How do you all deal with temptation?

If you have any sorts of triggers from talk of sweets you should not read on. I am a nurse who works the night shift. The floor that I work on has tons of potlucks. You name a reason, we have a potluck for it. Also, I work in labor and delivery, so we get a lot of presents of gratitude from patients. Huge boxes of candy, donuts, pizzas. The doctors are constantly sending us some sort of food. About once a month (around my period usually) I start to get a sweets craving. I happened to start feeling it yesterday. I am not making this up, last night at work we had 4 dozen donuts given to us by the enfamil lady. 4 ice cream cakes given to us by a patient who owns an ice cream store in town. Later in the night 3 more dozen donuts given to us by another patient. We also have a big storage unit full of candy and chips that we sell (mostly to the staff.) I was not a big sweets person before surgery, I was a total carb in huge volumes person. My #1 biggest problem since surgery is a cracker addiction. I have to practically run past the aisle with the crackers in it at the store. Since I live alone though, it's pretty easy to just not buy something that will get me into trouble. At work we have little packages of two saltines. I must have eaten at least 10 packages over my 12 hour shift. That's 40 carbs! I think it's because I was so stressed over wanting some of what was in the break room. It probably would have been better to just have a little bite of the sweets now that I think about it. I did not sit in the break room except to eat my lunch so I didn't have to look at the stuff, but it seemed like everyone was constantly talking about how many donuts we had. How much cake we had. I am just wondering how everybody else deals with situations like that. I am pretty careful with my sugar and I know that I dump. I have dumped on strange things though, like cornbread. I was thinking that maybe I should just eat something very sugary on purpose so I dump and learn a lesson. Wouldn't that scare me away from wanting it again? Just an idea. Thanks for any suggestions.

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