Just a little piece of cake...

AWESOME POST!!! Thanks!

Jean, Thi****s close to home. My coworkers bring in bagels or donuts for their birthday. I remember the days before my WLS when people would bring them in and I would have one and then try to sneak another later so no one would see me. And, if they were there closer to lunch I had third. 

Today I approach these celebrations with a healthier attitude. If I am hungry for a donut, I'll take one. Probably 1/2 the time I let them pass by. Of course, now it takes me 30 minutes or more to eat that donut and I am done for the morning. I often just eat half of the donut. Tom 

My nemisis at work was lemon sandwich cookies. It's not the kind of cookies I could find just anywhere so when they would put them out I would lose my mind. I would go in the public dining room where they were and get about four after checking on the sly to see who may have saw me and eat two publicly then scurry to my cubicle and eat the rest in private.  Then I would go back just before shift change (about 2:20 unless I had to be somewhere else) and do the same thing. Before I would leave for the day at 4:30 history would repeat itself but this time I would get a few more to take home with me.

Now when the lemon cookies are out I get one and leave the dining room. I may go back at the end of the day and get one more. I make a promise to myself not to get more than two a day now.

The massive amount of cookies are gone and so is the guilt from over eating and the "secret thrill" that I would get from feeling that I was getting away with something that no one but I knew about AND IT FEELS GREAT!

Thanks for posting that Jean.  What an amazing take on an old situation in a new life.