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    Please help me avoid the donuts.

    Posts: 249 Member
    edited March 3 in Motivation and Support
    Someone brought in a big box of donuts today at work and where they are situated and where my desk is, I constantly have to walk back and forth past them. I need help in being here for the next five and a half hours and not touching them! :(

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    • Posts: 746 Member
      Send them to me. Post deadlift nutrition.
    • Posts: 400 Member
      I totally sneezed on that whole box.
    • Posts: 560 Member
      When someone brings donuts to work I've seen people touch multiple donuts before deciding on which they really want.......Just imagine people at your workplace do the same....Then wonder where their hands have been. Do they wash their hands? :huh: :noway:

      That was enough to make me not eat them but I'm a certified germophobe.
    • Posts: 311 Member
      Snack on fruit or veggies and drink lots of water to keep your tummy full and you'll forget about the doughnuts.

      Or, say the heck with it and eat ONE! Fit it into your day .. or burn it off later with some extra exercise.
    • Posts: 579 Member
      I always try to think about how I feel AFTER I eat something that I shouldn't have. In the end, if you eat it, it usually doesn't taste as good as you imagine it will taste when you are trying to avoid it. So pretend you ate one and try to think of how you'd feel for giving in. Then think of how you feel for actually avoiding it!
    • Posts: 868 Member
      That's it! Thank you for the suggestion.. I've been trying to think of something to have for dessert .....
    • Posts: 715 Member
      I am a huuuuuge donut fan. Put a donut anywhere near me, and I'll eat it. Like, go into a gas station or grocery store, come within 15 feet of a donut and I'll buy it, even if it's stale.

      What I've done now is limit myself to a delicious, freshly baked donut or 2 on the weekend. When I see a donut any other time, I instead look forward to the still warm cake donut I'll get to enjoy on Sunday morning. Delaying the gratification allows me to plan my indulgences so that I can fit them in, rather than shun and avoid them all together. So far, 60 lbs lost on a donut a week, so it's working for me.
    • Posts: 700 Member
      Unless they are apple fritters, then probably not worth it. If there is an apple fritter, then have one for me :wink:
    • Posts: 23 Member
      Move them! Tell your co-workers if they want them they can have them...but someplace else please!
    • Posts: 663 Member
      If it's a chocolate donut I would fit it into my day!
    • Posts: 13 Member
      Did you say donut? Now I want one :love:

      By the way, if you don't want to eat one and feel too guilty later on, you could ask a nice colleague to share one with you, but you get one third (and you behave for the rest of the day).. In this way it will definitely not ruin your dieting-day but it will work as a treat and you will stop obsessing yourself with that box..what do you think?
    • Posts: 6,666 Member
      Yes, do not eat the donuts. Leave them all for me.
    • Posts: 3,473 Member
      Sure thing...hand 'em over.
    • Posts: 218 Member
      I swear, I saw Steve... you know the creepy guy who's desk is by the water cooler... I saw him LICK every single one and put it back. You don't want Steve germs, do you?!
    • Posts: 2
      Look 'em right in the hole and say "you are not worth it!"
    • Posts: 44
      Donuts are gross :sick:
      However I hate cake, cookies, pie, muffins, candy, ice cream, and most sweets
      I don't think I'm a normal human being :grumble:

      :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:
    • Posts: 278 Member
      Walk by and crop dust the hell outta those donuts...they'll be less appetizing to you and it'll be funny to watch coworkers graze on them...
    • Posts: 9,026 Member
      cut it in half and enjoy it. log it, and make it part of your day.
    • Posts: 432 Member
      When someone brings donuts to work I've seen people touch multiple donuts before deciding on which they really want.......Just imagine people at your workplace do the same....Then wonder where their hands have been. Do they wash their hands? :huh: :noway:

      That was enough to make me not eat them but I'm a certified germophobe.

      Totally this. I've seen people go straight from the stall to the door. That's just nasty.
    • Posts: 5,961 Member
      Think about how the doughnuts taste. I mean really taste - I always think they're going to be better than they are and then I'm disappointed that I gave in after. They're too... gritty sugary. I'd rather have real cake.
    • Posts: 111 Member
      You just made me want a doughnut in the middle of my workday. EVIL!

      Seriously though, doughnuts are usually not worth it, calorie wise. Good luck.
    • Posts: 56 Member
      Good Luck! Hope this helps!
      Donuts are made out of processed white flours that turn straight into sugar in the body, on top of that they are full of sugar too! Double jeopardy of sugar, just empty calories that will not nourish your body. Donuts will blow your calorie budget. If you eat the donut your body will go into overdrive. You will still be hungry after having a donut because there are not any actual nourishing things in it. Donuts are high calorie and low nutrient. Donuts are not actually that good, they are usually all stale and dried out from sitting in that box.
    • Posts: 223 Member
      Unless they are apple fritters, then probably not worth it. If there is an apple fritter, then have one for me :wink:

      QFT
    • Posts: 2,665 Member
      Donuts are only awesome right away.

      With every minute they increase in dryness, staleness...


      The glaze gets harder.

      The grease sinks heavier.

      No. Donuts are worth it. But only the first hour.

      Then they become questionable.

      Plus they're so sugary, the fumes stick in your sinuses until you can feel the sugar fumes. Migraine trigger time. (For me anyway)

      Just don't ask me to try to talk you down from pie or cookies. Not happening.
    • Posts: 5,961 Member
      Donuts are only awesome right away.

      With every minute they increase in dryness, staleness...


      The glaze gets harder.

      The grease sinks heavier.

      No. Donuts are worth it. But only the first hour.

      Then they become questionable.

      Plus they're so sugary, the fumes stick in your sinuses until you can feel the sugar fumes. Migraine trigger time. (For me anyway)

      Just don't ask me to try to talk you down from pie or cookies. Not happening.

      This is so true! It's why mini donuts are the bane of my existence. You buy them minutes or seconds after they're brought into this world. Donut shop ones are no where near as appetizing.
    • Posts: 8,208 Member
      My workplace is like this all of the time. See if you can move them out of sight. If I end up partaking I break off a tiny bite size portion for a taste. This way you are forced to think if it is really worth going back for a second or third bite.
    • Posts: 22
      Aren't donuts the things that taste like eating a washing sponge that was accidentally dropped into the deep fryer after being used to clean the cake stand?

      You could try and concentrate on work like you probably ought to. Or, if there isn't much to do, go download yourself an app or game on your phone and use it to distract yourself.
    • Posts: 214 Member
      it's easy for me because donuts make me ill. all that sugar fries my stomach and leaves me feeling worse than my worst hangover. :sick:

      however, if they can spare a blueberry bagel with cream cheese...
    • Posts: 4,899 Member
      Send them my way
    • Posts: 214 Member
      Just chew as many as you want and spit them back into the box. Now you're getting a taste treat with virtually no cals and helping your coworkers not to want any either.
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