Wednesday and Tuesday weren’t my best eating and counting calorie days. And if you go back and look at my fitday journal, you’d see that I done a very good job of inputting my calories for the past week. But I’m back on track today and having a fine day.
JD and Pam had a conversation last night about The Biggest Loser. At one point JD mentioned to Pam that he eats less when he’s tracking his calories! Of course he does, so do I. To me that’s the point of tracking my calories. Instead of mindlessly filling my mouth whenever I walk by the pantry, I think about what I’m eating. Adding that extra step of thinking about how I’m going to input those calories into fitday sometimes makes me not want to deal with eating the food. It works great most of the time.
I’m really looking motivated to attack my fitness and nutrition plans and to make some downward progress on the scale. But temptation is everywhere! It’s still easy for me to not exercise, though most days I make the right choice. But eating well is still tough for me and I don’t think that it’s something that will magically go away one day. For example, on Monday at my son’s preschool class someone had placed a girl scout cookie order form on the counter for people to fill out. I didn’t order any, but I did look at the form. I was amazed at the propaganda that I encountered there. In a very light shade of grey, in the background behind the order form were some reasons why you should buy girl scout cookies. Standard phrases like, “It’s a great cause” and “Support your neighborhood” were lining the sheet from top to bottom. But the one that caught my eye was this…”Girl Scout Cookies can be a part of a healthy and nutritious diet.” The careful wording of that phrase made me laugh. Sure they CAN be a part of healthy and nutritious diet, but they definitely don’t contribute anything healthy or nutritious. It made me laugh. Even a wholesome organization like GSA has to spin their cookie crack so that we’ll buy more of it.
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I’ve withstood the allure of the GS sign-up sheets in the breakroom at work…so far! We deserve a medal if we go the distance.
The real test is when I encounter the little devil children selling their wares in front of supermarkets. With their darned little braids, and their gap-toothed smiles “C’mon Miss, they’re only 2 for $10 (or whatever the going price is).
My personal favourite is the marketing of marshmallows here in New Zealand.
“100% fat free!”
If you don’t eat the entire box of GS cookies in one day/sitting, they ‘can’ be a nice treat. The problem is that it’s just so hard to do!
Who can say no to Tagalongs?
Seriously! You put a box of Samoas in front of someone, and they do NOT need any advertising. They’re the crack of cookies!
I do find it hard to resist particularly when my friends kids are peddling this stuff… What I plan to do this time is buy (2) boxes… Take 1 into work & freeze the Second… that way whenever I have friends over for tea I can break out the box from the freezer but its not staring me in the face when I open the pantry door… That had the unfortunate effect in the past of me inhaling the entire box of Thin Mints in a 1/2 day!!
I love the biggest loser and watch it every week with my sis. But it is loaded with food commercials during the show. We always say, “Op, time for a gum commercial, etc.”