I can't eat this !!!
 

So the Procurement team at work had a small celebration for someone completing 5 years in the organization & one of the folks came by my desk and gave me a big piece of chocolate cake that they saved for me.

I CANNOT EAT IT !!!! :(

I mean I can count it within my daily calorie intake but I am just put off by the sight of it !! Which is weird because all other celebrations at work, I run for second helpings and today I can't even look at this piece !!

Maybe I should just wait till the office clears and chuck it in the bin!! :devil:
Or maybe I should taste a little bit of it :smug:

The thing that is bothering me is.. I don't want to go cold turkey on the foods that I used to love. If I end up losing all the weight and start eating this stuff again, I am scared I will bounce right back !!

What do you think I should do with this cake? It's seriously staring at me !!!

If it were me, I'd throw it out. Usually if I let myself one bite, that one bite turns into two, then three and before I know it I've eaten the entire thing and want more, lol. Can you take it home for anyone? When someone brings me by some sort of treat, I keep it for my son to eat if it is something he would enjoy.

I know what you mean about not wanting it though. I'm not having nearly as much difficulty turning things down lately as I thought I would.

If you don't want to eat it, then don't.

Don't feel obligated to just because they saved it for you.

I wouldn't have it...there is no way it tastes good enough to satisfy the doubts you have.

The way I think of it now...there will always be cake.

(did you throw it out yet....?)

Yes !!! So I gave the piece of cake away to another colleague who I know has a sweet tooth !! The smell of it was messing with my brain !!

I instead took out my small bag of grapes that I carry to work (I snack on fruit) & it satisfied MY sweet tooth just fine.....

and now I feel MUCH BETTER !!! :D

I HAVE THE WILL POWER !! ** SPARTAN GROWL**:jig:

Woot! You are a much stronger person than I am. Chocolate cake is my weakness. Congrats on staying strong!

You are awesome!!!! So happy and proud of you, it wasn't worth the calories!! :high:

I'm glad you gave it away.

I took a piece of cake recently, took a few bites and then chucked it away. Someone had made it and I did feel bad. But ya know...I had all I wanted of it. Slices were pre-cut, so I couldn't choose the size I wanted.

You're a lioness! :carrot: Way to go!

If the person who saved it and brought it to me asked if I liked the cake, I would have thanked her for thinking of me but just told her I can't eat that sort of thing right now because it doesn't support my goals.

If she was offended by that, the evil me would then go on a looooooong tirade about my health issues and people who sabotage my efforts to lose weight, not that I was accusing her of doing that, but still, it's just so hard to be around all this sort of food... That usually fixes the issue of people bringing me food that I don't care to have around me.

Throwing out cake is not a sin!

Finding balance in our eating is important. For now, with so much weight to lose, I stay away from all that sort of stuff. It just leads me to extended periods off track. Eventually, when I'm at goal, I'll find what level of eating is good for maintenance and then experiment with certain foods. I'll only indulge in food that is really appealing and worth it to me. Like I'll eat a chocolate on occasion, but perhaps only a really high-quality French dark chocolate, and not a big serving. I can pass on cake because I don't really like it. I do love a good lemon meringue pie, so an appropriate sized piece, maybe once a year. That really is all I truely want. If it was a food that only leads to binges, I'd avoid it. I have given up on ever having bread before dinner at restaurants. I eat the whole basket! And then dinner, and then dessert. If I skip the bread, I tend to make much wiser choices for dinner and don't order dessert.

You have time to really assess your eating habits. Then you can make wiser choices later.

You are a rock star!!!!

Yesterday I had a bite of store bought cheesecake that someone brought in that I use to love and it tasted terrible! So you never know...that cake may not have tasted as good as you last remember.

I wouldn't eat it, and I wouldn't save it for someone in my family to eat, either. Your family members' stomachs are not trash cans.

Good for you! :broc:

This is a good point.

I've noticed that a lot of dieters seem to think it's okay to feed junk food to their friends, kids or significant other. I see that and I'm thinking "Don't you want the people you care about to be healthy too?".

Chocolate cake is a beautiful thing IF you can control yourself. When faced with a similar situation, I would have had a big, fat chocolate orgy.

You did good. I would have thrown it away or gave it away. I once bought a whole cake into work that I could not face at home.

I guess I just passed the problem onto someone else. Oops.

Toss it, it's just cake. I can't eat cake on my plan, at least conventional ones made with sugar and grains - I don't feel a bit of guilt turning down foods. A "thanks for thinking of me" generally suffices, as does politely turning it down and asking if anyone else wants it.

