How to resist Doughnuts?!

I love doughnuts. I used to eat them like crazy when I was (cough, cough) young (I turned 40 a few months ago). Eating 6-8 Krispy Kreme doughnuts was literally a piece of cake. Then I discovered that my body’s metabolism had slowed down – dramatically. I have the feeling even looking at doughnuts makes me gain weight – fast. Yuck.

I work in an office and as it is – someone will bring in doughnuts. I love doughnut days and I hate doughnut days. My brain tells me to get up and grab a doughnut. But – there is this itty bitty part of me that makes me resist. It’s weak. I am weak. I can hardly resist. Something wants me to get up and grab a piece of the “sugar and fat feast” … yummy … #@$%! – stop right here, dude.

In reality I do not want to get up. I have to work hard to keep the pounds off my body. I do an intensive 1 hour cardio 5-6 times a week to shed some weight and to keep the pounds off my waist. I do want a doughnut, but I do not want a doughnut. So, I had to become creative to lose control and to stay in control. I stay in my cube and do not walk by the doughnuts if I can. But often that is not enough. So, I went out to Lamar’s website (Lamar’s Doughnuts is just around the corner and usually the doughnut of choice whenever someone brings in doughnuts) and looked at the nutritional information for their doughnuts. A detailed look at the list usually cures me.

How about a good old-fashioned Cinnamon Twist? 770 Calories, 240 Calories from Fat, 26g total Fat, 7g saturated fat, and 32g of sugar. But there is good news, too. It does not have any cholesterol. An intensive cardio workout of mine burns about 700-800 calories. So, eating one of those monsters is just out of this world for me. In addition to that the fat and sugar my body would have to process already makes me feel sick just reading those values.

Often just reading these tables of nutritional information brings my desire back into range. And if that does not help, there is always Google Image Search where a search for the keyword “obese” will fix the issue. I still love doughnuts though …