Just One Cookie
March 20, 2006Despite the fact that I’ve already eaten breakfast (4 Thin Mints at 5 a.m., OJ and Cinnamon Crunch Toast cereal- total 550 calories), there are chocolate chip cookies in our office break room and I just feel like I HAVE to have one. Why?
I’m not hungry, but it’s that feeling of "It’s not fair, why can’t I have one" and "I’d better get one before they run out". Where does that come from? Like I’ll never be able to have another chocolate chip cookie again?!? Like it’s just not fair- everyone else can have one, but nobody gets fat like I do from eating them. I just don’t understand.
I feel the same way. I might miss something. I went to dinner last night and gorged myself just because I never get to go out to dinner. So I better eat it while I can! Where does this thinking come from?
Comment by Christi Nielsen — April 11, 2006 @ 4:16 pm
i always feel like i’ll miss out if i don’t eat some treat right away. my biggest effort right now is to tell myself that if i absolutely have to have a cookie i have the ability to get one…later. i don’t have to do it right now just because they’re there. usually that keeps me from feeling too deprived, ‘course it sort of backfires if i actually go out and buy a whole box of cookies.
Comment by amy — April 11, 2006 @ 5:20 pm