So much food at work!

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  • cyncm
    cyncm Posts: 36 Member
    The mini candy bars turned into a compulsive habit last year especially because I am last to leave most days. I have lost 55 lbs and a big part of it was kicking the sugar addiction. Now I don't even think they look good to eat! I will have a tiny slice of birthday cake if it doesn't look too sweet. It helps that oir office has vegans who end up with a fruit tray sometimes. And of course what makes this work for me is bringing my own lunch every day and having a protein bar on hand if I need a snack. Simply bars are equal protein and carbs!
  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,522 Member
    I have had to develop hard and fast rules while at work:

    - No candy (once you get in the habit it's so hard to stop)
    - No donuts (mostly, they're just cheap DD donuts which aren't all that good)
    - No cookies (the ones from our caterer at work are pretty disappointing, anyway.)
    - Almost every day I bring my own lunch
    - I stock my own snacks (I like Kind bars, which have fewer carbs)
  • hopeful4ky
    hopeful4ky Posts: 4 Member
    This happens to me after there are agility trials at the building I teach at. The next day, there are pastries and candies everywhere!!! The building owner and I are both focused on losing weight, so I work hard to get it out the door. I have taken to taking some next door to the car shop to share, sending it home with my young students who I know love sweets, and reminding each class to have some before they leave. I hate having to look at it!
  • DiabeticDer
    DiabeticDer Posts: 21 Member
    corysmithsmail wrote: »
    My job does the same. If they can find a way to have a party, however small that reason they will. And party=potluck. We've had 5 full fledged parties and 3 smaller cake only parties in the past few months. It's like a catch 22, don't go and people think you're anti-social or go and torture/exercise your self control skills.

    I am the party/event/ catering coordinator for my office. I have to plan monthly birthday celebrations. Since I've started reducing my carbs 5 months ago we have had smoothies, ice cream, slushies, whoopie pies and cupcake parties! Plus like many of you we have a massive chocolate candy bowl in our Reception area. I am proud to say that I have not given into any of these temptations!! My co-workers were sensitive to my new way of eating and rather than having a birthday cake for me they brought in berries, whipped cream and angel food cake for my birthday!
  • Cbean08
    Cbean08 Posts: 1,092 Member
    Whenever someone gets really pushy about food that I don't want I tell them, "I just brushed my teeth so it'll just taste like mint, ew. I'll grab some later when the flavor is gone. " Never had a problem with that one.
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,956 Member
    My old workplace was like that. Any excuse to bring in cakes. Birthdays, birthdays of offspring, returning from vacation or maturity leave, going on vacation or sabbatical, x years in the department, project completed on time, even resignations. Birthday cake I get. But resignation cake?
  • ktekc
    ktekc Posts: 879 Member
    we always have a big sams club box of mini york peppermint patties in the break area at work. I can avoid those easy. But when larry brings in his 92 year old mothers homemade peanut butter fudge every couple months you bet im making room for it! lol
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    ktekc wrote: »
    we always have a big sams club box of mini york peppermint patties in the break area at work. I can avoid those easy. But when larry brings in his 92 year old mothers homemade peanut butter fudge every couple months you bet im making room for it! lol

    OMG, peppermint patties!! I would have to find a new job. Think I would pass on the fudge though.
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    edited September 2018
    nowine4me wrote: »
    ktekc wrote: »
    we always have a big sams club box of mini york peppermint patties in the break area at work. I can avoid those easy. But when larry brings in his 92 year old mothers homemade peanut butter fudge every couple months you bet im making room for it! lol

    OMG, peppermint patties!! I would have to find a new job. Think I would pass on the fudge though.

    We have those around a lot. The good news is that they start to become nothing special. That's also the bad news. What is worse for me is when they switch it up a lot. "ooh - I haven't had one of those in a while" and if you don't grab one they will be gone. Sometimes I will grab a few snack size candies and toss them in a drawer and it will last weeks (mixing it up with other stuff).
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    hopeful4ky wrote: »
    This happens to me after there are agility trials at the building I teach at. The next day, there are pastries and candies everywhere!!! The building owner and I are both focused on losing weight, so I work hard to get it out the door. I have taken to taking some next door to the car shop to share, sending it home with my young students who I know love sweets, and reminding each class to have some before they leave. I hate having to look at it!

    If both you and the building owner don't want the stuff around, why not pitch it.
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    There is a candy dish on a small table in the center of the work area I share with 8 people. The dish was empty and one of the managers came by and dumped some candy in it. A guy and girl I work with literally jumped up and dove at the dish trying to get there first (this is in an office of professionals working for a multi-billion$ company). I like both of them, but it really looked like someone threw a steak between a couple dogs.

    I've eaten maybe 5 pieces of candy from the dish in the 2 months it was there. Thought I'd be a good sport and bought $10 worth of Halloween candy to stock it. Took 1/2 of it one day and it was gone. Took the other 1/2 the next day, that was gone. I'm personally done contributing.

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