Can't eat just one

Nov 01, 2014

I have been a lifelong chocoholic, self-confessed, no denying it. That t-shirt that says "Hand over the chocolate & no one gets hurt" yeah that's probably inspired by me. This is old news. What isn't old news is what happened the past 2 weeks.

Two weeks ago I made up a shopping list & hit Costco. As I was walking down the 1st cold case aisle looking for yogurt I remembered reading someone's post about having a cheese stick wrapped in turkey or some other sliced meat. I thought that would be a good habit to get into so I picked up a CheeseHead (60 count)cheese stick package & put it in my cart. Looked innocent enough there by my cans of tuna, but appearances are deceptive.

I have been eating these things like potato chips! I'm not joking, my FitBit confirms it. I logged on & showed my food log to my BT on Thursday. My sodium intake numbers are back up in the mid 3000's. Although I haven't gained any weight I had hoped I'd drop a few pounds so I can change my weight tracker after walking more. I told my BT that if not for my FitBit I wouldn't have realized what I've been doing. I'm VERY visual so seeing all of those "1 cheese stick" entries piled up at the end of the day shocked me. I knew my FitBit would give me an incentive to walk more each day as I saw the numbers, but logging my food has been another great way to stay on track. The ease of grabbing a couple of these sticks to eat while I'm doing something else is too tempting.

  I don't know if I'll ever buy them again. Too much of a "good thing" is still too much.

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