I threw away Cheesecake!!!

Th3Admiral wrote: »

He threw out a piece of cheesecake.

Is it really that different from not eating your full plate at a restaurant (maybe, gasp, putting your napkin or salt on it so you won't be tempted) or something going bad in the fridge because the total portion contained an unreasonable amount of calories? Someone enlighten me if it is. Honestly.

Good job on you, though. It can be hard to say no to (anything with) cheese. I get that it was a split second decision.

Deep breaths.

And you should never feel obligated to work something into your day just because it shouldn't be wasted.

I'd say it's different because the cheesecake could've been walked back to the break room. Someone probably would've eaten it. Throwing it out was pretty thoughtless and disrespectful to the person who brought it in for the office to enjoy.

Not finishing a meal at a restaurant? Well, you bought that food so you can stare at it until it turns green with mold if you really want to. They don't give your uneaten portion to someone else to eat.

I agree with your last thought, though. However, that should mean that before you take something, be it from the break room or the buffet line, you've given thought to whether you actually want to eat it. Not just grab it on a whim because, you know, you can always throw it out if you don't want it.

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3dogsrunning wrote: »

Th3Admiral wrote: »

He threw out a piece of cheesecake.

Is it really that different from not eating your full plate at a restaurant (maybe, gasp, putting your napkin or salt on it so you won't be tempted) or something going bad in the fridge because the total portion contained an unreasonable amount of calories? Someone enlighten me if it is. Honestly.

Good job on you, though. It can be hard to say no to (anything with) cheese. I get that it was a split second decision.

Deep breaths.

And you should never feel obligated to work something into your day just because it shouldn't be wasted.

Honestly, the salt thing is the worst thing I've ever heard.

Nothing goes to waste because it has unreasonable amount of calories. I either work it in, or portion it out. Now, if it didn't taste good, not going to bother wasting calories on it. (well, sometimes I do but I regret it).

Okay, so you don't agree with it, but that wasn't my question. My question was, is it any different? Because, to my knowledge, these are commonly accepted and reasonable practices. Yet this guy is getting a lot of flack for something I perceive as pretty equivalent.

We've all wasted food at some point as the result of the decisions we make. Oh! The bread went mouldy on the counter because I'm used to chowing down on toast in the evening and now I'm making healthier food choices! Oops. That's a learning curve. What the OP did was also part of a learning curve. Both ended in food waste.

I'm not terribly fond of the salt thing either, but that doesn't change the fact that I've seen a few posts on MFP about dealing with restaurants where people say they did this and get quoted by others with no mention of food waste. Throwing away the cheesecake and drowning the food in salt are both sabotage.

I do agree wholeheartedly on the taste bit. Brings back awful memories of force fed liver.

BruceHedtke wrote: »

Th3Admiral wrote: »

He threw out a piece of cheesecake.

Is it really that different from not eating your full plate at a restaurant (maybe, gasp, putting your napkin or salt on it so you won't be tempted) or something going bad in the fridge because the total portion contained an unreasonable amount of calories? Someone enlighten me if it is. Honestly.

Good job on you, though. It can be hard to say no to (anything with) cheese. I get that it was a split second decision.

Deep breaths.

And you should never feel obligated to work something into your day just because it shouldn't be wasted.

I'd say it's different because the cheesecake could've been walked back to the break room. Someone probably would've eaten it. Throwing it out was pretty thoughtless and disrespectful to the person who brought it in for the office to enjoy.

Not finishing a meal at a restaurant? Well, you bought that food so you can stare at it until it turns green with mold if you really want to. They don't give your uneaten portion to someone else to eat.

I agree with your last thought, though. However, that should mean that before you take something, be it from the break room or the buffet line, you've given thought to whether you actually want to eat it. Not just grab it on a whim because, you know, you can always throw it out if you don't want it.

Fair enough as per the first two paragraphs. I see what you're getting at. But that's more taking issue with regards to respect to other parties as it is towards food waste, if I'm reading you correctly?

As for thinking about it ahead of time... I'm sure OP will get there, it can be a long road for some. Not everyone can predetermine definitively whether they are going to eat something with confidence or not. For a lot of people, it's a very hard relationship between eating, guilt, and regret. The compulsion to eat something tempting can be very strong. It's not grabbing on a whim, it's being compelled. I don't know if you've ever had a true binge before, but it's a very uncontrollable situation. To be about to eat it and decide against it is very empowering. It can also be fleeting. You need to get rid of it. Fast. I doubt OP didn't think about it, wrestle with it, and the give in (and ultimately, make the decision to not eat). I would take offence at someone indifferently wasting food because they thought they might or might not eat it. To be in a situation where you took the food because one very powerful and unwanted desire outweighed the other is a bit of a different story.

Good for you! Now you know you can do it again. If you make a bad choice, you can always change you mind, like you throwing it away. I see how throwing it away was a personal victory. I wouldn't worry about anyone's feelings or that you have trashed good food. It's not like you threw a salad away or took oranges from charity and threw them away. In the office, people put out candy bowls, bring in morning doughnuts, cakes, etc. Why are they doing this? You need to bring in a veggie tray for everyone and start educating the office. !

I'm going to agree that "educating the office" sounds a bit uppity. As a former (and probably future) office chocolate provider, I hear sighs of relief when they find chocolate at my desk on a stressful afternoon. We are all responsible for our own moderate (or not) choices. My co-workers and I don't need educating because we enjoy an afternoon snack. Also, if I make six well-adjusted people happy with my bowl of chocolates but one person falls off whatever wagon they were on because they couldn't resist, that's certainly not my responsibility. I don't think that person would consider it to be my responsibility either. If that person politely asked me to keep them down off the ledge and out of sight, I would oblige out of respect.

They always have goodies in my office. One day the one girl brought me a piece of her birthday cake. She is very sensitive so there really was no way to say no. I told her I would eat it at lunch. At lunch I slipped out the back door and threw it in the dumpster. It is a really hard thing to do. I have no room in my diet for cake. Good job. You did great!

Agree with throwing it out. I don't believe in wasting food, but... it's one piece of cake, and you had a moment of clarity about what you wanted after taking the cake without thinking about it. To me, this is like when I almost started smoking again after quitting --- bought a pack, opened it, thought better of it and tossed it. That moment of clarity, which has stayed with me since, was way more important than the wasted $, paper, tobacco and cellophane.

OP, dont feel bad about throwing out the food. We have this mentality that we still live in the 30's and food is so hard to come by, or we guilt ourselves because others are starving. I know when I first started this journey, I often threw food into the garbage. It takes a while to get used to those urges, and eventually you wont even grab it unless you know it fits into your calories for the day.

Good for you! Feels good to prove to yourself that YOU DO HAVE CONTROL!

I can't believe people are freaking out about you throwing away A slice of cheesecake! EVERYONE should be congratulating YOU! Good job!!! I know it must of been hard. Yes it's good but does it really offer nutrition? NO! There are a lot of negative people commenting! I'm sorry about that.. You should be lifted up for resisting the temptation!