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I agree to wait till the end of the day. Tell yourself you can have one then IF there are still any cookies left.

This is a great idea! In my office the likelyness that something will even be there at the end of the day is pretty slim. And if there is they'll be all broken or the only ones left will be the icky kinds or kinds I can resist (i.e. peanut butter, double chocolate). I will likely also tell myself that I've made it that far, why bother and to just go home and get a good dinner.

So far I've done great and barely thought about them. I have a great lunch today w/ a sweet snack for later, so I think I'll survive this one, great tips though, any more?

Procrastination works for me and I don't have to wait until the end of the day. By mid-afternoon everything brought in the morning is usually gone.

First...congrats on your success so far!! :bravo:

second...congrats on your success today!

I have been tempted alot lately but I have been going down slowly on the scale and I just keep thinking of my equations of eating sparingly but nutritiously and working out have been giving me results...and I want to see that number on the scale keep going down! so that helps me.

Also, remember that...'just because something is there, doesn't mean you have to eat it!' What if your (mean) boss didn't bring anything in? It wouldn't be there, and it wouldn't be a temptation. So hang in there!

Originally Posted by SCraver:

Anywho - my point is... if someone brings in something I don't want to eat, I just imagine someone with nasty hands touching it. Eew! Imagine someone scratching their inner thigh and then fondling your cookie!

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HAHHAA beach patrol, thats funny!!!

Yah, im gonna say DONT DO IT.....when i get cravings i drink alot of water and chew gum.. and if there is a 25cent vending machine, ill get ONE 25cent worth of candy, that seems to have helped me! into not getting a donut or cake.

We have far too many food days and food celebrations around here. A lot of the times I look at all the junk and am not even tempted. But occasionally I really am tempted. If it doesn't seem to be a passing fancy then I take a small taste of whatever it is I'm being tempted by and really focus on exactly what it tastes like. The VAST majority of the time it tastes absolutely disgusting to me and I immediately don't want it anymore. I'm finding that I have less and less of these "gotta have that" moments because of this strategy. But I have to admit that it backfires on me every once in a while and something tastes good to me. In those cases I will have just a small portion whatever it is and I allow myself to enjoy it. I haven't had a time yet when a small piece has turned into gorging myself. (Thank goodness!)

I really don't know if this strategy will work for you, but it does work for me.

I'm really looking at my diet modification as a life long change and not just something I'm doing to lose weight. I'm not going to not eat cheesecake for the rest of my life for instance. But I can try to find healthy alternatives to it or alternately make the sacrifices that I need to make to eat cheesecake on an occasional basis. What is NOT an option for me is slipping back to my old lifestyle of eating horrible, high calorie foods without making the sacrifices of cutting back or exercising more to do so.

There is NO way I could let myself have just ONE cookie at work. It would be an epic failure. I might consider taking one home with me to have later so even if I wanted more it would not be there. I think that many of us have to deal with people bringing unhealthy food at work. The managers at work like to reward us with food, ALWAYS unhealthy. I can never eat what they provide and I always complain that there are no healthy options and it is not really fair to people who actually care about what they are eating. HAHA I am a pain in the butt, but on the other hand if I vocalize my disgust I am much less likely to be a hypocrite in front of everyone and go back and eat some.

Well I'm still hanging in there...It's 4:00 right now. Fortunatly I'm not hungry like I usually am at this time. I think my sweet high protien on plan snack helped with that. Also today is a gym day so I leave early (4:30) and I just signed up for a free trial at a new gym that I'm hoping to use today and the last thing I need is a sugar coma while lifting weights!