My assistant who sits next to me in the office just opened a tub of Pringles. I can smell them. Oh god he's sitting with the lid off them just munching away.
Please god don't let him offer me one
If ever there was a time I needed this forum more than ever guys, it's right now.
Pringles are my strongest and worst trigger food and they are the right flavour and everything
Someone please, anyone just give me something positive to hold on to; motivation, advice, hell tell me the word of Jesus Christ for all I care just HELP.
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I have done, filled the kettle to bursting so it will take ages to boil and I'm standing waiting for it. Got so much to do though and he's eating them SO slow!!! Aaaaaaaargh!!!
Good shout, when I've made my tea I'll go walk to the shop and get some... If nothing else it might stick my mouth together so I physically can't eat any! It's the first time I've been faced with a massive temptation head on, my fingers are aching, mouth watering and I've got a major headache from battling it god I hate this!!!
Hahaha I just left the office, fresh air helped. Anyone who doubts that food addiction exists, come to Stafford station right now and observe me twitching like a heroine addict. My hands are killing me and I've ground my teeth so hard my gum is bleeding id be fine if it was biscuits or cake or any other brand of crisp even! It's just Pringles and my regular takeaway that's a code red incident I can do it, just need to get my head back
Apparently, "not only does a third of a pack contain a whopping 300 calories but also 18g of fat for only 32 crisps - that's almost a third of the daily recommended fat allowance for women".
Yes! They are poison complete poison and it's those heavenly smelling little crispy bits of ambrosia that got my to 19st in the first place. Horrible little nightmares! Shouldn't be legal!
Now is probably not the time, but you might want to explain that you would rather he didn't eat those at his desk. I'm sure that if you explain your situation (or just tell a little white lie and say you have an allergy) then he would keep them away in future.
I'm sure they've changed the recipe recently anyway so they might smell good but you'd hate them if you tried them!
Yeah it's really tricky, I'm a new boss (recent promotion) and My job is really reliant on me appearing a lot more capable than I actually am! I have a team of 4 to lead and I'm only 24, so I guess I don't want to reveal a weakness/ any of my crazy in front of them it's probably something I should do, I just need to build up to it I'm ok I think, sitting in the park just collecting myself a bit and going to go back in a minute. Just reminding myself how far I've come, how far I have to go and how far back a Pringles would throw me. Such a ridiculous human being!
Not ridiculous - just human. We all have our weaknesses.
If you can resist - and that's what you are doing - then great, but I don't think an imagined allergy would be seen as weakness and it might save you from it happening on a day when you are feeling weak for other reasons. Not that I advocate lying in general but this does seem like a special case.
Drink a pint of water. That is what I do whenever I have a craving for something I should avoid. Has a twofold benefit - takes away the craving and also you are upping your water intake.
Yep this is usually my go- to solution too, but it only works if my craving is due to hungar, this code red is due to addiction (I just ate my lunch!) and drinking my water didn't touch it I'm just heading back into the office and they are still on the desk, think I can do this though... All together... 'JUST SAY NO'
Thanks guys, crisis over I think, my guy is heading out of the office and he's just binned the Pringles tin. There's was still a faint smell of them around the desk but I've got some antibacterial spray that smells really strong and I spilt some green tea on purpose to give me an excuse to spray it around a bit. Smell is gone, Pringles tin is gone, I'm settling and feeling a lot more in control. Thank you all for being there
Well done for standing your ground against those gremlins. If you really want to go off them, google how they are made YUCK! I used to love Pringles, now I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. To avoid taxation, "Pringles" even argued that technically their product didn't have enough potato in them to qualify as crisps on the UK market. They have also been dubbed "Cancer in a can" for the high levels of acrylamide. Still fancy a handful?
Well done, you did it! How about having something hidden in your desk which weighs 2lbs to remind yourself by holding whatever it is in the draws of your desk or on top of your desk. Look at it and hold it and say to yourself - this is what I am loosing each week. I say no to this junk.
Yeah bin em they're sheeite! You don't need em in your life. My red light food used to be biscuits. Don't think twice about em now.Same with booze and fags. You can completely ditch this stuff that holds you back. Don't be ruled by this garbage. That was the old you!
If that particular brand of chips is the gateway to all bad things for you, then it sounds like what smoking was for me.
It was a real mental shift when I finally quit. I quit using a book that pointed out all the inconsistencies in stories we tell ourselves when we are addicted to something. It wakes me up/it makes me feel better/it reduces anxiety/it makes me happy, etc. The clarity was realizing that my addiction did the opposite, cigarettes or sweets isn't helpful. After I got that in my head, quitting became easy, cold turkey. With smoking as well this fellow warned of making your addiction worse by reducing consumption rather than eliminating it, like cutting down to one cig after work, or perhaps in your case eating one chip on the weekend. The author believed that only served to make it seem more special and made it that much harder to kick the habit.
Anyhow, not sure if that's relevant or helps. Just crossed my mind when I your post. You'll be fine - you seem to have a good handle on what it means to you.
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