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fiddletime
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We now have a huge platter of Christmas candies and cookies ten feet from my desk. Yesterday it was homemade shortbread cookies and Godiva dark chocolates. Yikes!
I’m eating a little and logging it. Three more weeks of free food at work. I love sweets. This is a tough time of year for me.
I’m eating a little and logging it. Three more weeks of free food at work. I love sweets. This is a tough time of year for me.
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At my office, it hasn't slowed much since Thanksgiving week.0
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I'm worse around Chinese new year.
Dim sum, prawn crackers, duck rolls, wontons......
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Actually in my office it hasn't started yet at all! Last year I feel like from Thanksgiving through the end of the year there was treats all over the table in the breakroom at all time.2
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I'm just glad people don't bring in platters of cured meats and cheeses and the like...I'd have a lot more problems with that. I can take or leave a cookie.8
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We get piles of everything dessert like and then big deli sandwiches, fruit, vegetable and cheese plates, pulled pork and fixings, and just so many things. I work in a veterinary clinic and an emergency hospital so we get a lot of thank yous.
I take what I can estimate the calories of reasonably and fit in and I just stay away from the kitchen in general.1 -
Retirement is a wonderful thing . . . in more than one way.
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So far, we've got candy canes (which I hate -- can't stand peppermint), a straggler 3 Musketeer minibar (OK, can do that), and a bunch of donuts and pastries (can't eat -- can't have gluten). I am totally OK that having to be gluten free, and hating all things peppermint, basically means that this time of year will be no different for me than any other year.3
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Did anyone say Godiva dark chocolate? Where do you live?5
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okay.. I was whining over the time of year in general...but since I work for myself I don't face any of these temptations... so I'll be quiet now. But, that's got to be hard to resist. I'd picture all that food covered with hair or something gross..or imagine a co worker spitting in it..
There. that's the best help I can offer. 3 -
I work from home, but my husband brought home a box full of apple and pumpkin pie after a party, so it is sitting in my refrigerator, taunting me every time I go in to fix a planned meal. For some foods, I can just put them in the "That's his, I would be pissed if he finished off my planned snacks" category.1
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I love to bake, but haven't dared to bake anything really good in over a year (except cornbread, that's a necessity).2 -
collectingblues wrote: »So far, we've got candy canes (which I hate -- can't stand peppermint), a straggler 3 Musketeer minibar (OK, can do that), and a bunch of donuts and pastries (can't eat -- can't have gluten). I am totally OK that having to be gluten free, and hating all things peppermint, basically means that this time of year will be no different for me than any other year.
I don't work in an office environment, but there have been parties. Seriously, the gluten thing helps a lot. Can't eat the stuff anyway, so there's no temptation.4 -
fiddletime wrote: »We now have a huge platter of Christmas candies and cookies ten feet from my desk. Yesterday it was homemade shortbread cookies and Godiva dark chocolates. Yikes!
I’m eating a little and logging it. Three more weeks of free food at work. I love sweets. This is a tough time of year for me.
I work from home and would literally *kill* to have some of that stuff!
I do make a mean shortbread, though...0 -
I do that every year since I found out that the original shortbread was likely made with oat flour. I can get gluten free oat flour.
Shortbread with oat flour, the best butter I can find, and demerara sugar. It's different than the shortbread most people are used to, but man is it tasty.1 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
I do that every year since I found out that the original shortbread was likely made with oat flour. I can get gluten free oat flour.
Shortbread with oat flour, the best butter I can find, and demerara sugar. It's different than the shortbread most people are used to, but man is it tasty.
Have you tried mixing in some rice flour? I find the rice flour gives it that melt-in-your-mouth quality.
Or it could just be the pound of butter in every batch... 2 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
I do that every year since I found out that the original shortbread was likely made with oat flour. I can get gluten free oat flour.
Shortbread with oat flour, the best butter I can find, and demerara sugar. It's different than the shortbread most people are used to, but man is it tasty.
