Silliest/funniest/weirdest thing you've done to avoid eating something

[teechur20]

I just did something strange, and I'm wondering if anyone else ever does stuff like this. My fabulous father-in-law is always sending me little treats in the mail. Today he sent a three pack of chocolate Turtle easter eggs. Now, hubby is gone for the day so I couldn't pawn them off on him, I'm trying to curb my daughters from having too much sugar as well so I didn't want to offer them to my girls--but I knew if they were just sitting on the counter I would eventually talk myself into having 'just a bite' (yeah, right!) So I unwrapped each one, squished them all up together, poured dish detergent all over the mess and threw it all away. Please tell me I'm not weird! Has anybody else done something like that?

[98shadow]

Yes, throwing it away is not always enough because it is not touching
anything gross I could take it out of the trash. Once I threw a candy bar out the car window so I would not eat it. Sometimes I have to repeat over
and over and out loud. "I will not eat whatever" "I will not eat whatever"

Food has alot of power over me. BUT I am winning lately

[Watch Me!]

Yeah I've thrown things in the yucky trash before to stop from eating it. Once it was PB so I just made sure the lid was off when I did it.

[Mango]

I gotta tell you, that is absolutely the funniest thing I've heard this morning. It isn't that you threw it out--I'd throw it out, too, but that you poured dishwasher detergent on it, and smushed it into a big ball!! lmao!! Hahah!! I'm trying not to laugh, cause I'm at work. Hahah!!

My dietsabotaging sister and my Dad once showed up at my condo, completely unannounced, while I was not home, and lounged around, and left me a piece of cake in the fridge, because they know I "like cake", and often have it for my cheat meal. They also knew my cheat meal is on Friday, and it was Wednesday. I called my Mom, she agreed it was incredibly rude of them to be in my home without my permission, and that my sister seems to have an affinity for trying to get me to eat crappy food. It pissed me off so much, I picked up the cake in it's box, and jumped on it!! This is the sister that also called me "Skeletor" when I dropped from 145 lbs to 120. Like, Hmmm, Jealous, much?!

Don't you guys have a hard time avoiding it?? I won't eat crappy food at any cost, but it is a pain in the butt to my family, I know. I can't care; just because they pout, just because they don't work out, just because they are not able to look at food in terms of anything but taste, doesn't mean the rest of us have to succomb to our families bad food habits.

[smith21]

LOL!!! This is sooo funny. I thought I was completely outta my mind when I do stuff like this. Just bout an hour ago I threw away PB. I have done this with so many things. Especially when it is a holiday and you get candy or such! My mom doesn't even buy stuff like that for me anymore! Of course since I have been on my own it is easier to not have things like that lying around! Every time I come on these forums I love them even more! We are just one big family...right???

[crazycat]

If i get anything.. chocolate, sweets, cake.. i just get my hubby to take it to work with him so I don't have to see it.

I love the detergent trick though, must try that some time.. LOL!!

[emmie]

Oh god, I thought I was the only person who "poisoned" the stuff that I'm throwing out so as not to be tempted to reach into the trash (on the top, o.k.??!?) and sneak a bite. Gross and weird, but whatever it takes, I say...

[teechur20]

Whew...I feel better already!

As for the detergent...I remember an episode of Sex and the City where Miranda was eating chocolate cake out of control so she dumped it in the garbage, but then grabbed it out and kept eating, dumped it again and then poured detergent on it. I guess I was channeling Miranada!

[yourfaveandmine]

I put things down the garbage disposal! I've done anything from chocolates to a half of a leftover pizza that was left lying around tempting me. I know I can't be trusted if that stuff is accessible!

[Mango]

This is frikkin' so hilarious. I'm having such a hard time surpressing my giggling. We have an open office, and though I have 3 walls, I do have 1 cubicle wall, too, so anybody can hear you.

If it makes a single person feel less silly, I just finished lunch, and I had 1 tsp of peanut butter in my drawer calling my name, and I poured lime juice in the glass jar and threw it in the recycling bin. Take that, stupid tempting peanut butter!! Grrr!!

[teechur20]

Stupid head peanut butter!

Big dummy chocolate Turtle easter eggs!

