Should I feel guilty?

Yesterday my friend and I baked cookies for fun afterschool, then she gave me like twenty-something cookies to bring home. They were chocolate chip oatmeal and sugar cookies by the way. And I knew right away that I would binge and eat all of them in under half an hour, so I threw them all out. I feel guilty now. : (

Don't feel guilty.
You'd feel so much worse you'd if you had gorged on them instead.

Yeah I know I shouldn't be feeling guilty, but all the ingredients and time wasted...

Did you bake cookies so that you would have cookies or did you bake cookies to do something fun with your friend?  I am guessing it is the second one.  There is no reason to feel guilty about it.  I try to give away stuff like this, but it isn't always possible.

Next time give them to a skinny friend, heh heh...

I too hate throwing out good food and seeing it going to waste, but if that was the only way to stop you from gorging on 20 cookies, then it is a necessary evil.  You would definitely feel much worse if you had eaten them.

 

Original Post by kory23:

Did you bake cookies so that you would have cookies or did you bake cookies to do something fun with your friend?  I am guessing it is the second one.  There is no reason to feel guilty about it.  I try to give away stuff like this, but it isn't always possible.

 I baked cookies with my friend because we wanted something fun to do, since it's going to be Easter soon.

Original Post by fuzzys:

Next time give them to a skinny friend, heh heh...

I too hate throwing out good food and seeing it going to waste, but if that was the only way to stop you from gorging on 20 cookies, then it is a necessary evil.  You would definitely feel much worse if you had eaten them.

 

 Omg! Like almost all my friends are skinny. And they eat so much but never gain a pound. It's scary.

Haha!  I just threw out almost an entire pan of brownies.  I brought them for a potluck monday but only a few were eaten.  They were two days stale but still okay.  If I hadn't thrown them out, I would have eaten a lot of them (when I started nibbling on the edges - I knew I was toast.

I feel half guilty and half proud.  If I am going to lose the weight, I need to stop eating food just to prevent it from being wasted.

I guess so :)

Look at it this way:

Your body doesn't want cookies. If you didn't throw it away. Your body would have wasted it.

I think you did a good thing.  I got some Easter chocolate, and at first my reaction was to throw it away, but somehow cuz it's "wasting food", I couldn't do it.  So I was going to re-gift it, I mean, Easter is still a few days away, and then I ate it, and wasn't proud of myself.

In the future, just don't bring them home in the first place which would be the best of both worlds.

YOU ARE WASTING MONEY AND THROWING AWAY PERFECTLY GOOD FOOD THAT SOME HOMELESS PERSON CAN EAT. You should feel very bad, at least I would. I could never do anything like that. What a waste.   Things like this really piss me off. Either eat the stinking cookies or give them to SOMEONE....ANYONE

HEY! thats a bit harsh Mts2457.
Not everyone knows homeless people to give cookies to.
And some would probably feel to weird about giving cookies to random people on the street anyway.

In my opinion, it is a bit of a waste of good food.
But if you were only going to (emotionally) hurt yourself by eating them anyway, then its great that you threw them out.
If you make some again, i would suggest boxing them up nicely and giving them away.
(I.E. Parent, grandparent, sibling, friend, neighbour)

Hope you have a good day :)
And don't worry... at the end of the day, they're just cookies.

Take care,
C.

Mts2457, I disagree. It's best to put cookies, packed full of sugar and saturated fat in the garbage instead of treating your own body as a trash can or encouraging another person to do the same.

you probably did the right thing in the long run by throwing them away, Many people feel guilty about waisting food so they eat it and become obese, but are you going to be good today only to binge tomorrow? then you would of rejected delicious home cooked food in favor of factory made goods,

Don't feel guilty about not allowing yourself the temptation. Good move.

Do feel guilty about wasting food. Give them to someone else next time.

All you people here say "give it to someone else" but NOOOO. Don't do that! You shouldn't be giving your junk food to someone else. I get that people are starving, but unless you're actually going to give your food to those starving people it's better off in the bin than making you and others around you fat.

Don't feel so guilty, it was a good idea to get rid of the temptation. yes, it was a waste of food, but it's not like you do it often. maybe it would've been a better idea to give it to someone else, but obviously you knew you would binge on them (maybe even before anyone else you could've shared them with knew they were there). and it's not like you wasted ALL of them, just the ones you brought home. i've had to throw away stuff while i'm in the middle of eating it too just to prevent a binge.

i also have this problem where i'm like "well i'll give them to other people", but end up eating most of them before i even offer them to anyone else. that's why whenever i bake now, since i prefer just tasting the batter, i bake it, maybe eat one cookie or whatever or half of one, and then wrap them up in plastic wrap right after they've cooled. and i offer them to ANYONE. thank god my brother is basically a disposal. i just get it out of the way.

no, not at all.  i wish i could do that when i feel a binge coming on, never acted upon it.  you did great and prevented a binge. 

I've been in the same situation many times. If I would have kept them around to give away I would have ended of eating them. Throwing them away was a good form of self control. Out of sight, out of mine. Do NOT feel bad. You did what was right for you.

yeah i'm not a fan of wasting food. i hate reading posts like this.