Detox Day 3: Case of the sweet tooth

by Heidi on July 28, 2011

Lesson: I have a major sweet tooth.

Like seriously ya’ll.

Today, was our 2 year birthday at work. So of course, there was champagne and cupcakes. ‘Natch. Especially in my company (if there’s two things we all love it’s cupcakes and booze.)

No biggie right? Only like 10 points I didn’t need to have.

But then, THEN when hubs was all like “I want to go get some fruit pops like I had last night” I was like Okay. Then! I got a BOX of ice cream sandwiches.

I should know better than that. Really. Like I don’t deprive myself at all, and don’t think that I’m going all crazy on you guys. I’m not. I just…am trying to get my wicked sweet tooth in control.

Other than that – the smoothie this morning was awesome. I had my salad at dinner with carefully measured out pasta which was more than enough. If i had restrained myself from that late night treat I would have been fine.

But no. My sweet tooth keeps getting the best of me and freaders, I need my points for this weekend as my department is going out to the ball game and in order to have a little more fun on the weekends? I like to be good with my points during the week. BUT!

I still have two days. And I know this hasn’t been a real detox in the traditional sense, but I’ve never really done good with that anyhow. But this is a quasi-detox in the sense that I’m not  gorging myself on two decent size slices of ice cream cake each night with many glasses of beer and/or wine with the family while playing scrabble.

So I’ll lay off the sweets tomorrow and Friday. I need to work on that little thing called self control. *sigh*

Tomorrow I’m going to go running in the morning will stick with the same dinner and lunch (salad and a little bit of pasta). I will be under 150 next week. I will be under 150 next week.

How do you control your indulgences?

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  • http://www.notsosuddenlysusan.com Susan @ {not so} Suddenly Susa

    Sweets are a huge issue for me… I have zero suggestion on controlling them. Next week I’m going on a mini break and trying to cut out icecream and candy except for one treat a day. If I say no entirely, I’ll just crave it. 

  • Jen McCarroll

    Sweets used to be kind of a thing for me.  Like you, I used to weigh 150 lbs and just wanted to lose a few more. Five years later I had gained almost 80 lbs. I’m not saying you’re going to do that!!! It’s just I’ve learned some things that work for me since I’ve lost 45 of that weight gain: 

    1) Plan never to have sweets unless it’s a really special occasion.  For example, cupcakes and wine at your company’s 2nd anniversary party is fine, but maybe don’t have it at home.  Otherwise I’ll find myself scarfing Thin Mints at every red light.

    2) Plan which special occasions you’ve decided to let yourself indulge.  Maybe your company has a celebration once or twice a week, or maybe someone brings something in that gets eaten throughout the week.  Perhaps in that case it’s better to reserve it for your birthday,really special holidays, anniversaries, or a once a month kind of thing and decide in advance.  Otherwise every day is a party and I want the last slice all day long.  And if you’re saving for weekends, then work might be an off limits thing except for once a year or so.

    3) If you feel deprived it’s just going to get worse.  Perhaps just have one bite of something amazing, or one sip.  And keep it at that.

    You’re going to slip up.  Many, many, many times.  I slip up all the time because I’m not perfect.  I just try the best I can.

  • http://www.nohelphere.com Sarah Goshman

    You’re not going to like hearing this, but as a former Crossfitter I’m sure it may have crossed your mind once or twice… when I went paleo, my sweet tooth totally disappeared, and I have a bad one as well. After the first 2 weeks or so, I didn’t even want baked goods or ice cream (too sweet!), and a piece of pineapple was pretty much like heaven.  Of course, I’ve fallen off that wagon since, but since I do try to limit grains and processed sugar, it’s nowhere near what it once was.  Hope this is helpful!    

    • Anonymous

      i’ve tried Paleo back when i was doing Xfit last fall. i should try it again – do you have any good sites for suggestions/recipes/etc…???

      • http://www.nohelphere.com Sarah Goshman

        I love the recipes here: http://everydaypaleo.com/

        Otherwise, usually I just do random google searches either by ingredient or what I’m in the mood for plus the word “paleo.”  There are a ton of sites out there.  I’m going to get back to doing full paleo when I get back from vacation (Going to do mostly paleo but with probably a little extra alcohol while on vacation.) 

        Sounds like you’re doing great with all the fitness stuff though – congrats.  :-)

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