Ms Elizabeth's Journal, 05 June 2013

I hate having cake around, I can't resist cake. Your hubby's servings sound like my hubby's. My hubby is one who thought toast had fewer calories than regular bread, so I know where you're coming from. Good luck!! 

It's Satan - command in the name of Jesus Christ for him to get outta your head (yes, outloud, and mean it). The temptations will go away for a while. You just have to keep reminding him he is no longer wanted.  

Have you ever tried doing bodyrocktv workouts. They are on youtube and after doing some of it you might change the way you feel about having to burn off cake calories. So I did a little research for you to motivate you. So, we’ll take a simple chocolate cake with some icing and cream- the standard birthday stuff. One slice of this cake has a calorific value of 200-400 calories. Now, don’t go and eat a whole Mississippi mud pie and assume it was one serving. We’re talking just one slice of chocolate cake. No ice cream included. Also, a slice is very subjective. Lets take a cake piece that’s 250 calories. Say you land up eating 2 pieces of cake. That’s 500 calories. Burning up a 100 calories is no big deal- a 1 mile run will take care of it. But 500 calories, now that’s a bit of a task. To burn 500 calories, you need to do either of the following: row for 55 minutes,run 5 miles,box for 45 minutes or a one hour intense aerobics class. Also more fun food for thought...... You'd have to walk 14 hours, roughly 43 miles, in order to burn one pound of fat might be reason enough to skip that dessert that's tempting you! 

Not sure freezing would have worked, anyway; yesterday. I could HEAR those crunchy sesame bars I hid in the freezer. They're gone now, and I'm sure my dentist will be happy. Ya know, if your hubby eats all that, you'll look even thinner next to him... then you can help him work it all off (naughty wink). 

I was so glad to see the end of Hub's bday cake last week! Yea, I know the smell.... 

I'm never really sure if you're just writing to be amusing (which you always are) or if the things you say in writing are really going on in your head. IF they are ... unless you replace 'cake' with something else, you'll always be tortured by it because the brain cannot process the word NO. You say 'no cake' and it just sees CAKE. So how about 'hey, I want some 'thing' that I won't feel frustrated after eating' instead? 

Its harder to eat right when our DH's wants us to eat with them...Mine will bring the Blueberry muffin box to me to fix him some muffins...then after they are right out of the oven he wants me to have one with him..I really try to count this in my plan..as I never know what he wants the share at night in the food department...:O) 

I would have had to put the cake in the garbage AND take it outside. I can't deal with that kind of temptation! Good luck, hope that hubby eats all the leftovers :)  

I find if it's in the house I will eat it. I felt like carrot walnut cake last week so brought some, took it to a friends had a slice and left the rest for her kids, yes a very expensive piece of cake but better than eating all the calories. If I do buy something sweet I try to make sure I can share it with others or give it away asap after I have abit. In Australia we have a cake called a 'Lamington', (vanilla cake covered in a choc running sauce dipped in coconut) don't know if you have heard of it but I've been craving them lately. After eating some on Tuesday and not been able to stop (it was a single piece but from a bakery so big) I did not cave in yesterday, I stayed home even though I was tempted to go out. Yes cake is a big temptation 

Ugh hubby and I bicker about this all the time. He has self control so he can keep tons of junk in the house and ration. I do not. I will eat it. ALL. So if he buys some junk to eat over a whole week, he'll eat a tiny bit and I eat the rest before he even gets to go back again just because it's there taunting me. Hopefully your hubby eats through the leftovers quickly! 

Maybe your hubby can take those snacks to work and if he 'needs' some at home he can hide them somewhere you don't know. Does he know how you feel?