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To make a long story short, I ended up with ~250 unbaked chocolate chip cookies in my freezer, and CCC's are the Balerions of sugar dragons in my world! I have already committed to taking a few dozen to coworkers, I'll take some to elderly family members, and a few more to local fire/police/EMS stations...but that will still leave several dozen in my home! 

How do you mindfully deny the temptation of your biggest weakness? 

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A new Whole 30, don't stock the house with CCC.  Remove all trigger foods.  If they're unbaked...you will be baking/handling before you give away.  Let someone take them off your hands.

 

If you handle the CCC...it's playing with fire. They will constantly whisper in your ear.  A long time ago, people would restart for accidentally tasting one spaghetti noodle whilst cooking for the family.

CCC is going into those sharky waters. 

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Unfortunately, I'm between a rock and a hard place with this one. Due to the long story I left out, there could be legal ramifications if I distribute these unbaked, and I would seriously hurt a loved one's feelings if I threw them out.

I know there are moms/dads/husbands/wives out there who have had to live in a non compliant home when doing W30 alone, so my question is how did/do you do it? Do you have to rationalize your choice every time you face a trigger food, or have you developed "tricks" to get you past the initial temptation?

Even after these CCCs are gone there will always be occasions where sugar is present. What do you do to hold your ground against the temptation?

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That's why I suggested letting a friend bake them for you.  After two years, I don't stock my house with trigger foods.  I can take complete responsibility for my domain.

 

I can go anywere.  To someone's home or even a restaurant and remain in control of my body and domain. No one has to live in my body.  I don't let anyone influence me with their control/desire to see me eat what they want or may not want.....simply wanting to watch me eat it so they can enjoy it by proxy.   

 

People like to eat by proxy. It happens.  They'll watch you - while they refrain. There are all kinds of trickery triggery situations.  The bottomline.  Nobody puts baby in a corner.  Me.

 

They don't have to live in or through my body...I stand my ground.  I've spent the last two years arriving at this place of no return.  Food can be a healer.  A lifetime of sugar can lead directly to diabetes.

 

I have a choice with consequences.  This comes naturally to some people.  Others have to think through the consequences for years and years to come.  Maybe an entire lifetime.  It may not ever become automatic without thinking it through.    A food counselor can really help for the long haul.

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To the question that you posed about what do people do about triggers... well, first, we suggest that while you are getting used to this way of eating and strengthening your relationship with food and yourself, you don't surround yourself with such temptations... we want you to make it easier on yourself, not harder... sure eventually you'll have to deal with temptations but having a freezer full of cookie dough at this stage of the game is not something you're expected to have to know how to deal with.

I would agree and suggest that you find out if there's a school that can bake them for delivery to charity... you could even give them all to the firefighters... they have ovens and kitchens and I can't imagine they would be sad to be able to pop a few frozen cookie balls in the oven every night for fresh cookies.

If you can't find enough people to give these too, then I suggest you either give them back to that family member or dipsose of them quietly and don't mention they went in the composter... I grant that I don't know the story behind why a family member gave you all this cookie dough but we don't HAVE to take things that don't make our lives richer and better and I'd say this cookie dough is actually causing more of a problem to you than it's worth...

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Oh, also, you are worth more than a cookie... your health is worth more than a cookie and you are stronger than a cookie... these are things we all tell ourselves when trying to resist temptation. You do not have to eat it just because it's there and your brain wants it. Start learning that you are in charge of your mouth and you get to choose what you put in it... and if cookies aren't on that list at this time, then they don't go in and your brain will throw a tantrum and try every which way to convince you but the more often that you over rule it, the easier it gets...

I know it will be uncomfortable and overwhelming and all consuming in the moments that brain is trying to get a cookie, but if you just move forward through the uncomfortable feelings, they will eventually become easier to deal with (not non existent and you may always have to battle your brain, but it does get easier). Melissa is writing a new book right now that plans to address these issues... Can't wait!

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What do you do to hold your ground against the temptation?

I do it by seeing the "food" as garbage for my mind and body. I don't eat garbage. That is how I resist.

For me, no one else's feelings are more important than my health and happiness.

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My family is not doing Whole30 with me and there is junk food galore around me (including 50 boxes of (ready-to-eat) Girl Scout cookies in my freezer). I am a stickler for rules and I just tell myself if I mess up I have to start over again at least until after reintroduction Tape a motivational saying on anything tempting so you will have encouragement to stay strong. (Sugarcube's "You are worth more than a cookie." would be a good one.

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I love this idea! We're done with Whole30, but I'd still really hate to start all over after just one week, and adding motivation as a road block sounds so much better than beating myself up every time I open the freezer!

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I separate in my mind stuff I choose to eat, stuff I choose not to eat.

You can handle the dough and bake it, and deliver it as intended, you just choose have to also choose not to eat it.

nobody is sat in your kitchen forcing it down your throat.

none of the pensioners, or family, or children, or whoever you give them to is going to shove them down your throat.

you've decided to do Whole30, you decide what you eat.

yes it's difficult, but it's doable.

 

and if you eat one - so what?  what's the worst that can happen?  You won't die there and then from eating one cookie.  You just have to re-start the Whole30, or if you're on day 10, then you turn it into a Whole40.

 

people eat crap and live to their 80s all the time.  you're just chosing to live at optimum health potential.  If we all stick to full compliance we'll probably live well into our 100s!

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