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codemonkey

Pyxis wrote: »

My God! How hard it must be with that stuff in the house! Give it all away, pronto! And tell OH you'll kick him in the jewellery department if he brings more in!

Be careful when you go out...........I can go out to the Bank, and then it's the mindset of...." I'll just pop into Sainsbury's while I'm here" and then it's , "oh hell,!I don't care, I'll have a cinnamon whirl!"

So when you go out for the hairdye, keep saying, "must be strong, or Pyxis will get angry".....and you wouldn't like me when I'm angry! :mad:

It's ok actually. It's a shared stash so I can't go crazy on it without him noticing and the last thing I want him to do is notice. If I binge, it's from a secret stash (partly why him doing the shopping is a good idea), it's eaten in secret and all the evidence is hidden, so the chocolate stash is safe. I'm good that way - I never eat his easter eggs or a box of chocolates for someone else because 'it's not mine'.

I am not going out today. DA dog is back and will give me sad eyes so I'm using that as an excuse to stay home away from temptation.

I've been taking photos of my weight loss as a kind of progress tracker - only wish I'd taken one at the start - and I wish you lot could see them. The difference isn't all that dramatic but it is a difference. So I will keep looking at those.

Eta: I found a before photo on Facebook - difference is majorly dramatic

codemonkey

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Anyone else watch the Great British Bake-Off? Is anyone doing the MSE GBBO Pot Luck thingy? I got put in team Sandy....she better be good! :rotfl:

I refuse to watch this or Masterchef. They're so smug. They've started having charity bake offs at work instead of bake sales and it's rubbish because it's all about how the cake is decorated and they inevitably taste crap. My baking never looks great but it tastes good, especially my chocolate cheesecake brownies and lemon drizzle cake.

Have you guys ever seen Epic Meal Empire where they make cars and robots out of food - bacon is always featured heavily.

ETA: sorry Pyxis. All the food mentioned is laced with arsenic and covered in dog hair.

Pyxis

Actually, I'm going to need help. I'm ok with at the moment, but I'm scared I'll succumb later.......

Yesterday, I bought a box of chocs to give to someone at AmDram as a thankyou for some things she's done for me. She wasn't there, though. So I had to bring the chocs home. They cost £7.99 for a small box.

Now, I'm not at all fond of chocolate, but these are good chocs and some have the nut/caramel flavour I do like. I won't be seeing her until Monday, and I'm really scared I'll succumb to temptation. Stupid, as I don't like chocolate!
I can't keep them in the car, as they'll get hot.
And now that I've remembered they're there, it'll be hard to forget!

Help! What can I do? I also don't want the hassle/expense of having to buy another box by Monday!
And I don't want those calories!

codemonkey

Pyxis wrote: »

Actually, I'm going to need help. I'm ok with at the moment, but I'm scared I'll succumb later.......

Yesterday, I bought a box of chocs to give to someone at AmDram as a thankyou for some things she's done for me. She wasn't there, though. So I had to bring the chocs home. They cost £7.99 for a small box.

Now, I'm not at all fond of chocolate, but these are good chocs and some have the nut/caramel flavour I do like. I won't be seeing her until Monday, and I'm really scared I'll succumb to temptation. Stupid, as I don't like chocolate!
I can't keep them in the car, as they'll get hot.
And now that I've remembered they're there, it'll be hard to forget! H

Help! What can I do? I also don't want the hassle/expense of having to buy another box by Monday!

Hide them! Then stop trying not to think about them because you'll think of them even more.

ETA: another thing that works for me is to tell myself I can have them, if I am still thinking about them in X amount of time (e.g. After dinner, at 6pm etc. 90% of the time, by making them accessible and no longer forbidden, I don't want them).

calleyw

Pyxis wrote: »

Actually, I'm going to need help. I'm ok with at the moment, but I'm scared I'll succumb later.......

Yesterday, I bought a box of chocs to give to someone at AmDram as a thankyou for some things she's done for me. She wasn't there, though. So I had to bring the chocs home. They cost £7.99 for a small box.

Put them in a carrier bag in the cupboard/larder.

And think of the money that it will cost to replace.

If that does not work give them to me. I wont eat them as they for someone else. Mind you in the past when I have bought stuff on offer that I know I will eat. I give it to my husband to look after.

Mind you while shopping yesterday he bought 2 packets of 4 types of biscuits :eek: Mind you he is the type that can take it or leave it. No skinny but not fat LOL!

Yours

Calley

whitewing

Oh, you !!!!!!s. You have just reminded me that there is a box of chocolates in our cupboard!

pyxis, wrap them up. Then they turn into a proper present and presents are exciting.

I have just booked a seaside weekend break.

calleyw

whitewing wrote: »

Oh, you !!!!!!s. You have just reminded me that there is a box of chocolates in our cupboard!

pyxis, wrap them up. Then they turn into a proper present and presents are exciting.

I know the feeling you are ok until someone puts that idea in to your head.

The bloke I was talking about who lost the weight. Well he lives across the road from a supermarket. I live about 5ish min walk from a mini supermarket and when I am in binge mood I drive to it. i know very bad :rotfl:

Yours

Calley

Georgiegirl256

Pyxis wrote: »

Stop talking about cake!
!

Oops sorry, never thought!

codemonkey wrote: »

I refuse to watch this or Masterchef. They're so smug. They've started having charity bake offs at work instead of bake sales and it's rubbish because it's all about how the cake is decorated and they inevitably taste crap. My baking never looks great but it tastes good, especially my chocolate cheesecake brownies and lemon drizzle cake.
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D's work used to do that, a different charity each month. He'd always get me to make something. I bet if they still did it now, it'd be more and more competitive with the rise in popularity of Bake Off/Masterchef etc. The cake can look the most beautiful cake ever, but it's no good at all if it doesn't taste good. I only watch Celebrity Masterchef and not the ordinary one.

Pyxis wrote: »

Help! What can I do? I also don't want the hassle/expense of having to buy another box by Monday!
And I don't want those calories!

Theres your answer. You don't want to have to be forking out £7.99 again do you. Like WW says, wrap them up and then it's a present and they're not for you.

Birdie85

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Anyone else watch the Great British Bake-Off? Is anyone doing the MSE GBBO Pot Luck thingy? I got put in team Sandy....she better be good! :rotfl:

I'm team Dorret, hope she doesn't have a soggy bottom!

I'm very happy about your little factoid about nuts Georgie; I've been eating them instead of crisps recently

Birdie85

Oh and as for Bake Off contests at work, we do a hardcore one over 14 weeks! :eek: It is only every other week, so 7 bakes and we're in teams so you only actually have to do somewhere between 2-3 each depending on team size, but it's still pretty tough going! We make sure that there are different judging categories for look and taste so the 'looks pretty, tastes like poo' stuff doesn't just win! This year the suggested bakes are chocolate cake, lemon meringue pie (technical bake!), Halloween theme savouries, mini cakes (a challenge to make 8 identical cakes), Swedish cookies (there's a list of several different types and each team gets given one at random), stollen and the final showstopper is a Christmas theme croquembouche! Going to be hard work, but hopefully fun!