Have you tried mixing in some rice flour? I find the rice flour gives it that melt-in-your-mouth quality.
Or it could just be the pound of butter in every batch...
Rice flour is gritty to me. The plain oat flour is melt-in your-mouth. Very much so.
Not this gritty, btw:
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
I do that every year since I found out that the original shortbread was likely made with oat flour. I can get gluten free oat flour.
Shortbread with oat flour, the best butter I can find, and demerara sugar. It's different than the shortbread most people are used to, but man is it tasty.
That sounds good. I like oats and I like shortbread so sounds very promising.
Yes I would share with you @AnnPT77 1 -
Im an elementary school teacher. Despite being a “healthy school” we have an abundance of sweets in the teachers lounge and at meetings. But two things have been transformative and I can say with gratitude that I have not eaten a single sweet treat or “extra” snack at work since the school year started.
So here is what has worked for me:
1. I read Pema Chödrön. Both by reading her books and listening to her on Audible, I’ve been able to really dig deep and allow myself to experience uncomfortable emotions without distracting or comforting myself with food. There are still times when I feel the urge to grab a piece of chocolate, but now I take a moment to notice what I’m feeling that’s causing me to reach for chocolate. So the urge is now helping me to be more self-aware.
2. I just have a personal commitment to NOT eat sweets at work at all. I think it’s helped me because I haven’t completely quit sweets. I still eat desserts on occasion, but I make the decision ahead of time and I decide ahead how much I will eat. Examples: a small piece of pie at Thanksgiving, a few bites of dessert at a nice restaurant, a piece of dessert at book club.
I hope that helps! I am not perfect by a long shot but wanted to share what has worked for me.6 -
Anytime you're tempted, imagine yourself at your most overweight, or pull out a line drawing or photograph and look at it.1
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Yup. Every day a few new things show up. Friday was the tower of treats, that no *kitten*, was 5 feet tall. Most of it was crap, but I’m a huge sucker for peanut brittle and moose munch.0
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Doesn't sound too bad to me...I don't love shortbread and I think there is *way* better chocolate than Godiva.
If it's something I really want, and I can't get it any old time I want it, then I usually just eat it and make room for it in my calories. I'd make that kind of accommodation for a homemade cookie if they looked really good. Otherwise, I tell myself that I can eat it some other time and I don't have to have it just because it's there.1 -
Yup. Every day a few new things show up. Friday was the tower of treats, that no *kitten*, was 5 feet tall. Most of it was crap, but I’m a huge sucker for peanut brittle and moose munch.
I have some of the best (homemade) peanut brittle that I've had in years, right now in my kitchen (got it from my SIL at Thanksgiving, who got it from a friend). Good thing peanut brittle isn't my favorite, as it'd be totally gone by now.
But now that I'm thinking about the stuff . . . .
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One advantage of working from home is that I don’t have to deal with this!3
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I also love sweets. I log all of them. I eat a little of the best and enjoy every bite. I don't eat too many.0
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I refuse to eat junk. It actually makes me feel sick so no great loss...lol3
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I find it helps me to be picky. A lot of the food gifts we get at work is pretty much crap. My favorites are the Harry & David chocolate covered cherries, but they are not like the cheap kind, these are special and I only have them this time of the year, if I can get to them before someone else.3
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I find it helps me to be picky. A lot of the food gifts we get at work is pretty much crap. My favorites are the Harry & David chocolate covered cherries, but they are not like the cheap kind, these are special and I only have them this time of the year, if I can get to them before someone else.
I find this helps me, too. In my case, it's dark chocolate salted caramels from a local specialty shop. I had some from Trader Joe's recently and I realized that, no, they weren't worth it. I deserve the good stuff and I am willing to wait for it and savor it.
I also realized that sometimes people bring stuff around because they are trying to get it out of their homes. I almost had to karate chop someone at a meeting recently when she tried to foist some of her leftover cookies on us. She was quite open about it, and now I just imagine everyone is doing the same thing!4
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