5:15 PM CST. I’m at work with just under two hours before I can leave for the day.
I have the munchies. Big time. There’s just no denying them.
I head to the vending machine with a pocket full of nickles, dimes, and a few quarters (I don’t know why, but I always try to get rid of my nickles and dimes and hold onto my quarters. Maybe because they are like pure gold to my kids…)
I fill my big mug full of ice, get two bottles of Diet Coke (yes, I know), and stare through the clear Plexiglas into the rows and rows of treats (all clearly labeled with accurate (+/- 20%) carb grams). My eyes are drawn to a favorite of mine – Cool Ranch Doritos.
“No” I tell myself, “not a good decision”. So I put in my $0.80 and punch the button for a bag of microwave popcorn.
Flash forward a bit, the bag of popcorn is happily at rest in my stomach, but I’m still jonesing for something. I stuck myself right in the middle of that nasty “salty/sweet” cycle. Damn.
Five of those little tiny bite size “Mr. Goodbar” chocolates and a SWAG bolus later, I found myself wondering if I really made a better decision? Or if I should have just went ahead and got my Doritos…
Oh Scott, computers – I just wrote a comment explaing what I do when I am crazy with hunger…… the dam computer swallowed it and it is gone. I have been swearing for the last five minutes!!!! Rewrite the whole thing? FRUSTRATION. In brief, I wrote a sign on a post it that said “HUNGRY – fix your bg!” It is so hard to not just eat. I needed that sign until I began to establish a pattern of “what to do”, but I still fail in sometimes. Often when I am hungry either my bg is in fact too… Read more »
Doritos, man. You’ve got to eat what you crave or the cravings just get out of control — just like overeating for a low….
Scott,
I’m no help on the sugar side of things, but have found when I’m dieting, it’s best to just give in to a craving every once in a while.
If I get a certain food on my mind that I want, I’ll end up eating the whole cabinet full of “healthy” food to avoid the one food I wanted. Then, I end up eating more calories than I would have if I had just had what I wanted in the first place.
Doritos and Sun Chips are the only things I ever take from my work vending machine.
Really.
I never take the Famous Amos Chocolate Chip cookies.
Really.
(sigh, like K, I think diet soda has become a trigger for sugar cravings. Weaning off it right now…)
Ditto what Julia said (minus the Tabasco on popcorn).
Sincerely,
Shannonymous