Freedom from hotel room candies

(Doug) #1

220 to 260 nights a year in hotels here. Peppermints, sweet chocolates - they’re often there, sugar bombs just waiting to be consumed and then jack up the insulin level. You walk in the doorway, and there they are, on the pillow, on a tray, on the desk, the TV stand…

Always used to eat them. They were free. They were there. They were gone and I wished there were more.

It’s taken a couple months, but thoughts of insulin resistance and insulin spiking won out. Attractive, but poison. I don’t need that. I don’t really miss them. 17 days in my last hotel stay, and by the end I wasn’t even noticing those candies that I didn’t eat.

A tiny piece of the puzzle, a small parcel of freedom and peace of mind.

(Roxanne) #2

Good job! For me it was the candies they put on the conference tables. Somehow the bowl would always end up in front of me, and I couldn’t resist, and would take more whenever I didn’t think anyone was looking, squirreling the wrappers away so no one would notice. But not anymore, haven’t touched one in over a year, and don’t miss them. And no longer feel ill at the end of a meeting!

(Ethan) #3

I’m ok until there is a reeces

(Doug) #4

Cheers, Roxanne. Reminds me of doughnuts - I’d take a couple, then another after what I thought was a suitable interval. After the morning meeting broke up, another two, perhaps, when the others had left, and then, heck, there was only one left - might as well clean up and throw the box away.

Shot me right in the heart, Ethan. You got that right…

(Amber) #5

Doughnuts and sweets at meetings are SO HARD for me. I used to take one, wait and see if anyone ele took another. If not I’d sneak into the break room where they’d end up after the meeting and take another, and another, and…
I’ve started a new job and sweets are just as plentiful. I plan on bringing an insulated lunch bag with lunch food I don’t have to heat so I don’t have to ever go into the break room if I can avoid it. Sadly that’s where the coffee and water are too but I will figure it out.

(Dave Linkston) #6

I can ignore any chocolates etc in my hotel room since keto, but before keto I would hold out as long as possible, but in the end would succumb to temptation. Nuts on the other hand I love to eat. Luckily, they only come in small packets so I cant over indulge.

All our office meeting rooms have mints, strangely enough, I have never eaten one even before keto in almost 4 years. But i see others who can’t stop eating them and after a break I can see piles of wrappers in front of them.

(Sophie) #7

Just think of all the thousands of tiny wrappers you’re saving from landfills! :+1:

(Keto Travels) #8

Oh dear, conference room sweets and pastries, sweets at reception, chocolate on the pillow … I really don’t have cravings anymore 4 weeks in (didn’t even eat my allotted and accounted for piece of superb dark chocolate last Sunday, didn’t want it) - but it will take a while I think before I no longer take one on autopilot if it’s in front of me and then spend the next few minutes trying to discreetly get rid of it again!