Friday, August 12, 2011

Woman vs. Doughnut

Seriously, this week has been a challenge for me to eat healthy. The lack of routine at school at the moment and the easy options of eating out with colleagues... Today was the culmination of all the challenges:

I didn't eat breakfast this morning (problem #1). I usually eat breakfast with curbs the possible temptations of making bad snack choices. This morning, one of the coaches was sweet enough to bring doughnuts for the faculty/staff. Well yeah, no breakfast = one hungry fat woman. Everyone partook of the doughnuts, I passed when offered one (score one for me). But as the doughnuts sat there (just a FEW uneaten), I kept thinking about them. Sweet, doughy, pillows of heaven-in-your-mouth badness. "Must resist," is all I could TRY to tell myself. By the end of CPR training, I couldn't resist it anymore. I snatched two--yes, two-- doughnuts one weird looking one that I was sure had some type of glaze + chocolate cookie crumbs on top which was a cake doughnut and a traditional glazed yeast doughnut. Let me mention, it's not like these doughnuts were Krispy Kreme or Dunkin' Doughnuts... I'll just say I really paid for giving into my temptations. The doughnuts tasted (and after-tasted) of old frying oil (yuck, change your oil please!). The punishment is not only on my hips now; the punishment is the heartburn that was persistent throughout the day.

If this didn't teach me that temptations will not always satisfy that craving. I think it's time to get back on the Wii Active (It has been collecting dust for the last couple weeks) and get this fat a-jiggling and the calories a burnin'.

By the way, just a random non-fat/weight loss conclusion: The word cool beans should be banned. There I said it. Whew, I feel better now. :D

1 comment:

  1. That's what's so funny about watching Biggest Loser temptations. When they haven't had sweets and such for weeks, then decide to indulge in a temptation, they usually don't enjoy it. Of course, for them, the temptation is part of the game play -- consuming the most calories gets you some advantage, or you are looking for a certain thing that's hiding under a pastry...guess as many times as you want, but if you touch it, you have to eat it. They have a few and feel awful, so that should really show us how our bodies really don't want it, right? Right?

    I think I hear crickets. Okay, maybe our bodies WANT the sugar, but not always in the quantities we consume?

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