I threw away Cheesecake!!!
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Proud of You! That is a great NSV!WayneBradt wrote: »Food milestone yesterday. Mid afternoon, about that time hunger starts. Quiet office, I walk in the kitchen and someone put out a whole cheesecake on the counter to share with everyone. My instinct, grab some and I did. Walked back to my office, began logging it in MFP. Right before I was about to eat it I stopped an threw it in the trash. I'm sure for some this sounds simple, for me this was huge. One, it's cheesecake, two I have difficulty wasting food (probably from growing up without much of it) and three it was cheesecake. Kinda proud of this moment.
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Good for you! If we're not eating it because it's not good for us. Why leave it for someone else, condoning their bad behavior? Don't listen to those that are fussing because you threw it out. I'm proud of you!0
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marlamay18 wrote: »Good for you! If we're not eating it because it's not good for us. Why leave it for someone else, condoning their bad behavior? Don't listen to those that are fussing because you threw it out. I'm proud of you!
I don't need you, or anyone else, policing what I eat. Strong first post.0 -
You should have thrown it to the birds. Lol0
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Good for you!! I disagree with most so far and think throwing it away was fine. But, I'm something of a germophobe and really wouldn’t want someone to return food once they've taken it. Besides, once you take it, it's yours to do with as you please.
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GOOD FOR YOU! That is a wonderful thing! Keep it up!0
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Yea, you could have given it to someone else but it's over with. Good job with staying strong! I ate a small slice of plain cheesecake last night; although I didn't go over my calorie goal, I still felt pretty bad about it. I woke up this morning for my Friday weigh-in & lost half of a pound. If you didn't want it, you didn't want it.0
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Cheesecake is awesome, and I agree with the poster for throwing it away. Not because it was a will power thing, but they touched it. As far as I'm concerned, it's contaminated (no offense) and it does not go back in the fridge or near untainted food items. That's dirty, so yes thank you so much for not putting it back and good job.
I'm not one for "wasting" food either, but if it's already been touched, it's garbage. I don't eat after people except my husband either, and for the obvious reason that my husband and I share germs anyway.0 -
Cheesecake is awesome, and I agree with the poster for throwing it away. Not because it was a will power thing, but they touched it. As far as I'm concerned, it's contaminated (no offense) and it does not go back in the fridge or near untainted food items. That's dirty, so yes thank you so much for not putting it back and good job.
I'm not one for "wasting" food either, but if it's already been touched, it's garbage.
yes! i'd be kinda grossed out if i took cheesecake and then found out that someone else had already picked it up, taken it to their desk for a bit, and then decided to put it back. How do i know they weren't coughing or sneezing all over it in the meantime? Blah. No thanks.0 -
To everyone saying 'don't waste food!!' - eating food we don't need is also wasting food. It's just made into poo.
Well done for beating cheesecake! Don't know if I could have!
That makes no sense. If we ate food that we didn't need - and it just turned into poo - nobody would be overweight.
When I was struggling with waste and throwing stuff away as a child, My mother told me that it is wasting food to eat it if it is more than your body needs.
I think she is right, because it becomes fat, which if excessive, is waste! And unhealthy.
Good for you OP that is a huge positive step in learning to do what is good for your body. Congratulations!!!!
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I hate cheesecake. cheese...cake.... a cake made of cheese... *gag*
Thanks for throwing it out. Proud of you, OP.0 -
marlamay18 wrote: »Good for you! If we're not eating it because it's not good for us. Why leave it for someone else, condoning their bad behavior? Don't listen to those that are fussing because you threw it out. I'm proud of you!
Fitting cheesecake into my diet is bad behavior?
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marlamay18 wrote: »Good for you! If we're not eating it because it's not good for us. Why leave it for someone else, condoning their bad behavior? Don't listen to those that are fussing because you threw it out. I'm proud of you!
Sorry to burst your bubble, but there's such a thing as moderation and a normal weight person who eats healthily the majority of the time is hardly engaging in "bad behavior" by having a slice of cheesecake. As long as a treat fits into my macros and calorie goal I have no problem indulging.
