (where we got it from both manufacturors) and we were in an area that has both options. We were left with about 8 large boxes (filed with 12? 14? boxes of cookies). We sold a TON but had all those left overs.
My point is... having eaten a crap ton of girl scout cookies from BOTH, my entire life.... There is NOT as big of a difference between the two as people make it out to be. Caramel De Lites are better than samoas a LITTLE bit because they have a more caramelly and lighter chocolate taste, and peanut butter patties are better than tag-a-longs because they are more milk chocolatey. Even though this is the case, i guarantee if you gave these to someone and didnt tell them which one they came form they wouldn't say anything.
Both are great. The difference is minimal. I don't think theres a big enough difference to justify elitism
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Completely agree. My son has 2 friends that are girl scouts and I promised them both I would buy cookies from them so I'm getting 6 boxes of these bad boys.0 -
CarboUnload wrote: »Am I the only one that feels that if this post is legitimate that self-destructive impulses like this need to be worked with in therapy? Being fat doesn't start with your stomach...it starts with your brain. If you can sincerely not control yourself with food, you need to consider WHY this is happening...not just how to avoid it in the future.
Also, on a lighter note, Girl Scout cookies are expensive and not even that good. C'mon now.
Therapy is definitely a good option but unless the OP is already seeing a therapist, expecting they search out an appointment on Friday afternoon is unreasonable. In my experience part of therapy is discussing strategies with people who have the same issue.
I took a pass on the Girl Scout cookies this year. I knew I wouldn't be reasonable despite wanting to be. Sometimes it is just easier not to tempt myself. I can not eat something like yummy cookies but I can't stand the white knuckling that goes on when I resist. It sounds so easy to say you'll only have a serving or two but it's just as easy to gobble them all to the tune of 900 calories. I feel so embarrassed how I would make myself physically ill from overeating them in the past.
I would bring something to work that I love to eat that fits into my calorie allowance and definitely not buy more. If you feel guilty not supporting, give cash. The troop gets to keep all the cash.0 -
What are you talking about?! Guinness only has 120 calories; that's less than 2 cookies. It's definitely light...Some_Watery_Tart wrote: »Since we're being serious: I hate oreos. Hate. Them.
And light beer is a heinous abuse of natural resources.
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Yes. Thought they're not even worth it anymore. They changed the recipe years ago, the cookie part is crumbly and tasteless and the cookie is half the size it used to be.ThickMcRunFast wrote: »dafuq is a peanut butter patty? Is that like some kind of communist Tagalong?
This is why you must find a girl scout troop who is still using the Little Brownie Bakers. then you can still get actual tagalongs, samoas, trefoils and do-si-dos. Otherwise your stuck with nasty imitations: peanut butter patties, caramel delights, shortbread cookies and whatever they call the do-si-dos imitations. Thin mints are thin mints regardless of who makes them (but the little brownie bakers ones are so much better).
Wait, the cookies I grew up loving still exist?
skeptical.jpg
I'll look for LBB this spring though... just in case.
I see someone beat me to the cookies have different companies who make them point. And just because, you know, it helps to see the site ^_-
Girl Scout cookie website0 -
Log it, work out more this weekend including today and move on.0
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What are you talking about?! Guinness only has 120 calories; that's less than 2 cookies. It's definitely light...Some_Watery_Tart wrote: »Since we're being serious: I hate oreos. Hate. Them.
And light beer is a heinous abuse of natural resources.
You can stay. But I'm not drinking Guinness. NB 1554 or GTFO.0 -
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Log it and move on. To the next box of cookies. Peanut butter, hnnnggg.0
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Hey there @kayemallory. No one is eating a cookie because they think it's good for you. I'll take my cancer with a side of thin mints and bacon please.0
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kayemallory wrote: »
I'm sorry....what exactly is a "dead food"?0 -
kayemallory wrote: »
That is a textbook perfect example of why "Food Babe" should be completely ignored for anything even remotely considered as reliable nutrition information. Bunch of scaremongering and pseudoscientific hysteria.0 -
What is a "Food Babe?" Sounds deleterious to one's health. [shudder]0
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Some_Watery_Tart wrote: »Since we're being serious: I hate oreos. Hate. Them.
And light beer is a heinous abuse of natural resources.
Finally someone talking some sense in this thread!
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I prefer my food dead, thanks.0
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Some_Watery_Tart wrote: »kayemallory wrote: »
I'm sorry....what exactly is a "dead food"?
I would think most anything except live sushi...0 -
First, log the first box.
Second, log the second box.
Look at that number of calories. Maybe pre log your lunch, and dinner and then look at the daily total.
Then hit complete entry and see how fat you'd be in 5 weeks if you did that every day.
Still want the second box?
You could also -
Print out a picture of half a pound of fat - because that is pretty much what 1800 calories is
Print out a picture of the cookies but like, moldy or in the trash or covered in ranch dressing or something disgusting, and look at that each time you decide you want some.
I'm reminded of when I was still figuring all this out and I was just putting my head in my hands yelling at myself "WHY do I do this to myself?" It's biology, it's cravings, it sucks, but somehow, you have to learn your own way of resisting things that don't help you meet your goals.0 -
Did someone ruin this perfectly good thread about Girl Scout Cookies, Oreos, and non-light beer with the freaking Food Babe?
ETA: Strong first post too0
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