i think i'd try to give up dessert. not dessert items, necessarily, but this obsessive need to eat something, ANYTHING, sweet after every meal i eat. it just resulted in me licking my finger and sticking it in a splenda packet after lunch today. gah.
when i used to celebrate Lent, i'd try to DO something rather than give something up. it always seemed a little....I don't know.....martyr-ish to me? i know it's a symbol of sacrifice for your faith, but so many people i know would give up candy or something and then spend the entire six weeks whining about it and cheating. not helpful...
so if i were going to DO something during Lent--maybe I will, just for fun!--I think I'd make sure I tell one person each day something to make him/her feel good about him/herself. i don't do that enough.
Yeah, I'd give up dessert, too. A negative side effect of my new job is that the staff cafeteria has allowed me to become addicted to having something sweet after lunch every day. And since I'm consuming more sugar, I then want something sweet after dinner every night, too.
I'd be better off without that regularity, and the additional weight it has brought with it.
i think desk jobs are evil like this. you're sitting all day doing boring shit, you just feel like you want something sweet every single afternoon...it's deadly. i just remembered recently that when i was working in Queens, I used to have the same snack every day around 4:00: a massive chocolate chip cookie and a carton of orange juice. my GOODNESS. and i wondered why i was gaining weight so quickly after college...
Yeah, I've decided that if I do sugar, I have to follow two rules: 1) only with food and 2) only one per day. Because, yeah, then I start craving it all the time.
Yesterday there was a gigantic spread of every imaginable baked good left out in the office common space at Duke: blondie brownies, regular brownies, chocolate chip brownies, chocolate chip and cranberry cookies, coconut chocolate chip brownies, chocolate chip biscotti, etc. It was ridiculous.
And this, after a morning at WUNC where someone left a bowl of SweetTarts, Bottlecaps, Laffy Taffy and Nerds in the common space. I kept going back to stuff more in my pockets. But boy did I feel awful after I came down from that high...
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when i used to celebrate Lent, i'd try to DO something rather than give something up. it always seemed a little....I don't know.....martyr-ish to me? i know it's a symbol of sacrifice for your faith, but so many people i know would give up candy or something and then spend the entire six weeks whining about it and cheating. not helpful...
so if i were going to DO something during Lent--maybe I will, just for fun!--I think I'd make sure I tell one person each day something to make him/her feel good about him/herself. i don't do that enough.
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I'd be better off without that regularity, and the additional weight it has brought with it.
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i just remembered recently that when i was working in Queens, I used to have the same snack every day around 4:00: a massive chocolate chip cookie and a carton of orange juice. my GOODNESS. and i wondered why i was gaining weight so quickly after college...
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Yesterday there was a gigantic spread of every imaginable baked good left out in the office common space at Duke: blondie brownies, regular brownies, chocolate chip brownies, chocolate chip and cranberry cookies, coconut chocolate chip brownies, chocolate chip biscotti, etc. It was ridiculous.
And this, after a morning at WUNC where someone left a bowl of SweetTarts, Bottlecaps, Laffy Taffy and Nerds in the common space. I kept going back to stuff more in my pockets. But boy did I feel awful after I came down from that high...
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