Addicted to cookies at work

[pandafitness]

There are a lot of cookies at work and I know I should bake my own with apple sauce, but I have not. Do you have a favorite treat to bring at work 

[Reaper_13]

Cheese Nips. I always have some cheese nips at coffee break lol.

[pandafitness]

I wish! Unless they make them Non-gmo 🙂 

[A_Lurker]

I keep some homemade 100 calorie packs in my desk.  I took some half cup containers and weighed out some various items - nuts, dried fruit, trail mix, etc.  I also have a package of brookfield covered chocolate fruit (90 cals) and a couple of higher calorie items to have when I've been more active and haven't eaten enough.

I used to be very bad for being hungry and eventually buying something out of the vending machine.  This way I can grab something, knowing it's only 100 calories.

[DanielleinDC]

There's this nut mix I like, and I keep that at my desk. I also bring fruit. During the summer, it's Rainier cherries or grapes. During the cooler months, I enjoy a couple of clementines.

[Ukase]

Snacking. 

It's been the bane of many diets I have tried. I have finally identified the "why" behind my propensity to consume more junk than my body requires. 

Some of it was out of boredom. 

Some of it was out of need for more nutrition - but instead of eating something with those nutrients, I ate cookies instead. Small wonder I kept eating more cookies. I still needed nutrition. 

The only cookies I eat now seem to be the samples I come across in Costco. Half a cookie once a week won't hurt much. But - those tubes of Oreos, or rows of Nutter Butters -- those will kill you, slowly. 

When I get up at 4am to read, pray and then walk - I look down at my fitbit. I've been walking for 45 minutes, got half of my 10k steps - and I've only burned about 1100 calories since midnight. The pizza I want, if I let myself have it - contains about 4500 calories. So, I won't have it. The cookies - even if I make them using good, wholesome ingredients - they're about 100 calories each. I'd make them small, but then I'd just eat twice as many. So I don't make them at all. 

Snacking for me is a slippery slope. So, I avoid it if I can - until that one day every two weeks when I do a "re-feed" - one day, where there will not be a surplus, but not a deficit, either. (within a margin of error that I can't really define.) 

 But - if things are really bad, I might head to Smoothie king for the Lenny and Larry Snickerdoodle cookie. 370 calories. For. one. cookie. I could eat 4 easily. One right after the other. But - I won't - at least, not now. Not today. 

[DanielleinDC]

I'm lucky I'm able to practice portion control and only have two cookies instead of the whole sleeve or half a Lenny and Larry cookie instead of the whole thing. Or more. (What genuis made one cookie two servings? Are you supposed to wrap it for the next day? Sheesh.)

If you can practice portion control, do so. If not, better to avoid temptation.

[emili]

nonni biscotti. 90-110 calories for the whole thing depending on flavor. Every single one is good. I have one every day. dipped in coffee- heaven.

[rachlsilver · Accepted solution]

The treats that I bring to work are fresh fruit, nuts (mostly pecans), protein bars, beef jerky, etc. Basically anything healthy-ish that I can pick up and go with haha.