Fri, Jan-25-02, 05:59
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,193
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Plan: mostly paleo
Stats: //
BF:also don't care
Progress: 100%
Location: West Coast, USA
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silence, that office-food situation is really difficult! You have a whole bundle of my sympathies.
Bringing legal food is a great idea. Never skip meals or eat light lunches, either, so that you're still hungry.
What I did at work--and this may or may not work for you--was announce early on (staring longingly at a box of donuts), "I've quit eating white flour and sugar." Then I had that public oath--I was gonna feel pretty stupid if I took food after that.
Some people get a lot of benefits out of mumbling some "anti sugar charm" every time they walk past the goodies table--"this is poison." "just like cocaine." "diabetes isn't far ahead for me" (Sounds like you--like myself!--are definitely a sugar addict, and it may as well be cocaine for us, eh?)
If you can stay away from the goodies table, that might also help. Perhaps you could ask that it be moved to a room where you don't need to go for legitimate work purposes. If you have to walk by it, avert your eyes--the visual creates a series of thoughts/chemical responses that lead to eating, so if you can break that old, typical string of thoughts and feelings and cues and behaviors, you may have a chance at resisting.
The good news is, once resistance is in place, it becomes habit. I haven't touched a thing at work since November, 2000.
And if it makes you feel any better, I've met an LCer who works at a Krispy Kremes. We think WE have it bad? lol
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