I find cold turkey worked soooo much better. And that doesn't mean never, ever eating cake again. I'm strict low carb and low inflammation with my diet, and I can still work in cake. It just happens to be with coconut or almond flour, and sugar substitutes. I've fed LC baked goods to friends and family and gotten nothing but compliments, so clearly the items can taste as good (or better!) than their conventional counterparts.

And you may well find, down the road a ways, that the memory of foods like cake is far more appealing to you than the taste of the food, itself. I don't really want cake, beyond some munchy mouthfeel - what I want is my family together, or hugs, or even just reminiscing about past celebrations can often be enough! Food is just food, the celebration or sentiment around it can indeed be divorced from the eating, itself, and be just as enjoyable. I've found it very freeing to sit at a party and feel peaceful and social without needing a prop drink or a plate of greasy appetizers (or even excellent appetizers ;) ) to make it feel complete. Then if I choose to eat, it doesn't increase the enjoyment, it's just another choice. Taking that emotional component out of eating has been really key to my maintaining in any circumstance, including stress and holidays.

I'm not perfect, of course, but I've come a long way :carrot:

- Just my personal experience

Bravo! Good work! :hug:

Mmmmmmmmm........chocolateeeee.......I would say throw it out though.

Just wanted to clarify my earlier comment about giving it away. I save things for my son to eat that I'm not able to have, but I definitely don't see it as using him as a garbage can. He can eat one bite of a cookie, and be completely satisfied. I would never try to give it away to someone who I knew had any kind of food issues, or push it on someone to eat. I work at a school, and students will occasionally bring in cookies, cupcakes, or some other kind of sweet treat. Instead of turning it down, I thank them and then save it for when my son comes in my classroom after school. It's a nice treat for him, not something that I would do everyday. If he doesn't want it, then by all means he can chunk it in the garbage. :)

Good girl!!! Way to go!!

Good for you! :congrat: I was going to suggest giving it away. If no one wanted it, throw it out.

Good for you!

Good for you!! Way to go listening to your body :woohoo:

thanks guys!! it definitely wasn't worth it !! I feel proud of myself :carrot::D

Agreed! While I wouldn't want a piece of cake (first because I don't think it's worth it and would rather have fries or jalapeno pretzels ;) ), I would give a piece to my five year old. Treats are just that to some people. If I got cake on a weekly basis and brought it to a loved one, it would be one thing, but a few times a year isn't treating them like garbage cans!

When you say "put off by the sight of it" do you mean appetite-wise or at the thought of it damaging your diet? Honestly, I have done a diet of nothing but fruits and veggies for 40 days and things like cake and meat disgusted me for a while... It's your body's way of telling you no. Listen to it. I would get cravings every now and then and I would even go so far as to quickly throw something tempting in the trash as soon as I saw it.... You'll hate yourself afterward if you don't.

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Good for you! I'm glad you have it away.

Yay for giving it away! that shows awesome will power! :)

True, but it also doesn't mean that they are subject to the same dietary restrictions as we are. Not everybody has to suffer because we restrict ourselves.

Sometimes my office orders in food (a lot of it I don't eat because its not on my plan) and there are a lot of leftovers. Sometimes I will bring some of the food home for my kids to eat. That doesn't make them trash cans for eating the food that I don't eat.


When my office has a party for someone with a birthday (they tend to do a monthly employee birthday party to celebrate the birthdays of the employees born in that month), they always provide cake and ice cream. For my birthday month, they knew I was on a diet, so they had fruit too. But other months they have not. So, what I have done - if I was in the mood in partaking of something sweet (which is not always the case) is that I have put aside a box of chocolate peanut butter protein bars for those occasions.

I do the same thing. My office's kitchen is the dumping ground for leftover cake, cup cakes, pies -- or other deserts that find their way into my house because of birthday parties, etc.

The last time I did this I noticed something interesting. Certain leftover items seem to stick around for a long time. The reason that this struck me is that before I went on my current plan I would have been the main culprit in eating the leftover food. It would not have lasted very long. But apparently the other people in my office don't have those compulsive over-eating issues. This goes a long way to explain my issues with weight.

I mean appetite wise and diet damaging both!! I didn't even want to look at it.. it sat on my desk for a good 10 mins before I posted on 3FC about it and then the chocolate got into my nose and I had to get rid of it !! It was a turn-off !! I knew If I'd eat it, I'd spend the rest of the day in disgust !! :^: One of those feelings...