My boss buys me a chocolate croissant every Friday...HELP!!

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  • salendire
    salendire Posts: 53
    Throw it away and don't let the guilt eat you. It's just a croissant!!!!!! :laugh: It's not like you're throwing away a bar of gold.

    Uh, don't throw it away. It's terrible to throw away perfectly good food.

    Account for it in your day, you know it's coming, you love eating it, just work around it.

    One of my favourite part quotes from Oscar Wilde is “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself..."
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    I never know how people who start these threads expect us to respond. It's not like there are 4 dozen options here. Eat the thing, give it to someone else, or throw it away. Pick one.

    If you want to eat it, make it fit into your week. If you can't find a way, in 7 days, to give yourself an extra 420 calories, you aren't trying very hard.

    Or don't make it fit, and eat it anyway. 420 calories is like a 10th of a pound. You'll live.

    If you can't give it to someone else, then toss the thing or wrap it up and take it home. Surely someone will eat it.

    And I don't want to hear about "temptation." You're a grown-up.
  • MG_Fit
    MG_Fit Posts: 1,143 Member
    I never know how people who start these threads expect us to respond. It's not like there are 4 dozen options here. Eat the thing, give it to someone else, or throw it away. Pick one.

    If you want to eat it, make it fit into your week. If you can't find a way, in 7 days, to give yourself an extra 420 calories, you aren't trying very hard.

    Or don't make it fit, and eat it anyway. 420 calories is like a 10th of a pound. You'll live.

    If you can't give it to someone else, then toss the thing or wrap it up and take it home. Surely someone will eat it.

    And I don't want to hear about "temptation." You're a grown-up.
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  • qtgonewild
    qtgonewild Posts: 1,930 Member
    this mystery chocolate croissant sounds like it would go amazingly well with my coffee right now.
  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    Do you enjoy the croissant? Do you have one once a week?
    If it's a routine, you should be able to work it in.

    We have cake for birthdays here. We had cake on Wednesday and Thursday. I had half a piece and fruit both days. It hasn't sent me off the charts, it hasn't made me gain weight, it hasn't ruined my progress.

    You can't avoid temptations for the rest of your life. This is for life. (well, for me it is!)
  • kellyskitties
    kellyskitties Posts: 475 Member
    I've really had to learn that for me it's not about perfection. I would log it, eat it, enjoy it, and be over it. Then I would think what a cool boss that brings me such a nice goody. It's just a chocolate croissant - not a pink slip - enjoy it.
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    I would be glad to help. Please simply send the chocolate croissant to me. It's one of my very favorite things, and I will either make room for it or I will gladly accept the results that come from eating it.
  • cherie515
    cherie515 Posts: 37 Member
    I usually have 300-400 calorie breakfasts, I'd probably just eat it and consider it my "not so healthy" Friday breakfast. I kind of think it would be akward to come out and say don't buy that for me or make it healthier. Just depends on your relationship with your boss.
    I personally would have to check mine for stick pins or poison, a ha ah just kidding.
  • lamps1303
    lamps1303 Posts: 432 Member
    I appreciate all the advice MFP crew.

    I think on Thursday I will tell him not to buy me one on Friday. I only like to allow myself a treat on a weekend. Suppose if the temptation isn't there in the first I have no option.

    I can always buy myself one once a month.

    The only other alternative is to not say anything and give it to the first person who comes to claim it - enough of you on here seem to want it!
  • wewon
    wewon Posts: 838 Member
    You could tell him that although they're delicious you would prefer hugs and kisses instead.
  • WeepingAngel81
    WeepingAngel81 Posts: 2,232 Member
    I have read a lot of the responses here OP....I will add this.

    As many people have said, there is no reason why you shouldn't eat it. Don't deprive yourself. You're looking at roughly 300 calories (based on the chocolate croissant from Starbucks) 300 is not a bad calorie range for breakfast. You are over complicating your eating habits which could lead you to having anxiety over what you're eating in the future.

    This is one day a week. You control what you eat through the rest of the week, so unless what you have been eating is unhealthy throughout the week, then one croissant once a week isn't going to kill your efforts.

    The other issue could be that you don't trust yourself to eat this for fear that you won't be able to control your food intake by allowing an inch. If that's the case then you are going to need to get over this fear of confrontation and tell your boss thanks, but no thanks. Your boss is only human....he/she doesn't know how you are feeling about this and that it's causing this much stress unless you tell them. you don't have to tell them it's stressful....just tell them that you are trying to focus on eating healthier.

    Finally this is causing you enough worry that you are asking about how to say no. That is an issue in itself. Along with the weight loss you are going to have to learn so many other things, and one of them is having a back bone. Making it clear what you want, what your goals are and defending your decisions to no one. This also takes time, but you need to focus on finding that back bone.

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