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Not "wasting food" is likely something that some people have used as an excuse to over eat, as in, yes, I've already had a satisfying meal but its a "sin" to waste food so I'll just eat the rest of these mashed potatoes out of the pan because there is not enough left to save for another meal. Congrats on resisting the temptation to eat a plate of garbage.0
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No one gives a crap if you abstain from eating it yourself. But throwing away food that a coworker was nice enough to bring in is pretty silly. Could have burned a few extra calories by returning to where the cake was and putting the slice back for someone else to enjoy. LOLBustergirl14 wrote: »Not "wasting food" is likely something that some people have used as an excuse to over eat, as in, yes, I've already had a satisfying meal but its a "sin" to waste food so I'll just eat the rest of these mashed potatoes out of the pan because there is not enough left to save for another meal. Congrats on resisting the temptation to eat a plate of garbage.
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MiracleArmyGirl wrote: »PrizePopple wrote: »marlamay18 wrote: »Good for you! If we're not eating it because it's not good for us. Why leave it for someone else, condoning their bad behavior? Don't listen to those that are fussing because you threw it out. I'm proud of you!
I don't need you, or anyone else, policing what I eat. Strong first post.
HOLA!!! did you even realize what you just did.
op: "fair enough. I don't need you, or anyone else, policing what I DON't eat. "
No, he threw away something someone else could have eaten. Had he just been like "Nope, I'm not going to do it" and walked away then kudos to him, but that's not what happened. And the person who replied seems to think that him throwing it away saved someone else from eating something that is "not good for us" which is total BS. Cheesecake is just fine for me thanks.0 -
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desert_mom wrote: »Well, hindsight is 20/20, right? He shouldn't have taken it in the first place. He shouldn't have thrown it away. He shouldn't have wasted food. He should have used his powers of divination to know that cheesecake was coming to the break room that very day, and he should have accounted for it in his calorie goal from the time he woke up that morning.
BUT, stuff doesn't always happen as it should, so. . . good job OP, for sticking to your goals in the moment it really mattered! I'm sure this isn't your new modus operandi, of secretly tossing all of your coworkers treats in your office trash can.
Seriously, I have never seen so many sanctimonius judgments heaped on one stinking piece of cheesecake. If everyone on MFP is so righteous about what to eat, when to eat it, how to avoid temptation, what to do with tempatation, what the hell are they doing here?0 -
Good for YOU!!! that is a huge accomplishment and you should be so very proud of yourself. IMO those who are quibbling over a slice of cheesecake just don't truly understand the importance of what you did. Once you walked away with that plate (with full intention of eating it) it mattered to absolutely NO ONE if you ate the thing or put it in the garbage. You made a GREAT choice and I'm sure next time you stop even sooner! Congratulations on this NSV! (non-scale victory).0
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Bustergirl14 wrote: »desert_mom wrote: »Well, hindsight is 20/20, right? He shouldn't have taken it in the first place. He shouldn't have thrown it away. He shouldn't have wasted food. He should have used his powers of divination to know that cheesecake was coming to the break room that very day, and he should have accounted for it in his calorie goal from the time he woke up that morning.
BUT, stuff doesn't always happen as it should, so. . . good job OP, for sticking to your goals in the moment it really mattered! I'm sure this isn't your new modus operandi, of secretly tossing all of your coworkers treats in your office trash can.
Seriously, I have never seen so many sanctimonius judgments heaped on one stinking piece of cheesecake. If everyone on MFP is so righteous about what to eat, when to eat it, how to avoid temptation, what to do with tempatation, what the hell are they doing here?
There is a difference between turning down food, and taking food of your own volition, then throwing it away without touching it. I am flabbergasted at how many people here fail to grasp this.0 -
No one gives a crap if you abstain from eating it yourself. But throwing away food that a coworker was nice enough to bring in is pretty silly. Could have burned a few extra calories by returning to where the cake was and putting the slice back for someone else to enjoy. LOLBustergirl14 wrote: »Not "wasting food" is likely something that some people have used as an excuse to over eat, as in, yes, I've already had a satisfying meal but its a "sin" to waste food so I'll just eat the rest of these mashed potatoes out of the pan because there is not enough left to save for another meal. Congrats on resisting the temptation to eat a plate of garbage.
