Glo,

I do struggle with temptations and I do struggle with wanting to eat.
If I'm in my comfort zone for weight, then I'll indulge occasionally.
I have a serious sweet tooth.

But since my wedding, trip then return to a very stressful life and
work, I've gotten out of my comfort zone for weight.   I want to lose
weight before I have to buy larger clothes.   That means going back to
a stricter eating  regimine and having to fight those temptations to
just grab donuts and junk.

Right now my struggle is from spending a month on vacation and eating
very rich foods, then returning to stress and eating comfort foods.
Trying to get back to healthy eating habits is a struggle.   You know
what I'm talking about.   You know how hard those first few weeks are
when you try to limit sweets.

Today the day has gotten worse, in that they decided to celebrate
Birthday's today.   The kitchen is now full of
Donuts
Bagels
Danishes
and for the *healthy conscious* bags of individual cheese sticks, and
fresh fruit bowls.  

I opted for a piece of cheese and some fresh fruit to go with my
yogurt this morning.   And I've now shut my office door.    See, my
*friendly* coworkers walk by my office and offer to grab me a donut or
get me something.   They then return with their goodies and think they
can socialize for a bit while they have their donut and coffee in
front of me.

Yes, I'm struggling.   And knowing my will power right now, I'll most
likely cave in.  I've already got a headache settign in, and every
time I leave my office I walk through the kitchen to get to the other
side of the building and all that food is screaming for me.   This
place smells like Krispy Cream or the Bagel Factory.   Even with the
door shut.

I went searching for some.  We only had regular hot chocolate, and not
any of the sugar free stuff.   Not having it readily available doesn't
help when the craving hits like that.    Its not usually something
that bothers me, so its not something I think about often.   For
whatever the reason, it did hit hard today.

I tried the mint gum trick today, but that didn't help.   I caved, and
ate, and ate some more.   But I went light at lunch and I'll go light
at dinner tonight too.

How can you eat just one Kiss???  I have such an addictive personality, I
can't eat just one w/out wanting to eat the whole bag....

I found some Splenda sweetened blue bunny ice cream pops at the store with
90 calories each.  They are good, but not so good I have to have more then
1!

I never tried menthol rubs...  I do have an increased sense of smell now
since I quit smoking in October.  I can't stand being around people that
smoke now.