Office goodies and how to avoid them?

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  • marisap2010
    marisap2010 Posts: 909 Member
    I have one coworker who brings in desserts or croissants multiple times per week (today was donuts). Most of us try to eat well and often decline, but despite this, he becomes very offended every time. I pre-log my food, so there might be an occasional day where I may indulge, depending on the item, but most times my office mate and I try to remind each other of our hard work and goals.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    Stuff left in the break room is my arch nemesis. I have the hardest time walking by cakes or cookies or candy. If it's something I'm really compelled to eat-- like a cupcake--I take a bite and toss the rest. Until they are gone.
  • Muana1005
    Muana1005 Posts: 172 Member
    It just depends on what I feel like. Sometimes I'll want a cupcake instead of a meal, as long as I don't make it a habit it's okay. (A Lola's cupcake with good quality coffee is food of the gods!)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    LaughHappy907 wrote: »
    This week in my office there have been cupcakes twice, donuts, cookies, cheddar rolls, cinnamon rolls, and special chocolates all in addition to the usual 3 candy bowls on various desks. I have had a tablespoon of frosting and 1 cheddar roll. I think I did pretty good considering I was eating upwards of 10 pieces of chocolate each day a week or two ago but seriously, I think it is just making me depressed. How do you deal with having all this temptation and not only that but when someone brings in homemade cinnamon rolls how do you turn it down three times without being rude or "That person who is always on a diet."

    There's always stuff at my office...in the beginning of things almost 5 years ago, I had some medical issues that needed to be addressed...high cholesterol and pre-diabetic to be among them...I didn't have too many issues just saying no because I wanted to address those issues and fix them so that I could live a long and healthy life with my wife and young children.

    This might be kind of judgey or rude, but I walk through the break room and I see people eating birthday cake for breakfast or slamming a few doughnuts while drinking a Dr. Pepper at 8:15 in the morning and I look at them and they just have diabetes written all over them...all but a few of us in the office out of 95 people are obese or morbidly obese...so it's pretty easy to just walk away save for an occasion here and there...but really I don't need friggin' birthday cake everyday for breakfast.
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    The best way to avoid office goodies is to be unemployed. o:)
  • whisker1984
    whisker1984 Posts: 26 Member
    edited July 2017
    I usually avoid it as much as I can. But sometimes I have situations like yesterday, where they hand me my own personal cake from a bakery because my birthday is coming in a few days.

    I stared at the stupid thing all day long and willed myself to toss it in the trash. In the end, I decided to take a few bites, found it to be super sweet and gross, and gave away the rest.

    If I had just tossed it right away, I would have binged on something else. Eating just a few bites -- and logging them! -- took the pressure off big time, but I know that strategy wouldn't work for everyone.
  • jayemes
    jayemes Posts: 865 Member
    wolfe1234 wrote: »
    If like me, people make you feel guilty for saying 'no', just take a piece of whatever it is and put it down on your desk. Later, when no-one is looking, slip it into the bin.
    I've dealt with people like this. I ask them if they sell drugs to kids after work as a hobby.

    9 times out of 10, the brownie doesn't taste as good as you think it will, and eating it will make you have to skip your wine with dinner. Not worth it.
    Like others said, a small portion of something awesome or forget about it and walk away

  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    LaughHappy907 wrote: »
    This week in my office there have been cupcakes twice, donuts, cookies, cheddar rolls, cinnamon rolls, and special chocolates all in addition to the usual 3 candy bowls on various desks. I have had a tablespoon of frosting and 1 cheddar roll. I think I did pretty good considering I was eating upwards of 10 pieces of chocolate each day a week or two ago but seriously, I think it is just making me depressed. How do you deal with having all this temptation and not only that but when someone brings in homemade cinnamon rolls how do you turn it down three times without being rude or "That person who is always on a diet."

    My office isn't like this. Occasionally there might be a cake if its someone's birthday, but there isn't a birthday every day, and it doesn't happen for every birthday. The bowl on the conference room table is a mint bowl, not sweets and cookies. No other part of the building has a bowl.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    I tell them truthfully that I'm pre-diabetic and the doctor says I can't eat that stuff.
  • fiddletime
    fiddletime Posts: 1,868 Member
    A client brought in a box of See's candy for us this week. I really really love chocolate and candy. I logged what I ate and stayed under, with great restraint as in the past I'd have happily eaten half the box. But 25% of my daily calories was candy, and I didn't feel so great by day 3. I can avoid the cookies and cakes with the "It isn't worth it and just because it's free I don't need to eat it" but I'm still battling with candy.
  • narspips
    narspips Posts: 48 Member
    We have a 'treat shelf' in our office where people deposit home-baked goodies or treats they bought on their trips, so nobody actually gets directly offered things. It's a nice system because you know the stuff is there and you can have some if you want, but it does help to alleviate temptation as you have to physically get up to go and grab something :)
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    Remember that one of the reasons people bring stuff to work is because they don't want to gain weight themselves. They hope their coworkers will help them get rid of it so it is no longer a temptation.
  • InkAndApples
    InkAndApples Posts: 201 Member
    I eat it if it fits into my calories, which most days treats do as I tend to only eat while at work (I don't have an evening meal) so even though my calorie goal is low I still seem to have plenty to play with. Actually this Friday ALL my calories were treats - the curse of end of term celebrations.

    If I don't want food I've found that "I'm good, thanks" is an almost magical phrase. For some reason people don't push when I say that, lots of other declining phrases seem to result in "oh go on" but "I'm good, thanks" seems to prevent it.
  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    praykathy wrote: »

    General rules-I made a rule in my 20's not to eat sweets before lunch. I found that much of it is gone by lunch...like Friday donut club...gone by lunch.

    I do something similar to this ^

    Generally I try an resist for as long as possible, it's usually in the afternoon slump (between 3pm and finishing time for me) I get "snacky", by then it's usually all gone, it's a surprise if anything is left at lunch time (my colleagues are like vultures if there's food up for grabs) or if there is its usually not that nice, green tea kitkats from Japan and some orange flower flavoured cookie from France spring to mind, the latter was truly yuk took one bite, and binned the rest.

    Most of the time this strategy works if it's really yummy I cave and try and make it work.
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