What to do when the donut calls me?

mrs_n_mommy
mrs_n_mommy Posts: 20 Member
in Motivation and Support
I have a nice gentleman who sits right next to me at work and who is nice enough to bring donuts for everybody at work very frequently. I struggle so much with food. I have been trying to plan my meals and do them all right, I have my salad for lunch, fruit for snacks and when I see these tray of donuts right next to me, I forget everything. Had 2 donuts today n feel sick. I know I cannot run away from the world if I dont know how to get past these distractions, I just dont seem to know how?
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  • jwdieter
    jwdieter Posts: 2,582 Member
    Maybe eat more protein to actually feel satisfied with your meals.
  • marciebrian
    marciebrian Posts: 853 Member
    The only possible answer is to JUST SAY NO and then thank you anyway :wink:
  • jms1985
    jms1985 Posts: 58 Member
    Here's what my friend did... and ever since, I have a hard time eating donuts (though I will enjoy one once in awhile).... Look at the donut.... and then imagine ripping out a giant piece of your thigh (try being dramatic about it & sort of act it out - like grab your leg & then lift up the imaginary thigh in your hand) & pretend that you are eating your thigh. That = eating donut. Haha. Sounds stupid, but after the explained it like that, I no longer wanted them like I used to. But sometimes I can't help but ask for a munchkin in the drive thru :)
  • sjaykay13
    sjaykay13 Posts: 74
    I have a similar situation. My cube is located in a central location on my floor next to the printers. Whenever someone has cake, donuts, candy, soda, everything bad for me, they put it right where I HAVE to walk past to get into my cube.
    I heard once at a Weight Watchers meeting that the average person makes over 2,000 food choices a day. I didn't believe it until I started working at my office.
    You should bring in fruit or other alternatives to help combat the donuts. The gentlemen may get offended but if your actions are geared toward healthier habits instead of "weight loss", than people are more likely to listen.
    Also, eating a high protein & fiber breakfast BEFORE you get to the office may help curb the hunger and temptation. And remember, maybe if you get in an extra workout or plan smaller meals, you could have a donut every once in a while.
  • ViktoryaC
    ViktoryaC Posts: 124 Member
    I swear offices are the worst for this.....we have donuts every day, no exceptions. I was the skinny girl when I started, they all warned me it wouldn't last, and here I am 50 pounds heavier. Whatever you do, just say no. Get up, walk around, find some work to do, drink water.....its just not worth it. My waist grew 11 inches in a year.
  • femmefae
    femmefae Posts: 65 Member
    I work in an office that is right next door to a Krispy Kreme shop (ya know, one where you see actually WATCH the donuts being made). I just have to say, it's OKAY to eat a doughnut and I'd be lying if I said I haven't had one or two since I've been working here for a few months. But that's it. When it comes to situations like sweets or junk food or what have you, you just have to say no, but not never. Because, let's get real, one does not eat a single (or even two in your case) doughnut one day and gain weight. It's about moderation.

    But if it is physically making you sick, then I say, go with what others have told you. Fruits and raw veg like carrots or broccoli are excellent snacking options. :)
  • nolongerXXL
    nolongerXXL Posts: 222 Member
    Find a portion controlled snack that you can eat in place of the donut, but will still satisfy your sweet tooth.

    A few suggestions all 100 cals and under:

    Deep chocolate Vitatop?
    Fiber One Brownie?
    Sweet and salty Special K bars?
    Piece of chocolate?
    Hard candy?
    Small choc chip cookie?
    etc.

    You can have your sweet and not face a 200+++ cal donut.

    OR

    on donut days, take a donut if you REALLY want one, right when you get it, split it in half and eat only half. You'll still get the taste and satisfaction of the donut but cutting the cals in half.

    Think compromise.
  • poohpoohpeapod
    poohpoohpeapod Posts: 776 Member
    Donuts are kind of like the sexy guy that makes you scream in the moment. Then he does not call, and breaks your heart. Best to say F*** off at the start. Save yourself in the beginning.
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    Eat it and fit it in your day, just readjust other meals, profit
  • lisaabenjamin
    lisaabenjamin Posts: 665 Member
    Just a thought - is the guy who keeps bringing in donuts overweight? I had a girl like that at my old office - she was obese and was always bringing in cake and trying to push it on everyone. I think it's just because it made her feel less guilty/look less bad when she had a slice or two.

