Torture and Temptation!!

[Uk Girl]

Wow what a week at work!

The place where I work (manager) has a bakery! and one of my jobs is to source new products, both sweet and savoury and all the reps send or bring samples! Today we had lots of new danish pastires and cakes and oooh it was all so lovely and tempting! All my colleagues think I am mad now as I have taken to 'sniffing' the products - this is just enough to give me a 'taste' to see if it is good enough to buy!
The next big challenge is ordering the Christmas chocolates and gifts - I LOVE Marzipan!!!!

anyone else have a job like this - it really is hard some days - but I have not given in at all - even to the point of if someone makes me a cup of tea with milk in it I change it for a black decaf or water........it becomes a bit compulsive being on atkins !

[SandyL2002]

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Oh wow.. Great job on not giving in.. I think I would have to work in a different area

[misplaced southerner]

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hhhhhmmm,,,well i am a teacher and my kids are ALWAYS bringing me treats and asking why i don't eat them right away. oh, our staff lounge ALWAYS has goodies that someone has made sitting on the table, or the mountain man nut and candy guy is there OR there is some staff FOOD FUNCTION going on.....not as bad as HAVING to deal with those goodies on a daily basis...i generally do ok....unless someone has brought donuts. i love cake donuts so i AVOID them til i know they are GONE

[cnbweb]

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The workplace treats used to be my downfall. However, now that I am not taking carbs in I don't crave them as much. I bring things like cheese and meatballs in for a snack if I get hungry. I always tell myself that even though the donut will taste really good I will be hugely disappointed in myself if I eat it. I have gone down the cheating on diets path before only to go back to my old ways. Self-discipline is a wonderful thing, if you can maintain it!

-- Down 33 pounds in 10 weeks

[Uk Girl]

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Best thing I ordered at work last week - Cheese Strings!

[woady357]

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My biggest weakness is sweets and mexican food.Dont really care nothing about bread.When i go anywhere Im like I would like some meat with a side of meat.Just kidding Im a big fan of salads.

[sallyseachange]

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Good for you resisting all that temptation! I'm sure you'll get used to it in time. I live in Italy, where carby temptation is around one all the time in the form of pasta and pizza etc. but they no longer tempt me at all (well, only extremely rarely). I never thought I'd ever say that. I bet it'll be the same for you.
Keep strong!

[Uk Girl]

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I absolutely love pasta! well I did! - will I ever be able to have it again?

It wouldn't be quite so bad if my boss wasn't forever opening boxes of chocs and biscuits to offer customers ( and staff!) and then my bakery girls start dishing up cakes and sausage rolls grrrrrr - luckily I get to have freshly roasted frre range chicken to snack on! and bacon! and sausages hee hee - I try to have breakfast before I go to work so that I am not empted to pick.

[Kent]

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Thankfully at my work (an office) the food days have gone the way of dodo bird. It is a whole lot easier to resist the out of the blue one item temptation than the Friday buffet of high carb foods. You can do this and smelling the foods is definitely not crazy!

[Uk Girl]

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Could be in trouble!! I have got to run the bakery at work tomorrow

Mind you just had a HUGE bowl of stewed Rhubarb and creme fraiche - How do you stop yourself from buying these things when you know you can't control how much you eat!! I am Soooo full - first time I have felt like this since I started - think rhubarb and cream has substituted my sugar addiction!