So this isn't a HUGE ordeal, but still, it's the fact that it happened.

I work at a school system and I SWEAR teachers are the worlds biggest eaters... EVER!

Of course the holidays are coming up so there are lots of goodies everywhere. They do a "dessert raffle" through the PTA where names are drawn and you win desserts fixed by the awesome PTA people....


I won....





a whole plate of oatmeal choc. chip cookies.

















As soon as they hit my hands I gave them to the school nurse. LOL

Also, I've been really really grumpy. [Which is a whole story in and of itself...] and I've wanted to crawl under my desk and eat everything in sight.

Thank goodness I brought plenty of snacks today!

I'm not 20-something, but I have to say good for you! Dessert raffles and cookie swaps and candy from vendors... the holidays are all about keeping us overweight... this year my insurance agent sent me a live wreath instead of food as a holiday gift. I specifically referenced how much I appreciated that fact in my thank you card....

Awesome job! If it was me, I probably would've gave in and ate like 4 of them!!! So, you definitely have more will power than me!

Wow Congratulations! Not on winning a plate of cookies, but on giving them away immediately!

That's a BIG deal. Imagine how many calories you saved today by avoiding them.

WTG! Good for you for not taking in any of those calories! I've been avoiding a plate of homemade goodies in the breakroom all day and this gives me the strength to keep avoiding! If you can do it, so can I. Thanks for posting!

Good for you!

WOW, well done! That takes some awesome willpower right there! Haha. Of course, now you have me craving oatmeal chocolate chip cookies... Mmmm! I don't know if I would have been able to resist if I were you! I would feel "entitled" to at least one; I'd be whining like "But... But... I won them! They're mine!" LOL. So kudos to you, man, seriously!!

I would have had one hehe

THANKS GUYS

I know, I *LOVE* oatmeal choc. chip cookies. Normally I can find some way to "justify" something, even if it is "just one," but when I start justifying... I find a justification for everything else as well.... so I gave them away.

There's also a huge plate of really BANGIN choc. chip cookies sitting on a plate in the fridge here too... and then my boss told me she was going to buy me a candy bar for helping her out this morning... I looked at her and said "LOOK, I may be the fat kid, but I don't want a candy bar." That's kind of an inside joke with me and her...

Luckily, after this week is finished... I have a 2 week vacation so I don't have to be SURROUNDED by crap anymore.

Lainey -- Yesterday I kept telling myself to just take it one step at a time, one day at a time. I'm not worried about making it through the rest of the week... I'm just worried about staying on track today. I found it actually helps quite a bit.

Dear Friends -- please help me get through the day. So far this morning I have been given candy, offered mini choc. eclairs and I have a whole container of assorted truffels sitting on my desk given to our dept. by the AP.


Don't give in, don't give in, don't give in....



Good luck to those of you dealing with the SAME thing today!

Feral, good for you to push them away and give them away. Success is at your doorstep.

OMG congrats on avoiding! Major victory!

Ay yi yi, mini chocolate eclairs AND assorted truffles?! Are the people at your work trying to fatten you up? Lol. Stay strong, Feral! You CAN resist! Just say "no"! (Hehe). No but seriously, just think of how unhealthy they are, and how all that sugar and fat will be running through your blood system, and how it'll make you feel like crap if you eat them... Haha, I dunno, that usually works for me.

Okay, so the confession is...


I had one of the little truffles.


BUT.... it was one... and I counted it in my points for the day. [afterwards I realized it was SO NOT worth the 1.5 points... I can eat a freaking APPLE for 1 point!]

I moved the tray of them after that.

stupid carby sugary goodness!

That probably wasn't the easiest thing to do - So I'm giving you a high five! *HIGH FIVE!*