[Luvdogs]

[/QUOTE]
Don't you guys have a hard time avoiding it?? I won't eat crappy food at any cost, but it is a pain in the butt to my family, I know. I can't care; just because they pout, just because they don't work out, just because they are not able to look at food in terms of anything but taste, doesn't mean the rest of us have to succomb to our families bad food habits.[/QUOTE]

I couldn't agree more! It's the people with no self control or decipline that get irritated with those that make good choices for themselves. I'm not saying "they" can't eat it, just that "I'm" not eating it. My birthday is Friday and I know I'm going to get the "but it's your birthday" routine and yes it is and I look the best I have in my 44 years and I'm staying that way!!

p.s. I too have thrown stuff in the garbage can making sure it was no longer in the container so I wouldn't go in after it!

[trichic]

I LOVE IT!!
I do that stuff too!
Whenever my kids have a birthday I always give all the cake away to my parents or other parents or I have been known to go door to door in my neighborhood offering cake. I also have run water over it, my kids are not into cake at all and it it sits there I will go by and have just one bite, hours later the cake will be gone!
At holidays, I pack everything up and send it home with my parents.

I am with ya sister!

[splicebaby]

Doesn't it seem silly that some people just can't respect the fact that you don't want to eat certain food because you are on a diet.

I myself have had to lie and say something like "my doctor put me on a special diet so I can't eat that". Grrr, I hate lying.

You should be able to say I won't eat it because I am trying to be healthy or im trying to loose weight. And the reaction should be "great, good luck with that"!

Anyway, I love the stories so far and feel I have something else I can use if need be ;-)

[sixzebra]

teechur, that is hilarious

[teechur20]

What can I say! I am a dork, albeit a clean eating dork! (unless, of course, I run out of dish soap! Ha!)

[user464444132bbg]

LOL! These are great stories, I'm sitting here at work cracking up!

I've done this, just a few weeks ago. My brother gave me a box of those Hershey Pot of Gold things, OMG, they are to die for. I ate four of them and thought to myself, "If I don't get rid of this box, I will eat the whole thing." So I went grocery shopping, took the box out of my truck and threw it in the nearby trash can. What a waste, but I just know how I get around chocolate. Its not a pretty site!

Why do family members always try to get you to eat bad things? My mom is terrible about this. She always has something very fattening at her house and if I don't eat it she gets offended. Her comments of "You need to gain weight" do nothing but piss me off. She should talk, she weighs all of 95 lbs. soaking wet and eats like a bird.

[squat_princess]

Oh this is so funny. I thought i was the only one who did such silly things.

The other day I was at work and i bought a package of peanuts. I wanted to eat the whole package, so I threw half the package in the garbage, and gave a quarter of the package to my co worker, and did the "one for you, one for me" with the garbage can. lol.

My mother bought a box of girl guide cookies, and i hid it in the cupboard where i couldnt see them... I also put the bag of mixed nuts in a basket under the tv table under a book.

When it comes to penut butter.. I dont have any self control. I'll say "just one teaspoon" and next thing i know i'm fishing out all the big chunks from the bottom of the container.

[Athena]

I haven't had to do the detergent routine yet, but I do make sure to really destroy something when I have to throw it away...one time there wasn't anything gross for the biscuits to touch when I threw them away so I literally closed up the bag and STOOD with one foot in the garbage can to be sure that they were mashed up with the other stuff. I didn't want a whole biscuit calling my name, saying, "But, look! We're not touching anything gross! We're in CLEAN garbage!"

I love this thread! I'm not as nuts as I thought I was!



Okay, well maybe I am nuts, but I'm not ALONE!! LOL!

[Mango]

"But, look! We're not touching anything gross! We're in CLEAN garbage!"

lmao!! Hahah!!

[Athena]

lmao!! Hahah!!

Trust me, when food speaks to me, even from the garbage, it tends to be very rational.

[serinebean]

Salt work too....cheaper than detergent I think.
I miss having a dog...who could gobble up anything bad.
Normally I give it to the hubs to take to work, or eat. Poor guy, thats probably why he has gaied a few "marriage" lbs. lol....my bad.

Umm..If I take a bit of something "bad" and I dont chew, I will ummm spit it out. I know thats bad....but its true. And then go much on celery lol!
Crazy things we do.

