Don't you hate...

People who can take one bite of a chocolate bar and feel satisfied

Or just eat ONE cookie and be done!?

Ugh

Jealous..

Amen.

I detest them with a passion....

I tend to binge on food unfortunately....

It has to be a ridiculous amount of cookies rather than just one....

So we're in the same boat

lol, I'm one of them.  A convert.  I just took a bite of a chocolate chip cookie and put it back in the canister. 

It's new and it's a great feeling, knowing the sweets are there and not needing them. 

Yes Yes Yes

I once dated a guy who could eat half a choc bar then but the other half in his bag for later.

As in the next day

How do you do that, how is that even possible?

I have to eat everything good the very second I get hold of it.

 

lol....don't be hatin'  ;) 

I heard that most people in France follow a rule: If you are craving for junk food, take 3 bites of it and be DONE!

 

Psh easier said then done rightt?

Man oh man, my neighbor just handed me a giant vanilla ice cream waffle cone topped with chocolate fudge. I so want to eat this thing. I did the right thing though: I bit the cone a wee bit, took one lick of ice cream, and one bite of the frozen chocolate fudge; then I put the rest it in the freezer. I'll probably never eat it either :(

sweets are def addictive, im a reformed chocoholic.  if you can get over the hump, it does get easier.  i keep semi sweet chocolate chips in the house and if i get the craving ill let one melt in my mouth.  Even if i go back 10 more times in an hour, its only 30cals.  Yes, i did the math.  20/tbsp, tbsp is about 60cals.

yeah i just don't get it.  i have to finish it all, so i shouldn't even begin with it.

hahahah hellll yeah. or just one slice of pizza--I have always had a ton of trouble doing that, unless it's a pizza my heart megaslice or something.

my mom also constantly eats meals out of things things like rye crackers with jam on them, or spinach smoothies, or tuna on celery, or lettuce with tofu sauce, etc, and talk to me for hours about how SATISFYING AND DELICIOUS AND FILLING IT WAS. stop lying to me mom >:(

i am just jealous of people with more self control :'(

ooo, I know: take one bite then throw the item of food into a smelly pile of trash, burn it, and run far away. It's the only way it can be done!

It's tough. If you have the urge to eat something like that, buy a small one on your way to work or friends.  Then split it with them.  That way you get a small piece, and the rest is gone.  Nothing left to stare you in the face saying, "EAT ME!"

Amen sister!! I cannot eat just a bite of anything. I either eat it or don't try it at all.  Stuipd chocolate.

lol... I still have some easter egg left over from this year!! I dunno, I love the taste but never seem to crave it. I'm pretty sure it's something other than self control at work there as leaving half a cookie, well that would be just impossible!

I recommend Lindt Excellence 99% Cacao chocolate bar.  I eat one square at a time.  The bar lasts for days.  Of course, it is extremely dark chocolate so it is very easy to control yourself.

 

I wish I could FIND the 99%.  I love the 85%, and it lasts me 5 days, as I allow myself 100 calories of chocolate per day (most days.  Sometimes, I just don't want it.)

Where do you get the 99%?

I pick mine up at World Market.

 

I used to feel the same way about people who would eat 1/2 slice of pizza or eat a bite of a brownie and throw the rest away. I would just stand there and stare at their backs as they strolled away. Then I would look into the trash can and look back at them. It was as if I just witnessed them walking on the ceiling or they had an eye peeping out of the back of their head! Like they were a freakin' ALIEN FROM OUTER SPACE!!!! I could feel my skin crawling and the hair standing up on the back of my neck! That type of behavior was an abomination to me! LOL

 The reason I'm going on about it is because I NEVER in my life ate just 1 cookie or just 1 slice of pizza before January of this year. I ate the ENTIRE PACKAGE of cookies AND the ENTIRE LARGE pizza at one sitting. But now?  I understand how people eat just a bite of something and are satisfied with that. There is no explanation I can give as to why I changed my thinking. It just happened one day and I haven't looked back. However, I still feel strongly that there are members of my family, that very well may be from outer space. 

Have a fun day everyone!

I don't hate those people because I know everyone has a food they can't put down.  OK so they're having 1 biscuit or cake and leaving it at that... (and that would be me incidentally because I don't like sweet foods at all) ... but you can bet there is some other food that they find irrestible. 

Sometimes I can take just one bite and be done and sometimes I can't; I guess it depends on a combination of my mood and how hungry I am.

When I was a freshman in college I often snacked out of the vending machines.  I came back to the dorm room with a bag of Doritos once.  I opened them, ate half, closed them and was done.  My room mate thought I was crazy.  But there were also times when I'd come back with that bag of Doritos, finish it off in a hurry, then go back to the vending machine for another one.

Later in college, my room mates and I had a candy dish in our living room.  For the first few months I probably ate half the candy in there but then I got tired of it.  It got to the point where I would go months without eating any of it.  I guess I just always knew that it would be there so I never felt like I had to eat it before it disappeared and I lost my chance.  I still have a candy dish in my living room; it probably gets refilled once every 4 - 6 months and it is mostly eaten by guests.  Having chocolate just sitting in the living room, not being eaten, is a comfort, but I'm not sure why.

Lately, the problem has been popcorn: it is popped fresh in the office almost daily.  Every time I'd walk into the break room I'd have to grab a handful.  Occaisionally I'd fill up my popcorn box and take it back to my desk, where I would finish it and crave more.  I decided that since the stuff is covered in butter and salt that I needed to stop this habit.  So I started a "No Popcorn Week" (well, no popcorn from the office, I could air pop it at home without butter and salt). 

It was hard going a whole week without popcorn (the smell consumes the entire office), not even grabbing a single piece as I walked by the machine.  After the week was over I wasn't craving it anymore and decided to let myself have some but realized that after those few pieces I craved it even more than before.  So I started a new "No Popcorn Week".  I haven't craved or been tempted by the office popcorn since.

This isn't a "look at me, look at me" post.  This is an "if I can do it, anyone can do it" post.  It's not easy to resist food I crave but I get a greater feeling of satisfaction when I do resist than the satisfaction I would get from eating the craved food gives me.  I guess, for me, resisting craved food is a power trip; I feel like I'm in complete control.  It feels so good.  Give it a try.

However, I do still give in.  On Sunday, I ate 3.5 pieces of birthday cake, and I don't regret it.