    Might sound a bit harsh, but once I realised this, it made it a whole lot easier to refuse the cake and I wouuld sit there happily munching on my carrot sticks ACTUALLY feeling less guilty and looking less bad ;-)
  • poohpoohpeapod
    poohpoohpeapod Posts: 776 Member
    seriously, I think bringing your own treat, something a bit decadent. Maybe some chocolate covered fruit, a few squares of good chocolate. something within reason to substitute for nasty processed donuts. This way you get a treat, do not feel deprived and get some nutrirtion. Have you ever tried the deep chocolate vitatops? Like cake, or make some brownies substritute oil and eggs with 1 cup pumpkin YUM@!.
  • harphy
    harphy Posts: 290 Member
    Tell donuts you are busy with salad.
  • ElizabethFuller
    ElizabethFuller Posts: 352 Member
    This is the hardest thing to deal with but you have to look at the doughnut, imagine that you've just eaten it and another one of its friends then bring on the feeling of "Oh no, I wish I hadn't eaten that!!" Or, you can tell everyone that you can't eat doughnuts, too greasy they bring you out in spots/give you indigestion - once you've done that ou won't ever be able to take one again :smile:
  • margelizard
    margelizard Posts: 89 Member
    One thing I find really helpful is to log the calories from that kind of thing BEFORE I even take one. If I look at it in the grand scheme of my daily food log and it will send me way over on calories, then I find it much easier to not take one. If I am going to be under in calories and can eat a donut and still stay under the calories for the day, I will have one (if I really want it).

    Also, do not kid yourself that you will work out extra hard later in the day to make up for said donut! I have tried this and it has an almost 100% failure rate. If you can't afford the calories when you want the donut, then no donut!

    Another thing I found effective is to write in a notebook the way I feel after eating or drinking certain things. So, for example, after eating a donut I feel full, I get a headache, I get really bad dry mouth and my teeth get a gross coating on them. I worry about how my breath smells after one etc etc. That way, I have a quick reminder of exactly what I will feel like after I eat the donut and it is somehow easier to avoid eating one.

    I am huge into cakes and all kinds of sweet things, but when I focus on the long and short term goals I have set, it makes saying no quite a lot easier (our office is big into office pizza days, cookies days etc)
  • str8bowbabe
    str8bowbabe Posts: 712 Member
    Don't answer the phone!!!!! :bigsmile:
  • homeyjosey
    homeyjosey Posts: 138 Member
    The main reason why I am able to not snack or eat office goodies anymore is because I fast and eat my first meal of the day after work
  • Fatlorenzo
    Fatlorenzo Posts: 101 Member
    I used to be the person buying the goodies, now everybody is sad I'm not eating so much crap. When I get down a few more lb, I'll have half of one as a treat. Nothing is sustainable if you want it too much
  • SwindonJogger
    SwindonJogger Posts: 325 Member
    Visualise in your mind how you would feel AFTER eating the donut rather than how it will taste as you eat it.
  • JCES10
    JCES10 Posts: 37 Member
    If I know ahead that there's going to be doughnuts or something similar I'll just workout a little harder so I can at least have one.
  • mrs_n_mommy
    mrs_n_mommy Posts: 20 Member
    u guys are awesome and a lot of great tips...thank you much...I have been thinking about this since morning and think going forwrad I should allow myself a good snack everyday... I going to keep the cap at 250 calories for the snacking...I see its a lot but I think for a junkie its a good place to start and go down from there...
  • 4jamaica
    4jamaica Posts: 69 Member
    I went gluten free two years ago and occasionally travel where donuts are a daily occurrence (and right next to the visitor's office). I deal with it by carefully selecting one donut and hiding out in my office where I lick the frosting off the entire donut, savoring the experience, before throwing the donut in the trash. It satisfies the craving and I feel like a little kid just enjoying her food when I do it.
  • moxienight
    moxienight Posts: 4
    Wow! Look at all those replies in one day! You know you're not alone when you get so many people responding to a message. We're all struggling everyday, and that is what this is all about. Turn to MFP for support the minute that donut calls your name. Get on the computer and have a quick look at all the things that everyone is suggesting, and you'll feel stronger. Since starting this, I feel more able to stick to what I've set out to do. It takes a village to turn around a compulsive eater! :wink:
  • janinealfke
    janinealfke Posts: 93
    I absolutely agree that a high protein diet can keep you more satisfied. I have had weight loss surgery and I can not go backwards ever again. I love apple fritters but have not had one in two years, because I do not want to go back to what I was before. Willpower keeps me from going there, and not wanting the scale to go up the way I know it will the next day if I give in. Drink water, exercise, do whatever it takes. YOU CAN DO IT...HANG IN THERE!!!!