[nacersusaf]

I have done that too... taken a bite of something and chewed it all up, just to see what it tasted like (if I am baking cookies or something for co-workers... which I often do) and then spit it out and rinsed out my mouth!

[Karmann]

I just did something strange, and I'm wondering if anyone else ever does stuff like this. My fabulous father-in-law is always sending me little treats in the mail. Today he sent a three pack of chocolate Turtle easter eggs. Now, hubby is gone for the day so I couldn't pawn them off on him, I'm trying to curb my daughters from having too much sugar as well so I didn't want to offer them to my girls--but I knew if they were just sitting on the counter I would eventually talk myself into having 'just a bite' (yeah, right!) So I unwrapped each one, squished them all up together, poured dish detergent all over the mess and threw it all away. Please tell me I'm not weird! Has anybody else done something like that?

thats funny, but what a waste

just put it in ur mail box with a little note for the mail man/lady "enjoy, happy easter" they will love u, and be nice year round

unless they are diabetic, and in the case u kill them, i don't know u, lol.......

[alohafitness]

Ohmygod! I love this post! I knew I wasn't the only one who did this! My family members are all "junk-food-junkies" and constantly poke fun of my lifestyle--especially my diet--and try to temp me toward "the dark side" by leaving homemade cakes/pies/cookies displayed on the kitchen counter. I walk by and cover it up with a dishtowel (see no evil...) because no matter how many times I remind them (even when I get REALLY pissed!) they keep doing this to me.... And since Mom refuses to hide the PB (my WORST enemy) well, I can't tell you how many jars I have thrown in the trash!!! But when mom gets mad, I just say "It's me against the PB...and the PB LOST!" The fam, they just don't understand...but you guys do

[shelliw1]

I have found that if I realy think about something like in the grocery store I can talk myself out of it if I look at it long enough. Other people in the store probably think i'm wierd because i sometimes look like i'm talking to myself which I am. But you know think of all the bad things in it the regret you will feel later after all the hard work you have put in!! You know right

[PrissyPants]

I have found that if I realy think about something like in the grocery store I can talk myself out of it if I look at it long enough. Other people in the store probably think i'm wierd because i sometimes look like i'm talking to myself which I am. But you know think of all the bad things in it the regret you will feel later after all the hard work you have put in!! You know right

That's funny. I sometimes pick up something bad at the grocery, but often by the time I make it to the end of the store I've talked myself out of the three dozen bakery fresh chocolate chip brownies. Then I march myself back to the start of the store to return the items. I get some wierd looks doing this, I mean, come on, who takes back groceries? But after I've had some time to think about whether or not I really want those cookies, I usually decide that I don't.

I've also thrown out tons of bad food that makes it into my house. Chips, cookies, cake, lasagna, pizza, whatever. Some usually makes it into my belly and the rest hits the can. My husband got pretty mad at me a few weeks ago because I threw out 3/4 of a bag of BBQ chips. He said, "Why can't you just have some self control, why can't you just put them back in the pantry and leave them alone!" To heck with that, he didn't need them either

[ab-swing asianbabe]

this thread cracks me up.

Usually anything I don't want to eat, my brother will take it - he's a complete ecto and can stomacH ANYTHING

[KickBoxQueen]

This thread cracks me up! Whenever I don't want to eat something tempting, I usually try to make someone else eat it. However, since my willpower is equal to almost nothing, I have usually already had a few bites of whatever it is I shouldn't be eating. So I end up offering half-eaten food to anyone who will talk to me with my mouth full. But if there is no one around... I'm screwed! I can't throw out food when I know there are starving children in remote countries who would do anything for that SnickerDoodle I just tossed in the trash.

[prady]

got a pack of donuts the other day and to cover up my corruption with a excuse i called it a cheat meal.....ate a few and then decided not to eat as it was bad but the evil took me over and i just started to gorge again. Then i controlled myself and threw them in the trashcan.....but i never knew i was such a filthy bastard that 5mins later i took one out of trashcan and started to eat....eventually i called myself a cheap pig to get sane and threw them down in bathroom and flush them up.

Best way to control urself is to throw food away and i mean it coz if u think ull put it in the refrigerator and give it to someone else later then for sure ull come back sometime and eat it, so best is to take immediate action and throw it away before the devil in it takes u over.