I think I have a problem...

I do the exact same thing. I start out great, then eat eat eat. I do great for a week or so, say i'll never go back, then eat so much i gain all my weight back. it's awful.

Almost everyone "normal" eats that much chocolate/cookes in 5 hours at this time of year.

Everyone is baking for the holidays and they are taking excess (or even planned) trays of cookies and candies and fudge and cheesecake to work and just dropping it off and then they send an email that says "have at it!" and everyone does.

Believe me, I'm in a small locked-down office within a larger office and the 12 people in my section have been eating TONS of cookies and cakes and candies in the past week or so.

Give yourself a break.... sugar is hard to resist once you've broken the seal... and we all break the seal (I know I have)

You worked out hard and you ate food you liked and enjoyed it. Do not make it a GUILT party now. Just know that tomorrow you will need to continue working out and try to resist eating 5 chocolates tomorrow.

I ate 4 Russian Tea Cakes (little tiny cookies) before I realized they had 102 calories EACH!

Hi. You are not the only one with this problem at all! I will fight someone at a party for some cheese queso and tortilla chips! LOL and smh....I don't know if this can work for you but it works for me. But I pray. I have to ask God to give me the strengh to stay on track and eat healthy choices. I know your office is littered with unhealhty stuff but how about you bring a fruit tray to work? Or see if you can talk to someone on your job about adding more healthier options around the office. I agree you doo need to try to control yourself but it is hard when it is looking you in your face everyday. But I bet you will feel so much better everytime you fight the urge to grab one of those sugar loaded cookies. I read this book called Made to Crave by Lisa Terkeurst. If you take nothing else from this post it says that "Everything is permissible but not beneficial". Which mean you can have those cookies but are they going to benefit you by eating them. You did a great job by working out and burning major calories by I have heard a saying your "body is made in the kitchen". You can workout until you turn blue but it doesn't matter if you go and eat bad food. Just think twice before you pop that cookie in your mouth and you will feel better and stronger each time you put it down. Or better yet not pick it up at all!! You can add me as a friend and we can keep each other going.

There is an entire box of cheesecake factory cheesecake in my fridge I'm trying to ignore. One piece is 1200 cals. But I think I could take you on eating more than 5 cookies lol
Don't deprive yourself- have a cookie- just not a bunch and don't let it push you off track!
:-)

It's the time of year. I have such a hard time with sweet stuff. I usually bake cookies and cakes and all kinds of sweet stuff this time of year. This year I decided I was not going to. If it is in my house I will eat it! I made snickerdoodles for teacher gifts and school parties but that has been it. I just try not to have it around.

wow - awesome cal burn - good on you.... as for eating the cookies - in my opinion it comes down to willpower - I suffer the same thing but then always try and think of how proud I will be if I can resist the temptation....and nothing beats that feeling of beating temptation!!! :flowerforyou:

we all have our downfalls they key is to not beat yourself up about it, so you fell off the horse big deal the key is to get back on your feet dust yourself off and keep on going. You did not get overweight overnight nor will you shed it overnight, I plan to have a cheat day at least once a month to just forget about cal counting and being "good". You can have a small treat every day if you keep it in your caloric and macro goal hell I lost 40 lbs of fat eating ice cream nearly every 2nd or 3rd day. You do not need to be a diet nazi but you do need to learn to turn off that sweet tooth switch so if you can not control it then best to avoid it.

If you have a problem, then so do I. I thought things were bad in my new office before the holidays, now it's flat out insanity. I GAVE AWAY a full, unopened platter of Italian cookies today, because we had 3 other trays. Then we had a dessert party during lunch. And there is another one tomorrow. But it gets better- one dessert party was supposed to be breakfast (fruit, bagels, yogurt, juice) and they changed it to a dessert party (because they hate me I think!) On the plus side, I had a cupcake today at the dessert party and that was it! (It felt like a victory at the time)

I know this is kind of gross, but I'm in a pretty large office 40-60 of us on any given day and the "snack" office is the empty office right next to mine.

#1: If I don't know who made it, I won't eat it. How often have you licked a spoon while baking? Does the person that made it have pets? Do they have a clean home? So many unknowns.

#2: I know for a fact there a people in our office who don't wash their hands after using the restroom. That turns me off totally if the tray is already picked at. (store bought or home made)

#3 If I think I really want to eat it ... I look up the calories and then decide if it is worth it.

But I am not perfect. The other day there was a box of unopened peanut brittle. I had to have a tiny taste. Then I brushed my teeth so I wouldn't want anymore.

Oh dear I wish I could say that about myself too : it's just this time of the year.
I do what you've been talking about regularly. I have really great days, work out, eat good and even feel awesome or also have good mornings and then sometime during the day or at night or when I feel lonely or sad, I will eat way too much. More than 5 cookies too.
How do you get away from that?!

And wow 90 minutes cardio! In the morning too! Good on you!!

Well here's what I do...cookies and that are everywhere this time of year...I know the feeling of wanting to eat a whole tin of them! So instead I think about how awful I feel mentally after I eat more than one cookie before I eat it. That usually turns me off of eating the stuff. If that doesn't work, I use mouthwash or brush my teeth. I've found that that tends to make me feel ill in my stomach and I don't want to eat for a couple hours afterward even if I'm actually hungry. I hope these tips work for you!