    Janine Alfke
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    Don't answer the phone!!!!! :bigsmile:

    Text to donuts nekkid pics of you with salad.
  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
    Is there any way you could ask him to move the donuts elsewhere?

    I have been pretty good with donuts, they were one of my all-time comfort foods. I allow myself one donut on the last Friday of every month, as that's when my husband's company gets them in for their monthly meeting. He saves me a white-iced donut every time and I class that (and a cup of tea) as lunch. =B
  • welly5
    welly5 Posts: 293 Member
    It's easier to say no when you plan on saying yes from time to time.

    Pick a specific day as your "doughnut day" and have one on that day (once a week, or once every couple of weeks). That way when you are staring at the delicious doughnuts you can tell yourself "I just have to wait till friday and then it's dougnut day!"

    I do that with crackers or other food that I love to snack on, but isn't that great for me. It's easier to say no when you know that you'll be having some later on in the week/month. Good luck!
  • cfergusontx
    cfergusontx Posts: 61
    I was (am) a sugar addict. When I finally realized that there was no having one donut, or one cookie -- shoot, I got so tired of people telling me just one won't hurt you. If I couldn't eat the bag of cookies I didn't want any. Who wants one freaking cookie? That was me. Finally I realized that it was like being alcoholic. I had to give it up completely. I haven't had a cookie, a piece of candy, cake, donut, soda, ice cream--you get the picture--in almost four years. Within four months of giving up sugar I lost 30 lbs and that was without altering my diet in any other way. Now, I didn't give up bread, or pasta, or carbs and I realize that lots of things contain sugar. But if something even looks like dessert to me, like muffins, granola bars, breakfast cereal, etc. I don't eat it. The first few weeks were so hard I actually went through withdrawal. I felt like a junkie. Then, I experienced a kind of freedom like never before. Sweets don't control my life anymore and it's a miracle. I've kept that 30 lbs off for almost 4 years and now I'm trying to lose another 20 and I'll be a normal weight for the first time in years! I'm sharing my story to tell you, you can get the monkey off your back, if you are willing to completely give up that one thing that won't let go of you.
  • cfergusontx
    cfergusontx Posts: 61
    Also, there's a new guy at our office (been here a year). I warned him of the food overload when he started work here. He's now 20 lbs. heavier. People bring food every day and force it on everyone else. :drinker:
  • ViktoryaC
    ViktoryaC Posts: 124 Member
    Also, there's a new guy at our office (been here a year). I warned him of the food overload when he started work here. He's now 20 lbs. heavier. People bring food every day and force it on everyone else. :drinker:
    That's exactly what happened to me. I thought I could afford it, and then *poof* I gained like everyone else here. :embarassed:
    Some workplaces need a warning label.
  • DCruz83
    DCruz83 Posts: 99
    I'm a sugar person myself and I haven't stopped having my fix of sugary food BUT, definitely be aware of it... see, if you want to have a donut, don't stop yourself from having it, you'll only crave it more... what you could do instead is maybe have only half of it, or maybe even a quarter. The trick is to have a taste, then have plenty of water, and voila, you'll have your donut fix and the water will help to make you full. If you're working out regularly and rarely go over your calories, it's not a piece of donut that will stop your progress.

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