This just in. World will stop spinning on its axis because someone threw away a piece of cheesecake that a co-worker brought to the office because maybe, possibly, someone else might have eaten it - or not.0 -
marlamay18 wrote: »Good for you! If we're not eating it because it's not good for us. Why leave it for someone else, condoning their bad behavior? Don't listen to those that are fussing because you threw it out. I'm proud of you!
How dare you police someone else's food choices? How dare you throw away food that someone else brought in for people to enjoy? How dare you decide that your narrow worldview of some-foods-are-the-debil is shared by others?
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Bustergirl14 wrote: »desert_mom wrote: »Well, hindsight is 20/20, right? He shouldn't have taken it in the first place. He shouldn't have thrown it away. He shouldn't have wasted food. He should have used his powers of divination to know that cheesecake was coming to the break room that very day, and he should have accounted for it in his calorie goal from the time he woke up that morning.
BUT, stuff doesn't always happen as it should, so. . . good job OP, for sticking to your goals in the moment it really mattered! I'm sure this isn't your new modus operandi, of secretly tossing all of your coworkers treats in your office trash can.
Seriously, I have never seen so many sanctimonius judgments heaped on one stinking piece of cheesecake. If everyone on MFP is so righteous about what to eat, when to eat it, how to avoid temptation, what to do with tempatation, what the hell are they doing here?
There is a difference between turning down food, and taking food of your own volition, then throwing it away without touching it. I am flabbergasted at how many people here fail to grasp this.
oh have grasped the severity of of the crime just chosen not to be flabbergasted0 -
I believe in Abundance and that there is an infinite amount of cheesecake in the Universe. I'm also reminded of the Law of Conservation of Cheesecake which states that cheesecake cannot be created or destroyed. For these reasons, and because I have no attachment to Material Things I'm not concerned with someone moving some cheesecake from one place to another, different place.0
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disasterman wrote: »I believe in Abundance and that there is an infinite amount of cheesecake in the Universe. I'm also reminded of the Law of Conservation of Cheesecake which states that cheesecake cannot be created or destroyed. For these reasons, and because I have no attachment to Material Things I'm not concerned with someone moving some cheesecake from one place to another, different place.
Fine, you eat the cheesecake out of the trash.0 -
To everyone saying 'don't waste food!!' - eating food we don't need is also wasting food. It's just made into poo.
Well done for beating cheesecake! Don't know if I could have!
That makes no sense. If we ate food that we didn't need - and it just turned into poo - nobody would be overweight.
When I was struggling with waste and throwing stuff away as a child, My mother told me that it is wasting food to eat it if it is more than your body needs.
I think she is right, because it becomes fat, which if excessive, is waste! And unhealthy.
Good for you OP that is a huge positive step in learning to do what is good for your body. Congratulations!!!!
Had she said that, sure. But that's not what she said. And she is utterly incorrect with what she said. Agree all you want with her - she's still spouting nonsense.-1 -
disasterman wrote: »I believe in Abundance and that there is an infinite amount of cheesecake in the Universe. I'm also reminded of the Law of Conservation of Cheesecake which states that cheesecake cannot be created or destroyed. For these reasons, and because I have no attachment to Material Things I'm not concerned with someone moving some cheesecake from one place to another, different place.
Fine, you eat the cheesecake out of the trash.
Perhaps I would if I were hungry, after all, "one man's trash..." as the saying goes. But I am at peace with the cheesecake finding its Destiny and Purpose without my interference.
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marlamay18 wrote: »Good for you! If we're not eating it because it's not good for us. Why leave it for someone else, condoning their bad behavior? Don't listen to those that are fussing because you threw it out. I'm proud of you!
so throwing away foods that you view as "bad" is ok????
wow...0
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