Less than 10 feet from my desk is...

It found its way to this end of the office for the same reason's just before I started.

Throw it out? I'd be eaten as an alternative

I don't wanna make a fuss you know, technically I guess there are 2 choices; eat it or leave it....it's bloody hard.

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Oh goodness. That made my day!

As for the food, I know how you feel. I use to work for a company that would go down the street and get 16+ oz shakes, and other goodies! Heck, they even had BEER stocked in the refrigerator. Its hard and I will admit, I often failed to behave.

You should label each treat with a large sticky note of serving size and the calories and see how many people continue to eat them. It will probably be a deterant for most AND you if you have to pass by the large sticky note to get a piece of candy!

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Try working in the beer business. Full coolers in the office and everyday is an open bar.

Is anything chocolate? I can't tell. I might have a tough time, if there was chocolate!

Noooo, what you see are fake things! No chocolate!

you should go write in sharpie marker on each package how many minutes of cardio you( or anyone else for that matter) would need to do just to burn off the calories for just one serving...it will make you and everyone else think;) lol

Everyone will identify you as having an eating disorder, at worst, or being insanely irritating, at best.

I just decided that I was, as a rule, not going to eat any candy or other junk in the office. No matter what. I'll eat it in other places, but in the office it simply isn't an option. Not even one bite. I made that decision abruptly three weeks ago, and now the candy no longer torments me I mean, if there was a chocolate bar in your office mate's desk, would you struggle with whether or not to eat it? No! Because it's not yours. Office candy is also not yours. Done!

. . . and the dumping ground for the stuff they don't want at home.

Well, you could always take it and "dump" it somewhere else, including potentially someone else's area and/or the trash . . .

That would be difficult to look at all day long if there was a treat there you actually wanted. Some of it looks icky, but that's just my opinion.

I am lucky. I teach secondary school and my students are always sneaking food but it's gross, untempting food, like hot cheetos. >_< Yuck!

Someone suggested Dark Chocolate to satisify a sweet tooth. I'm 100% on board with that. I have 72% cacao chocolate squares from Ghirardelli (Twilight Delight), 230 calories for 4, so I count them at 58 calories each. One or two squares with a cup of tea is very satisifying.

For me, around treats, I cannot tell myself 'you can't have that!' I can have that, BUT I have to write it down and figure out how many calories I am consuming from that food item and adjust other meal calories and/or exercise to compensate.

The only way I was able to quit smoking was to tell myself, you can smoke if you want to, but you have to wait 2 weeks first. And my last cigarette, even after that 2 week wait period, was at a bar in the summer of 2001. But I can still have one if I want to! It's just the smell makes me sick now and I did not really enjoy the last one; it was just the final vestige of a drink/smoke habit that I have since lost.

Cakes, treats, donuts, whatever, you can have some if you want to. You're not bad and you didn't fail. They're not 'junk' or 'garbage', (not super nutritious) but they're just calorie dense food choices. Just write it down faithfully and adjust accordingly.

'I can't', 'I shouldn't', 'it's bad', or calling it names 'junk', 'garbage' etc. is a mindset that might only make you want it more.

I laughed at the suggestion to write down the amount of exercise it would take to burn the calories in those items, but yes, it would only stigmatize you at the office. If you really want something, pick something out, and record it in your food diary, that's my opinion.

Otherwise leave it alone. Or, bring something to work everyday that you enjoy and eat that instead.

Muse mentions "stay away from, can't have" whereas it is psychologically helpful to turn it around and think about what you *can* have.

She also talks about how long something would have to be exercised off. Last time when buying groceries I chose mini bars of chocolate, then today compared the kcal amount to the feeling I had when running C25K. I thought "I'm good. The amount I'm burning now makes it okay to have the bars once in a while".

I agree with the brushing teeth idea. I hate just about everything after that. I keep a bottle of mouthwash in my desk for that very reason. Plus, no stinky breath after lunch! :happy:

We have a 'goodies' table at work too. It's a mix of Asian treats and your basic carb filled munchies. The Asian treats are usually the hardest for me to resist with their delicate sweetness or savoury awesomeness.