Krispy Kremes in the office

Oh, wise CC community. There are a dozen birthday Krispy Kremes in my office, glistening with sugary deliciousness. They taunt me playfully from the kitchen. Even knowing the truth about them, the guise of bringing delight and satisfaction is hard to resist. Your strength is my strength!

Oh the horror!  Here is my only advice.  There were Krispy Kremes brought in to my office a couple weeks ago.  I thought to myself, "One Krispy Kreme is only about 250 calories.  I can eat one and still stay on track for the day." 

Theoretically, I was correct.  But do you think I could eat just one?  No.  I ate three.  And every time I passed the box (which was sitting about 10 feet away between me and the copy machine) I also felt the compulsion to pick up any stray sprinkles or little flakes of glaze that happened to have gathered in the corners of the box and eat those too.

So my advice is this, one Krispy Kreme is not evil.  If you feel weak, promise yourself that you will eat either the last one in the box, or the one that is still sitting in the box at 5:00 when you're ready to go home for the day.  That way, the evilness really is limited to 250 calories.

One krispy kreme = 30+ minutes on a treadmill.  Is that one donut worth it?

It's totally not even worth it! Are donuts even that good? ... Well, okay, some are. I can't pretend like they aren't tasty. But yeah I'm just thinking about how I busted my butt on the stairmaster this morning for a half hour and undoing like more than half of that with a nutritionally void ring of sugar, well that just would be counterproductive. :)

Thanks you guys!

Great decision! But donuts sure are good... Life is cruel!

I have never had a Krispy Kreme donut.  We had one here for a few years and they went bankrupt, maybe it was my fault, I never even walked through the door.

Original Post by spoiled_candy:

I have never had a Krispy Kreme donut.  We had one here for a few years and they went bankrupt, maybe it was my fault, I never even walked through the door.

 We finally got them up here in Canada, and I was really excited to try one, but then I did, and it was so ridiculously sweet that I couldn't even finish it.  I actually got a sugar headache from it!  And I LOVE LOVE LOVE sweet food.

I prefer Tim Horton's donuts - but any americans here probably won't know what I'm talking about hehe.

I love Timmy Ho's! They don't have them in NYC but they had them where I went to college, in Rochester, NY. I liked their sandwiches as well.

I had the same thing happen to me yesterday.  I thought Satan himself had delivered the box to our break room (about 10 steps away from my office).  Whenever I went in there to get something to drink from my lunchbox I would just drool.  I was soooo happy when they all disappeared around 12:00.  I didn't eat one, not even a tiny sprinkle.  Yea me!

Last time we had them here I passed as well :).  It was very difficult to resist though.  The lovely smell of them every time I passed the box...

i don't know why but krispy kreme makes me sick after i eat it... i like dunkin donuts 1220832 times better!

Why, oh why, did I read through this thread?  Can't get mouth-watering gooeyness out of my mind now!!!!

Carrots..... naturally sweet, crunchy, munchy carrots.  Full of soooooo much goodness.  Yum, yum.  

Nope.... not the same!!!!

Original Post by dc_runner81:

One krispy kreme = 30+ minutes on a treadmill.  Is that one donut worth it?

 You better bet your sweet bippy they are!  They're worth 5 hours on the treadmill. Oh, make that 6 hours on the treadmill.  Okay, fine! Make it 8 hours on the treadmill! (aaagggggghhhhhhhhhh! in the car now, on my way to K.K.)

Oh my goodness, that's just MEAN of your office!!!!! :( Perhaps you should bring in some cruditee to nibble on... and while eating it, close your eyes and picture yourself eating one of those donuts! ha ha! Oh yea, totally the same thing! 

I will never forget the wise words my mother's doctor used with her when discussing her weight.  "If it tastes good, spit it out."

They are definetly not worth it.  My daughter said mom the best way to avoid a donut is to think of it as biting a tub of lard.  When I think of the fat that is in a donut and what Crisco would taste like with sugar on it, it makes me not want it.  LOL sometimes the mind tricks me into not wanting the food.

Have  you ever seen the you tube that shows Mcdonald french fries after months.  They are awful. 

I enjoy donuts but I just end up thinking of the all the other foods I could eat for that 250 cals. I mean I could eat a banana with PB2 or 2 cups of pure pumpkin with some cinnamon and splenda, or a noice big bowl of cereal. I would much rather eat something that fills me up and and is still nutritious.

Crisco with sugar - mmmmmmm  Actually, I prefer my fat as butter...

I LUV Krispie Kremes, especially when they are warm right out of the fat fryer.  Which they aren't if they are sitting in the office.  So I think about that.  And how disgusting coagulated fat looks (imagine it in my veins).

I also focus on how I want to feel later vs how I want to feel now.  Now:  I want the sugary fat bread deliciousness.  Later:  I want the clean feeling of not putting empty calories and fats in my body.

I usually choose later.  Especially because, like some other people have said, "One is too many and a thousand never enough."  Sometimes I cannot trust myself to practice portion control and so none is better than lots.

And sometimes I can.  A couple months ago my husband wanted to stop at KK.  We used to share a dozen donuts as a "snack".  So I stayed in the car while he and son went inside, and they agreed to eat in there.  AND I asked him to bring me 1/2 donut.  I savored that puppy, and logged it on CC when I got home.  Felt great.

I don't buy into that often-promoted idea that "if you deny yourself you will crave and crave until you go crazy".  I haven't found that to be true for me, although it has definitely been true in the past.  I can choose to obsess on a type of food, just like I can choose to obsess on an unrequited love, or cigarettes or whatever.  And I can choose to change my thoughts from "I can't have that and so I'm miserable" to "I don't want to have that and so I'm not going to.  I'll be happy about my choice later."

Today, it is not a court-order that keeps me away from sugar against my will.  Instead, I have put out a restraining order on trigger foods.  I keep them away from me.  It's my choice, so I don't suffer.

The only time I struggle with "self-control" is when I've let myself get too hungry or my calorie total has been too low.  That kind of deprivation DEFINITELY sets the table for poor choices.  As long as I eat every 3-4 hours and keep my calorie total at a sane level (for me, 1600), tempting snacks rarely call my name.

I have to be a snob when it comes to junk food. I tell myself it's below me to eat it... even though I know it's so good. That usually helps me, and I haven't eaten fast food in over 2 years, and I don't remember the last time I had a cheese burger or donut... kinda makes me sad :( haha

Original Post by jitters1274:

I will never forget the wise words my mother's doctor used with her when discussing her weight.  "If it tastes good, spit it out."

LOLOLOL!!!  

Then again I can take down a pint of ben and jerry's with no guilt... so if krispy creme is your ben and jerry, there is nothing I can say to help.