Challenges

One of the biggest challenges that I have is often at the office.  My boss is known for have candy in her office.  When I say candy I don't mean black licorice that no one likes, I'm talking milk chocolate, dark chocolate, baby ruth, snickers, etc...  I'm getting hungry just thinking about all of this chocolaty goodness in her office.  Not to mention in the first few weeks of starting my journey of getting healthy our secretary brought in some glazed krispy kreme donuts and then called me to invite me to eat some.  It came from a great place, I'm not upset that I got the call but it's just one more yummy goodness that I have to say no too.  There is always food around my office.  We also had a birthday part at the office for a colleague.  We had a BBQ restaurant cater the food which was pork, turkey, beans, potato salad, lots of wonderful garlic bread, sweet tea (that's how we drink tea in the south), cake...  I'm sure I'm leaving food out.  Of course it was buffet style and of course it was a day that I had a lunch meeting and then came back to the yummy goodness.  Also, maybe even that same day some one brought in Duncan Donuts with wonderful creme filled donuts, which honestly are my favorite.

Another thing I'm a sucker for is TV advertising.  Can I tell you how good did the McDonald's commercial look with the chicken McNuggets (where on a chicken is a McNugget?) 20 for $5.  For a week at least I wanted to go to McDonald's and get chicken McNuggets.  The sad part is I haven't had a chicken McNugget in years anyways.  I'm really all about the McDouble for $1.  Not to mention after work I go to class.  When class gets out between 7:30 and 8:30 I drive by several fast food restaurants where I can get cheap yummy food.  Somehow through the last several years I have equated cheap food with alright to buy and eat food.  I think I've done this because I think "it's just a buck so of course I can have this".

UGH!  can you see my dilemma?  Can you see how I got to be closer to 300 pounds than 200?  As I write this I just can't help but thinking how good all of this crappy food sounds!  I seriously think that they put crack in all of these unhealthy foods, thus I crave them.  I hope I'm not the only one who will admit that I have a crappy food addiction in large quantities.  I am happy to report that since the turn of the year I haven't had fast food.  Er...  Well, that may not be totally true, I had a family member who wanted Fazoli's so I went there once.  I tried to buy healthy options from Fazoli's and still think I didn't do great.  I did get water and I only ate one yummy bread stick even though I wanted fifteen million of them.  I also had a side salad instead of a side slice of pizza.  So it wasn't great but it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been.  It's the small victories that count!