Oh, I'm there with you! Throwing them out is the right thing to do.
I'll be honest, for over a year I thought I was able to have sweets in moderation and it didn't harm my plan - before and then throughout my pregnancy I got away with it. But looking back over my eating before I buckled down and got strict again, you know what a few sweets and carbs lead to? A LOT of sweets and carbs! My diet shifted to more crud than I was comfortable with without me even realizing it, despite logging everything I ate. And The problem wasn't the one item, but that it left me craving more and with Jo pressing need to stick like glue to a calorie budget (pregnancy
) I didn't, and so I could get away with a Drumstick or a few truffles a night as a planned dessert, after a day of barely decent eating more sugar and treats (a few cookies here, a serving or three of dates there, etc etc).
It wasn't an issue until I wanted to lose the four pounds I'd kept postpartum, and then I tried cutting back. But there was a problem - suddenly, when trying to limit those treats I noticed that if I got started on them I'd enter the territory Megan talked about - mental torture! It required SO much willpower to stop at just one, and I'd often fail and feel horribly guilty. So then I finally decided moderation wasn't going to work right now, not for starting back out, not this time. The baking is done, except for what has to be achieved for my family each week. The sweets are gone, or my husband brings home a single portion and there is NONE in the house. It isn't worth the mental anguish and stress of balancing some junk right now, I am happier not having it. It took four days of white knuckling it with some stevia sweetened tea and crystal lite in the evenings, but I managed to break the habit my body had gotten used to of junk in the evenings and the extra, unneeded calories that go with it. Now I find I am not craving it much at all anymore, at least not to unmanageable degrees.
I can keep some chocolate in the house and not be tempted - semi-sweet baking chips aren't a problem for me to dole out a tbsp or two or be done, when I have enough calories to do it. Carob chips, same thing. The other thing I do okay with is bars of very dark gourmet chocolate (70+ percent). They are so rich and strong a little taste does it for me, and I often used to have one of those in the cupboard for several weeks, slowly disappearing in pieces. But even then, I don't have one right now because I just don't need to fat or to test my newly on-plan resolve more than necessary. Those treats can be added back in down the road, but not right now, when weightloss is serious and I am in no mood to dink around!
So many of us have been there. Abstinence is often the very best solution, and I am more and more turning into Robin with these things - if I have a treat it is OUT OF MY HOUSE, ONE SERVING! That way I am joy being faced with it in the cabinet or fridge, and I cant binge on it. That works for me!